TVXQ is #10 Best Album Sales For First Half of 2009

Oricon recently released their mid year album sales ranking for 2009 and TVXQ / DBSK / Tohoshinki did better than most expected. “The Secret Code” came in at number 10 with a sales figure of 248,000 for the first half of 2009. This placed them above popular artists such as KAT-TUN who had 237,000 sales for “Break the Records -by you & for you-” and Utada who had 228,000 sales for “This is The One.” BoA who released a combo “Best Album and American Debut album” was ranked 25th with a sales figure of 131,000.

Here are the Top 10 sales figures:
1. Mr Children – “Supermarket Fantasy” (1.2 million)
2. Exile – “Exile Ballad Best” (807k)
3. Dreams Come True – “Do Your Dreams come true?” (632k)
4. Reiorome – “Remio Best” (471k)
5. Ikimono-Gakari – “My Song Your Song” (404k)
6. Koda Kumi – “Trick” (385k)
7. Ayumi – “Next Level” (363k)
8. RADWIMPS – “Arutokorni no Teiri” (314k)
9. Unicorn – “Shamble” (250k)
10. TVXQ / Tohoshinki – “The Secret Code” (248k)

credits: allkpop