KARA, 2PM, BEAST On Oricon, Oh My!
Its idol madness on Oricon!
This week KARA released their 1st original album Girl’s Talk while BEAST released their first album BEAST – Japan Premium Edition and 2PM released their 1st Japanese DVD Hottest ~2PM 1st MUSIC VIDEO COLLECTION & The History~
But sadly, neither one has made no.1
KARA unfortunately picked a nasty week to go against Utada Hikaru one of the Japan’s biggest and most popular singers who released her farewell album Utada Hikaru SINGLE COLLECTION VOL. 2 as she goes on hiatus, throwing KARA in the no.3 spot which is still impressive and a first for female K-pop groups but clearly everyone from SNSD to Big Bang is itching for that no.1 spot that no other Korean group besides TVXQ has held.
Despite their relative unknown status BEAST faired not too bad debuting at no.6 for a group only in their 2nd year.
And finally 2PM shined bright on the charts as the only reason they didn’t win no.1 was because of the King of Pop, Micheal Jackson’s Visions DVD so that certainly is still impressive!
AKB48 Breaks Record For The Bestselling 21st Century Single By A J-pop Female Artist
Just when people thought AKB48 couldn’t get any better than they were, THEY DID
In a time of recession and just the fact that very few artists sell are able to sell past 500,000 AKB48′s latest latest single “Beginner sold approximately 827,000 copies on their first week becoming their fifth consecutive number-one.
That total sets a new record for first-week single sales by a female group, surpassing SPEED’s “ALL MY TRUE LOVE,” which sold 601,000 copies in 1998. Among all female artists (group and solo), “Beginner” ranks #3 in first-week single sales, behind Hikaru Utada’s “Addicted To You” (1.068 million) in 1999 and Namie Amuro’s “CAN YOU CELEBRATE?” (828,000) in 1997. However, that makes them #1 so far in the 21st century, outselling Utada’s “Can You Keep A Secret?” (784,000) in 2001.
“Beginner” is also AKB48′s third consecutive single to sell more than half a million copies in the first week. This also sets a record for female artists, as Utada and Ayumi Hamasaki held the previous record with streaks of two consecutive singles.
The Possible Finally Removes That Hideous “Blemish” SS501 Has Had For Years
It seems SS501 can count their lucky stars thanks to the J-pop group The Possible for finally making the impossible possible and removing them as no.1 “Worst Drop In Oricon Weekly History”
See when SS501 released their J-pop single ”lucky days” the boys were indeed LUCKY and made it to no.4 on Oricon Weekly Charts the thing is though things got horribly bad for them the following week as they dropped down to 151!!! (burn)
Now even though you would think that’s bad The Possible’s last single Watashi no Miryoku / LOVE LOVE made it to no.9 and shot down all the way to no. 197 officially making them no.1 on the list XD
In the end though things still suck for both them as check out the Top 5 list
1) *9位→197位 ： 188↓ ： THE Possible 「私の魅力/LOVE2パラダイス」
2) *4位→151位 ： 147↓ ： SS501 「LUCKY DAYS」
3) 10位→145位 ： 145↓ ： THE Possible 「いじわる Crazy love」
4) 10位→109位 ： *99↓ ： SS501 「kokoro(初回限定版)」
5) 10位→101位 ： *91↓ ： the pillows & Ben Kweller「Lightning Runaway ～NO MUSIC, NO LIFE.～」 (タワーレコード限定発売)
Yeah OUCH
With 5 Top 10 Ranking DVDs TVXQ Is Tied With The Likes Of Micheal Jackson
The popular group Tohoshinki, whose activities are currently suspended, has achieved new a record for DVD ranking that the late Michael Jackson created
. Their new DVDs “TOHOSHINKI History in JAPAN SPECIAL” and “Zoom In shika Shiranai Tohoshinki DVD” (both released on 9/29) sold a total of 63,000 copies and 53,000 copies respectively, ranking first & third place on the DVD chart of the week of 10/11. Besides, 3 of their old DVDs also ranked 4th-6th on the weekly chart.
Not only do they have 5 items ranked on the chart, but they have also achieved the record which Michael Jackson created in the week 7/20 of 2009 of having 5 music DVDs entering the Top 10 chart at the same time. (more…)
KARA Almost Outnumbered JUJU On The Daily Oricon Charts!
Wow this is pretty impressive, KARA who just released their first album/Best of called KARA BEST 2007-2010 debuted at outstanding no.2 on the daily chartswhich i’m pretty sure is the highest FIRST album debut than any other K-pop idol group so far!
But get this coming in at no.1 was popular R&B artist JUJU who sold 19,974 copies with her album REQUEST, and how many did Kara sell? 18,223 copies. (more…)
2NE1 Rules Mnet Chart & Charts On Oricon?
