Chart Listings: Japan's best-selling albums of 2011 - Page 12

Delita_chan

Guys, this goes beyond album sales.
I'll repeat it again.

She's on TV in Japan - the Music Lovers performance. The news and talk shows have segments about her quite often (I saw one segment aired twice during the week, discussing her BTW single but I don't know what was being said - I don't speak Japanese). Her music is used for soap operas. Malls and and shopping centers are running her album. There's Gaga memorabilia everywhere. The people LOVE her. She has the market. Whether she will maintain it, who knows, but she's got it there. Even a baseball game played a short snippet of "Bad Kids" verse.

It is clear that Avril is quickly losing this market. Her numbers are great, but I don't see them being like this on the next album and subsequent.

greeneyedsoul

Yeea..... I don't think so
When Gaga gets 3 million sellers in Japan we can talk again until then, we don't have what to talk about.

licq

Quote:

Originally posted by slobro

From jpopcentral:

*4 *,548,398 *16,012 BORN THIS WAY / Lady Gaga 11/05/23
10 *,347,371 **1,589 Goodbye Lullaby / Avril Lavigne 11/03/02
31 *,130,082 ***,*** MICHAEL / Michael Jackson 10/12/15
39 *,117,385 **2,117 The Fame Monster / Lady Gaga 09/11/18 累计582,317
42 *,104,939 ***,542 Greatest Hits...So Far / P！NK 10/12/15(输10/11/16) 累计109,630
48 *,*86,204 ***,526 Loud / Rihanna 11/01/19(输10/11/16) 累计113,256
66 *,*64,876 **1,152 The Fame / Lady Gaga 09/05/20(输08/09/23,08/11/25) 累计348,892
72 *,*57,505 ***,*** The Beginning / The Black Eyed Peas 10/12/01 累计94,255
73 *,*57,420 ***,565 The Remix / Lady Gaga 10/03/03 累计232,673
74 *,*56,787 ***,650 Doo-Wops & Hooligans / Bruno Mars 11/1/12(输10/10/09) 累计77,724
78 *,*55,816 ***,*** THE KING OF LIMBS / RADIOHEAD 11/04/06
83 *,*53,770 ***,598 Femme Fatale / Britney Spears 11/04/06
85 *,*51,910 ***,*** Speak Now / Taylor Swift 10/11/10(输10/10/27) 累计129,155
87 *,*50,821 ***,*** Wasting Light / Foo Fighters 11/04/20(输11/04/12)
88 *,*50,730 **3,567 ４ / Beyonce 11/06/29
90 *,*49,884 **1,202 Love？ / Jennifer Lopez 11/05/18(输11/05/03)
94 *,*44,491 ***,*** Greatest Hits -The Uitimate Collection- / Bon Jovi 10/11/03 累计192,527
97 *,*42,721 ***,*** Charice / Charice 10/07/07(输10/05/27) 累计141,589
98 *,*42,663 ***,436 Angles / The Strokes 11/04/06

FAN

Comercial = Catchy, Pop "Fluff" that everyone can sing along to

Born This Way and Edge Of Glory were just that. Along with Hair, Marry The Night, even You and I. Judas is just bad.

Sporefan

Quote:

Originally posted by Haus Of Navin

Gagas latest album has sold 100k more than GL so far & its still going strong.
Avrils market is gone.

Erm,No
Just because BTW sold more than GL,that doesn't mean that Avril's market is gone

Oh,and even though i don't really like BTW, BTW is not commercial

It is risky,i thought

RatedG²

Quote:

Originally posted by FAN

Comercial = Catchy, Pop "Fluff" that everyone can sing along to

Born This Way and Edge Of Glory were just that. Along with Hair, Marry The Night, even You and I. Judas is just bad.

Nope.

Born This Way, a song about gay people, absurd lyrics for a pop song. Edge of Glory, a song about death. The only "commercial" songs are Hair, and You and I

Oh, care to explain Schiesse, Bad Kids, Bloody Mary, Black Jesus, Government Hooker, Americano, Heavy Metal Lover, and Electric Chapel

slobro

Quote:

Originally posted by RatedG

Nope.

