CN Blue Take Taiwanese Charts by Storm

Korean boy band CN Blue have raced to the top of Taiwan's major music charts with their new album, "Ear Fun." The album swept the top spot on six charts including the J-Pop weekly chart of G-Music, the country's largest music site, as well as the Chia Chia Records chart and ezPeer, the group's agency FNC Entertainment said on Wednesday.

The album also ranked first on the monthly album sales chart, according to data compiled by Taiwan's online bookstore Books.com.tw from April 13 to Sunday.

CN Blue are gaining an immense following in Taiwan, with all 10,000 tickets for their "Bluestorm" concert in Taipei on Feb. 28 selling out in less than 15 minutes of being made available to the public.


Chosun Ilbo

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CNBLUE Hits #1 In Taiwan With "Heartstrings" OST Songs

Source: KBS Global

CNBLUE is not only hot in Korea it seems. Their songs from the "Heartstrings" OST is heating up charts in Taiwan. The songs "Heartstrings" and "Because I Miss You" have hit #1 on the weekly mobile charts such as "emome", "Far EasTone Mobile", and "Taiwan Mobile". What's amazing is that the songs weren't even released offline.

In more overseas news related to CNBLUE, the group will be releasing their second major single "Where You Are" in Japan come February.

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CNBlue gathers a crowd of 7000 in Guerrilla Concert in Japan

The main street of Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, was totally packed with fans during C.NBlues’s guerilla concert, this despite the fact that there was no notice on the location of the concert. There were approximately 7000 people. The sudden rush of people forced C.NBlue to wrap up the concert in 5 minutes due to safety reasons; the police suspended their concert.

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Idol bands FT Island and C.N Blue takes the Taiwanese music market by storm going up #1 and #2 on charts

Korean band groups takes the Taiwanese music market by storm.

Recently on Taiwanese famous music sites G-Music and Five Music, groups FT Island and C.N Blue are #1 and #2 on the charts. For the 3rd week of June, FT Island ‘Flower Rock’ and C.N Blue ‘Blue Love’ are up #1 and #2 respectively on the 2 music sites charts.

And SS501 new album ‘Destination’ is up #3 and #6 on G-Music and Five Music chart. ‘Flower Rock’ is FT Island’s latest single first released in Japan on 19th May, while C.N Blue 2nd minialbum ‘Blue Love’ was released in Korea on 19th May. And their album is released for the first time in Taiwan as licensed version.


Meanwhile, it seems that C.N Blue is doing very strong in the Taiwanese music market in other areas. The title song ‘Love’ off their ‘Blue Love’ album is up #2 on local telcom chart emome, and #3 on ‘Taiwan Mobile’.

FNC Music responded, “This is good results considering the strong competition from other idol singers in the market.”

S:Newsen + kbites

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