Albums

 

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*1　454,601　*,845,485　Kobukuro - 5296

*2　432,113　*,432,113　Ayumi Hamasaki - GUILTY

*3　314,711　1,236,780　EXILE - EXILE LOVE

*4　158,337　*,539,783　BUMP OF CHICKEN - orbital period

*5　155,684　*,676,737　DREAMS COME TRUE - AND I LOVE YOU

*6　*99,505　*,730,027　Hideaki Tokunaga - VOCALIST 3

*7　*80,888　*,177,626　V.A. - Ai no Uta

*8　*71,558　2,713,871　Kobukuro - ALL SINGLES BEST

*9　*71,301　*,656,723　Hideaki Tokunaga - VOCALIST

10　*70,095　*,453,275　Kazumasa Oda - Jiko Best 2

 

Singles

 

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*1　47,336　*,157,663　SMAP - Dangan Fighter

*2　38,662　*,164,450　Masato Sugimoto - Ware mata kurenai

*3　26,548　1,163,818　Masafumi Akikawa - Sen no Kaze ni Natte

*4　24,689　*,*90,526　Kamen Rider Den-O - Climax Jump DEN-LINER form

*5　22,729　*,*22,729　Lucky Star Re-Mix002 ~ Lucky Star no Kiwami, Ahh $h!teyanyo~

*6　17,542　*,444,522　KAT-TUN - Keep the faith

*7　14,495　*,333,734　Hey!Say!JUMP - Ultra Music Power

*8　14,108　*,123,077　V6 - way of life

*9　13,571　*,136,748　KOH+ - KISS $h!te

10　12,765　*,*76,899　ZARD - Glorious Mind

 

 

By far one of the most interesting chart weeks for quite some time, the new year has brought in some very unexpected surprises. Without a doubt most the majority of this lies at the top position of the albums chart, where, for the first time in her illustrious 10 year career, Ayumi Hamasaki, the 'Empress' of JPop, failed to reach the #1 spot with an origial album. Instead folk rock group kobukuro hold their second week at #1 with new album '5296.' Their previous album 'ALL SINGLES BEST' released in 2006 is still on the charts, and will most probably sell 3 million copies by the end of 2008, having sold 72K since the start of 2008 alone. AYumi's 'GUILTY' still manages to sell 432,000 copies. Fans argue that if it was the one week only chart she would have been #1. However, this would have also meant sales of just 202K. Regardless, 432K is her lowest ever first week opening.

 

Perhaps it's the end of year specials effects, but many singles and albums are enjoying huge sales. EXILE has already outsold the #1 of 2007, DREAMS COME TRUE are having a great comeback [the new album outsold their last in its first week] and the vocalist albums are making another comeback in the chart. Further down former superstar Kuraki Mai opens at #14 with her new album, although a few weeks ago those sales would have gotten her top 3 [to put things in perspective]

 

Single sales are pretty low. SMAP the ledgendary JE group gain yet another #1, though the most interesting act is at #3, Masafumi Akikawa. His song 'Sen no Kaze ni Natte' was the #1 single of 2007, despite being released years ago. His recent performances of the song seem to have once again, surged the popularity. Will this song ever die? The singles chart is quiet lately, as the majority of the top 10 are songs released weeks ago, such as Hey!Say!Jump, and ZARD

 

Smap's single "Dangan Fighter" is the second week at #1. The last number one with more than one week at the top was Hikaru Utada's "Flavor Of Life" in March last year. Between Utada and Smap 39 singles spent only one week at #1. In 40 years history of the Oricon chart it's the best result in calendar year and second overall.

 

40 consecutive #1's with only one week at at the top were between May 1986 and February 1987.

 

39 songs at the top were also between May 2006 and March 2007 but two of them spent two non consecutive weeks at #1.

 

 

 

 

It's amazing how high the album sales were yet single sales were so low

is Guilty the current single for Ayumi Hamasaki also ????

No, 'GUILTY' is the new album. Her last single was 'Talkin' 2 Myself' which was released a few months ago

 

^^ What about Marionette ??? I saw the video on YouTUbe it's AMAZING and my fave from the album :wub:

Artists usually create PVs for album tracks to help promote the album - for 'GUILTY' Ayu made extra videos for 'Marionette' & '[Don't] Leave Me Alone' :D

Artists usually create PVs for album tracks to help promote the album - for 'GUILTY' Ayu made extra videos for 'Marionette' & '[Don't] Leave Me Alone' :D

yeah i saw those two videos :D cool way to promote in Japan :D

I see her new digital single is Together When... also a beautiful song :wub:

Here's some other positions for more well known releases in the chart.

