The solo single album by Wooyoung, member of K-pop boy band 2PM, ranked second on Japan’s Oricon chart, his management agency said Sunday.
JYP Entertainment announced that Wooyoung’s first single album “R.O.S.E” took second place in Oricon’s daily single chart only a day after it was released.
The album consists of four songs written and composed by Wooyoung, including the eponymous title song “R.O.S.E.”
The album also topped the daily sales chart in the Shibuya branch of Tower Records, the largest record store in Japan, on the same day.
Wooyoung is currently on a solo showcase tour around Japan since last month and has a final performance due on March 11 in Osaka. The concert will be broadcasted live in 30 theaters in 23 regions in Japan for fans who have failed to purchase tickets.
Hollywood blockbuster “Kingsman: The Secret Service” surpassed the 4 million mark Sunday, according to its distributor 20th Century Fox Korea.
The record comes 26 days since it was released on Feb. 11. It remains top of the box office since Feb. 23 and is the longest lasting movie this year to occupy the first place in the chart.
Kingsman is the first foreign R-rated film to surpass the 3 million audience mark. It broke the record of “300” released in 2007 which attracted 2.9 million ticket buyers. So far, there had been only two films that surpassed the 2 million mark as R-rated foreign films ― “300” and “Taken 2” (2012) which attracted 2.3 million.
Kingsman is a spy action comedy film directed by Matthew Vaughn, based on the comic book “The Secret Service” where an aimless unemployed young man becomes a secret service agent through intense training.