''Kara Best Clips'' is the first
music video compilation and fourth DVD by the
South Korean
girl group
A girl group is a music act featuring several female singers who generally harmonize together. The term "girl group" is also used in a narrower sense in the United States to denote the wave of American female pop music singing groups, many of who ...
Kara. It was released on February 23, 2011 in two editions: Regular and Limited. It ranked #1 in Oricon Weekly DVD Chart for two consecutive weeks with 132,132 copies sold in first week.
A Blu-ray edition of the DVD was released on February 29, 2012.
Track listing
Chart performance
It debuted #1 in the Oricon daily chart and eventually became #1 in the Oricon weekly chart making the group the first foreign "female" artist to top the composite DVD ranking chart since its inception in 1999. The previous record was held by Chinese group
Twelve Girls Band's, "''Twelve Girls Band: First Premium Concert in Japan''" (January 26, 2004) and American artist
Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer. Often referred to as the " Princess of Pop", she is credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s and early 2000s. After appearing in stage productio ...
's ''
Greatest Hits: My Prerogative'' (December 20, 2004) have come in at #2 on Oricon's Weekly Composite DVD Ranking. Furthermore, Kara sold 132,000 copies of their music video collection "Kara Best Clips" in their first week and this is the greatest amount sold for a "music video collection" for a female artist; not including live performance DVDs. The previous top seller was
Mai Kuraki's "''First Cut''" (November 20, 2000), which sold 99,000 copies. Kuraki has held the record for 10 years and 3 months, but Kara has just taken her record away. In total, there have been only 6 foreign artists who have made it to number one on the Weekly DVD Composite Ranking: Kara,
The Beatles,
Led Zeppelin,
Tohoshinki (TVXQ),
Junsu/Jejung/Yuchun (JYJ) and
Michael Jackson.
[Jo, Dong-joon]
카라1위 데뷔이후 첫 1위 감격! (''Kara's First #1 After Debut, Grateful!'')
. ''TodayKorea''. March 6, 2009. Retrieved March 5, 2009.
Charts
Sales and certifications
Kara Best Clips II & Shows
''Kara Best Clips II & Shows'' is a second part of the music video compilation "Kara Best Clips" and also first live DVD of the group. It was released on February 29, 2012 in 2 formats:
DVD and
Blu-ray and 2 different editions: Limited (with 3 discs)
and Regular edition (with 2 discs).
Disc 2 includes the show "Now, the Word You Want to Give... KARA JAPAN COME BACK 2011", held in
Yokohama,
Japan
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. It was the first showcase of the group in Japan.
Track listing
Charts
Sales and certifications
Release history
References
{{Kara
Kara (South Korean group) albums
2011 video albums
2012 video albums
2011 compilation albums
Music video compilation albums
Universal Records video albums
Universal Records compilation albums
Albums recorded at the Yokohama Arena