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Nice chart! I say you've done a pretty good job at this.
History shows many musician fall from their grace (Just look at britney spears) only to bounce back and shines even greater than before. T-ara just need to make more great music since good products sells itself, like JWD that song is so good even the haters secretly buys them in guilty pleasure.

Hey, Diadems, yo!
I'm sure you all are jamming to T-ara's latest release 'Do You Know Me' Monday to Sunday nowadays. Because, what should I do, it's just too catchy!
It's only a couple of months since T-ara came back with their signature upbeat ballad sad love song 'No. 9'. And it is only a little over one year since the scandal that made T-ara break down in tears.
Now that their tears have turned into pearls, has the heat turned into love for the girls as well?
By looking at things at a glance, T-ara seem to have been 'accepted' back to the place where they belong, entertainment industry. However, looking at certain facts a little deeper might give us a hint at how well T-ara are doing in regaining their position in the industry at the moment.
And sales figures are what would be helpful in this exercise.
I have compiled the Digital Aggregates (DAs) points (aggregates from Digital Song Downloads, Mobile/Ringtone Downloads, Video Streamings, and Background Music Downloads) for each title track for the first 4 weeks (F4W) since each release, and also the album sales numbers since release to October 2013. All data is derived from Gaon chart.
*I wasn't able to obtain the weekly DAs for Sexy Love. Gaon archive doesn't wanna go back that far and I lost the weekly data I had back then.
*I only compiled the data for releases after (and including) Day By Day because that was pretty much the period where the scandal first broke out, and that's what's going to matter in the remaining time of T-ara's career.

Day By Day - At US$413,061 worth of title track sales for the F4W since its release, T-ara were still the Top Tier group back then, among boy groups and especially girl groups. Album sales (since release thru Oct 2013) are not amazing, knowing T-ara's power to sell past 50,000 units. I'm not sure how much the scandal contributed to the low sales.
Sexy Love - Either the public didn't like Sexy Love that much (which I don't think was the case because Sexy Love follows T-ara's previously catchy songs formula) or the scandal hurt the sales badly enough. Revenues from the song's F4W sales were down by almost 40% compared to those of Day By Day. Worth mentioning is the fact that Mirage still sold 832 units in 2013, while Day By Day saw no sales at all! I was thinking of a 'sold out album' scenario, but after checking on Yesasia I found out it was Mirage that was no longer available.
Jeon Weon Diary - Just when people thought T-ara would be laying low, CCM released sub-unit N4 with their not-so-haters-friendly-song. As expected but quite surprisingly, at least to me, was that fact that they managed to sell the title song for roughly 60% of Sexy Love's sales figure in the F4W period. JWD album sales are very poor for T-ara's standard, but lo and behold, it's among the highest selling album in 2013! It even beats (newly) digital monster like SISTAR and SISTAR19, also 4Minute. It's also only ~9,000 units less than IU's Modern Time album sales that charted most of its songs.
If anything, I would expect Jeon Weon Diary (both song and album) to flop due to the harsh nature of the song to some listeners. But no, I guess the public were more excited about T-ara N4 punching haters in the face then they were about T-ara's normal comeback.
No. 9 - Thus, this very typical T-ara sounding song didn't do so well during its F4W. As if it's the trend with T-ara's title songs after the scandal, No. 9 sales were down 40% (again) from their latest Jeon Weon Diary sales, although the album manages to sell 24,882 units thus far, catching up with JWD album sales.
I Know The Feeling - Despite the low digital sales of this song, it's a nice feat to see the second title tract made the chart.
Some of you might ask, "Why looking at the sales numbers for the first 4 weeks?"
According to some Kpop music and sales aficionado out there, the F4W time frame is the period where a song normally shows its attention grabbing power, turning listeners into buyers. An explosive F4W record would suggest the song will become a chart topper, although it's no guarantee that the song will remain on the chart for a long period of time. Case in point is Roly Poly whose F4W sales weren't too spectacular but it had the longevity power to keep charting until the year end.
Also, some would use F4W sales numbers as an indication of how well received the song is by the vast audience beyond the group's exclusive fans.
The graph below shows how T-ara's title songs digital sales and albums sales fluctuate since scandal.
The steep drop is very obvious in the period between the release of Day By Day and Mirage. T-ara's recent Again album manages to bring more (estimated) revenues because it's priced higher than JWD album, although selling ~4,000 units less.
*I used Yesasia List Price for the album price.
The trend for T-ara's title tracks F4W sales numbers is nothing fun to look at. Nuff said.

