Filed under: J-Music, Music news | Tags: Oricon, RADWIMPS, T, ZARD, 倖田來未, 東方神起
np. 東方神起 – Kissしたまま、さよなら
Alright. This’ll be the sales-post that I’ll update during the week.
So even if this is dated to 23/01, just follow the blue dates.
Updated: Weekly official (29/01)
- Official weekly sales:
singles:
#1 73,130 RADWIMPS – Order-made
#2 63,932 ケツメイシ – 出会いのかけら [Ketsumeishi - Deai no Kakera]
#3 50,158 青山Thelma – そばにいるね [Aoyama Thelma, Soba ni Iru ne]
#4 43,051 倖田來未 – anytime [Koda Kumi]
#5 40,309 MATCHY with QUESTION? – 目覚めろ!野性
albums:
#1 126,713 ZARD – ZARD Request Best
#2 79,844 コブクロ – 5296 [Kobukuro]
#3 57,477 Bank Band – 沿志奏逢２ [Soushi Souai 2]
#4 52,273 東方神起 – T [Tohoshinki]
#5 26,411 綾小路きみまろ – 爆笑スーパーライブ第３集!…
Comments about the weekly:
Huge gongratulations for 青山 Thelma reaching 50k! Also Matchy-san passing 40k is very nice. 倖田來未 sold less than one could have expected, but this is due to her album ‘Kingdom‘, which will be out tomorrow and probably sell.. really well.
Also, side note for Acid Black Cherry. ‘冬の幻’ is still #13 and sold 7,5k. So they’ve now reached 47k in two weeks. Nice for the soon-coming album ‘BLACK LIST.
For albums, ZARD‘s one is wonderful as expected with this material. But I hope they’ll stop cashing with her death now after this.
コブクロ rules. Seriously rules. Again 80k sold for ’5296′ (#2) and 15,5k for ‘ASB’ (#13). Talking about a grip on Japanese charts..
東方神起 did good. My 60k-predictation was a bit optimistic, but if we count tomorrow’s (30/01) sales there too, it’s actually quite close! Comparing ‘T’-sales to the ones FITB got, is however very unwise. When FITB came out, the boys were total nobodies in the music business in Japan. Their popularity rose after Lovin’ You (that was absolutely deserved!). And now they’ve gained a solid exposure in Japanese media-field and quite a notable fanbase. T-sales seem to be diving (#11 today) in the Toho-style, but I hope the upcoming live-tour will encourage people to buy the album. Anyhow, a top-4 in Oricon weekly albums is something to be proud of!
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-Day #6 (28/01)
singles:
#1 11,470 青山テルマ – そばにいるね [Aoyama Thelma, Soba ni Iru ne]
#2 8,233 RADWIMPS – Order-made
#3 6,993 ケツメイシ – 出会いのかけら [Ketsumeishi - Deai no Kakera]
albums:
#1 20,580 コブクロ – 5296 [Kobukuro]
#2 15,300 ZARD – ZARD Request Best
#3 9,027 Bank Band – 沿志奏逢２ [Soushi Souai 2]
-Day #5 (27/01)
singles:
#1 10,063 青山テルマ – そばにいるね [Aoyama Thelma, Soba ni Iru ne]
#2 7,950 RADWIMPS – Order-made
#3 7,903 ケツメイシ – 出会いのかけら [Ketsumeishi - Deai no Kakera]
albums:
#1 20,521 コブクロ – 5296 [Kobukuro]
#2 16,551 ZARD – ZARD Request Best
#3 8,568 Bank Band – 沿志奏逢２ [Soushi Souai 2]
東方神起 falls to #8, when ‘ASB’ of コブクロ climbs to top-5 again.
Expect the Toho-boys to pick the numbers up for the weekend, though.
-Day #4 (26/01)
singles:
#1 7,102 RADWIMPS – Order-made
#2 6,165 青山テルマ – そばにいるね [Aoyama Thelma, Soba ni Iru ne]
#3 6,148 ケツメイシ – 出会いのかけら [Ketsumeishi - Deai no Kakera]
albums:
#1 12,910 ZARD – ZARD Request Best
#2 6,909 コブクロ – 5296 [Kobukuro]
#3 6,095 Bank Band – 沿志奏逢２ [Soushi Souai 2]
Again, a guess for ‘T’ of 東方神起 (#4), 5000 copies?
