By Kwon Mee-yoo
Girl group Kara has topped the Japanese music chart once again with their DVD.
The group headed the weekly DVD section of Oricon, the music sales chart of Japan, with their new DVD “Kara Best Clips.”
Released on Feb. 23, the DVD sold 132,000 copies in the first week. The Oricon News said the group members are the first female foreign singers to top the DVD sales list after its launch in 1999.
The group finishes sixth, when male singers are included, following the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, TVXQ, JYJ and Michael Jackson.
The sales exceeded the Japanese record of female singer's first-week DVD sales, previously 99,000 copies for Mai Kuraki's "First Cut" in 2000.
Their latest DVD “Kara Best Clips” includes eight tracks _ the group's Japanese debut "Mister" and "Jumping" in both Korean and Japanese and video clips of other songs such as "Lupin."
The five-member girl group made its debut in 2007 and expanded their horizons to Japan in August 2010, rising to stardom in both countries.
Despite a dispute with Korean agency DSP Entertainment, the group will release their third Japanese single “Jet Coaster Love” on March 23.