Still from the graph above, albums sales seem to bring more revenues compared to title track digital sales. And if what Kpop fans out there say is any true that those who purchase albums are loyal fans who really follow the group, it's sad yet still good to see how many (or little) 'loyal fans' remain to support T-ara.
As normally the case with repackage albums that sell less than the original releases, I'm doubtful Again 1977 would surpass 20,000 mark. But I'm truly wishing I'll be proven wrong.

Although it's not an amazing number for T-ara's class, it's still great to see how Again album outsells earlier releases of notable groups as pictured in the table above.
Here is how T-ara's title tracks rank annually based on Gaon sales data.

Well, let's hope things turn out for the better for our beloved T-ara. As much as we want them around for as long as possible, or however much they want to keep entertaining us, it's all about the money money money that CCM care about.
The more we support them, the more revenues they make, and that means a happy KKS, and that means he'll most likely keep T-ara around a bit longer, and that means happy fans.
So, Diadems, keep supporting T-ara... day by day, again... and again 1977... alright, this pun is getting out of place.

*Please let me know if I missed any point.
Data Sources: Gaon, Yesasia
EDIT 1
Summary and Notes:
1. Digital sales. Ever since Day By Day, the trend for title tracks' Digital Aggregates (online sales) seems to be that every new release would have a 40% lower sales than the previous release.
2. Album sales. Ever since Day By Day, the units sold have have seen a declining trend as well. However, due to the nature of much higher sale prices for the albums, the estimated revenues saw relatively stable figures every release although all releases after Day By Day only sold roughly 50% as much. Note: Again sales numbers are only a couple of months old, we might see little additions in the future.
3. Gaon's pricing and calculation systems for Digital Aggregates have always been changing. And most recently the rumor is that Gaon changed their systems again in January 2013 (thanks to Z for pointing that out). I still used the previously known value of $0.003/Digital Aggregate point. With this in mind, digital sales revenues that are converted from DAs are only to serve as a rough estimate. However, the DAs themselves could still serve as a good measure of the vast audience acceptance of a particular song.
EDIT 2
Gaon Digital Aggregates Points / Song Download Counts for F4W Period
Do You Know Me
1. 5,693,093 / 80,602
2. 3,592.931 / 45,435
3. 1,998,990 / 24,283
4.

Hey, Diadems, yo!
I'm sure you all are jamming to T-ara's latest release 'Do You Know Me' Monday to Sunday nowadays. Because, what should I do, it's just too catchy!
It's only a couple of months since T-ara came back with their signature upbeat ballad sad love song 'No. 9'. And it is only a little over one year since the scandal that made T-ara break down in tears.
Now that their tears have turned into pearls, has the heat turned into love for the girls as well?
By looking at things at a glance, T-ara seem to have been 'accepted' back to the place where they belong, entertainment industry. However, looking at certain facts a little deeper might give us a hint at how well T-ara are doing in regaining their position in the industry at the moment.
And sales figures are what would be helpful in this exercise.
I have compiled the Digital Aggregates (DAs) points (aggregates from Digital Song Downloads, Mobile/Ringtone Downloads, Video Streamings, and Background Music Downloads) for each title track for the first 4 weeks (F4W) since each release, and also the album sales numbers since release to October 2013. All data is derived from Gaon chart.
*I wasn't able to obtain the weekly DAs for Sexy Love. Gaon archive doesn't wanna go back that far and I lost the weekly data I had back then.
*I only compiled the data for releases after (and including) Day By Day because that was pretty much the period where the scandal first broke out, and that's what's going to matter in the remaining time of T-ara's career.

