The latest album by the popular South Korean boy band BigBang has topped Japan’s leading music ranking chart, according to the operator of the chart Thursday.
“The Best of BigBang 2006-2014,” a compilation album featuring the group’s hit songs, took the No. 1 spot on the Oricon Daily Album Chart by selling 93,226 copies on the first day of its release on Wednesday.
The sales figure is a record for a BigBang album in Japan, according to YG Entertainment, the band’s management agency.
The compilation album’s release was timed with the fifth anniversary of the band’s debut and its ongoing concert tour of big Japanese cities. The album has 50 tracks, including the band’s Japanese debut song “My Heaven” and hit song “Fantastic Baby,” plus 32 music videos and videos of performances.
The concert tour that began earlier this month took the boys to Nagoya and Osaka and will continue in Fukuoka (Dec. 6-7), Sapporo (Dec. 20) and Tokyo (Dec. 25-27), according to the agency.
Meanwhile, Taeyang, a member of the pop group, will kick off a solo concert tour of Asian cities in January, YG Entertainment said in a release.
The tour is scheduled to start in Hong Kong on Jan. 10 and will later stop in eight other cities in China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore, it said. (Yonhap)
