Although hardly known in Japan in the 1990s, if the 2000s come, the artist who works in Japan also appears, there is also a Korean boom, it permeates gradually, and an artist's Japanese advance also increased around from the second half of the 2000s. In addition to market size of Japan being as large as about 30 times of South Korea, as for about 1000 yen and a unit price being cheap, CD album serves as a backdrop which a K-POOP artist masters Japanese and is making the major-label debut one after another in the Japanese song in Japanese yen in South Korea.
Chronology
2008
January: Tohoshinki includes the 1st place and this work with the Oricon week single chart by "Purple Line", and total 8 work is the 1st place by 2010 east.
June: BIGBANG comes out with a single "MY HEAVEN"
September: A supernova comes out with a single "every [ you ]."
2010
February: The hit [11] in which the best album "BEST SELECTION 2010" of Tohoshinki exceeds 500,000 sheets with the Oricon album chart east.
May: 4minute comes out with a single "Muzik."
August: -- KARA -- a single -- " -- Mr." -- a debut and the 5th place of the Oricon week single chart
August: Brown eyed girls come out with an album "SOUND-G."
September: Girlhood is debut and 4th [ Oricon week single chart ] place [11 at a single "GENIE."
October: The single "Gee" of girlhood is the 2nd place of the Oricon week single chart.
November: The single "Junpin" of KARA is the daily ranking of music video download in i-tunes, and it is
2011 the 1st place.
January: Tohoshinki is resumption of activity at two members (Yunho, Chillan Min) east.
Single "Why (Keep Your Head Down) released after resumption of activity?
" -- the 1st place (1st place acquisition items of a total of nine works) of the Oricon week single chart.
March: BEAST became the debut music first appearance successive generation topmost peg of K-POP with the debut and the 2nd place of the Oricon week single chart by the single "SHOCK."
April: The single "roller coaster love" of KARA became 1 place acquisition of the female group of the first K-POP in history with the Oricon week single chart.
(The 1st in Oricon of K-POP has become the first time in six years by for the first time in and a female singer for three months east since BoA since Tohoshinki.)
April: A major nation boy comes out with a single "Love Power."
May: Chang Gunsok became a debut and the 1st place of the Oricon week single chart by the single "Let me cry", and became the debut music first appearance successive generation topmost peg of K-POOP.
Moreover, "MR.TAXI/Run Devil Run" of girlhood carried out rank in to the 2nd place.
The 1st place of : [ June of ] the Oricon week album chart which Japanese 1st album "GIRLS' GENERATION" of girlhood sells about 232,000 first weeks, and becomes the first in a K-POOP female group was gained.
Moreover, this album exceeded 231,000 first week sales which BoA recorded by "LISTEN TO MY HEART" (2002 3 / with 25) for the first time in nine years and three months, and became the first week sales number of sheets of all the past highest as an overseas artist's debut album.
600,000 or more sheets are sold as of September 25, 2011, and it has become the highest ever sales with the music title of the South Korean group (if the album of BoA which played an active part in CD best days is removed even if it includes a solo singer, it will be the highest number of sales as a South Korean singer).
June: -- SHINee -- a single -- " -- Mr. Replay - is a debut at my everything-" (the 2nd place of the Oricon week single chart).
August: Secret "Madonna" (the 9th place of the Oricon single week chart) and AFTERSCHOOL "Bang!" (the 7th place of the Oricon single week chart) which co-starred with Namie Amuro before the debut come out.