Girl group KARA’s latest DVD has been ranked first on Japan's prestigious Oricon chart for the second week in a row.
According to the official website of the Oricon chart, the five-member girl group’s new DVD “KARA BEST CLIPS” released on February 23, sold about 158,000 copies in total to maintain its No. 1 position on the DVD chart for the second week as of March 14.
Only five other foreign artists have ever topped Oricon’s DVD weekly chart -- the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, TVXQ, JYJ and Michael Jackson -- making KARA the sixth and also the first foreign female artists to achieve the feat as well as remain atop the weekly chart for two weeks straight.
The DVD “KARA BEST CLIPS” is made up of a total eight music videos that feature the girls’ past hit songs such as “Mister,” “Lupin” and “Jumping” in both Korean and Japanese versions.
The girl band is also set to release their third single “Jet Coaster Love,” whose music is based on the commercial song for aesthetic brand TBC, on March 23.
KARA, whose members Han Seungyeon, Kang Jiyoung, Park Gyulee, Gu Hara and Nicole debuted in 2007 with the album “Blooming,” and thrived with numerous hit songs under their belt.
Their career soared further in Japan, being named best new artists of the year at the 25th annual Japan Gold Disc Award and placing at NO.1 on the Oricon chart’s listing for the most successful new artists of 2010 and them being named the most promising artist of 2011.
The future of the group is up in the air however with members Han Seungyeon, Kang Jiyoung and Nicole having applied for their contract t with agency DSP Media to be terminated.
The group, currently filming a reality TV show in Japan “URAKARA” under their names, will return home after they wrap up their filming schedule.
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