Born This Way, a song about gay people, absurd lyrics for a pop song. Edge of Glory, a song about death. The only "commercial" songs are Hair, and You and I

Oh, care to explain Schiesse, Bad Kids, Bloody Mary, Black Jesus, Government Hooker, Americano, Heavy Metal Lover, and Electric Chapel

Now girl I almost agree with all of it but lets not front, TEOG is one of Gaga's most commercial songs ever

(not that that is a bad thing

)

MrDeeds

Quote:

Originally posted by RatedG

Nope.

Born This Way, a song about gay people, absurd lyrics for a pop song. Edge of Glory, a song about death. The only "commercial" songs are Hair, and You and I

Oh, care to explain Schiesse, Bad Kids, Bloody Mary, Black Jesus, Government Hooker, Americano, Heavy Metal Lover, and Electric Chapel

Born This Way is the more attention whoring song EVER, what are you talking about?

RatedG²

Quote:

Originally posted by MrDeeds

Born This Way is the more attention whoring song EVER, what are you talking about?

I'm not talking about attention whoring, I'm talking about commercialism

greeneyedsoul

Can't we just wait for both eras to end and then compare the sales?

Drais.

Quote:

Originally posted by Haus_of_Nicole

This list is inaccurate.

Very. Girls Generation is already over 500K, and I doubt Avril is in the Top 10.

-Lewymocha-

Avril is an obsession in Japan. They even had a manga comic book about her. She's all over the buses there and they even have Avril Lavigne taxi bikes

Gaga clearly sold more with her generic BTW album but Avril has only released one single there, 'What The Hell'. Smile was not released there out of respect to the disaster. Avril stopped all releases there out of respect and postponed her tour dates. Avril LOVES Japan. She is not losing her market. What The Hell was more successful than Girlfriend in Japan. Also Avril's album release week was the week of the disaster and Avril still sold that much albums. People forget that Avril released the week of the tsunamis and record sales there dropped drastically because of that for 4 weeks and it was followed by no second single. WYWH hopefully will be released there. Either way, the next album will sell twice as much as Goodbye Lullaby. Goodbye Lullaby being the 2nd best selling western album under those circumstances show how strong her fanbase in Japan is. Gaga can't compare. Sorry.

RatedG²

Quote:

Originally posted by -Lewymocha-

Avril is an obsession in Japan. They even had a manga comic book about her. She's all over the buses there and they even have Avril Lavigne taxi bikes

Gaga clearly sold more with her generic BTW album but Avril has only released one single there, 'What The Hell'. Smile was not released there out of respect to the disaster. Avril stopped all releases there out of respect and postponed her tour dates. Avril LOVES Japan. She is not losing her market. What The Hell was more successful than Girlfriend in Japan. Also Avril's album release week was the week of the disaster and Avril still sold that much albums. People forget that Avril released the week of the tsunamis and record sales there dropped drastically because of that for 4 weeks and it was followed by no second single. WYWH hopefully will be released there. Either way, the next album will sell twice as much as Goodbye Lullaby. Goodbye Lullaby being the 2nd best selling western album under those circumstances show how strong her fanbase in Japan is. Gaga can't compare. Sorry.

She's number 1 there, Avril is number 2. Deal with it

And DEAD @ generic, okay

Vulps

Quote:

Originally posted by RatedG

Nope.

Born This Way, a song about gay people, absurd lyrics for a pop song. Edge of Glory, a song about death. The only "commercial" songs are Hair, and You and I

Oh, care to explain Schiesse, Bad Kids, Bloody Mary, Black Jesus, Government Hooker, Americano, Heavy Metal Lover, and Electric Chapel

Is it really now? Sozzles but it's on the exact same level as Firework commercially. It being about gay people doesn't change anything. o_O

And while you guys might now the meanings to all these songs, the audience don't see past random-ass lyrics and catchy beats.

slobro

Quote:

Originally posted by Hi.Def

Very. Girls Generation is already over 500K, and I doubt Avril is in the Top 10.

