Big Bang's 2nd Japanese Album Receives Gold Certificate For Selling over 100,000 Copies!

Big Bang showed off a storm of popularity in Japan.
Big Bang released their second Japanese full album “Big Bang 2” last May 11th in Japan and on June 20th it was announced that the album received a Gold Album Certification from the Japanese Record Association. Gold Disc Certificates are given as acknowledgement to albums that have sold 100,000 or more copies.
Big Bang’s second full album which was released after about a 1 year and 9 months, went on to sale 65,000 copies only in it’s first week and took first place on the Oricon weekly chart, demonstrating strength until succeeding in obtaining a gold certification.
Also the “2011 Big Bang Live Concert DVD” took 1st place on Japan’s tower record on-line reseservation chart.
As for the DVD, it contains the “BIG SHOW 2011″ concerts that were heldd from February 25th to the 27th at the Seoul Olympic Gymnasium, plus behind-the-scene cuts and photos in the form of a booklet. The booklet even went on to top the rankings and to beat local artists such as AKB48. The “2011 Big Bang Live Concert DVD” will start being officialy sold on June 29th.


Source: sports chosun
Translated: Sammi @ ibigbang

Big Bang Coming To Indonesia????

We are not sure how true this is but we're posting this to give everyone a heads up. The source looks legit but of course, we have to wait for further confirmation since there's no announcement yet from YGE.

Jakarta International Teen Festival
Date: May 28, 2011
Place: To be determined
Artists: Katy Perry, BIGBANG, 24Herbs, Brown Eyed Girls and 1 more to be announced
Organizer: Berlian

Sources: Berlian_ENT Twitter (Screencap) / News Article 

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[Info]Korean Music Wave 2011 in Singapore

KOREAN MUSIC WAVE 2011
Date: Friday 15 July
Where: Singapore Indoor Stadium
Duration: 2 hrs 30 mins to 3 hrs approx

The final line-up includes BIGBANG, 2NE1, FT ISLAND, U-KISS, MISS A, DAL★SHABET, TEEN TOP, THE BOSS, TOUCH and X-5!

Tickets will be priced at:
$318.00 mosh pit
$318.00 CAT 1 seated
$258.00 CAT 2 seated
$198.00 CAT 3 seated
$148.00 CAT 4 seated
$118.00 CAT 5 seated

Seating plan will be uploaded within the next 2 days.
Tickets will go on sale on Saturday 7 May 2011 via SISTIC.

Note: The performance time (number of songs) for each band is decided by their respective artist agency. Be it 7 bands, or 8 bands or 10 bands performing, it will not affect each band’s performance time (number of songs)/duration of concert.

Credits: Korean Music Wave Facebook

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Big Bang Signed Polaroids

 

These are the polaroids that will be given away (to lucky fans) for one of the promo events for BIGBANG's Star Collection Cards.

Credits: Gmarket via Bestiz

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