Day By Day - At US$413,061 worth of title track sales for the F4W since its release, T-ara were still the Top Tier group back then, among boy groups and especially girl groups. Album sales (since release thru Oct 2013) are not amazing, knowing T-ara's power to sell past 50,000 units. I'm not sure how much the scandal contributed to the low sales.
Sexy Love - Either the public didn't like Sexy Love that much (which I don't think was the case because Sexy Love follows T-ara's previously catchy songs formula) or the scandal hurt the sales badly enough. Revenues from the song's F4W sales were down by almost 40% compared to those of Day By Day. Worth mentioning is the fact that Mirage still sold 832 units in 2013, while Day By Day saw no sales at all! I was thinking of a 'sold out album' scenario, but after checking on Yesasia I found out it was Mirage that was no longer available.
Jeon Weon Diary - Just when people thought T-ara would be laying low, CCM released sub-unit N4 with their not-so-haters-friendly-song. As expected but quite surprisingly, at least to me, was that fact that they managed to sell the title song for roughly 60% of Sexy Love's sales figure in the F4W period. JWD album sales are very poor for T-ara's standard, but lo and behold, it's among the highest selling album in 2013! It even beats (newly) digital monster like SISTAR and SISTAR19, also 4Minute. It's also only ~9,000 units less than IU's Modern Time album sales that charted most of its songs.
If anything, I would expect Jeon Weon Diary (both song and album) to flop due to the harsh nature of the song to some listeners. But no, I guess the public were more excited about T-ara N4 punching haters in the face then they were about T-ara's normal comeback.
No. 9 - Thus, this very typical T-ara sounding song didn't do so well during its F4W. As if it's the trend with T-ara's title songs after the scandal, No. 9 sales were down 40% (again) from their latest Jeon Weon Diary sales, although the album manages to sell 24,882 units thus far, catching up with JWD album sales.
I Know The Feeling - Despite the low digital sales of this song, it's a nice feat to see the second title tract made the chart.
Some of you might ask, "Why looking at the sales numbers for the first 4 weeks?"
According to some Kpop music and sales aficionado out there, the F4W time frame is the period where a song normally shows its attention grabbing power, turning listeners into buyers. An explosive F4W record would suggest the song will become a chart topper, although it's no guarantee that the song will remain on the chart for a long period of time. Case in point is Roly Poly whose F4W sales weren't too spectacular but it had the longevity power to keep charting until the year end.
Also, some would use F4W sales numbers as an indication of how well received the song is by the vast audience beyond the group's exclusive fans.
The graph below shows how T-ara's title songs digital sales and albums sales fluctuate since scandal.
The steep drop is very obvious in the period between the release of Day By Day and Mirage. T-ara's recent Again album manages to bring more (estimated) revenues because it's priced higher than JWD album, although selling ~4,000 units less.
*I used Yesasia List Price for the album price.
The trend for T-ara's title tracks F4W sales numbers is nothing fun to look at. Nuff said.

Still from the graph above, albums sales seem to bring more revenues compared to title track digital sales. And if what Kpop fans out there say is any true that those who purchase albums are loyal fans who really follow the group, it's sad yet still good to see how many (or little) 'loyal fans' remain to support T-ara.
As normally the case with repackage albums that sell less than the original releases, I'm doubtful Again 1977 would surpass 20,000 mark. But I'm truly wishing I'll be proven wrong.

Although it's not an amazing number for T-ara's class, it's still great to see how Again album outsells earlier releases of notable groups as pictured in the table above.
Here is how T-ara's title tracks rank annually based on Gaon sales data.

Well, let's hope things turn out for the better for our beloved T-ara. As much as we want them around for as long as possible, or however much they want to keep entertaining us, it's all about the money money money that CCM care about.
The more we support them, the more revenues they make, and that means a happy KKS, and that means he'll most likely keep T-ara around a bit longer, and that means happy fans.
So, Diadems, keep supporting T-ara... day by day, again... and again 1977... alright, this pun is getting out of place.

*Please let me know if I missed any point.
Data Sources: Gaon, Yesasia
EDIT 1
Summary and Notes:
1. Digital sales. Ever since Day By Day, the trend for title tracks' Digital Aggregates (online sales) seems to be that every new release would have a 40% lower sales than the previous release.
2. Album sales. Ever since Day By Day, the units sold have have seen a declining trend as well. However, due to the nature of much higher sale prices for the albums, the estimated revenues saw relatively stable figures every release although all releases after Day By Day only sold roughly 50% as much. Note: Again sales numbers are only a couple of months old, we might see little additions in the future.
3. Gaon's pricing and calculation systems for Digital Aggregates have always been changing. And most recently the rumor is that Gaon changed their systems again in January 2013 (thanks to Z for pointing that out). I still used the previously known value of $0.003/Digital Aggregate point. With this in mind, digital sales revenues that are converted from DAs are only to serve as a rough estimate. However, the DAs themselves could still serve as a good measure of the vast audience acceptance of a particular song.
EDIT 2
Gaon Digital Aggregates Points / Song Download Counts for F4W Period
Do You Know Me
1. 5,693,093 / 80,602
2. 3,592.931 / 45,435
3. 1,998,990 / 24,283
4.

