`Grace,` the seventh album from singer Lee Su-young, who is making a comeback
after a two-year hiatus, has drawn significant attention even prior to its
release slated for Jan. 21.
Lee`s album ranked first in sales only hours
after it went on sale online, and topped various music charts, including Hot
Track, Sanga Record, YES24 and Phono, after just three days. Orders for the
album soared after one of Lee`s new songs was released online.
Lee`s
agency, Likud Entertainment, says it had to produce 100,000 more copies of the
album due to skyrocketing orders. The agency initially planned to release
200,000 copies, but album manufacturers were reluctant to accept the order, as
the recent trend among the majority of artists is to place initial orders of
only 20,000 to 30,000 copies of their albums due to the economic slump.
The explosive popularity of Lee`s album also resulted in attempts to
illegally download Lee`s new songs online. But the singer`s agency made sure to
block all illegal music downloading Web sites on the Internet prior to
disclosing Lee`s album online, and minimized the illicit distribution of the
album`s authentic copies.
Likud Entertainment says the singer`s fans also
contributed greatly to preventing any illicit distribution of the album by
alerting the agency of any suspicious files on the Internet.
Lee will
hold autograph-signing events on Jan. 21 at 3 p.m. at Shinnara record in Sinchon
and at 6:30 p.m. at the Evan record store in COEX, Samsung-dong, and on Jan. 22
at Kyobo Books in Gangnam and Home Plus in Deungchon-dong, Seoul.
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