Posted July 17, 200718 yr These are the Top 10's for Japanese singles and albums that Oricon will publish tomorrow for week ending 2007-07-23. Singles http://www.oricon.co.jp/cdimg/TFCC-89216.jpg 01 45,085 Golden Circle - Music (45,085) 02 36,914 Tokyo Jihen - OSCA (36,914) 03 34,029 Sukima Switch - Marine Snow (34,029) 04 28,068 ERIKA - FREE (78,355) 05 23,810 ºC-ute - Meguru Koi no Kisetsu (23,810) 06 17,759 Micro of Def Tech - HANA Uta (17,759) 07 17,011 Koda Kumi - FREAKY (160,388) 08 15,655 Ayaka - Jewelry Day (54,290) 09 15,372 Ketsumeishi - Mata Kimi ni Aeru (120,677) 10 13,875 SID - Natsukoi (13,875) Albums http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/9477/20070723albumdy2.jpg 01 190,870 Arashi - Time (190,870) 02 *60,361 GReeeeN - A, Domo. Hajimema$h!te. (276,488) 03 *57,876 Namie Amuro - PLAY (399,001) 04 *29,526 MEGARYU - Jet Kiryu (29,526) 05 *28,216 VA - Lucky Star Ending Theme Collection ~Aru Hi no Karaoke Box~ (28,216) 06 *24,606 VA - R35 Sweet J-Ballads (290,183) 07 *20,077 Kosuke Atari - Yurai Bana (20,077) 08 *19,804 ZARD - Golden Best ~15th Anniversary~ (786,065) 09 *16,896 KobuKuro - ALL SINGLES BEST (2,381,263) 10 *16,511 Bon Jovi - Lost Highway (161,734) "Music" by 'Golden Circle' takes the singles chart No.1 spot this week. A colaboration between Yohito Teraoka, Yumi Matsutoya and male duo Yuzu, this single is a spin-off from the annual 'Golden Circle' live event which is currently celebrating it's 10th aniversary. Boy-band Arashi take top honours in the album chart with their 7th album "Time". Yumi Matsutoya is something of a legend in the world of Japanese pop. Second only to Ayumi Hamasaki in terms of total career sales, she is one of the original j-pop artists and helped establish the genre as a regular component of the Japanese music industry. She has been topping the charts, off and on, ever since her debut in 1972 and is currently busy with her 2007 nationwide tour. New Releases - Singles Ayumi Hamasaki - Glitter / Fated After fuelling the gossip columns this week with news of her split from boy-friend of 7 years, Tomoya Nagase (lead singer of pop group TOKIO), it's back to business next week for Ayumi Hamasaki with her first single release for 13 months. So far this year Koda Kumi is leading Ayu in terms of total sales and double A-side "Glitter/Fated" will need to sell better than 200k to put the two of them on level terms. Porno Graffiti - Link Rock duo Porno Graffiti are probably the only people with an outside chance of raining on Ayu's parade. "Link" will be their 22nd single and is follow-up to No.1 hit "Winding Road". New Releases - Albums KinKi Kids - 39 "39" is a greatest hits album from KinKi Kids and is part of their 10th anniversary celebrations. Exactly how do you select your 'greatest hits' when you have had 25 consecutive No.1 singles? Well, the answer was to allow the fans to choose their favourite songs. This release is a three CD set and 39 is the total number of songs included in the package. It ought not to require too much mental effort to realise that this album is likely to flatten the opposition in the quest for next week's album chart No.1. Oricon: Singles | daily rankings | weekly top 30 Albums | daily rankings | weekly top 30 Daily rankings are updated at noon (european time), new weekly charts are plubished each Wednesday. Edited July 19, 200718 yr by Quaoar
July 17, 200718 yr They're pulling in much higher sales than both our charts atm :lol: Rihanna would be their #6 single and The Enemy their #4 album.
July 17, 200718 yr But Japan does have twice the population. Total Single Top 10 sales in UK: 160,107 Total Single Top 10 Sales in Japan: 247,578 So per person, more singles are still being sold in the UK.
July 17, 200718 yr Author Oricon counts physical CD sales, so you have just compared UK physicals+downloads with Japanese physicals-only. All being well, RIAJ will publish the monthly download rankings for June later this week - but the monthly download chart comes without any sales numbers.
July 19, 200718 yr Author Monthly Download Chart (June) http://www.oricon.co.jp/cdimg/UPCH-80019.jpg 01 GReeeeN - Aiuta 02 Keisuke Kuwata - A$h!ta Harerukana 03 KobuKuro - eien ni tomo ni 04 Ayaka - Jewelry Day 05 Funky Monkey Babys - Chippoke na Yuki 06 Dreams Come True - Kimi ni shika Kikoenai 07 Namie Amuro - Hide & Seek 08 Koda Kumi - Freaky 09 Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend 10 Leah Dizon - Koi Shiyo RIAJ have today published the monthly download chart for June. This chart is a summation of three types of download:45 second ringtonesfull songs to mobile phonefull songs to PCJune Download chart: 1 - 50 | 51 - 100 PC downloads account for about 10% of the total. Full songs to mobile phone are a further 30% and 45 second ringtones account for the remaining 60%. EMI have also seen fit to make this press release about the download sales of Utada Hikaru's "Flavor of Life" single. Edited July 19, 200718 yr by Quaoar
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