Posted May 31, 201114 yr #1 - AKB48, 1,334,000 - Surpassed Mr. Children's 1996 record of highest first-week sales ("Namonaki Uta", 1,208,000 sold) - Eighth consecutive #1 single, a first for a female group since Pink Lady in 1978 http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/88249/full/ #2 - Team Amuse!!, 190,000 http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/88254/full/ #3 - Kaoru to Tomoki, Tama ni Mukku., 35,000 - With an average age of 6 years, they are the youngest group to ever enter the top ten (previously held by Kigurumi in 2006, avg. age 10.5 years) - Youngest soloist to enter the top ten was Minagawa Osamu in 1969 (age 6) http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/88252/full/ ------------------------------------------------------------- A single sale can sell 1,334,000 in 1 week and this is PHYSICAL only. This is unheard of nowadays and the single cds costed between £11-20 and yet in the downloads in UK, you can't even get this number nor in the US as well......
May 31, 201114 yr #1 - AKB48, 1,334,000 - Surpassed Mr. Children's 1996 record of highest first-week sales ("Namonaki Uta", 1,208,000 sold) - Eighth consecutive #1 single, a first for a female group since Pink Lady in 1978 http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/88249/full/ #2 - Team Amuse!!, 190,000 http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/88254/full/ #3 - Kaoru to Tomoki, Tama ni Mukku., 35,000 - With an average age of 6 years, they are the youngest group to ever enter the top ten (previously held by Kigurumi in 2006, avg. age 10.5 years) - Youngest soloist to enter the top ten was Minagawa Osamu in 1969 (age 6) http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/88252/full/ ------------------------------------------------------------- A single sale can sell 1,334,000 in 1 week and this is PHYSICAL only. This is unheard of nowadays and the single cds costed between £11-20 and yet in the downloads in UK, you can't even get this number nor in the US as well...... Although is it not the case that this song will probably sell less than 100k this week?
May 31, 201114 yr Author No chance, it has sold 22k already in Monday. Even after the earthquake, people still spend a fortune buying CD singles :P
June 2, 201114 yr AKB48's “Everyday, Kachusha” makes history With first week sales of 1,333,969 copies, AKB48‘s newly released "Everyday, Kachusha" has officially set the new record for highest first week sales of a physical single. The previous record was established back in 1996, when Mr. Children's "Namonaki Uta" went on to sell 1,208,230 copies in its first week. In addition, the first day sales of "Everyday Kachusha" (942,475 copies) also set a new record for most copies of a single sold in one day. This release marks their 8th consecutive #1 single on the Oricon chart, making AKB48 the first female group to have that many since Pink Lady in 1978. They now have a total of 3 singles selling over a million copies. The top 10 Japanese highest selling first week singles: 1. "Everyday, Kachusha" (2011) – AKB48 – 1,333,969 2. "Namonaki Uta" (1996) – Mr. Children – 1,208,230 3. "Addicted To You" (1999) – Hikaru Utada – 1,067,510 4. "Dango 3 Kyoudai" (1999) – Kentaro Hayami, Ayumi Shigemori, Himawari Kids & Dango Gasshoudan – 1,025,740 5. "Winter, Again" (1999) – Glay – 955,780 6. "Love Phantom" (1995) – B'z – 951,140 7. "Sakura No Ki Ni Narou" (2011) – AKB48 – 942,479 8. "Kimi Ga Iru Dake De/Ai$h!teru" (1992) – Kome Kome Club – 924,780 9. "Yuuwaku" (1998) – Glay – 841,280 10. "Can You Celebrate?" (1997) – Namie Amuro – 828,480 On Japanese social networking site Mixi, one AKB48 fan claims to have purchased 5,500 copies of the group's latest single "Everyday, Kachusha" for a grand total of JP¥8.8 million, or US$109,000. http://yonasu.com/wp-content/uploads/4ffe54ab-550x367.jpg http://yonasu.com/wp-content/uploads/ba0f5b97-550x367.jpg http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/amosaic/imgs/c/1/c14b9b70-s.jpg http://yonasu.com/wp-content/uploads/d152a6e3.jpg http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/amosaic/imgs/e/7/e7c8edb3-s.jpg http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/amosaic/imgs/e/a/ea7ad6b8-s.jpg http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/amosaic/imgs/e/1/e14be58e-s.jpg Edited June 2, 201114 yr by Fresh
June 2, 201114 yr WTF :mellow: Apart from needing to see a head doctor, that's borderline chart rigging.
June 2, 201114 yr :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Even if you are the biggest fan of someone in the world - you would have to lose your mind and/or be on drugs to be stupid enough to buy 5,000+ copies of a single. What is the point?? It's a waste of money that could have gone to the earthquake (which happens to be in Japan, where that guy lives) :lol:
June 2, 201114 yr Author Yes that's crazy :o But nevertheless, most people don't buy 5,500 of a single anyways so 1.3 million first week is still really impressive 5,500 of them singles costed him at least £44,000 and it probably exceeded £60,000 since the CD+DVD editions are really expensive (1.7x more than the CD Only) As for me, I bought 4 copies of the single (since there were 4 different editions) so.... I can't really say :P
June 2, 201114 yr Why is anyone surprised? Japan is known for having people who are completely insane.
June 2, 201114 yr Wasn't there some guy (in the UK) who bought like loads and loads of copies of Christina Aguilera's album last year? He probably would've been better off buying it in the 2nd week though, to help it's chart run a little bit. :lol:
June 2, 201114 yr Author Why is anyone surprised? Japan is known for having people who are completely insane. It's not called insane but rather the fact the record labels there know there are fans who buy every edition there is of a single/album (THAT'S ME!) and hence release many editions in order to boost sales. Heck, one of the AKB48 sub-units, French Kiss, had their single released in 7 different editions :lol: But.... buying 5,500 is just abnormal unless you literally are really rich and got nothing to spend it on..
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