http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/d/2015-05-19/

AKB48's new single sells 1,472,375 physical copies on the first day. Using the cheapest version of the single, that's 12 million USD in sales in a single day!

Literally when will our faves?

They have more people over there tho so I'm sure if someone did adjustments it would be pretty equal

Wow

Oh my God.

Damn

There are more people in Russia and Nigeria than in Japan, honey.

wow! i thought they were starting to slow down when their singles started getting 800k instead of millions but look at them now! grande resurgence much?

When will Taylor tbh

God I hate them

I was just about to say that

And to think the biggest sales week for a single in the US is 636K digital downloads with almost 3X the people and Japan is snatching up PHYSICAL SINGLES.

queen

Compared to where?
It's only the 10th most populated...US, Brazil, Russia, etc...all have more

They haven't had a single miss #1 since 2009

The music video is exceptional. Can we post Jpopsuki here?

Japan's version of "Queen of Pop" is "Empress of J-Pop" and that title belongs to Ayumi Hamasaki

Impressive indeed

When all is said and done, the final sales will be 4M at best thou

Omg I thought they had begun to recede by now.

How will they be stopped...