Updated Mar.5,2008 09:38 KST

BoA¡¯s Latest Album Tops Japanese Charts
Singer BoA has topped the Japanese weekly Oricon music chart with her latest album. The Korean singer released her sixth regular album ¡°The Face¡± in Japan, where it took first place in the chart announced on Tuesday morning.

Each of her regular albums from ¡°Listen to My Heart¡± in 2002 to ¡°Valenti,¡± ¡°Love & Honesty,¡± ¡°Outgrow¡± and ¡°Made in Twenty¡± has topped the charts.

If her best album ¡°Best of Soul¡± is taken into consideration, BoA has had seven chart-toppers. Oricon News said the star has achieved the second best record in the Japanese music history after Ayumi Hamasaki, who saw eight albums top the music chart.

(englishnews@chosun.com )