was nominated for the Best Dance Performance Award at the Mnet Asian Music Awards for its outstanding choreography.in 2012 and it became the fifth most-sold album of the year with over 180,000 copies sold. SHINee appeared in the Forbes list of Korea Power Celebrity many times, once in 2014 and again in 2016.
The group signed with EMI Records Japan in mid-2011 to venture into the Japanese music scene. The highest number of sales for a Japanese debut single recorded by Oricon for a South Korean group at that time went to SHINee’s Japanese version of their singleThe First , on December 7, 2011, both were certified Gold by RIAJ for selling over 100,000 copies. SHINee held their Japan Debut Premium Reception at Abbey Road Studios in London in 2011, making them the first Asian artists to perform there.