-Day #3 (25/01)
singles:
#1 9,336 RADWIMPS – Order-made
#2 8,027 ケツメイシ – 出会いのかけら [Ketsumeishi - Deai no Kakera]
#3 5,283 青山テルマ – そばにいるね [Aoyama Thelma, Soba ni Iru ne]
albums:
#1 15,460 ZARD – ZARD Request Best
#2 6,620 コブクロ – 5296 [Kobukuro]
#3 6,072 Bank Band – 沿志奏逢２ [Soushi Souai 2]
And just a guess for ‘T’ of 東方神起. Maybe around 5k (5000 copies)?
-Day #2 (24/01)
singles:
#1 18,288 RADWIMPS – Order-made
#2 15,512 ケツメイシ – 出会いのかけら [Ketsumeishi - Deai no Kakera]
#3 10,418 MATCHY with QUESTION? – 目覚めろ!野性 [Mezamero! Yasei]
albums:
#1 28,191 ZARD – ZARD Request Best
#2 9,282 東方神起 – T [Tohoshinki]
#3 7,730 Bank Band – 沿志奏逢２ [Soushi Souai 2]
-Day #1
singles:
#1 23,055 RADWIMPS – Order-made
#2 18,634 倖田來未 – anytime [Koda Kumi]
#3 17,638 ケツメイシ – 出会いのかけら [Ketsumeishi - Deai no Kakera]
albums:
#1 38,259 ZARD – ZARD Request Best
#2 30,003 東方神起 – T [Tohoshinki]
#3 20,182 コブクロ – 5296 [Kobukuro]
As for the albums, gongratulations to 東方神起! ‘T‘ outsold ‘FITB’ on it’s first day. FITB ended up selling about 27k all in all, and ‘T‘ passed the 30k -mark straight away.
Now we’ll just have to see if their album will have as drastic drops as their singles. I’d like them to get around 60k on their first week, though. Thumbs up, everyone!
(I got my album two days before the actual release (amazon likes me, apparently 
), and aside 2-3 tracks, it’s a good album with variation in styles.
ZARD topping the list is no surprise. I think we all know why. And no one in their right mind will question the quality of this album.
コブクロ still going strong? Definetely, and they deserve it! We’ll see how the Toho-boys will cope with it (and Bank Band) the next days.
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hey thanks for posting! i’m hoping toho does very well too!
Comment by Jackie January 24, 2008 @ 3:58 pmwow, your list is amazing!
how to obtain actual sales numbers, when oriocn only gives out the points (?)
Comment by luffa January 25, 2008 @ 12:44 ami am seeing different numbers everywhere..but I am glad that T is doing so well ^^
I used to list sales up more often, but lately I just haven’t had time or interest.
Yes, Oricon-site only gives the sales-points for the top-3 albums and singles daily (that are usually published around 13:00 GMT).
If you want to count the points out to be real (estimated, of course!) sales numbers, you have to take the album-points times 1.70 and the singles-points times 1.75.
This is because not every record shop faxes their daily sales to Oricon, so the 0.7/0.75 “extra” there is to cover up for those shops.
So it is fairly simple with some multiplying
Very often (esp. by people who are not familiar with Japanese charts and the ways they work) I see the numbers from Oricon taken directly as copy-numbers, which is wrong
I laid my bet out of T’s 1st week-sales to be around 60k last week, and if the boys’ promotions pick up this weekend, I might actually have been right (again^^).
Comment by aleyna333 January 25, 2008 @ 11:41 amAh, I understand now. Thanks alot for the explaination ^^
And you are absolutely right, I have only seen the Oricon points in updates, and even in wikipedia D: You are first person I has gotten it right.
I really appreciate you listing these. And I sooo do hope your prediction IS right! They are working hard eh…I hope they reach their target. Porr junsu has to do promotions all alone.
Comment by luffa January 25, 2008 @ 10:21 pmthanks for keeping the post updated ^^
Comment by luffa January 27, 2008 @ 12:42 amlol, I have been passing your link around in alot of different places xD
No problem, I used to do this very often.
I thought it was weird that this page’d got so many clicks. That explains it then
Well, T dropped quite a bit for the weekend now, ending up in #8. However, they sold almost 40k in the first two days and I’d expect them to have had about 5k on both days 3-4, so that’d be 50k already.
Comment by aleyna333 January 27, 2008 @ 4:23 pmSo thumbs up for 60k!