Really great research! For my piece of mind I like to compare T-ara now against other girl bands instead of T-ara during its peak days. That album sales figure really gives me hope that they are still outselling most scandal-free girl bands. A scandalized T-ara does better than a squeaky clean Rainbow anyday in my book (sorry for Rainbow fans)

Hey, Diadems, yo!
I'm sure you all are jamming to T-ara's latest release 'Do You Know Me' Monday to Sunday nowadays. Because, what should I do, it's just too catchy!
It's only a couple of months since T-ara came back with their signature upbeat ballad sad love song 'No. 9'. And it is only a little over one year since the scandal that made T-ara break down in tears.
Now that their tears have turned into pearls, has the heat turned into love for the girls as well?
By looking at things at a glance, T-ara seem to have been 'accepted' back to the place where they belong, entertainment industry. However, looking at certain facts a little deeper might give us a hint at how well T-ara are doing in regaining their position in the industry at the moment.
And sales figures are what would be helpful in this exercise.
I have compiled the Digital Aggregates (DAs) points (aggregates from Digital Song Downloads, Mobile/Ringtone Downloads, Video Streamings, and Background Music Downloads) for each title track for the first 4 weeks (F4W) since each release, and also the album sales numbers since release to October 2013. All data is derived from Gaon chart.
*I wasn't able to obtain the weekly DAs for Sexy Love. Gaon archive doesn't wanna go back that far and I lost the weekly data I had back then.
*I only compiled the data for releases after (and including) Day By Day because that was pretty much the period where the scandal first broke out, and that's what's going to matter in the remaining time of T-ara's career.

Day By Day - At US$413,061 worth of title track sales for the F4W since its release, T-ara were still the Top Tier group back then, among boy groups and especially girl groups. Album sales (since release thru Oct 2013) are not amazing, knowing T-ara's power to sell past 50,000 units. I'm not sure how much the scandal contributed to the low sales.
Sexy Love - Either the public didn't like Sexy Love that much (which I don't think was the case because Sexy Love follows T-ara's previously catchy songs formula) or the scandal hurt the sales badly enough. Revenues from the song's F4W sales were down by almost 40% compared to those of Day By Day. Worth mentioning is the fact that Mirage still sold 832 units in 2013, while Day By Day saw no sales at all! I was thinking of a 'sold out album' scenario, but after checking on Yesasia I found out it was Mirage that was no longer available.
Jeon Weon Diary - Just when people thought T-ara would be laying low, CCM released sub-unit N4 with their not-so-haters-friendly-song. As expected but quite surprisingly, at least to me, was that fact that they managed to sell the title song for roughly 60% of Sexy Love's sales figure in the F4W period. JWD album sales are very poor for T-ara's standard, but lo and behold, it's among the highest selling album in 2013! It even beats (newly) digital monster like SISTAR and SISTAR19, also 4Minute. It's also only ~9,000 units less than IU's Modern Time album sales that charted most of its songs.
If anything, I would expect Jeon Weon Diary (both song and album) to flop due to the harsh nature of the song to some listeners. But no, I guess the public were more excited about T-ara N4 punching haters in the face then they were about T-ara's normal comeback.
No. 9 - Thus, this very typical T-ara sounding song didn't do so well during its F4W. As if it's the trend with T-ara's title songs after the scandal, No. 9 sales were down 40% (again) from their latest Jeon Weon Diary sales, although the album manages to sell 24,882 units thus far, catching up with JWD album sales.
I Know The Feeling - Despite the low digital sales of this song, it's a nice feat to see the second title tract made the chart.
Some of you might ask, "Why looking at the sales numbers for the first 4 weeks?"
According to some Kpop music and sales aficionado out there, the F4W time frame is the period where a song normally shows its attention grabbing power, turning listeners into buyers. An explosive F4W record would suggest the song will become a chart topper, although it's no guarantee that the song will remain on the chart for a long period of time. Case in point is Roly Poly whose F4W sales weren't too spectacular but it had the longevity power to keep charting until the year end.
Also, some would use F4W sales numbers as an indication of how well received the song is by the vast audience beyond the group's exclusive fans.
The graph below shows how T-ara's title songs digital sales and albums sales fluctuate since scandal.
The steep drop is very obvious in the period between the release of Day By Day and Mirage. T-ara's recent Again album manages to bring more (estimated) revenues because it's priced higher than JWD album, although selling ~4,000 units less.
*I used Yesasia List Price for the album price.
The trend for T-ara's title tracks F4W sales numbers is nothing fun to look at. Nuff said.