I'll repost the up to date receipts:

From jpopcentral:

*1 *,773,157 **4,510 ここにいたこと / AKB48 11/06/08
*2 *,745,830 **8,138 Beautiful World / 岚 11/07/06
*3 *,718,256 **1,857 愿いの塔 / EXILE 11/03/09
*4 *,548,398 *16,012 BORN THIS WAY / Lady Gaga 11/05/23
*5 *,533,785 *14,176 GIRLS' GENERATION / 少女时代 11/06/01
*6 *,469,304 **2,128 Checkmate！ / 安室奈美恵 11/04/27
*7 *,410,172 ***,545 MUSICMAN / 桑田佳佑 11/02/23
*8 *,368,510 ***,703 まとめⅠ / aiko 11/02/23
*9 *,359,084 **2,918 いきものばかり～メンバーズBESTセレクション～ / いきものがかり 10/11/03 累计1,265,840
10 *,347,371 **1,589 Goodbye Lullaby / Avril Lavigne 11/03/02
11 *,340,161 ***,488 まとめⅡ / aiko 11/02/23
12 *,338,406 ***,*** COSMONAUT / BUMP OF CHICKEN 10/12/15
13 *,321,106 **4,739 Mind Travel / Superfly 11/06/15
14 *,319,628 *47,231 C'mon / B'z 11/07/27
15 *,313,781 **6,588 Thank you, Love / 西野カナ 11/06/22
16 *,272,653 ***,*** Love songs / 浜崎あゆみ 10/12/22
17 *,255,894 *24,350 YOU / JUJU 11/07/13
18 *,255,093 **2,360 ガールズトーク / KARA 10/11/24 累计421,278
19 *,254,062 ***,699 绝対绝命 / RADWIMPS 11/03/09
20 *,219,871 **3,729 どーも / 小田和正 11/04/20
21 *,216,256 ***,585 ケツノポリス７ / ケツメイシ 11/03/16
22 *,209,879 ***,*** Dejavu / 幸田来未 11/03/02
23 *,179,076 ***,689 SENSE / Mr.Children 10/12/01 累计776,288
24 *,177,959 **3,522 湘南乃风～Single Best～ / 湘南乃风 11/06/15
25 *,162,091 **1,921 VOCALIST & BALLADE BEST / 徳永英明 11/04/26
26 *,160,678 ***,391 ２ -NI- / ゆず 11/02/16
27 *,160,011 160,011 M BEST / 加藤ミリヤ 11/08/03
28 *,147,481 ***,451 HOOT / 少女时代 10/12/22
29 *,145,136 **1,329 SONGS FOR JAPAN / Various Artists 11/05/04(输11/04/22)
30 *,135,404 ***,*** SUPERGOOD, SUPERBAD / 山下智久 11/01/26
31 *,130,082 ***,*** MICHAEL / Michael Jackson 10/12/15
32 *,129,889 ***,823 THE BEST BANG！！ / 福山雅治 10/11/17 累计674,149
33 *,128,677 **1,656 银魂BEST2 / Various Artists 11/06/22
34 *,128,132 ***,641 LIFE 6 SENSE / UVERworld 11/06/01
35 *,124,949 ***,910 J Soul Brothers / 三代目J Soul Brothers 11/06/01
36 *,122,463 **1,726 JAPANESE SINGER / 平井坚 11/06/08
37 *,121,106 **2,215 大発见 / 东京事変 11/06/29
38 *,117,808 ***,*** Fantasia of Life Stripe / flumpool 11/01/26
39 *,117,385 **2,117 The Fame Monster / Lady Gaga 09/11/18 累计582,317
40 *,111,490 ***,*** あの…梦もてますケド。 / 游助 11/02/02
41 *,108,201 ***,*** Utada Hikaru SINGLE COLLECTION VOL.2 / 宇多田ヒカル 10/11/24 累计442,549
42 *,104,939 ***,542 Greatest Hits...So Far / P！NK 10/12/15(输10/11/16) 累计109,630
43 *,103,042 ***,*** ノースリーブス / ノースリーブス 11/01/01
44 *,*99,145 ***,440 剧场版マクロスＦｻﾖﾅﾗﾉﾂﾊﾞｻ... / ｼｪﾘﾙ・ﾉｰﾑ starring May'n&ﾗﾝｶ･ﾘｰ=中岛爱... 11/03/09
45 *,*96,980 ***,*** BIGBANG2 / BIGBANG 11/05/11
46 *,*92,181 ***,*** DJ KAORI'S JMIX Ⅳ / Various Artists 10/12/15
47 *,*88,487 ***,889 神曲たち / AKB48 10/04/07 累计529,815
48 *,*86,204 ***,526 Loud / Rihanna 11/01/19(输10/11/16) 累计113,256
49 *,*86,010 ***,*** Marchen / Sound Horizon 10/12/15
50 *,*79,058 **1,290 ADVENTURE / ナオト・インティライミ 11/05/11
51 *,*78,987 ***,433 Z / UNICORN 11/05/25
52 *,*78,964 ***,404 Today Is A Beautiful Day / supercell 11/03/16
53 *,*78,796 ***,422 EXIT TUNES PRESENTS Vocalonexus feat.初音ミク / Various Artists 11/01/19
