1. Mayday (五月天) and Poetry of the Day After ( 後青春期的詩) with 42.37 percent of sales
2. Jay Chou (周杰倫) and Capricorn — Deluxe Package (魔杰座) with 27%
3. Shin (信) and Planet Music (集樂星球) with 5%
4. JJ Lin (林俊傑) and Sixology (JJ 陸) with 4.03%
5. Jam Hsiao (蕭敬騰) and Jam Hsiao (蕭敬騰) with 2.48%

Album chart compiled from G-Music (www.g-music.com.tw), based on retail sales.
Taipei Times

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Fresh from being crowned the “king” of the Mando-pop charts, Jay Chou (周杰倫) was unceremoniously usurped last week by Mayday (五月天). The pretty-boy rockers announced that sales of their latest release Poetry of the Day After (後青春期的詩) totaled over 1.3 million copies, and noted that they edged past the Chairman’s Capricorn (魔杰座), which just broke the 1 million mark.

Chou’s record company JVR Music (杰威爾音樂) took the announcement as a dig. Instead of congratulating the competition, the company issued a long-winded, huffy response that ended with, “there’s no need to brag,” reports the Liberty Times [the Taipei Times’ sister paper].

The hoopla left Mayday’s lead singer, A-hsin (阿信), exasperated. “[Chou] is using Rubik’s Cubes [to sell records], we’re doing concerts — it’s a lot more tiring,” said A-hsin, referring to the Rubik’s Cubes plastered with Chou’s face that are being offered as a freebie with his new album. But he quickly composed himself. “Whoever’s number one is not important. The most important thing is for everyone to have good sales.” Source : Pop Stop / Taipei Times

OMG. mayday beat jay!! wth ><!

i like JJ's new album though, nice songs..

actually there's nothing to shout about. If Mayday can achieve that kind of sales, their album must be good. Anyway, I know that Jay and Mayday are good friends. I think all these are created by the media, with an aim to stir people to talk about it...

But I think in terms of percentage, Jay's sales on the 1st week of release is better than Mayday....Jay's album sales accounted for above 50% right?

Anyway, Mayday is a group and Jay is solo. Should there be a comparison made in the first place? I don't see the point here..

Mayday is first because their's is a new album... It's always normal for new albums to get Number 1.
But 27% for Jay is not bad for a second week.

And wow, JJ's album - only 4%?! I think he should have done much better

This post has been edited by Initial E: Oct 31 2008 4 07 AM

i'm actually not surprised that mayday beat jay chou. mayday's new album is awesome and it's definitely worth buying/listening. i love tracks 1 and 3 especially.
well i think this is a fair competition. both mayday's and jay's fans have been waiting for the release of their albums for quite some time. besides, this is only the comparison of the sales of albums.

wow surprised jam is soo popular...

wow congrats to mayday! beat jay chou. very surprising

How did JJ get so low? =(((
Hopefully the album sales for JJ will be higher!

I'm just happy that Jay's still on the chart. =) I'm also not surprised that MayDay beat Jay. After all, they are Taiwan's most popular band.

I'm pretty surprised Jolin Tsai's Agent J wasn't here. I mean they mean albums from this year right? Wait nvm, Agent J came out last year. Then after a while I am pretty sure S.H.E's FM SHE will be up here.

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Go MayDay. Love them <3
That is going to be a HUGE boost to their already skyrocketing career. Love these except for Jam. Never heard his music before.

Ugh, can't believe this.
Can't believe JJ's is so low.

Poor JJLin, I think his album came out kinda quiet compared to West Side the year before. Maybe not enough promotions? ~_~

Anyhow, wow, i'm shock that Mayday won over Jay. I mean, sure new albums typically win over the older one, but Jay's album usually stay up as #1 for weeks and weeks. O.O;;

Btw. Mayday and Jay are friends? really?

^ Yeaaaah, you could say so.
And ahem, what i'm going to say may be inflammatory and very possibly untrue, but its based on what i think:

You know before JVR records was set up last year, and before the whole 'JVR will never buy jay's own records to bump up album sales' thing came up, Jay was with Alfa Music. There, it was when his albums stayed for weeks on end in Number 1.
WHAT I FEEL is at that point of time, Alfa bought their own artiste's albums.
There. I said it.
Doesn't it make sense..? When JVR was set up suddenly jay's album sales weren't so magical anymore, compared to when he was at Alfa.

That was just a very wild guess of mine though.

This post has been edited by Initial E: Nov 1 2008 4 40 PM

i kind of agree with initial E . is does make sense

haha well the rubiks cube certainly aided my decision to get jay's album!
but it sounds like JVR and Mayday are both taking digs at each other

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I can't believe JJ's album sales got so low! His previous albums were selling much better isn't it?
Maybe timing and promotions were lesser. Arrggh, nevertheless, I still love JJ!
Sixology was good. (:

can't believe jj got so low.... maybe not enough promotion? -sigh- jj's album was sooo good, it's a pity that it got so low...

This post has been edited by Mikokagome8888: Nov 5 2008 3 20 AM

I love JJ, Jay Chow n Mayday's album......
Especially for JJ's "Cries in the Distance" n Jay's "Dao Xiang"