Korean idol girl group 2NE1 took over both of Mnet’s music charts during the fourth week of September with their first full-length album.
Their three title tracks “Can’t Nobody,” “Go Away” and “Clap Your Hands” placed at the No. 1, 2, and 3 spot on Mnet’s singles, respectively, for the week of September 13 to 19. (more…)
ZE:A’s Hard Work Pays Off And Lands Them At no.3 On Oricon
Well will you look at that! Even though Z:EA is still fairly a rookie group and has had a fair success so far on the charts the boys countless fan meets with their fans in other parts have payed off as one of their singles that was released in Japan chart as high as no.3 on the Oricon Daily Charts!! (more…)
Oricon Weekly Albums Charts: Extra Read All About NEWS Hits no.1
After nearly 2 years since their last album the boys of NEWS returned last week with their latest 4th album LIVE and with much anticipation the album was able to snag the no.1 spot on Oricon selling 156,391 copies. (more…)
Oricon Weekly Single Charts: Exile Takes Their Crown Back
After ruling the charts last week Arashi was simply no match for EXILE who back in 2008 were one of the hottests artists around having their best of album reach high on the World’s Best Selling Albums of 2008 charts. And it seems that EXILE continues to pack a punch with their first single of the year Motto Tsyuyoku selling strong at no.1 with 152,056 copies. (more…)
JYJ’s No.1 Album & DVD, Break TWO J-pop Records
The first live DVD of Tohoshinki’s members JUNSU/JEJUNG/YUCHUN “THANKSGIVING LIVE IN DOME” (rhymthzone, released on 9/8) sold a total of 119,000 copies in the first week, snatching the top spot of Oricon DVD Weekly Chart. (more…)
ORICON WEEKLY SINGLE CHARTS: V6 Is Only Dreaming At No.1
As we reported before V6 scored big for their 24th time with their latest new single Only Dreaming/Catch and sold 56,622 copies this making them the 3rd group to chart in the Top 10 for over 16 years! Coming in at no.2 is AKB48′s sub group Watarirouka Hashiritai which sold 38,021 copies with their single Gyu. Still holding on strong at no.3 was AKB48 themsleves with their single Heavy Rotation selling 27,520 copies. At no.4 was Mai Kuraki with her 34th single Summer Time Gone and sold 25,332 copies. And finally falling down to no.5 with 23,822 copies was last week’s champs Kanjani8 ‘s single LIFE ~Menomae no Mukou e~.
And if you must know Kara rose up the charts by one slot at no.13 with Mister making this their 4th week the group has held on at the TOP 20! As for Big Bang sadly the boys has slipped down the charts all the way at no.18 with their Beautiful Hangover single.
ORICON Weekly Album Charts: Superfly Flies To The Top
After hyping up her single & releasing a pv for all the songs this week Superfly’s hard work paid off as her single Wildflower & Cover Songs: Complete Best ‘TRACK 3′ ranked at no.1 selling 146,114 and making this her 3rd straight no.1 album! Although its a single much like EXILE’s Fantasy because it contained more than 5 original songs it was charted as a album. Coming in at no.2 was KinKi Kids member Domoto Koichi’s album BPM, following his last album Mirror 4 years ago and sold 140,040 copies. Falling down to no.3 was Kobukuro with their album All Covers Best, and sold 71,645 copies. Hitting no.4 is Arashi who after a month is still charting in the Top 5 with their album Boku no Miteiru Fuukei which sold 18,448 copies. And finally at no.5 was foreign rock group Underworld (not Uverworld) with their album Barking and sold 12,178 copies.
V6 Keeps The Magic Going, Charts The Top 10 For The 16th Year
V6′s 37th single “only dreaming/Catch” has made its debut at No.1 on the Japanese music charts, making it the 16th straight year the group has had a Top 10 single. The same record has only been achieved by two other music groups: B’z and SMAP.
The single has sold close to 60,000 copies, and has been used as the theme song to Yoshihiko Inohara’s (34) drama “警視庁捜査一課９係 (Keishicho Sousa Ikka 9-gakari)” and the “Waseda Academy” TV commercial.
It is the fourth consecutive No.1 single the group has had out of a total of 24 No. 1s.
Wow congrats to V6 they truly are veterans in the J-pop field with the amount of time they have spent in it since their debut in 1995!
source:MomoEdgewood
SNSD Claims Victory, Finally Hits No.1 With Their DVD!!!
Even though SNSD’s DVD New Beginning of Girls’ Generation has been out for quiet some time now and debuted at no.2 something amazing happened today as the girl’s dvd finally rose to no.1!
