Jang Geun Suk’s ‘Just Crazy’ makes history on the Oricon

Jang Geun Suk‘s first Japanese studio album, ‘Just Crazy‘, has been revealed to have topped Japan’s Oricon weekly chart!

Released on May 30th, the album topped the Oricon daily chart immediately after its release. In its first week alone, the album sold 88,000 copies, which has secured itself a spot at the top of the weekly chart as well.

Since Moriyama Naota‘s record in 2004, Jang Geun Suk marks the first male solo artist to top both the daily and the weekly charts in eight years, in addition to being the first male international solo artist.

As remarkable as the feat is, he’s no stranger to topping the chart, as his first single release, ‘Let Me Cry‘, topped the Oricon daily and weekly, which means that both his first single and studio albums ranked at the top of the daily and weekly charts. This was only accomplished by Uchida Yuki in 1994 and 1995, making Jang Geun Suk the first in nearly 17 years and four months.

In related news, Jang Geun Suk will be kicking off his ‘2012 Jang Geun Suk Asia Tour THE CRI SHOW 2‘ starting with Seoul in July.

Source + Photos: Star News via Nate

Jang Geun Suk purchases 50 copies of his own album in Japan

Singer and actor Jang Geun Suk shared a few photos of himself freely roaming the streets of Japan.

On June 4th, the singer used Twitter to share the photos above taken at a Tower Records in Shibuya, Japan. He evoked laughter amongst his fans by also writing, “Bought 50 copies of Jang Geun Suk’s first formal album.. -_- … Infiltration success. Did not get caught.”

The one photo of Jang Geun Suk taking a snapshot next to his own figure panel well displayed his fun and carefree personality, and fans who saw the photos remarked, “This is so something he would do“, “Cute“, “50 copies of your own album?”, and more.

Source & Image : MyDaily via Nate, Jang Geun Suk‘s Twitter

Jang Geun Suk lives up to his nickname of “Asia Prince”

Jang Geun Suk has once again evidenced his popularity in Japan through a large scale newspaper advertisement.

Recently, the pictures above were posted on an online community bulletin with the description “The King of Hallyu, The Power of Jang Geuk Suk”, receiving much attention.

The revealed pictures show Jang Geun Suk’s jacket cover photo for his new Japanese album ‘Just Crazy‘ featured on Asahi newspaper in Japan. This advertisement, which has four double-sided pages, contains a full-body image of the artist on one side, and four different stills on the other side.

The fans in Japan waited in line since early morning just to get their hands on one of the 500,000 copies of this paper, even leading a Japanese broadcast station to report on the large crowd that had gathered.

Netizens commented, “He definitely fits the title of ‘Asia Prince’”, “His popularity is unmatched”, “Jang Geun Suk is impressive”.

Source & Image: Nate

Jang Geun Suk places first on Oricon with ‘Just Crazy’

Actor/singer Jang Geun Suk has once again shown his popularity in Japan as he has reached first place on Oricon immediately after releasing his new Japanese album.

On May 31st, only a day after his official album release, Jang Geun Suk sold over 53,000 copies of his new Japanese album, ‘Just Crazy‘, and placed first on Oricon’s daily chart.

Jang Geun Suk expressed his happiness with a tweet, “Yeah!!! 1st place on Oricon”

With the concluding of KBS‘s ‘Love Rain‘, Jang Geun Suk will be preparing to embark on the ‘2012 Jang Geun Suk Asia Tour-The Cri Show 2‘ in July in Seoul, Japan, Shanghai, Taiwan, and Thailand.

Source: OSEN via Nate, Jang Geun Suk’s Twitter

Jang Geun Suk to release his first full length album in Japan

Actor Jang Geun Suk will release his first full-length album, ‘Just Crazy‘, in Japan on May 30. The album has already recorded 130,000 unit sales through pre-order, and has taken 1st place on Japan Tower Record’s online sales.

A track titled “200 miles” from the album has been chosen as the opening theme on a famous Japanese animation called ‘Fairy Tail‘ as well, once again showing the popularity of “Geun Jjang” in Japan. The album’s title song is “Crazy Crazy Crazy“.

His song “Let me cry“, which was released last April and climbed to number one on Oricon charts, the song “Bye Bye Bye“, which was used as a CM song for Seoul Makguli, and “Rain” will all be included in the new album.

‘Just Crazy’ will also include “In My Dream”, which he wrote while he toured Japan and held concerts last year, including one at the Tokyo Dome. His first album will include 11 songs in total, and for the first time ever, three versions will be released: a restricted version, a non-restricted version, and a fan club version.

Jang Geun Suk’s tour, the ‘2012 Jang Geun Suk Asia Tour – The Cri Show 2‘, starts in July. He will have a concert in Seoul, tour four cities in Japan (Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Hokaido), and then move onto Shanghai, Taiwan, Thailand as well as four other Southeast Asian countries.

Source: Maeil Kyungje via Naver