SNSD and Super Junior Named Best Selling Artists of 2011

Super Junior and SNSD have recently been recognized as the best-selling Korean idol groups of 2011.
On December 28th, Hanteo Charts, an internet website which focuses on researching and compiling record sale statistics, announced, based upon its recent 2011 "Singers' Awards", Super Junior was the most lucrative group of the year, both for the male category and overall, with 355,915 copies in total sold from January 1 to December 27 2011. SNSD, who ranked first on Hanteo's annual chart last year, came in first for female idol groups with 226,769 units sold this year, and third overall.
Also included in the ranking is TVXQ, who came in second overall with 230,897 copies sold, Big Bang in fourth with 221,175 copies, SS501's Kim Hyun Joong in fifth with 212,191 copies and JYJ, Infinite, BEAST, IU, and 2PM round out the poll from places six to ten.