SNSD topped annual sales on Hanteo as SM artists dominated the music industry in 2010

2010′s music charts seemed to be dominated by SM Entertainment artists such as SNSD, Super Junior, SHINee, BoA, etc.

According to album sales information site, Hanteo Chart on December 27th, SM artists were ranked very highly in the chart as they have shown their strength in terms of total album sales, singles sales, etc. this year.

SNSD who have released 32 albums and singles since debut in 2007, topped the chart with recorded total sales of 303,442 copies this year. Super Junior and SHINee came in 2nd and 3rd respectively. JYJ took the no.4 spot, followed by Beast in 5th.

This annual aggregate chart calculates the singles and full albums involving the artists in a particular year.

In terms of sales for a single album, Super Junior’s 4th album ‘Bonamana’ is the best selling album with 132,127 copies, followed by SNSD’s ‘Oh!‘ and ‘Hoot‘ in 2nd and 3rd spot respectively. SHINee’s ‘Lucifer’ came in 4th while BoA’s ‘Hurricane Venus’ took the 5th spot. Again, all top 5 spots were occupied by SM artists.

SNSD ranked 4th on ‘Pop Culture Power Leader Big 30′

Year 2010 is coming to an end. Media, panels of industry experts and professionals, in collaboration with Herald Economics have selected the ‘Pop Culture Power Leader Big 30‘ to acknowledge the influence and dominance in the broadcasting, films, performances, music and entertainment industry.

SNSD who were ranked 14th last year, went up 10 places to secure the no.4 spot this year, 2 spots behind the founder of SM Entertainment, Lee Sooman.

Santa SM to release ‘gift’ before Christmas

Yes, Christmas is near and SM Entertainment has a surprise ‘gift’ for you but it’s different from other gifts, mainly because it is not free. However, if you look at it as something to make your Christmas more meaningful then yes, it is a gift.

So, what is this gift we are talking about here? Ok, i’m not going to beat around the bush any longer. It’s the ‘소녀시대 The 1st Asia Tour “Into The New World” Live Album‘. It contains a total of 38 tracks in 2 CDs. Some fans are disappointed it’s not the DVD but hey, anything that has to do with our girls is worth every cent, right? Well, add this into your Christmas shopping list and hopefully our credit card won’t be hitting its credit limit so soon.

Here’s the album information and track list:

Release Date : 23/12/2010
Price : 19,900 won(Approximately $17.23USD) (Online Sales -16,000 won,approximately $13.85USD)
Label : SM Entertainment

Contents:

CD1
01. Nine Angels
02. Tell Me Your Wish (Remix version)
03. Show! Show! Show!
04. Girls’ Generation
05. Beginning
06. It’s Fantastic
07. Etude
08. Ooh La-La!
09. Kissing You
10. One Year Later (Jessica & Onew)
11. Introduce Me A Good Person (Yoona)
12. Sunny (Sunny)
13. Umbrella (Tiffany)
14. Hush Hush (Taeyeon)
15. Chocolate Love
16. Honey
17. Dear. Mom
18. Forever

CD2
01. Day By Day
02. My Child
03. Barbie Girl (Jessica)
04. Santa Baby (Sooyoung)
05. Label: Suite “mirror” Article 4 “the morning song of a Clown”(?) (Seohyun)
06. Sixteen Going On Seventeen (Seohyun)
07. Over The Rainbow
08. 1,2 Step (Yuri)
09. Into The New World
10. Be Happy
11. Way To Go
12. Gee
13. Touch The Sky
14. NaengMyeon
15. HaHaHa
16. Complete
17. Baby Baby
18. Oh!
19. (Bonus Track) Beautiful Girls (Feat. Yoo Young Jin)
20. (Bonus Track) Singin ‘In The Rain (Studio version)

Bonus : Poster

Are you ready? Let’s take out those plastic cards!!!

Jessica - BoA bond sparks attention!

Some photos from Golden Disk Awards gained attention from fans.

BoA and SNSD attended Golden Disk Awards 3 days ago with both winning awards on the event.some photos of BoA and SNSD's Jessica gained attention from fans.



They were spotted standing close to each other after the event.