 

01 [11] (New) In Rainbows-Radiohead (69,757) [69,757] # 11 , 2 wks

02 [16] (018) Complete Best-Sweetbox (29,752) [60,317] # 16 , 4 wks

03 [21] (022) As I Am-Alicia Keys (21,548) [138,092] # 4 , 8 wks

04 [23] (032) Growing Pains-Mary J. Blige (19,743) [28,513] # 23 , 3 wks

05 [24] (024) The Best Damn Thing-Avril Lavigne (19,264) [883,221] # 1 , 38 wks

06 [25] (026) Complete Clapton-Eric Clapton (18,134) [58,694] # 13 , 6 wks

07 [28] (New) What's Up? Hip-Hop/R & B-Anniversary-Various Artists(Japan Only) (16,872) [16,872] # 28 , 2 wks

08 [30] (036) Taking Chances-Celine Dion (15,616) [90,260] # 6 , 9 wks

09 [33] (041) Mothership-Led Zeppelin (13,689) [87,076] # 7 , 8 wks

10 [35] (038) Unbreakable-Backstreet Boys (13,208) [321,412] # 1 , 11 wks

11 [36] (New) V.I.P. Hot R & B/Hip-Hop Trax 5-Various Artists(Japan Only) (12,662) [12,662] # 36 , 2 wks

12 [40] (037) Face Off-Bow Wow/Omarion (10,855) [21,008] # 37 , 4 wks

13 [67] (293) Celtic Woman-Celtic Woman (5,819) [267,328] # 9 , 94 wks

14 [73] (072) Blackout-Britney Spears (5,399) [74,453] # 4 , 10 wks

15 [74] (068) Long Road Out Of Eden-Eagle (5,232) [83,132] # 7 , 10 wks

16 [75] (067) Go-Mario (5,193) [17,917] # 43 , 5 wks

17 [76] (165) Lupe Fiasco's "The Cool"-Lupe Fiasco (5,180) [6,660] # 76 , 3 wks

18 [79] (179) Lost Highway-Bon Jovi (5,048) [211,850] # 1 , 28 wks

19 [82] (045) Alone:The Home Recordings Of Rivers Cuomo-Rivers Cuomo (4,969) [10,741] # 45 , 3 wks

20 [85] (086) Trust Me-Craig David (4,862) [52,635] # 11 , 8 wks

 

[087] (133) Minutes To Midnight-Linkin Park (4,782) [371,112] # 1 , 34 wks

[101] (152) Because Of You-Ne-Yo (4,300) [391,665] # 2 , 37 wks

[109] (109) Exclusive-Chris Brown (4,031) [41,958] # 14 , 9 wks

[115] (R e) Sean Kingston-Sean Kingston (3,908) [83,357] # 15 , 21 wks

[116] (159) It Won't Be Soon Before Long-Maroon 5 (3,847) [252,535] # 3 , 34 wks

[125] (095) The Beyonce Experience: Live-Beyonce (3,642) [21,501] # 22 , 6 wks

[132] (119) Alive 2007-Daft Punk (3,477) [25,119] # 46 , 8 wks

[158] (146) The Song Remain The Same -Led Zeppelin (2,790) [29,609] # 10 , 7 wks

[165] (R e) American Gangster -Jay-Z (2,609) [20,818] # 43 , 8 wks

[168] (189) Avenged Sevenfold-Avenged Sevenfold (2,588) [35,870] # 12 , 10 wks

[177] (R e) Back To Black-Amy Winehouse (2,505) [34,428] # 30 , 15 wks

[178] (R e) Good Girl Gone Bad-Rihanna (2,466) [136,892] # 7 , 24 wks

[179] (171) Back Of My Lac-J. Holiday (2,456) [29,839] # 38 , 14 wks

[222] (R e) New Journey-Celtic Woman (2,062) [27,944] # 35 , 16 wks

[263] (252) All The Way... A Decade Of A Song-Celine Dion (1,772) [1,240,619] # 1 , 40 wks

[289] (238) Greatest Hits-Spice Girls (1,589) [34,524] # 18 , 9 wks

 

[173] (076) Joshua Tree[super Delux Edition]-U2 (2,542) [12,976] # 35 , 4 wks

[217] (197) X-Kylie Minogue (2,126) [15,769] # 40 , 7 wks

[232] (New) My Iron Lung-Radiohead (1,985) [1,985] # 232 , 2 wks

[241] (224) Best Of Stacie Orrico-Stacie Orrico (1,904) [10,244] # 57 , 6 wks

[243] (R e) The Dutches + 3-Fergie (1,890) [14,766] # 45 , 8 wks

That's actually the chart for non-Japanese acts D:

Oooh, ok! I was kind of wondering why some of the albums were listed 1-20. :lol: I'm pretty sure in the brackets is where the albums stand in the overall chart though.