54 *,*77,538 ***,527 Road Show / 松任谷由実 11/04/06
55 *,*77,077 ***,*** dead stock / シド 11/02/23
56 *,*74,919 ***,590 Burlesque Original Motion Picture Soundtrack / サウンドトラック 10/12/08 累计77,807
57 *,*74,013 **3,804 THE SOUL FOR THE PEOPLE ～东日本大震灾支援ベストアルバム～ / DREAMS COME TRUE 11/06/29
58 *,*73,201 ***,*** CLOUD NINE / T.M.Revolution 11/04/20
59 *,*72,876 **1,314 KARA BEST 2007-2010 / KARA 10/09/29 累计190,486
60 *,*71,744 ***,*** Buzz Communication / AAA 11/02/16
61 *,*69,219 ***,*** COLORS / 清水翔太 11/03/09
62 *,*69,121 ***,727 DIFFERENT GEAR, STILL SPEEDING / BEADY EYE 11/02/23
63 *,*68,655 ***,*** guitarissimo / miwa 11/04/06
64 *,*67,379 **4,157 DL KAORI'S PARTY MIX 2 / Various Artists 11/06/22
65 *,*65,410 ***,431 仆の见ている风景 / 岚 10/08/04 累计1,118,474
66 *,*64,876 **1,152 The Fame / Lady Gaga 09/05/20(输08/09/23,08/11/25) 累计348,892
67 *,*62,556 **1,142 演歌名曲コレクション14～あの娘と野菊と渡し舟～ / 氷川きよし 11/06/01
68 *,*62,431 ***,516 to LOVE / 西野カナ 10/06/23 累计707,848
69 *,*61,346 **1,661 『美男<イケメン>ですね』-日本版OST- / サウンドトラック 10/03/17 累计102,340
70 *,*59,664 ***,426 悪の王国～Evils Kingdom～ / mothy 悪ノP feat.镜音リン,镜音レン 10/12/22
71 *,*58,455 ***,*** CHEMISTRY 2001-2011 / CHEMISTRY 11/03/02
72 *,*57,505 ***,*** The Beginning / The Black Eyed Peas 10/12/01 累计94,255
73 *,*57,420 ***,565 The Remix / Lady Gaga 10/03/03 累计232,673
74 *,*56,787 ***,650 Doo-Wops & Hooligans / Bruno Mars 11/1/12(输10/10/09) 累计77,724
75 *,*56,070 ***,643 FIVE TREASURE ISLAND / FTISLAND 11/05/18
76 *,*55,932 ***,*** What IF... / MR.BIG 10/12/15
77 *,*55,876 **1,080 ファンキーモンキーベイビーズBEST / FUNKY MONKEY BABYS 10/02/10 累计669,479
78 *,*55,816 ***,*** THE KING OF LIMBS / RADIOHEAD 11/04/06
79 *,*55,511 ***,741 All the BEST！ 1999-2009 / 岚 09/08/19 累计1,831,035
80 *,*55,454 ***,425 INFINITY 16 BEST / INFINITY 16 10/12/08 累计72,363
81 *,*55,368 ***,*** THE RED MAGIC / AK-69 11/01/26
82 *,*55,107 ***,*** The Apples / 吉井和哉 11/04/13
83 *,*53,770 ***,598 Femme Fatale / Britney Spears 11/04/06
84 *,*51,961 ***,*** rare collectives vol.3 / GLAY 11/03/09
85 *,*51,910 ***,*** Speak Now / Taylor Swift 10/11/10(输10/10/27) 累计129,155
86 *,*51,348 ***,*** rare collectives vol.4 / GLAY 11/03/09
87 *,*50,821 ***,*** Wasting Light / Foo Fighters 11/04/20(输11/04/12)
88 *,*50,730 **3,567 ４ / Beyonce 11/06/29
89 *,*50,594 ***,*** ウェ(ｷｰﾌﾟ･ﾕｱ･ﾍｯﾄﾞ･ﾀﾞｳﾝ)日本ライセンス(韩国语)盘 / 东方神起 11/05/04
90 *,*49,884 **1,202 Love？ / Jennifer Lopez 11/05/18(输11/05/03)
91 *,*46,303 ***,639 Request / JUJU 10/09/29 累计469,533
92 *,*45,510 ***,*** TWENITY BOX / L'Arc～en～Ciel 11/03/09
93 *,*45,046 ***,470 KAMEN RIDER BEST 2000-0211 / Various Artists 11/04/27
94 *,*44,491 ***,*** Greatest Hits -The Uitimate Collection- / Bon Jovi 10/11/03 累计192,527
95 *,*44,418 ***,*** Screaming Bloody Murder / SUM 41 11/04/06
96 *,*42,765 ***,*** THE FIRST ALBUM / GD&TOP 11/02/23(输10/12/30)
97 *,*42,721 ***,*** Charice / Charice 10/07/07(输10/05/27) 累计141,589
98 *,*42,663 ***,436 Angles / The Strokes 11/04/06
99 *,*42,501 ***,*** LOVE CENTRAL / DREAMS COME TRUE 10/12/01 累计157,181
100 ,*42,158 ***,455 SET LIST ～グレイテストソングス～完全盘 / AKB48 10/07/14 累计157,100