The possibility of this though might have to with the fact that dvd was completely sold out and now that their concert is over everyone can grab a copy!
Oricon Tells K-pop Female Groups To Thank Their Lucky TVXQ Stars
Today Oricon stated that TVXQ is the reason why Korean girl groups could attain popularity in Japan.
On the 2nd, their column ‘The Eyes of the Editor-in-Chief’ introduced the recent Japanese activities of Korean girl groups such as Kara, 4Minute and Girls’ Generation and pointed out the majority of their Japanese fans are women in their teens and twenties.
Oricon stated, “TVXQ must be credited for K-pop and its girl groups’ successful launch in Japan. It seems that the fans have been feeling a sense of loss since TVXQ suspended all activities, so the fans in their teens and twenties are focusing their attention on Korean girl groups.”
Following this, the columnist added that, “Otherwise, it would have been impossible for these girl groups to have suddenly sold 30,000 copies of their album or have 20,000 people come to their events.”
LMAO, even though its ACTUALLY true that BoA was the first person to break down the Berlin Wall that was the wall between K-pop and J-pop it was TVXQ that broke down the wall for idol groups which helped Japanese discover the refreshing sound K-pop BUT that in no way means TVXQ fans are taking their love to the girl groups since TVXQ’s fanbase consisted of mostly older women and Japanese males in general tend to have a stronger attachment to female groups then males therefore that helps sales a lot!
source:tohosomnia.net
ORICON Weekly Album Charts: Kobokuro Rules
This week Kobokuro took the crown from last week’s champ Inaba Koshi coming in at no.1 with their newest ans first cover album All Covers Best not only making no.1 for the entire week but selling a great amount of 290,514 copies! At no.2 was Arashi who apperently still got it with their album Boku no Miteiru Fuukei selling 32,332 copies with only 70,000 more till they hit a million in sales!! Falling at no.3 was last week’s champ Inaba Koshi with Hadou and sold 24,110 copies. Coming at no.4 was WEAVER with their 2nd mini album Shinsekai Souzouki.Zenpen and sold 15,865 copies. And finally at no.5 was Takamizawa Toshihiko with his Fantasia and sold 15,420 copies!
ORICON Weekly Album Charts: Inaba Koshi Takes The Throne
Even though the boys of Arashi had a good run having sold nearly 800,000+ copies of their latest album they were no match on their third week against legendary artist and B’z Lead Vocalist, Inaba Koshi who after 5 years returned with his latest new no.1 single Okay 2 months a now last week released his newest album Hadou selling a good amount of around 127,346 copies.
Arashi slipped down to the no.2 spot this week with their album Boku no Miteiru Fuukei adding 48,536 copies sold to their already high amount of sales. At no.3 was RIP SLYME who continues to chart and sell well with Good Times with 23,885 copies sold. Another artist still charting very on the charts despite being released a month ago is Kato Miliyah who has now sold around 236,252 copies in total with her album Heaven and last week sold 13,865 copies. At no.5 was foreign British group Iron Maiden that sold 13,516 copies.
Oricon Weekly Single Charts: AKB48 Annihilates The Competition
After causing much buzz with their newest single Heavy Rotation it seems that any publicity was good publicity as AKB48 scored it big on the charts not only being no.1 for the week and breaking a new record but if the girls are able to sell another 100,000 copies next week they will beat Arashi’s impressive record of having the no.1 single of the year with Troublemaker with over 580.000+ copies sold.
Moving on to the charts at no.2 was J-Rock group Acid Black Cherry with their latest single Re:Birth which sold 47,381 copies, at no.3 was AAA with Makenai Kokoro and sold 45,992 copies. Falling to no.4 was last week’s champ Fukuyama Masahura with his single Hotaru and sold 37,283 copies. And finally at no.5 was T.M REVOLUTION who was able to sell out SMAP this week with 16,040 copies.
AKB48 Is Officially Cooler Then Those “Other” J-pop Idol Groups
AKB48 has a good reason to celebrate today cause their latest single “Heavy Rotation” NOT only scored a perfect no.1 run all week but they sold 527k copies too!!!! For female artists they are only the third ones to have two consecutive singles sell 500k+ in one week. Ayumi Hamasaki and Utada Hikaru are the only other two female artists to accomplish this. For female groups AKB48 is the first.
Check back tomorrow for the full Oricon Weekly Charts Top 10 results!!
source:aramatheydidnt
But Wait Girls’ Generation Makes History Too!
