Immediately upon release, "Dear Santa" topped on both domestic and international charts including iTunes where the album sang at the first place in nine countries including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Macau, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, and Cambodia.
It also reached the سب, سب سے اوپر 10 in albums chart in many other countries such as Indonesia, Japan, Hungary, the Philippines, and Costa Rica. The album topped charts in Europe and even climbed up to No.1 in the Pop Albums Chart in many Asian countries.
Domestically, the album comfortably received an all-kill staying at No.1 in eight various موسیقی charts like Genie, Melon, Mnet, Naver, Olleh, Soribada, Bugs, and Monkey several hours after its release.
Meanwhile, the شائقین are growing fonder of member Seohyun, who is also the youngest and, apparently, the leader of TaeTiSeo, for her contributions to the lyrics of the very عنوان "Dear Santa." It can be recalled that Seohyun also participated in writing of the lyrics of "Only U" for their گزشتہ mini-album "Holler" which was released last September.
This signals a very gracious opportunity for مزید artists in SM Entertainment to شامل میں in the production of their albums. It is not uncommon knowledge in the K-Pop موسیقی industry how little the company provides for the artists to contribute for their own music.
Perhaps that tight culture is slowly being reformed as Girls' Generation's leader and first soloist Taeyeon has also been reported to have participated in the lyric writing of her عنوان track "I." Before that, the girl group's junior Jonghyun also wrote the lyrics of his group SHINee's عنوان track "View" although he has been writing some of their songs way before.
Being busy for Girls' Generation's کنسرٹ tour "Phantasia" in different countries including Japan in which they are currently in for the کہا tour, the girls of TaeTiSeo Taeyeon, Tiffany, and Seohyun have ended their performances in weekly موسیقی shows in Korea. The last stop was in SBS Inkigayo on December 6th where they grazed the audience with "Merry Christmas" and "Dear Santa."
Just like gift giving during Christmas, part of the proceeds from the sales of Girls' Generation TaetiSeo's "Dear Santa" will be دیا to UNICEF as a donation along with EXO's Christmas mini-album "Sing for You."