KoreanDream

The only non-Asian artists that are very popular in Asia are Avril and Gaga. But Gaga is considered a pretty new artist here because Born This Way has been her establishing record here (mostly due to all of the promo she has done in Asia), so I`d say Avril is far, far more famous in Asia than Gaga. But of course, both are.

Anyway, congrats to Avril! Asian markets are hard to crack, so this is a great accomplishment for her. But

at EXILE having the best-selling album of the year. They`re garbage. And I really cannot wait until AKB48 fall off.

KoreanDream

Quote:

Originally posted by RatedG

She's number 1 there, Avril is number 2. Deal with it

And DEAD @ generic, okay

Gaga is having success there but I can totally assure you that Avril is more famous. WAY more famous.

Venus

Quote:

Originally posted by greeneyedsoul

Can't we just wait for both eras to end and then compare the sales?

Now, do you really think Goodbye Lullaby is about to shoot up over 200,000 units to snatch Born This Way's wig?

Hector

Quote:

Originally posted by -Lewymocha-

Avril is an obsession in Japan. They even had a manga comic book about her. She's all over the buses there and they even have Avril Lavigne taxi bikes

Gaga clearly sold more with her generic BTW album but Avril has only released one single there, 'What The Hell'. Smile was not released there out of respect to the disaster. Avril stopped all releases there out of respect and postponed her tour dates. Avril LOVES Japan. She is not losing her market. What The Hell was more successful than Girlfriend in Japan. Also Avril's album release week was the week of the disaster and Avril still sold that much albums. People forget that Avril released the week of the tsunamis and record sales there dropped drastically because of that for 4 weeks and it was followed by no second single. WYWH hopefully will be released there. Either way, the next album will sell twice as much as Goodbye Lullaby. Goodbye Lullaby being the 2nd best selling western album under those circumstances show how strong her fanbase in Japan is. Gaga can't compare. Sorry.

"Girlfriend" has soldway over a million copies digitally, "What The Hell" still hasn't though it has been very successful there, by now it's the second biggest selling foreign digital single behind "Born This Way".

Squall

It's IMPOSSIBLE to compare BTW and GL.
Moreover, we'll never agree, so what I propose is to wait the fifth record (and how she'll slay everyone

)
Anyway, she's still #1 in Japan, this is not because Avril sells actually less with this record that she lost this market and that Gaga has taken Japan. And Lewymocha has perfectly explained the situation.