Still from the graph above, albums sales seem to bring more revenues compared to title track digital sales. And if what Kpop fans out there say is any true that those who purchase albums are loyal fans who really follow the group, it's sad yet still good to see how many (or little) 'loyal fans' remain to support T-ara.
As normally the case with repackage albums that sell less than the original releases, I'm doubtful Again 1977 would surpass 20,000 mark. But I'm truly wishing I'll be proven wrong.

Although it's not an amazing number for T-ara's class, it's still great to see how Again album outsells earlier releases of notable groups as pictured in the table above.
Here is how T-ara's title tracks rank annually based on Gaon sales data.

Well, let's hope things turn out for the better for our beloved T-ara. As much as we want them around for as long as possible, or however much they want to keep entertaining us, it's all about the money money money that CCM care about.
The more we support them, the more revenues they make, and that means a happy KKS, and that means he'll most likely keep T-ara around a bit longer, and that means happy fans.
So, Diadems, keep supporting T-ara... day by day, again... and again 1977... alright, this pun is getting out of place.

*Please let me know if I missed any point.
Data Sources: Gaon, Yesasia
EDIT 1
Summary and Notes:
1. Digital sales. Ever since Day By Day, the trend for title tracks' Digital Aggregates (online sales) seems to be that every new release would have a 40% lower sales than the previous release.
2. Album sales. Ever since Day By Day, the units sold have have seen a declining trend as well. However, due to the nature of much higher sale prices for the albums, the estimated revenues saw relatively stable figures every release although all releases after Day By Day only sold roughly 50% as much. Note: Again sales numbers are only a couple of months old, we might see little additions in the future.
3. Gaon's pricing and calculation systems for Digital Aggregates have always been changing. And most recently the rumor is that Gaon changed their systems again in January 2013 (thanks to Z for pointing that out). I still used the previously known value of $0.003/Digital Aggregate point. With this in mind, digital sales revenues that are converted from DAs are only to serve as a rough estimate. However, the DAs themselves could still serve as a good measure of the vast audience acceptance of a particular song.
EDIT 2
Gaon Digital Aggregates Points / Song Download Counts for F4W Period
Do You Know Me
1. 5,693,093 / 80,602
2. 3,592.931 / 45,435
3. 1,998,990 / 24,283
4.

Hey, Diadems, yo!
I'm sure you all are jamming to T-ara's latest release 'Do You Know Me' Monday to Sunday nowadays. Because, what should I do, it's just too catchy!
It's only a couple of months since T-ara came back with their signature upbeat ballad sad love song 'No. 9'. And it is only a little over one year since the scandal that made T-ara break down in tears.
Now that their tears have turned into pearls, has the heat turned into love for the girls as well?
By looking at things at a glance, T-ara seem to have been 'accepted' back to the place where they belong, entertainment industry. However, looking at certain facts a little deeper might give us a hint at how well T-ara are doing in regaining their position in the industry at the moment.
And sales figures are what would be helpful in this exercise.
I have compiled the Digital Aggregates (DAs) points (aggregates from Digital Song Downloads, Mobile/Ringtone Downloads, Video Streamings, and Background Music Downloads) for each title track for the first 4 weeks (F4W) since each release, and also the album sales numbers since release to October 2013. All data is derived from Gaon chart.
*I wasn't able to obtain the weekly DAs for Sexy Love. Gaon archive doesn't wanna go back that far and I lost the weekly data I had back then.
*I only compiled the data for releases after (and including) Day By Day because that was pretty much the period where the scandal first broke out, and that's what's going to matter in the remaining time of T-ara's career.

