Girls’ Generation Hits Album Gold Mine

Girls' Generation, one of South Korea's top pop groups, showed its star power by selling more than 100,000 albums for the third time in a row.

SM Entertainment, the girl group's agency, said ``Genie,'' the second mini-album, which was released on June 29, reached 100,497 in sales as of Tuesday.

This means that the nine-member group has set a unique record by selling more than 100,000 copies of ``Girls' Generation,'' the group's first regular album, ``Gee,'' the first mini-album, and ``Genie.''

Girls' Generation has been shining in the local music market since its debut in 2007 with a string of success, among them ``Into the World,'' ``Girls' Generation,'' ``Kissing You,'' ``Baby Baby,'' and ``Gee.''

Its members are Yoona, Tiffany, Yuri, Hyoyeon, Sooyoung, Seohyun, Taeyeon, Jessica and Sunny.