quoted: Boa is making headlines in Japan where she sold close to a million copies of her official 2nd album immediately after it was released on January 29. The album which boasted 700,000 pre-orders received an additional 280,000 orders the day it was released to rise to #1 on Japan’s prestigious Oricon Chart. She’s the quickest foreign gasoo to sell that many albums in Japan. Currently the record for the most sold copies for an album in Japan for a Japanese singer is Utada Hikaru’s 8 million. While a million sales is viewed as a big hit in Korea, Japan which has more people but is also experiencing something of a slump in its own music industry considers 3 million copies sold as a big hit. With Boa’s current popularity she is expected to have a fair shot at the watermark number of 3 million sales. Her 1st full Japanese album released last March sold a total of 1.3 million copies.