These are the Top 10's for singles and albums that Oricon will publish tomorrow, for week ending 2007-10-15.

 

~Singles~

 

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01　 180,650　 B'z - Super Love Song　 (180,650)

02　 *81,243　 Dreams Come True - Ai$h!teru no Sign -Wata$h!tachi no Mirai Yosouzu-　 (81,243)

03　 *24,279　 YUI - LOVE & TRUTH 　 (111,770)

04　 *17,788　 Nightmare - Konoha　 (17,788)

05　 *13,628　 Mika Nakashima - Eien no Uta　 (13,628)

06　 *11,357　 SOULJA feat. Thelma Aoyama - Koko ni Iru yo　 (39,294)

07　 *10,437　 Oshiri Kajiri Mushi - Oshiri Kajiri Mushi　 (94,995)

08　 **9,349　 Kazuki Kato - impure love　 (9,349)

09　 **9,268　 RAG FAIR - Akai Ito　 (9,268)

10　 **8,041　 SOUL'd OUT - Tongue Te Tongue　 (8,041)

 

Rock duo B'z are Japan's biggest selling music act. Career sales of 76 million put them in a class apart. "Super Love Song" is their 44th single and their 40th No.1 hit. Fifteen of their singles have sold over a million and their total singles sales exceed 34 million. Two weeks after the death of her husband, Miwa Yoshida (lead singer with Dreams Come True) will probably find liitle comfort from seeing the group's latest single at No.2 in this week's chart. All promotion for this single has been cancelled. Dreams Come True are at number 5 on the all time biggest sellers list with career sales of 41 million.

 

~Albums~

 

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01　 180,696　 YUKI - Single Collection "five-star"　 (180,696)

02　 *95,511　 Yuzu - Yuzu no Ne 1997-2007　 (95,511)

03　 *66,337　 Ai Otsuka - LOVE PiECE　 (274,368)

04　 *33,791　 Miyuki Nakajima - I Love You, Kotaetekure　 (33,791)

05　 *26,772　 Tokyo Jihen - Goraku (Variety)　 (128,247)

06　 *23,448　 Underworld - Oblivion with Bells　 (24,935)

07　 *22,203　 Hideaki Tokunaga - Vocalist 3　 (446,261)

08　 *19,211　 Angela Aki - TODAY　 (150,640)

09　 *16,648　 Sotte Bosse - Moment　 (16,648)

10　 *15,655　 Various Artists - R35 Sweet J-Ballads　 (498,451)

 

New Releases - Singles

 

L'Arc~en~Ciel - Daybreak's Bell

Naohito Fujiki - Tuning note

Aya Hirano - Love Gun

Hitomi Yaida - I Love You no Katachi / Hane Yume

Miyu Nagase - Key ~Yume Kara Samete~

RYTHEM - Winner

 

If the pre-sales data is correct, L'Arc~en~Ciel could outsell the opposition by a margin of 4:1 next week. The opposition includes popular seiyuu Aya Hirano, releasing a single under her own name for once. She last appeared in the Top 10 four weeks ago in the guise of one of her anime characters. Newly married Hitomi Yaida releases her 19th single and girl duo RYTHEM are the latest artists to contribute a song to NHK's sucessful children's TV show "Minna no Uta". But of the 'minor' releases next week, one which may be watched closely is a third solo single from 19 year-old Miyu Nagase, former guitarist and vocalist with girl band ZONE. This will be Nagase's first solo release for nearly nearly three years and is also the very first release via brand new record label 'CAM Entertainment'. During the period 2001 - 2005, Nagase provided vocals for 16 top 20 hits.

 

New Releases - Albums

 

Spitz - Sazanami CD

Jennifer Lopez - Brave

Suga Shikao - All Live Best

Aya Kamiki - A$h!ta no Tame ni ~Forever More~

Nao Matsu$h!ta - poco A poco

 

It seems that BuzzJack's naughty words robot has not only censored Nao Matsu$h!ta's name but her web-site URL as well. It you want to visit the site you will need to change $ to s and ! to i by hand.

 

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 October 9, 200717 yr by Quaoar

 

Thx Quaoar!

B'z :wub: although I can't say i'm much of a fan of this song. and poor Miwa Yoshida :( i'm quite surprised that they didn't postpone the single due to what happened, although I suppose her husbands death has acted like promotion [raised her profile]. nice to see YUI didn't have too drastic a drop, and Mika Nakashimas new siong is really good, even if the sales are quite underhwleming. She's really caught me once again, after losing my interest in the 'YES' era. Really hope that Hitomi yaida can do well this week, although i know she will never get the sales she once had. I found a copy of 'Daiya-Monde' in my HMV :wub:

 

A decent album chart this week, Ai held up pretty okay, and nice to see Angie holding in there. there aren't really many albums interesting me this month being released, although I am looking forward to seeing how Aya Matsuuras new album does..

 

A quick question, because it's been bugging me lately :lol: Before Sakai izumi's death, ZARD were the 8th best selling Japanese act [i think she was confirmed to have sold 35 Million by 2005?]. Well I know that there sales have risen a lot since she passed away, and I was wondering wether she has moved up on the list or not?

... and I was wondering wether she has moved up on the list or not?

When Mr. Children's career sales passed the 50 million mark in March this year Oricon published this article with up-to-date figures for the top five on the list. I think the official list for career sales just gets updated once a year when the Oricon yearbook is published? I don't know of anywhere/anyone who attempts to maintain running totals. I'm assuming this list at thePPN is accurate as of April 2007 (it's what I'm using as source). I would expect the totals for ZARD and GLAY to be very close when the list is next revised. ZARD are unlikely to to catch Yuming. Of course GLAY and Yumi both have the advantage in the longer term. Sales for the "Golden Best ~15th Anniversary~" album have passed the 875k mark, and the two recent compilations together have sold 250k+. Add to that sales of other albums (the 1999 "Singles Collection" returned to the Top 10 briefly) and you should be looking at a total of 700k+ albums sold in the last four months. Glay have a single scheduled for release 31st October. Their last single in April "Kodo" didn't sell that well (about 95k) despite being No.1 for the week of issue.

Edited October 10, 200717 yr by Quaoar

Ahh right, thanks for info :D I wasn't sure whether her studio albums had began selling more again since her death, I heard a rumour that she had sold a million since her death, but I guess that is untrue.

A couple of figures you might want to note. The "Golden Best ~15th Anniversary~" album had sold 465k by the end of 2006, and 488k at the time of Izumi's death.