2PM's Japanese debut single sells 59,000 copies

2PM's newest Japanese single "Take Off" sold 59,000 copies in its first week of release. The single featured a futuristic concept and was released with MV shortly after.  Fans criticized the choreography as being too "simplistic", but praised the song for its "adorableness" and enjoyed the music as a whole.

2PM surpassed SNSD, who sold 45,000 copies  of their Japanese album in their first week, and Big Bang, who sold around 44,000 copies of their limited edition Big Bang 2 Japanese album.  But 2PM has yet to rival Japanese artists such as KAT-TUN, who recently sold 151,000 copies in their first week (KAT-TUN placed 1st on Oricon charts 20 times since their debut).

2PM is one of the many groups to be well-received in Korea (i.e. Big Bang, SNSD, B2ST, and KARA).  2NE1 remains to be one of the few Japan-debuted Korean groups not to be as successful in Japan.

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