Some comments from fans:

"They are like twins during the event"


"SM Love"!


"Congratulations girls!"

MV for SNSD’s Tae Yeon and The One’s “Like a Star” released

Following the release of the MV teaser for SNSD’s Tae Yeon’s duet with The One, called, “Like a Star“, the official MV has finally been released!

SM Entertainment recently revealed, “We received a request from The One to do a duet, and Taeyeon decided to take up the opportunity.”

The MV follows a heartbreaking love story, and it stars actors Yoo Seung Ho and Park Eun Bin.

Check out the BTS shots and MV below!

SM Artistes cheer on students taking their College Entrance Exams

SM entertainment just uploaded videos of SM artistes, cheering for students taking their College Entrance Exams.

This includes Super Junior, Girls Generation, SHINee & f(x).

Check out their cheering! I'm sure with their cheering, the students are very motivated to work hard and will do their best!^^

Super Junior's Cheering:



Girl's Generation (SNSD) Cheering:


SHINee's Cheering:

f(x)'s Cheering:

SM Entertainment continues to cash in profit for the 3rd Quarter of 2010

Currently Korea's Largest Entertainment agency, SM Entertainment continues to show a strong performance in terms of profit this 3rd quarter of the year.

KOSDAQ has listed the earning's of agencies on the 15th of November and the total profit and earnings of SM Entertainment was revealed.

For the third quarter of the year, SM Entertainment was able to have a revenue of 20.704 billion won with a 4.58 billion won operating profit and a net income of 2.7 billion won. They are reportedly to have a 26.04% increase in revenue, 92.65% increase in operating profit and 11.59% increase in net profit. This is their earnings for the third quarter alone with their artist SNSD being active this quarter of the year in their successful expansion in Japan and Korea.

For the three quarters that passed, SM Entertainment has a strong sales of 68.232 billion won which is a cumulative revenue, 23.187 billion won in cumulative operating profit and 20.387 billion won in cumulative net profit.

Last year in 2009, SM Entertainment ended up victorious in terms of profit having 61.788 billion won revenue for the year of 2009, having 9.266 billion won in operating profit and 4.471 billion won in net profit. It can be seen that their profits increased this year surpassing their total profit in 2009 with only three quarters in 2010.

SM Entertainment scores with SNSD and Super Junior

SM Entertainment has scored once again in Korea with their idol groups SNSD and Super Junior. They hit their all-time record by earning a total gross of 22.7 billion WON which is approximately $20 million!

Doesn’t this sound familiar? SM Ent. scored big with these two groups last year during the same time of the year. SNSD started off with Gee and Super Junior finished off with Sorry Sorry. Now, SNSD started off with Oh! and Run Devil Run and Super Junior is taking over with BONAMANA.

It’s incredible to think they earned all of that in just one half of the year. They rose 58% from last year. They’ve gone up 471% since they first opened in 1995.

I’m sure f(x) is adding on to their income pretty well now too.

SM Entertainment releases paid version of SNSD iPhone application

Remember the news about SM Entertainment releasing an iPhone application at the same time where SNSD returned with their repackaged album for Run Devil Run?

The application was free and allowed iPhone users to view HQ concept photos of the girls plus the teaser MV for Run Devil Run. There was a menu item for the full MV which was grayed out and unavaliable, raising hopes that a future update might solve that. Well, you can cast that hope away now.

The application was updated in the iTunes appstore on March 26th and it looks like SM Entertainment has decided to make some money off it. If you check out the application here (requires iTunes) or search for “Girls Generation” or “SNSD” with the AppStore application in your iPhone, you will see that there is a lite and paid version.

The paid version (166mb) costs a whopping 7.99 USD and they promise you full tracks, HD music videos (including old ones) and HQ concept photos (including old ones). The free version (60mb) only comes with the music video, 30s tracks and limited images. And this will be made available simultaneously in 79 countries worldwide.

Jailbreaked iPhones won’t work as it requires 3.1.3 firmware.

This is SM Entertainment’s first step into tapping the iPhone market and there are plans to do likewise for Super Junior, SHINee, f(x) and other artists in future.