If you're ELF, please read this notice!!
Hi ELF,
Looking forward to Super Junior's 4th album,right?I believe many of us brought the album of Sorry Sorry already,but do you know the importance of the sales of their coming album?
In 2009,the 3rd album had an impressing sales,selling over 200,000 copies.It became the bestselling album in many places like South Korea,Thailand,Taiwan and the Philippines.What's more?Sorry Sorry hit the music chart in many countries and was being famous all over Asia.
We all can see that after SJ releasing their 3rd album,the number of fans is still increasing a lot,especially in China,Malaysia and Indonesia.However,there’s something weird.The sales of their 2nd album in 2007 was 190,000 copies.Last year we only got 10,000 more….Do you believe the number of sales(200,000 copies) we saw last year was right?
Great risk in 2010
At the same time,G-Dragon(a member of Big Bang)sold his solo album for 180,000 copies in 3 months.What a scaring number!!SJ's sales record was only marginally higher than G-Dragon’s.SNSD has released "Oh!" and sold almost 70,000 copies in 9 days and that was the number SJ sold in 1 month.You see,we are facing a great risk this year....The competition of Korean music industry in 2010 will be very competitive.As far as we know,SNSD,2PM,CNBLUE are famous in Korea, Big Bang and Lee Hyo Lee will be our competitors as well. G-Dragon had a good achievement in his solo album,so it’s not difficult to expect Big Bang’s comeback will gain a bigger success.We can’t deny the popluarity of Big Bang in Korea is very closed to TVXQ day by day. By considering this, 4th album of SJ must need to go through a hardship in order to get a better place in K-pop Chart in different channels. Korean and Chinese ELF are now preparing for the 4th album.This time, we have no choice—we win, or we perish!
Treat everytime as the last to make sure there will be no regret
On the other hand,we must cherish the coming album.Sadly to say,it’s an unknown that whether there will be 5th album in the future.Korean men have to enlist in the army when they reaches 18 years old.We all know that:It’s about time...Try to imagine,they leave one by one,some of them leave for few months,some leave for few years....When will be the day of their reunion?How can we be sure that they will come back years later?Is the 4th album the last album?Hard to say.
Anyway,we can’t be sure that there is some problem in the sales chart.We can only do something to make this album perfect and let SJ & ELF have no regret.
There are few things we have to pay attention to:
(1)Only buy original album from Korea!!
Never buy pirated albums just because they are cheap!!Only the original one will be counted into the sales chart.Also,we must buy the album from the music stores in Korea(the more well-organized,the better).Don’t buy albums from SM Entertainment company because they will not be counted as well.The sales chart is all according to the sales record in Korean music stores.
(2)Buy VERSION A as many as possible!!
Same as before,there will be version A,B,C and even D in the 4th album. It’s sure that version A will be counted into the sales chart but we don’t think version B,C and D will be counted as well.Therefore,buy more version A if you can afford .Remember!!You must buy version A if you hope to see SJ win this year!
(3)Make sure you keep the receipt after buying version A.
Once there’re something wrong in the sales chart,we can show the official that we do buy version A!!
(4)Save money from now and fight for SJ when the 4th album release!
(5)Encourage ELF and even friends that around you to buy this album!!
Besides the sales record, the popularity also counts on “trial listen”.
By reviewing the last year’s performance, the main reason why we can’t get some awards is due to “trial listen”. So we should also focus on this part in this year 2010. In the near future, we will distribute the guidelines about “trial listen” for different channels to ELF, hope everyone can participate more on this. Also,
the reason why SNSD could gain so many awards (even more than SJ) is also due to their high score in “trial listen”, which was reflected in Melon and Music Bank. In some musical awards ceremony, “trial listen” even contribute 60% for evaluating the overall performance of the singers.Seeing Korean ELF cried and apologized to SJ in the awards ceremony,do you still feel that’s none of your business?In short, we cannot let this happen again. So let’s work hard together for “trial listen” in this year and cheer for SJ.
ELF always creats miracles
We all remember clearly that Korean ELF protested against SM company in 2007.They sat for 8 cold days,showing their anger and insisting SJ can only has 13 people.Finally,SM announced that there are 13 members in SJ.In 2009 winter,Chinese ELF joined force with all Asian ELF in order to win the Overseas Viewers’ Award for SJ.From leading in the 1st place until falling to 2nd place,we never gave up.Lots of ELF got sick,but still voted in hospital without having a rest…..then we went beyond our opponents by 400,000 votes in one night.At last,the voting machine wasn’t work because of our violent voting and at the same time we won!!Although SJ didn’t get on the stage and receive the awards,they are proudest one and we have showed our determination to love them.This tearful moment is all because of our happiness.
In 2010,what miracles for SJ are you going to create with ELF?
No matter where you come from,how long you have been loving SJ,if you are one of the ELF,one of us,you should do your best to support SJ!!Make sure that all the copies we buy are counted into the sales chart and work hard together for “trial listen”These are the key factors for us to win in 2010!!
Even we have a language barrier,I believe our love to SJ can overcome all the difficulties.Who are we?We are ELF!! Union is strength!!
Super Junior has 14 people,starts from Leeteuk and ends with Ever Lasting Friend.
We are all in one!SJ & ELF fighting!
Please spread this message in facebook ,blogs and forums
Let all the ELF know this!!
Our 4th album counts on you!
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