These are the Top 10's for singles and albums that Oricon will publish tomorrow, for week ending 2007-09-24.

 

~Singles~

 

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01　 190,495　 KinKi Kids - Eien ni　 (190,495)

02　 *65,276　 Koda Kumi - Ai no Uta　 (65,276)

03　 *30,936　 Arashi - Happyness 　 (223,132)

04　 *28,284　 Utada Hikaru - Beautiful World / Kiss & Cry　 (173,439)

05　 *25,825　 ayaka - CLAP & LOVE / Why　 (42,197)

06　 *20,272　 Ken Harai - fake star　 (20,272)

07　 *17,492　 Perfume - Polyrhythm　 (17,492)

08　 *17,243　 Oshiri Kajiri Mushi - Oshiri Kajiri Mushi　 (54,429)

09　 *15,608　 SOPHIA - Aozora no Kakera　 (15,608)

10　 *11,903　 Ongaku Gatas - Nari Hajimeta Koi no Bell　 (11,903)

 

KinKi Kids score their 26th consecutive No.1 hit. Ayaka's second week sales, aided by the delayed release of an additional format, were nearly 10k higher than for the first week enabling her to retain the No.5 spot. Oshiri Kajiri Mushi is another musical spin-off from childrens television show "Minna no Uta" (who previously brought you "Boku wa Kuma"). After eight weeks of unobtrusively climbing the chart, this single has now arrived in the Top 10.

 

~Albums~

 

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01　 76,122　 V6 - Voyager　 (76,122)

02　 49,726　 Ketsumeishi - Ketsunopolice 5　 (596,576)

03　 47,078　 Dragon Ash - The Best Of Dragon Ash with Changes vol.2　 (153,487)

04　 43,110　 BOOWY - THIS BOOWY DRAMATIC　 (134,278)

05　 41,629　 BOOWY - THIS BOOWY DRASTIC　 (131,914)

06　 38,619　 Dragon Ash - The Best Of Dragon Ash with Changes vol.1　 (134,813)

07　 32,428　 The Cro-magnons - Cave Party　 (32,428)

08　 31,049　 Hideaki Tokunaga - Vocalist 3　 (360,082)

09　 27,502　 Leah Dizon - Destiny Line　 (27,502)

10　 25,960　 KREVA - Yoroshiku Onegaishimasu　 (103,021)

 

The "Voyager" album form boy-band V6 enters the record-book as the 1000th album to top the Japanese album chart.

 

New Releases - Singles

 

Ayumi Hamasaki - talkin' 2 myself

Tohoshinki - SHINE / Ride on

Chihiro Onitsuka - Bokura Barairo no Hibi

Hitoto Yo - Tsunaide Te

Since Tohoshinki have had two consecutive No.2 hits, a few eyebrows have been raised by their record label's decision to all but deny them the opportunity to go one better. Next week Tohoshinki go head to head with Avex's biggest selling artist Ayumi Hamasaki.

 

New Releases - Albums

 

Angela Aki - TODAY

Hikawa Kiyoshi - Enka Meikyoku Collection 7 Abayo Kiyoshi no Soran bushi

James Blunt - All the lost souls

BUCK-TICK - Tenshi no Revolver

Maki Goto - How to use SEXY

Will I Am - Songs About Girls

AAA - Around

Fumido - Fumido 3

Shoko Nakagawa - Shokotan Cover x2 Anison ni Ai wo komete!!

While Angela Aki is tipped to take the No.1 position in next week's album chart, Enka singer Hikawa Kiyoshi and overseas artists James Blunt and Will I Am are also in contention for a Top 10 finish. Note also that Oricon apparently intend to classify Shoko Nakagawa's 5 track EP of Anime covers as an album, even though it will retail for not much more than the price of a single..

 

 

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 September 19, 200717 yr by Quaoar

A pretty good weel imo ^_^ Kuu's average sales, Hikki leaping ever closer to the 200K mark, Ayaka staying put [wth increased sales] - and in terms of surprises Perfume is definatelly one :lol: I really hope Ayu can get #1 with TTM [i think she will] simply because it's the best single she has released since pre MU, in my opinion. I think if by the slight chance THSK begin to outsell her, avex will kill off supplies to shops, I don't think they want Ayu's #1 streak ruined.

 

I hate to say this, but Leah Dizons album is actually quite good. Far better than I thought it would be, there are some pretty decent tracks past the not so good singles, such as ''Unmeisen.'' I'm really split on Angela. her 'HOME' album is one of my favourite albums, but the singles from the latest release have really disappointed me. however, I hope she can get #1. I also have blind hope that Goto maki will get top 10, but hopefully top 20 at least :lol:

Thanks for your comments. :) I can't take exception to any of the above.

