ITAR-TASS reports t.A.T.u. is recognized as an absolute record holder of the 2003 pop-music sales in Japan. According to the popular Tokyo radio station Jay Wave, the debute album sale’s number reached 1.4 million copies. Together with various limited editions, the sale’s number evaluated reached 1.8 million copies throughout Japan.
According to the results of the final chart 2003, t.A.T.u. managed to beat even Madonna – their two songs hit top 10 of the chart, where their song ‘All The Things She Said’ went straight to the second position. None of the Russian artists has ever managed to achieve such a success in Japan before.