The Korean 9 member group , SNSD sold 23,000 copies of their first Japanese DVD “SNSD Arrival~Arrival in Japan Commemoration Disc~ New Beginning of Girls’ Generation” in their first week. They will place 4th for total DVD sales on the August 23rd weekly DVD ranking. SNSD is the first Korean female group that has made it into the total (DVD) top 5. Out of people who have entered the top 5 ranking with their 1st DVDs, Korean female artist BoA placed there 7 years and 5 months ago with “8 Films & more”. Foreign female group The 12 Girls (from China) placed in the top 5 with their first DVD “The 12 Girls ~ First Premium Concert in Japan~” 6 years and 7 months ago.
The sold out DVD consists of all the music videos up until now. 10,000 lucky fans who bought the limited edition version of the DVD are invited to their debut event showcase concert at Tokyo’s Ariake Coliseum. Also, on September 8th they will have their Japanese debut with the Japanese version of their hit Korean song “Genie”.
source:Kanki@Soshified.com
Weekly Oricon Single Charts Results
It was a tough week last week for everyone who released new singles from TOKIO, to Perfume, and Kara but in the end veteran artist Fukuyama Masaharu showed everyone who’s boss by debuting at no.1 with his new single Hotaru/Shounen selling a grand total of 158,002 this being no surprise since Masaharu has always been known a chart topping artist who’s albums hit the top 20 best selling J-pop albums of the year.
Coming in at no.2 was idol group Perfume with their latest new single VOICE that was released to celebrate thier 10th annivsary and sold a good amount of 84,911 copies.
Hitting it at no.3 was veteran artist T.M REVOLUTION who celebrated his 15th annivsary with his latest new single Naked arms / SWORD SUMMIT which sold 66,013 copies.
In at no.4 was last week’s champions SMAP with This Is Love selling 41,193 copies.
And finally at no.5 was KARA with their debut single Mister which broke record for being the first asian girl group to debut in the Top 10 on Oricon, and thankfully were able to beat popular veteran group Tokio by selling 29,238 only 2,000 more than they did!!! But sadly did not beat Big Bang’s record of debuting at no.3 with a single by group from Korea.
Tohoshinki Ranked As Top Live Performers Among Other J-pop Stars
Today Oricon released a poll of the Top 10 best live performers, people would like to see in summer conducted by Oricon Monitor Research with 500 participants, check out the results
1: Arashi (121)
2: Mr.Children (48)
3: AKB48 (38)
4: SMAP (34)
5: Namie Amuro (27)
6: TVXQ (20)
7: aiko (19)
8: BUMP OF CHICKEN (16)
9: Ikimono Gakari (14)
10: Ayumi Hamasaki (12)
source:ilovekpop
SMAP Finds Love In The Weekly Oricon Singles Charts
It seems like boy group Arashi weren’t the only group to celebrate about something this week since SMAP did too!
After releasing their 45th single last week This Is Love SMAP will be happy to know their single turned out to be a big hit such a big hit that for starters it debuted at no.1 for weekly oricon charts! But this is their highest sales for the first week in nearly 5 years with 275,837 in sales AND it was able to sell more than other boy groups NEWS, Yamapi, Kanjani8, Hey Say! JUMP and KAT-TUN latest releases!!!!
With this Top 10 hit SMAP continues their impressive record as all of SMAP’s singles (45 singles) have been in the top 10 on the Oricon charts, ever since their debut single in 1991. and they hold the best record in all of Japanese music history, for making the top 10 on the Oricon charts for 20 consecutive years.
Settling in nicely at no.2 and no.3 was Ho-Kago Tea Time with their singles No, Thank You! and Utauyo!! MIRACLE, coming in at no.4 was Ikimono-Gakari’s fun single Kimi ga Iru, and finishing at no.5 was newly crowned J-pop princess Kana Nishino with If
Arashi Annihilates The Competition On Oricon Album Charts, Officially Has The No.1 Album Of The Year
Last week it was no surprise to many just what madness Arashi would unleash into the streets of Japan with their new album, but sure enough they did and on Oricon Weekly Album Charts it is no surprise that they smashed everyone else in sales.
Arashi latest album Boku no Miteiru Fukke debuted at a whopping 730,851 in sales! Not only did that put them as no.1 on the World Charts for the week but it also crowned them once again as J-pop Kings with having the no.1 album in Japan this year.
Coming in at no.2 on the charts was RIP SLYME with their best of album Good Times which coming behind arashi was only able to sell 86,951! Next up was Kato Miliyah Kato Miliyah still charting strong at no.3 with HEAVEN, Okuda Tamio opened strong at no.3 with his live album OTRL, Finally at no.5 was reggae group Shonen no Kaze with their 4th album Shonannokaze ~JOKER~
Congrats Arashi i guess you’ll make Japan proud again by appearing on the 2010 Top 30 Best Selling Albums Of The World!!!!
