These are the Top 10's for singles and albums that Oricon will publish tomorrow, for week ending 2007-08-06.

 

~Singles~

 

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01　 68,346　 Ai Otsuka - PEACH / HEART　 (68,346)

02　 43,364　 Morning Musume - Onna ni Sachi Are　 (43,364)

03　 30,432　 RIP SLYME - Nettaiya　 (30,432)

04　 23,826　 Ayumi Hamasaki - Glitter / Fated　 (133,991)

05　 22,710　 ORANGE RANGE - Ikenai Taiyou　 (86,805)

06　 20,549　 Kazuya Yoshii - Shine and Eternity　 (20,549)

07　 13,450　 Porno Graffitti - Link　 (103,840)

08　 11,879　 SEAMO - Fly Away　 (11,879)

09　 11,691　 Kazuki Kato - Instinctive Love　 (11,691)

10　 11,426　 Akira Kogami & Minoru Shiraishi - Aimai Net Darling　 (11,426)

 

Ai Otsuka made her debut in 2003. Her second single "Sakuranbo" was a major hit which spent a total of 103 weeks on the chart. The slighty quirky singer has continued to maintain a high profile ever since. "Peach / Heart" is her 16th single and now provides her with a third No.1 hit. After a slightly awkward first-half to 2007, girl group Morning Musume make a return to the charts. Their 34th single "Onna ni sachi are" takes this week's runner-up spot. In terms of singles sales, Oricon reported in May this year that Morning Musume had become Japan's highest selling girl group, beating the 11,037,000 cumulative figure for singles previously set by Pink Lady.

 

~Albums~

 

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01　 214,149　 ORANGE RANGE - RANGE　 (214,149)

02　 210,804　 ORANGE RANGE - ORANGE　 (210,804)

03　 *82,308　 MONKEY MAJIK - Sora wa Marude　 (82,308)

04　 *72,160　 KinKi Kids - 39　 (373,232)

05　 *53,605　 BONNIE PINK - Thinking Out Loud　 (53,605)

06　 *47,427　 Cocco - Kira Kira　 (47,427)

07　 *33,379　 FIRE BALL - THE BEST OF FB　 (33,379)

08　 *32,038　 GReeeeN - A, Domo. Hajimema$h!te.　 (360,710)

09　 *31,048　 SUM 41 - Underclass Hero　 (93,656)

10　 *21,519　 Namie Amuro - PLAY　 (459,590)

 

Orange Range take the top two positions with their double 'greatest hits' release. After 4 studio albums and 18 singles, this 5 piece band (was originally 6) from Okinawa felt they had enough recyclable material to justify two CDs. Their four studio albums have already booked an impressive total of 9.5 million sales and it remains to be seen just how many fans will want to buy the tracks all over again. Canadian/Japanese 4-piece band Monkey Majik take what is effectively this week's runner-up spot. Lead singer Maynard Plant moved from Ottawa to Sendai to take a job as an English teacher, but soon discovered being a pop-star was more fun. The band started out modestly in 2002, recording for a small independent label, but eventually signed to Avex Trax at the begining of 2006. Their major label debut album "Thank You" reached No.5 in May 2006 and new release "Sora wa Marude" has now gone two places better.

 

A curiosity from further down the chart. Female duo Aming make an appearance at No.24 this week with their third album "In The Prime". Their second album "Memorial" was released 1983-12-20 ... a gap of 23 years 5 months between successive albums releases.

 

 

New Releases - Singles

 

Hey! Say! - Hey! Say! 7

Spitz - Gunjyou

Aqua Times - Alones

FLOW - Answer

A slightly indistinguished slate of singles releases with new boy-band Hey! Say! 7 thought to have a small but insecure lead over the rest of the pack.

 

New Releases - Albums

 

Sukima Switch - Greatest Hits

A first greatest hits offering from male duo Sukima Switch looks certain to take top honours on next weeks album chart.

 

 

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.

Thanks for this summary

 

Am just a little curious why you describe Morning Musume's year so far as 'slightly awkward'? :)

Edited July 31, 200717 yr by TicTac

Thank-you :D

 

And yay for Ayumi :wub:

Am just a little curious why you describe Morning Musume's year so far as 'slightly awkward'?

Mainly because of the unstructured departure of Miki Fujimoto from the group just 17 days after she had been appointed as the new leader of Morning Musume. Add to that the knock-on effects of not wholly positive publicity following the sacking of Ai Kago, and the unplanned exit of Nozomi Tsuji, from the Hello! Project.

 

That said, no real harm has been done. First week sales of "Onna ni Sachi Are" are higher than those for "Aruiteru" (their most recent No.1) and my hunch is that Ai Takahashi will prove to be a better leader than Fujimoto would have been.

Edited July 31, 200717 yr by Quaoar

the whole H!P have had a dodgy first half as a whole in terms of tabloids [both past and present members] but I think there releases have been solid, especially kanashimi twilight. Kago and Tsuji were my two favourite H!P's also, o as well as everything that happened, W is also on indefiniate hiatus, which totally sucks :(

 

yay for Otsuka Ai. Apparently avex are releasing a cd only of Ai Am Best in september [must want the sales] and LOVE PiECE was announced, which made me very happy, and all 6 singles are included :wub: I have a feeling she may hold on to #1 next week, the competition doesn't seem too strong.

 

Im happy BONNIE PINK made #5, hopefully it will be a long stayer, it is a solid album :D

 

and whats with Aming? :lol:

the whole H!P have had a dodgy first half as a whole ...

Tsunku riding shotgun for two hurriedly arranged weddings ... :lol:

 

Kago and Tsuji were my two favourite H!P's ...

I've never been a big fan of the full-blown momusu, but both Mini Moni and W were adoreable.

 

I have a feeling she may hold on to #1 next week, the competition doesn't seem too strong.

Not sure I share your optimism. Ai's second week sales. Up against a brand new bunch of dancing Johnnies in tight trousers ...

 

and whats with Aming?

I don't know the full story. あみん (Aming) are Haruko Kato and Takako Okamura. They won a high profile talent contest in the autumn 1981 and then released several singles and 2 albums during 1982/3. Takako Okamura has been in the music business the whole time (30 singles and 23 albums as a solo artist) but she seems to have coaxed her former partner out of retirement to celbrate their 25th anniveasary. They have a small tour planned for late August and early September. Their debut single was "Matsuwa" (written by Takako Okamura) which was later covered by TsujiKago as a track for the first W album.

Not sure I share your optimism. Ai's second week sales. Up against a brand new bunch of dancing Johnnies in tight trousers ...

 

True I guess, but don't Ai's sales usually hold up quite well? The only JE's group I like personally is Arashi :lol: H!P are far better imo..

 

Ahh, so it's kind of a together to celebrate thing with Aming?

 

Ayu's announced her next single as well. Apparently it is a 'charming and powerful rock song' im expecting something good, if she can still pull it off, especially since her split. Slated for the same week of release as BoA also, wonder why avex wanted that :o