 

The new daily rankings are quite fun. Singles really are a two horse race between Ayu and Tohoshinki. They are the only people to outsell last week's top 2. I see little chance of Ayu missing this.

 

Eight new albums in the daily Top 10 with, predictably, Angela Aki looking comfortable at the top. But Will I Am misses the Top 10 and James Blunt seems to have a flop on his hands. One oveseas act has come through at No.9 - goth metal band Arch Enemy, who will be playing dates in Japan during October. Shokotan has got No.5, one ahead of Maki Goto. Looks like an interesting week to watch.

 

All being well, we will get the August download rankings tomorrow.

26 consecutive #1's :o Crikey!

RIAJ have today published the monthly download chart for August 2007.

 

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01　RSP - Lifetime Respect -Onna hen-

02　RIP SLYME - Nettaiya

03　ORANGE RANGE - Ikenai Taiyo

04　GReeeeN - Aiuta

05　Ayumi Hamasaki - talkin' 2 myself

06　Mika Nakashima - Life

07　Kazumasa Oda - Kokoro

08　Keisuke Kuwata - Kaze no Uta wo kikasete

09　Ai Otsuka - Peach

10　EXILE - Toki no Kakera

11　Monkey Majik - Sora wa Marude

12　Dreams Come True - Ai$h!teru no Sain -Wata$h!tachi no Mirai Yosozu-

13　GReeeeN - Michi

14　MINMI - Sha na na

15　mihimaru GT - Gazen Yeah!

16　Noriyuki Makihara - Green Days

17　Utada Hikaru - Beautiful World

18　FLOW - Answer

19　Ayumi Hamasaki - Glitter

20　Aqua Timez - Alones

 

This chart is a summation of three types of download:

• 45 second ringtones
• songs downloaded to mobile phone
• songs downloaded to PC

August Download chart: 1 - 50 | 51 - 100 | certifications

 

GReeeeN and Ayumi Hamasaki both have two songs in the Top 20. GReeeeN also receive a gold certification for downloads to PC of "Aiuta".

 

Thx as usual :)

I agree, it does seem destined to be an interesting week. Angela didn't even drop 1K on her second day, Ayu increased her lead over THSK, but her sales dropped 5K. It's a shame because T2M as a single is her best since ''MY STORY'' singles - where I'm still not totally into ''Decision'' T2M is awesome Ayu-rock, and The Orchestra Version of ''Fated'' is really nice, a complete improvement on the original :heart: Maki drops to 13 as well :( and the moment we've been waiting for..

 

13 *,501,737 **2,020 PLAY / 安室奈美恵 07/06/27

 

:lol:

 

Can't believe Ai uta is still doing so well on downloads, it's been around for god knows how long, and I expected Hikki to be higher with BW.

 

On another note, I caved in and bought 'TODAY' - I hope it arrives soon, YA can be so slow with orders, it once took 4 weeks for me to recieve a PUFFY album. :lol:

Half-a-million in 12 weeks is a pretty satisfactory result for "PLAY" and, amasingly, another 12 concerts have been added to Namie's current tour. Apparently the 53 performances originally scheduled wasn't enought to satistfy demand.

 

I also noticed the 'rather modest' download sales for Beautiful World, but Hikki's career is hardly in crisis, she does have the biggest selling pop song of the year against her name. ;) The question for GReeeeN now is can they follow up?

 

Good luck with your YA order. I confess I get everything from CD Japan. New product released in Japan on Wednesdays often reaches me on the Saturday. But I should note that my local postal service is very reliable - a concept the UK seems to have discarded.

 

 

I was going to try to get tickets for Namie's tour for the new year, but I really don't have any clue on how to go about it, plus i'm already going to Japan in the summer, so hopefully there'll be some other tours I want to see by then. I'm so happy on how successful the 'PLAY' era has been for her, and even better it passed 500K on the week of her 30th birthday.

 

I think people took there time to get into BW, I mean for the first week of the single release a 3 month old song [Kiss & Cry] was carrying them both. I hope GReeeeN can follow up, there album is pretty good, although ''Ai Uta'' is the best on it imo.

 

I use YA a lot simply because it was the first online site I used to buy music, so I do trust it. however lately i've been shopping at CDJ, and only going to YA if first presses are sold out, since they take the FP items from the CD's a lot of the time. A lot of people seem to be recieving their CDJ items on the day of release, though surely they must be using EMS :o