Day By Day - At US$413,061 worth of title track sales for the F4W since its release, T-ara were still the Top Tier group back then, among boy groups and especially girl groups. Album sales (since release thru Oct 2013) are not amazing, knowing T-ara's power to sell past 50,000 units. I'm not sure how much the scandal contributed to the low sales.
Sexy Love - Either the public didn't like Sexy Love that much (which I don't think was the case because Sexy Love follows T-ara's previously catchy songs formula) or the scandal hurt the sales badly enough. Revenues from the song's F4W sales were down by almost 40% compared to those of Day By Day. Worth mentioning is the fact that Mirage still sold 832 units in 2013, while Day By Day saw no sales at all! I was thinking of a 'sold out album' scenario, but after checking on Yesasia I found out it was Mirage that was no longer available.
Jeon Weon Diary - Just when people thought T-ara would be laying low, CCM released sub-unit N4 with their not-so-haters-friendly-song. As expected but quite surprisingly, at least to me, was that fact that they managed to sell the title song for roughly 60% of Sexy Love's sales figure in the F4W period. JWD album sales are very poor for T-ara's standard, but lo and behold, it's among the highest selling album in 2013! It even beats (newly) digital monster like SISTAR and SISTAR19, also 4Minute. It's also only ~9,000 units less than IU's Modern Time album sales that charted most of its songs.
If anything, I would expect Jeon Weon Diary (both song and album) to flop due to the harsh nature of the song to some listeners. But no, I guess the public were more excited about T-ara N4 punching haters in the face then they were about T-ara's normal comeback.
No. 9 - Thus, this very typical T-ara sounding song didn't do so well during its F4W. As if it's the trend with T-ara's title songs after the scandal, No. 9 sales were down 40% (again) from their latest Jeon Weon Diary sales, although the album manages to sell 24,882 units thus far, catching up with JWD album sales.
I Know The Feeling - Despite the low digital sales of this song, it's a nice feat to see the second title tract made the chart.
Some of you might ask, "Why looking at the sales numbers for the first 4 weeks?"
According to some Kpop music and sales aficionado out there, the F4W time frame is the period where a song normally shows its attention grabbing power, turning listeners into buyers. An explosive F4W record would suggest the song will become a chart topper, although it's no guarantee that the song will remain on the chart for a long period of time. Case in point is Roly Poly whose F4W sales weren't too spectacular but it had the longevity power to keep charting until the year end.
Also, some would use F4W sales numbers as an indication of how well received the song is by the vast audience beyond the group's exclusive fans.
The graph below shows how T-ara's title songs digital sales and albums sales fluctuate since scandal.
The steep drop is very obvious in the period between the release of Day By Day and Mirage. T-ara's recent Again album manages to bring more (estimated) revenues because it's priced higher than JWD album, although selling ~4,000 units less.
*I used Yesasia List Price for the album price.
The trend for T-ara's title tracks F4W sales numbers is nothing fun to look at. Nuff said.

Still from the graph above, albums sales seem to bring more revenues compared to title track digital sales. And if what Kpop fans out there say is any true that those who purchase albums are loyal fans who really follow the group, it's sad yet still good to see how many (or little) 'loyal fans' remain to support T-ara.
As normally the case with repackage albums that sell less than the original releases, I'm doubtful Again 1977 would surpass 20,000 mark. But I'm truly wishing I'll be proven wrong.

Although it's not an amazing number for T-ara's class, it's still great to see how Again album outsells earlier releases of notable groups as pictured in the table above.
Here is how T-ara's title tracks rank annually based on Gaon sales data.

Well, let's hope things turn out for the better for our beloved T-ara. As much as we want them around for as long as possible, or however much they want to keep entertaining us, it's all about the money money money that CCM care about.
The more we support them, the more revenues they make, and that means a happy KKS, and that means he'll most likely keep T-ara around a bit longer, and that means happy fans.
So, Diadems, keep supporting T-ara... day by day, again... and again 1977... alright, this pun is getting out of place.

*Please let me know if I missed any point.
Data Sources: Gaon, Yesasia
EDIT 1
Summary and Notes:
1. Digital sales. Ever since Day By Day, the trend for title tracks' Digital Aggregates (online sales) seems to be that every new release would have a 40% lower sales than the previous release.
2. Album sales. Ever since Day By Day, the units sold have have seen a declining trend as well. However, due to the nature of much higher sale prices for the albums, the estimated revenues saw relatively stable figures every release although all releases after Day By Day only sold roughly 50% as much. Note: Again sales numbers are only a couple of months old, we might see little additions in the future.
3. Gaon's pricing and calculation systems for Digital Aggregates have always been changing. And most recently the rumor is that Gaon changed their systems again in January 2013 (thanks to Z for pointing that out). I still used the previously known value of $0.003/Digital Aggregate point. With this in mind, digital sales revenues that are converted from DAs are only to serve as a rough estimate. However, the DAs themselves could still serve as a good measure of the vast audience acceptance of a particular song.
EDIT 2
Gaon Digital Aggregates Points / Song Download Counts for F4W Period
Do You Know Me
1. 5,693,093 / 80,602
2. 3,592.931 / 45,435
3. 1,998,990 / 24,283
4.

