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Chart Listings: AKB48 has their highest first day single sales EVER
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Originally posted by greeneyedsoul
omg.
What are their total sales?
Are they also doing great digital?
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They're total record sales are almost at 25 million now, just in Japan. And I don't know about their digital sales, but I imagine they're doing great there too.
And btw, this single has shipped 2.3 million copies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally posted by greeneyedsoul
omg.
What are their total sales?
Are they also doing great digital?
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They've sold 21,537,814 reported physical singles to date, which is huge (to put it into perspective, artists like Ayumi Hamasaki and Utada Hikaru have sold 30,044,876 and 15,518,247 over their entire careers, respectively). They've done very well digitally, with 9,650,000 digital singles sold - and that's just certified, not a full total.
They are massive.
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Do these girls even sell albums?
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Originally posted by Guero
Do these girls even sell albums?
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1830m was the third biggest album of 2012 in Japan, selling over a million copies to date.
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Originally posted by Sapuraizu
They're total record sales are almost at 25 million now, just in Japan. And I don't know about their digital sales, but I imagine they're doing great there too.
And btw, this single has shipped 2.3 million copies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally posted by Retro
They've sold 21,537,814 reported physical singles to date, which is huge (to put it into perspective, artists like Ayumi Hamasaki and Utada Hikaru have sold 30,044,876 and 15,518,247 over their entire careers, respectively). They've done very well digitally, with 9,650,000 digital singles sold - and that's just certified, not a full total.
They are massive.
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Originally posted by Retro
1830m was the third biggest album of 2012 in Japan, selling over a million copies to date.
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Congrats to the gurls then.
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2nd day sold 100,193 which equals 1,551,074 now. HUGE drop, but not really surprising considering the enormous first day numbers.
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Even with that huge drop, their second day sales are enough for that Gold certification.
Queens...
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This has the potential to be their biggest selling physical single ever, after just a week.
And it's their 12th consecutive million-selling single, 13th overall. 15th if you count digital sales.
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It's even more impressive because it's a PHYSICAL SINGLE, which is like 10 times more expensive.
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Originally posted by Carrie-is-no-1
It's even more impressive because it's a PHYSICAL SINGLE, which is like 10 times more expensive.
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Right? Plus this costs about the same as what an album costs in the US.
Not a single one of our faves could ever hope to approach this rate of sales, and I'm pretty sure that their first day marks the largest one day sales figure in physical music history. I can't find anything that sold faster.
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Originally posted by Retro
Right? Plus this costs about the same as what an album costs in the US.
Not a single one of our faves could ever hope to approach this rate of sales, and I'm pretty sure that their first day marks the largest one day sales figure in physical music history. I can't find anything that sold faster.
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There are two other contenders that come to mind. "Can't Buy Me Love" and "Candle in the Wind".
"Candle In The Wind (1997)" sold 658,000 copies in the UK alone on the first day and 1.5 million in the first week. In the US, I've never seen single-day sales figures, but it reportedly sold 3.5M copies in the first week.
Sales were tracked very differently in the 1960s, but "Can't Buy Me Love" had pre-orders in excess of 2 million in the US alone. Real sales figures for the US/UK are nearly impossible to come by, but they are said to have physically distributed over 940,000 copies in the US alone on the first day, while "selling" over 2 million.
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Originally posted by RobynYoBank
There are two other contenders that come to mind. "Can't Buy Me Love" and "Candle in the Wind".
"Candle In The Wind (1997)" sold 658,000 copies in the UK alone on the first day and 1.5 million in the first week. In the US, I've never seen single-day sales figures, but it reportedly sold 3.5M copies in the first week.
Sales were tracked very differently in the 1960s, but "Can't Buy Me Love" had pre-orders in excess of 2 million in the US alone. Real sales figures for the US/UK are nearly impossible to come by, but they are said to have physically distributed over 940,000 copies in the US alone on the first day, while "selling" over 2 million.
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I know those two are strong contenders, but in the case of CITW 1997 I assumed it had a more smooth sales rate over the week, compared to AKB48 selling 1.45 million on day one but 100k the next day. I hadn't heard about "Can't Buy Me Love" selling so fast, that's pretty interesting!
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3rd day sales are 49,509 which equals 1,600,583. The single is expected to hit 2 million sales sometime in the summer.
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is this the group with 700,000 members?
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Congratz I'm a little pressed tho.
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Originally posted by Kang.
is this the group with 700,000 members?
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Yes, it is.
4th day sales are 47,232 which now equals 1,647,815.
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Originally posted by Sapuraizu
Yes, it is.
3rd day sales are 47,232 which now equals 1,647,815.
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You mean 4th day right?
350k till 2 million.
Whats their best selling single?
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Originally posted by greeneyedsoul
You mean 4th day right?
350k till 2 million.
Whats their best selling single?
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Oops! Yeah, I meant 4th day. 5th day sales are 41,960 which equals 1,689,775 now.
Their best selling single is this right now, but the other one is Manatsu no Sounds Good which has sold around 1.8 million now.
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MASSIVE
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