[Britneyfan09]

I always knew Meisa would come back. Those doubters must be feeling pretty dumb right now. I always had faith in my girl.

[Crazy Lights]

Yes Meisa!

[SO.UNCOOL™]

This week's Oricon numbers are in!

Singles:
01. Kis-My-Ft2 - SHE! HER! HER! (193,000)
02. KARA - Speed Up / Girls Power (99,000)
03. DiVA - Lost the way (65,000)
04. Namie Amuro - Go Round / YEAH-OH (47,000)
05. LUNA SEA - THE ONE ~crash to create~ (24,000)
06. IU - Good Day (21,000)
07. Arashi - Wild at Heart (19,000)
08. YOONHAK from CHOHINSEI - Again (18,000)
09. Berryz Kobo - Be Genki <Naseba Naru!> (16,000)
10. Mirei Shiratori - Picaru Koi ga Shitai (14,000)

Albums:
01. Acid Black Cherry - 2012 (118,000)
02. Ayumi Hamasaki - Party Queen (98,000)
03. TEAM H - The first impression (30,000)
04. AAA - Another side of #AAABEST (29,000)
05. Ikimonogakari - NEWTRAL (26,000)
06. Shota Shimizu - Naturally (19,000)
07. BENI - COVERS (17,000)
08. SCL Project - Last Color (16,000)
09. May'n - HEAT (13,000)
10. miwa - guitarium (10,000)

I rounded the numbers, just in case anyone was wondering.

[blackout77]

Hmm 47,000 is respectable Namie

IU did OK. Thought KARA would do more. And Party Queen deserved to open at #1

[RichGirlPlanet]

What is this?

[Yarotska]

Originally posted by RichGirlPlanet

What is this?

It's an error message.

[Belle]

RichGirl your images need to be rehosted; can't see 'em.

also lol @ the charts this week. Where to even begin...perhaps with Namie being outsold by 2 girl groups and a boy group, or Namie being outsold by a k-pop group, or Ayu not getting #1 (though serves her right with that mess of an album). And Luna Sea kind of got shafted. Damn. Get it together, Japan.

[Taste of Honey]

06. Shota Shimizu - Naturally (19,000)

I'm here for that. I need to download his album.

07. BENI - COVERS (17,000)

Looks like her cover album did well. Even though every song as usual is a midtempo.

[Britneyfan09]

Just so yall know this week had an extra day of sales so numbers are higher than they normally would be.

[RichGirlPlanet]

Originally posted by Yarotska

It's an error message.

Re-uploaded, look again.

[SO.UNCOOL™]

Originally posted by blackout77

Hmm 47,000 is respectable Namie

When you factor in the fact that she had no big tie in like her 2 previous singles had, she did no television promotion for it and neither "Go Round" & "YEAH-OH" were big digital hits like "Love Story" I say the numbers are respectable. I also think the fact Japan is still not over "Love Story" yet has alot to do with it. It's still in the top 40 of recochoku 3 months later

[Britneyfan09]

RGP thats NINKI its a poll Oricon does to like 400-500 people to choose from new releases from the week. It's not really an indicator of sales so don't look at it too much.

[SO.UNCOOL™]

Originally posted by Belle

also lol @ the charts this week. Where to even begin...perhaps with Namie being outsold by 2 girl groups and a boy group, or Namie being outsold by a k-pop group

You do know that solo female artists don't move physical singles as much as they used to rite? These days girl groups (mainly AKB48 and their sub-units and some K-Pop girl groups) and boy bands dominate the singles chart so it's not surprising that they outsold Namie. And as I just stated neither of Namie's a-sides resonated as well as "Love Story" did with the Japanese audience.

Namie will still move albums and that's really all that matters

[RichGirlPlanet]

Originally posted by Britneyfan09

RGP thats NINKI its a poll Oricon does to like 400-500 people to choose from new releases from the week. It's not really an indicator of sales so don't look at it too much.

Thank you.
Someone tweeted it to me.

[Britneyfan09]

I always laugh at most JE boygroup album sales tbh.

[Belle]

Originally posted by SO.UNCOOL™

You do know that solo female artists don't move physical singles as much as they used to rite? These days girl groups (mainly AKB48 and their sub-units and some K-Pop girl groups) and boy bands dominate the singles chart so it's not surprising that they outsold Namie.

I'm well aware, and it's trash. There's room for soloists, groups, rock acts and everything in between to be successful.

[SO.UNCOOL™]

Originally posted by Belle

I'm well aware, and it's trash. There's room for soloists, groups, rock acts and everything in between to be successful.

I agree. I miss the Oricon charts of the mid 90's-mid 00's. So much diversity and solo females were dominating

[Britneyfan09]

Originally posted by SO.UNCOOL™

I agree. I miss the Oricon charts of the mid 90's-mid 00's. So much diversity and solo females were dominating

aka when the Oricon charts ACTUALLY mattered and measured what was really popular at the time.

They need to get updated and include digital sales to show what's REALLY popular. Of course JE and AKB48 labels ain't letting that happen as chart manipulation would become harder.

[Belle]

Originally posted by SO.UNCOOL™

I agree. I miss the Oricon charts of the mid 90's-mid 00's. So much diversity and solo females were dominating

Idk what happened. There used to be a time when Dir en grey and acts like hide could show up on Music Station.

[Belle]

Originally posted by Britneyfan09

aka when the Oricon charts ACTUALLY mattered and measured what was really popular at the time.

They need to get updated and include digital sales to show what's REALLY popular. Of course JE and AKB48 labels ain't letting that happen as chart manipulation would become harder.

Is there a composite somewhere? Something that joins both at a reasonable rate like Billboard does for the US?