Posted August 20, 200717 yr These are the Top 10's for singles and albums that Oricon will publish tomorrow, for week ending 2007-08-27. ~Singles~ http://www.oricon.co.jp/cdimg/FHCL-7004.jpg 01 48,265 Kazumasa Oda - Kokoro (48,265) 02 45,022 TOKIO - Honjitsu, Mijukumono / Over Drive (45,022) 03 29,028 Noriyuki Makihara - GREEN DAYS (29,028) 04 28,840 RSP - Lifetime Respect -Onna hen- (55,317) 05 24,802 mihimaru GT - Gazen Yeah! (24,802) 06 23,286 Masafumi Akikawa - Sen no Kaze ni Natte (1,028,395) 07 16,517 Hey! Say! 7 - Hey! Say! (161,761) 08 16,119 The Cro-magnons - Girigigagangan (16,119) 09 15,895 FLOW - Answer (54,274) 10 14,030 Aqua Timez - Alones (83,353) ~Albums~ http://www.oricon.co.jp/cdimg/UMCK-9185.jpg 01 115,752 Hideaki Tokunaga - Vocalist 3 (115,752) 02 *88,723 ZARD Soffio di vento ~Best of IZUMI SAKAI Selection~ (88,723) 03 *86,731 ZARD Brezza di mare ~dedicated to IZUMI SAKAI~ (86,731) 04 *85,660 Sukima Switch - Greatest Hits (476,839) 05 *34,053 MONKEY MAJIK - Sora wa Marude (204,587) 06 *27,128 Various Artists - R35 Sweet J-Ballads (392,310) 07 *26,871 ORANGE RANGE - RANGE (357,799) 08 *23,424 ORANGE RANGE - ORANGE (342,696) 09 *17,712 Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra - Braban! Koshien (45,241) 10 *17,344 KobuKuro - All Singles Best (2,459,570) With the O-bon holiday period at it's peak, this week's charts are not quite 'business as usual'. At the top of the singles chart, Kazumasa Oda will celebrate his 60 birthday next month. He is no stranger to the top of the chart. In 1991 a single entitled "Love Story wa Totsuzen ni" sold 2,587,840 copies and is currently at No.8 on the all time list of big sellers. In September 2005 Hideaki Tokunaga (he's only 46) released an album of cover versions entitled "Vocalist". This turned into a long running success story (87 weeks on the album chart so far) and was inevitably followed last year by "Vocalist 2", and now by this weeks No.1 album "Vocalist 3". New Releases - Singles Keisuke Kuwata - Kaze no Uta wo Kikasete aiko - Hoshi no Nai Sekai / Yokogao Tokyo Jihen - Killer tune Nana Mizuki - Massive wonders Mika Nakashima - Life The Brilliant Green - Stand by me Ami Suzuki - FREE FREE Keisuke Kuwata scored a No.1 hit at the end of May with "A$h!ta Harerukana" and this new release could well see him return to the top position. New Releases - Albums ALI Project - Psychedelic Insanity Chiaki Ishikawa - Boku wa Mada Nani mo Shiranai This week's relatively low-profile set of album releases may make little impact on next week's top chart positions. Oricon: Singles | daily rankings | weekly top 30 Albums | daily rankings | weekly top 30 Daily rankings are updated at noon (european time), new weekly charts are plubished each Wednesday. Edited August 21, 200717 yr by Quaoar
August 20, 200717 yr Author RIAJ have today published the monthly download chart for July 2007. Since this is the 12th monthly chart RIAJ have published we now have one years worth of information and a small anniversary. http://www.oricon.co.jp/cdimg/UPCH-80019.jpg 01 GReeeeN - Aiuta 02 Ayumi Hamasaki - Glitter 03 Ai Otsuka - Peach 04 Ayaka - Jewelry Day 05 RIP SLYME - Nettaiya 06 ERIKA - Free 07 Monkey Majik - Sora wa Marude 08 Koda Kumi - Girls 09 Namie Amuro - Hide & Seek 10 Mika Nakashima - Life 11 Koda Kumi - Freaky 12 Ayumi Hamasaki - Fated 13 Yuna Ito with Micro of Def Tech - Mahaloha 14 AI - I'll remember you 15 Noriyuki Makihara - Green Days 16 MINMI - Sha na na 17 RSP - Lifetime respect -Onna hen- 18 Dreams Come True - Kimi ni shika Kikoenai 19 Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend 20 Keisuke Kuwata - A$h!ta Harerukana This chart is a summation of three types of download:45 second ringtonessongs downloaded to mobile phonesongs downloaded to PCJuly Download chart: 1 - 50 | 51 - 100 GReeeeN hold the top spot for a second month. Mika Nakashima appears in the download Top 10 prior to physical release of "Life". To date RIAJ have issued 17 gold certifications (100,000) and one platinum certification (250,000) for downloads to PC. When the first RIAJ monthly download chart was published for August 2006 it was accompanied by a backlog of 11 gold certifications. The complete archive of download charts is here. August 2006: gold Rimi Natsukawa - Namida so so Ai Otsuka - Sakuranbo Ayaka Hirahara - Jupiter O-ZONE - Dragonstea Din Tei Hitoto Yo - Hanamizuki AI - Story Remioromen - Konayuki MONKEY MAJIK - Around the World Utada Hikaru - Keep Tryin' mihimaru GT - Kibun Jojo Utada Hikaru - This is love October 2006: gold Spitz - Maho no Kotoba January 2007: gold DJ OZMA - Age Age Every Knight March 2007: gold Utada Hikaru - Flavor of Life April 2007: gold ayaka - Mikazuki Utada Hikaru - Flavor of Life (ballad version) May 2007: gold ayaka - I believe July 2007: platinum Utada Hikaru - Flavor of Life