Wow, I want to go to Korea just for Caffenne!

You sound very sure and convincing, thanks

Yes it will be a T-ARA poster, the same image that appears in the cover.

Wanna make sure, is the poster that album cover or some random poster of boybands?

I can't... I can't even...
She's making me retarded...

T-ara are always the Number One in my heart... uh, Number Nine... no, Number One!

No more cartooney concepts...THANK YOU BASED GOD. I also echo the opinions on Shinsadong Tiger. His stuff can be a little gimmicky.

All this old story again.
I was happy for a second that T-ara will be back as a 6-member group, until I read that Dani will be joining.
And double-membership in 2 groups. CCM are indeed revolutionary.

I absolutely can't wait for T-ara N4's big US debut and I know that everyone will love the girls. And as for the new choreography and fashion for their song, I will love it even if they show some skin and do suggestive dancing. I don't have any worries or concerns at all. I just remain optimistic about their upcoming performance and I know that they're going to have a whole lotta fun in the US starting this coming Memorial Day weekend as they do their American activities. I'm definitely ready for T-ara N4 to come to the US

[EXCLUSIVE] T-ara N4 Los Angeles Meet & Greet - 151 Pics! (05/14)







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CREDIT: Jokerstorm2 + tiaradiadem.com

QBS - Quit the BullSh*t! Seriously guys, name is good, simple yet meaningful, way better than say generic "JP unit".
Also Qri will be the leader, Soyeon the main vocal and Boram will be the "visual" of QBS. But I've no idea what that is suppose to mean lol. Does that mean that always quiet Qri will become their spokesperson during concerts/interviews? If so that should be quite amusing

Really 11 options? 0 to 10?
I thought the options are only: a] super awesome, and b] super awesome?

Really 11 options? 0 to 10?
I thought the options are only: a] super awesome, and b] super awesome?

Really 11 options? 0 to 10?
I thought the options are only: a] super awesome, and b] super awesome?

EDIT
Bias: Qri-Eunjung
1. Eunjung - The musical arrangement, beats, and sounds choice are perfect for Eunjung's husky pitchy voice. Great pick for her.
2. Areum - Very well rounded. Happy beats- reminiscing of older generations of Kpop-, good vocals (although I thought it was too safe for her, she could do more), and even smooth raps are all well packaged in this upbeat song.

3. Soyeon - Cannot skip T-ara's ballad vocal signature, although this release is missing Soyeon's signature ballad vibrato. Although, it would be very nice to see her doing other genre.
4. Hyomin - The production is close to a title track level, but the English raps took away some seriousness. The beats are very good!
5. Qri - Although vocally not really selling, the beats make up for it. Qri placed lower than Hyomin because her vocals can't keep up with the roughness in her song. The autotune, not only was it unnecessary (we know how much Qri can max out her vocal and autotune didn't really help divert attention), it also killed the excitement. Her sweet singing might not be the fittest for such song, but it could have stayed clean thru out and it would have been really sweet.
6. Boram - A sweet treat for spring, Nice tunes, happy. The vocals, however, could be a little bit stronger, although Boram's vocal power is not the top tier in T-ara.
7. Jiyeon - Expected more from her. This single sounds very much like her previous ballad releases. Also, could have kept all Korean.

She's ridiculous...ly gorgeous!
And even this system knows my praise is not enough words too describe how gorgeous she is.

The snow melts even before it hits the girls' skin because they emit hotness...

T-ara is household name I guess.
Only 5 idol groups made it, and T-ara are one of the 3 girl groups among the 5 groups total. Safe to say T-ara is very very loved in terms of girl group by vast audience.
SISTAR rank higher by 1 point is understandable, they got 2 chart topping songs. If only T-ara hadn't had that scandal, they would have had 2 chart topping songs too, and probably ranked higher.
But still, impressive.

LOL VQueen's are hardcore...look at that boy crying his lungs out, and the two hugging looks like a scene where long lost brothers finally reunite haha...
Bet they had the time of their life that night...