These are the Top 10's Oricon will publish tomorrow (Wednesday) for week ending 2007-05-07.

 

~Singles~

 

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01　180,534　KinKi Kids - Brand New Song (180,534)

02　*53,551　モーニング娘。 (Morning Musume) - Kanashimi Twilight (53,551)

03　*38,913　ORANGE RANGE - Ika Summer (38,913)

04　*36,681　ウエンツ瑛士 / 小池徹平 (Eiji Wentz, Teppei Koike) - Awaking Emotion 8-5 / My Brand New Way (36,681)

05　*26,215　BoA - Sweet Impact (26,215)

06　*22,112　小田和正 (Kazumasa Oda) - Daijobu (22,112)

07　*21,153　ザ・クロマニヨンズ (The Cro-Magnons) - Kami Hikoki (21,153)

08　*20,971　SEAMO - Cry Baby (45,041)

09　*18,279　CHEMISTRY - Sora No Kiseki (18,279)

10　*17,444　秋川雅史 (Masafumi Akikawa) - Sen no Kaze ni Natte (843,920)

 

In the end, it was a push-over. KinKi Kids handsomely outsold the oposition to score their 25th consecutive No 1 hit. A fitting way to celebrate their 10th anniversary in the music business. For the second week running we have eight new entries in the Top 10.

 

~Albums~

 

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01　121,076　Avril Lavigne - Best Damn Thing (344,734)

02　*76,083　Ne-Yo - Because of You (76,083)

03　*56,101　柴咲コウ (Kou Shibasaki) - Kiki (56,101)

04　*38,358　YUI - Can't Buy My Love (485,180)

05　*38,089　KAT-TUN - Cartoon KAT-TUN II you (309,065)

06　*27,210　大塚 愛 (Ai Otsuka) - Ai am BEST (592,490)

07　*19,589　Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare (60,062)

08　*17,826　VA - R35 Sweet J-Ballads (17,826)

09　*17,620　Code Geass - Lelouch of the Rebellion Sound Episode 1 (17,620)

10　*17,471　松たか子 (Matsu Takako) - Cherish You (17,471)

 

The run-up to the 'Golden Week' holiday saw a rather modest slate of domestic album releases. Sales were correspondingly low and this created an opportunity overseas acts have been able to exploit.

 

First week sales of 223,658 were not enough to give Avril Lavigne's "Best Damn Thing" the top spot, but second week sales of 121,076 did the trick. For several days the battle between Avril and second placed Ne-Yo was close. Avril started with an advantage on Monday, but the two of them were level-pegging by Wednesday. On Thursday Ne-Yo opend up a small lead only to see it disappear again a day later. Weekend sales were decisive. Stimulated by her appearance on Friday evening's edition of TV pop show 'Music Station', Avril comprehensively outsold Mr. Smith on both Saturday and Sunday to clinch the premiere position.

 

Entertainment all-rounder Kou Shibasaki adds a little gloss to what has on occassions been a somewhat patchy singing career by grabbing the weeks top domestic honours with her 3rd album "Kiki". Matsu Takako is one of Japan's most popular and successful actresses. As a sideline, she turns out the occasional hit single (the most recent "Minna Hitori" was her 20th). "Cherish You", at No. 10 in this week's chart, is her 8th studio album.

 

~New Releases~

 

Tomorrow sees the release of "We can make it", the 19th single from boy-band Arashi. They are probably a shoo-in for next weeks No 1 spot, which will leave

• Keita Tashibana - Friend
• Yui Horie - Days / Say cheese!
• Koharu Kusumi - Happy

to fight it out for the minor medals. On the albums front, a 'greatest hits' release from male/female duo mihimaru GT may well end Avril's tenure of the top spot.

Yhanks, like usual

pretty good in the singles, I was hoping momusu would get #1, but 2 is okay :D not a fan of the new BoA song however :(

 

I still can't get over how good YUI's album is :wub: and Ai's best holding well :D

its still very shocking to see avril selling sooooo great in japan such sales only always had mariah carey in in the 90's..

I only know 3 of those artists :lol:

pretty good in the singles, I was hoping momusu would get #1, but 2 is okay :D

Well, you have a consolation prize:

 

http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/44224/

 

It seems the 53k that Kanashimi Twilight sold last week took Morning Musume's career singles sales to 11,085,000 - and that beats the career singles total of Pink Lady (11,037,000), giving momusu the record for top selling girl group.

 

Thanks for these weekly resumes!

 

The Japanese charts always seem to have a very good variety, e.g. Western as well as Japanese artists, young acts, different genres...