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These are the Top 10's for singles and albums that Oricon will publish tomorrow, for week ending 2007-08-13.

 

~Singles~

 

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01  120,520  Hey! Say! 7 - Hey! Say!  (120,520)

02  112,771  Tohoshinki - Summer Dream  (112,771)

03  *50,190  Aqua Timez - Alones  (50,190)

04  *31,689  Spitz - Gunjyou  (31,689)

05  *29,468  Ai Otsuka - PEACH / HEART  (97,814)

06  *25,361  Kamen Rider Den-O - Perfect Action  (25,361)

07  *23,498  FLOW - Answer  (23,498)

08  *23,059  Sound Horizon - Seisen no Iberia  (23,059)

09  *22,755  Kira☆Pika - Hana wo Pu~n  (22,755)

10  *16,850  SS501 - Kokoro  (16,850)

 

The number 1 positions on this weeks daily rankings were:

 

Monday - Ai Otsuka

Tuesday - Tohoshinki

Wednesday - Hey! Say! 7

Thursday - Tohoshinki

Friday - Tohoshinki

Saturday - Hey! Say! 7

Sunday - Tohoshinki

 

Nine new entries in the Top 10. A close battle between two five-member boy-bands was finally resolved in favour of Hey! Say! 7. Yes, there are only 5 of them. Hey! Say! 7 are the latest offering from Johnny's Entertainment and the song "Hey! Say!" has been recorded as theme for anime series "Lovely Complex".

 

Korean boy-band 동방신기 (Rising Gods of the East) originally romanised their name as Tong Vfang Xien Qi which was then abbreviated to TVXQ. When they launched in Japan as 東方神起 this was romanised as Dong Bang Shin Ki and promptly abbreviated to DBSK. But recently, Avex made the decision to start marketing the group under the name Tohoshinki. Perhaps they feel that this will avoid confusion. Since their debut in late 2004, Tohoshinki have made steady progress. The first of their 13 singles peaked at 77. All later releases have been Top 40, with the last 6 reaching the Top 10. Now they have made two consecutive appearances at No.2, with "Summer Drive" selling considerably above expectation.

 

~Albums~

 

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01  245,791  Sukima Switch - Greatest Hits  (245,791)

02  *78,697  ORANGE RANGE - RANGE  (292,846)

03  *73,402  ORANGE RANGE - ORANGE  (284,206)

04  *55,418  MONKEY MAJIK - Sora wa Marude  (137,726)

05  *29,873  KinKi Kids - 39  (403,105)

06  *20,871  GReeeeN - A, Domo. Hajimema$h!te.  (381,581)

07  *19,145  SUM 41 - Underclass Hero  (112,801)

08  *18,009  BONNIE PINK - Thinking Out Loud  (71,614)

09  *16,500  Cocco - Kira Kira  (63,927)

10  *15,212  Various Artists - R35 Sweet J-Ballads  (347,829)

 

The only new entry in the album Top 10 is at the top. Male duo Sukima Switch sell just short of quarter of a million to take the No.1 position with their "Greatest Hits" album.

 

New Releases - Singles

 

Tackey & Tsubasa - Samurai

YUKI - Hoshikuzu Sunset

UVERworld - Shaka Beach ~Laka Laka La~

Toshinobu Kubota meets KREVA - M.A.G.I.C

Leah Dizon - L.O.V.E U

Morning Musume, Tanjo 10 Nen Kinentai - Itoshiki Tomo e

Mariya Takeuchi - Chance no Maegami / Jinsei no Tobira

Every Little Thing - Kirameki Hour

Tackey & Tsubasa are favourites to Top next weeks singles chart. Any ruffled feathers between JE and Avex resulting from this week's closely contested chart battle should be smoothed, since both companies have a stake in the Tackey & Tsubasa release.