August 20, 200717 yr This quite interesting, Good to see Namie in top 10, as well as Mika a month away from release. Ayu the second most downloaded song surprises me also, and GReeeeN refuses to go away with that song :lol: isn't it still big on radio as well? FoL is also the first song to ever go platinum on downloads! :D and some other hikki info on the RIAJ Chaku Uta: #28 Fly Me to The Moon (In Other Words -2007 Mix-) #56 Beautiful World #73 Flavor of Life (Ballad Version) #74 Kiss and Cry (2 C/chorus) #93 Flavor of Life It'll be interesting to see if ZARD pass 100K at all this week, even though Soffio.. got knocked off #1 mid-week
August 20, 200717 yr Early Figures [courtesy of JPM] SINGLES #1 - Kazumasa Oda - 48k #2 - TOKIO - 45k #3 - Noriyuki Makihara - 30k #4 - RSP (Total: 55k) #6 - Masafumi Akikawa (Total: 1028k) #8 - The Cromagnons - 16k ALBUMS #1 - Hideaki Tokunaga - 116k #2 - ZARD (Soffio di vento) - 89k #3 - ZARD (Brezza di mare) - 87k #6 - R-35 Sweet Ballads (Total: 392k) #9 - Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra - 45k #10 - Kobukuro (Total: 2460k) Looking to be awful single sales :o Edited August 20, 200717 yr by Exodus
August 21, 200717 yr Author I wasn't expecting Hideaki Tokunaga to get the No.1 spot. Neither of the previous "Vocalist" albums made it to the top. I guess it was a clever choice of week for the release. Amusing to see Masafumi bounce back into the Top 10 on the strength of all the pubicity surrounding the 1,000,000 sales. Maybe NHK will invite him back to Kouhaku this year and the whole cycle will start all over again. SMAP went back to No.1 with "sekai ni hitotsu dake no hana", nine months after it was originally at the top, on the strength of their 2003 Kouhaku performance. At the moment, we seem to be seeing a generational split emerge between the physicals and download charts. Younger buyers are downloading (mostly to mobile phone) while older people continue to buy CDs. We had Mariya Takeuchi (52) at the top of the album chart in May and now, this week, the combined age of our two chart toppers is 105. Perhaps after the holiday season is over this wil become less obvious again.
August 21, 200717 yr It reminds me a lot of the mother/fathers day type weeks in the UK, where you get a lot of older artists charting with albums, and selling extremely well. Am I right in thinking that Masafumi has only sold 970K [around] this year, while the previous amount came during it's first release, so in theory there isn't a million selling song this year, since it hasn't sold the full million in 2007? im hoping for top 10 places for buriguri and suzuki ami this week. FREE FREE is a great song imo, but I don't know wether people have given up on her after CONNETTA. although ninki haven't even given her a rating, and buriguri got a low one :( thanks for posting as usual :D
August 22, 200717 yr Author Apparently Masafumi got the certificate yesterday. http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/694/masafumiakikawa47398200ck1.th.jpg The rest of the piece just says that it's the first time a classical singer has sold a million and that he's not change his lifestyle - still takes the tram to work. :) Am I right in thinking that Masafumi has only sold 970K [around] this year, while the previous amount came during it's first release, so in theory there isn't a million selling song this year, since it hasn't sold the full million in 2007?As of last week he had not sold a million during 2007. With the extra 23k increment this week I think he's now done it on all counts. 2006 sales were really quite small. I believe the figures are 10,634 for the 'oricon year' and 16,479 for the calendar year. [ref 1 | ref 2] I shall also be watching to see how Ami does ... and watching for Eiko Shimamiya and Chiaki Ishikawa as well. I've had the e-mail saying my copy of Chiaki's album is on it's way, so I'm waiting for the postman ... :coffee:
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