 

New Releases - Albums

 

Micro of Def Tech - Laid Back

Micro is a member of Japanese/Hawaiian band Def Tech. He will be releasing his first solo ablum this week and it may well be the highest new entry in next week's album chart. However there is also a chance that Sukima Switch may be able to hang on to the top spot for a second week.

 

 

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.

 

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thanks as usual :D

 

The singles chart has been quite a topic this week, especially on jpopmusic. JE was obviously desperate for a #1 for H!S!7. Although I don't like THSK's song much more, I would've liked to see them at #1 over a jr group [with a bad song] :lol: . THSK had really good first weeks considering they are korean, did BoA even beat that in her prime?nice to see Otsuka Ai top 5 also, her sales aren't off too much from last week.

 

ORANGE RANGE held onto sales very well imo! I expected a much sharper drop than that, and glad to see BONNIE PINK in the top 10 still, even though she fell out of the daily once or twice during the week - I think it should easily pass 100K

 

Leah Dizon = :puke2: I just don't like her, she is awful live imo. However, im loving the momusu idea with this week, 5 of the popular members on it's anniversary releasing a song, even though it is quite dull. Goto Maki = :wub:

 

Oh, I must ask as well, because im curious :P what are the status for gold platinum certifications, is it 100K for gold and 250K for platinum?

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I was quite pleased to see Leah Dizon miss the Top 10 on today's daily rankings. :down: ;)

 

As far as certification is concerned - the certifications for download sales issued by RIAJ are as you note: gold = 100k, platinum = 250k, double platinum = 500k, triple platinum = 750k. Thereafter the certifications a simply increments of 1 million. By the way, mianichi reported a few days ago that GReeeeN's "aiuta" has been certified as a million seller for the 'chaku uta full' format (full song downloads to mobile phone).

 

I presume certifications for physical sales use the same format, but I've never checked. Since we have real figures for physical sales, certifications don't really add much of value. For downloads, the certifications are the only hard numerical information we currently have.

 

I should have checked this yesterday but I wasn't expecting last week's increase. Two weeks ago Masafumi Akikawa shifted another 6,687 copies of "sen no kaze ni natte". Last week's tally was 9,252 which puts the single at No.16 on this weeks chart and brings the cumulative sales total since the release date of 24th May 2006 to 994,003 copies. It's obviously going to be touch and go, but next week might just be the week Masafumi demonstrates that the impossible simply takes a little longer.

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ahh, thanks for the certifications, I always thought that but was never 100%

 

wow akikawa, what's brought on this increase in sales?

 

yeah I had noticed about GReeeeN's sales, I was thinking that was really good considering their first weeks, and that most artists usually sell half their units in that. hopefully more songs like this will make Oricon hurry up in allowing downloads in the chart, the including was probably frozen because of idol groups [JE, specifically, so ive heard] - I truly believe that's why people like Utada aren't shifting as many units as they used to, ever since the UB era downloads have been fierce for her.

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hopefully more songs like this will make Oricon hurry up in allowing downloads in the chart ...

Oricon themselves are not the problem.

 

In April 2006 Oricon announced they were intending to publish 3 download charts (chaku uta, chaku uta full and PC downloads) as of 'last quarter 2006'. There was a press release naming the software company who had been contracted to build the system required. But it never happend. I'm not wholly sure of what happened, but my guess is that Oricon were unable to secure all the legal permissions they needed. There are quite a large number of parties involved.

 

After the negotiations failed, RIAJ stepped in and started publishing their own monthly download chart. But the RIAJ chart is simply a ranking for all three categories combined (although the certifications are separate) without any detailed sales numbers. Oricon obviously want to count downlosds. They are a market research organisation with a strong focus on the music industry. Doing stuff like that is their core business.

 

I really don't care about ringtones. I view sales of those as part of the mobile phone industry, not the music industry. But it would be nice to have proper figures for the chaku uta full and PC download markets - especially since the certifications indicate that songs are being downloaded to mobile phones in huge numbers.

 

 

 

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