Charts: Namie Amuro's popularity still strong
Thu, December 24, 2009 (5:56am EST)
Namie Amuro's "PAST < FUTURE" was the top selling album this past week, with close to 331,000 units sold. At the age of 32, she has now become the first female solo artist to achieve #1 with an original album in her 10s, 20s, and 30s. She had three of them before her 20th birthday in 1997, followed by a couple more in 2000 and 2007.
Yusuke Kamiji had to settle for #2 on the charts with 167,000 copies, a little more than half of Amuro's sales. MISIA, Rina Aiuchi, and Thee Michelle Gun Elephant broke the top ten as well.
In singles, Masaharu Fukuyama's new song "Hatsukoi" captured first place with 151,000 in sales. The rest of the top ten was filled with fresh releases, from THE ALFEE, abingdon boys school, Buono!, Megumi Nakajima (as Macross Frontier character Ranka Lee), Yukari Tamura, The Birthday, and a sub-unit of Idoling!!!
MUCC Happy About Making Winter-songs in Winter and Releasing Them in Winter
For the first time in the carreer for MUCC the band released a download only single
On December 25th, titled "Georama". It was said to by simplistic in sound and words throughout its making. Almost getting back to their roots, the song has elements of folk even. Miya said about the production "This song about the winter has been made in winter and will be released in winter. Its really great that we are able to do something like that now."
This release of „Georama" was certainly conducted in a minimum time span concerning making and release period. There can be hardly anything which is closer to showing MUCC's style of the moment than this. So don't miss this chance to listen to the true sound of MUCC's present right now!
Charts: Kanjani8 takes top three
Wed, December 30, 2009 (2:08am EST)
For the first time ever, a single artist has captured the top three spots on one of Oricon's weekly sales charts. On December 23-25, Kanjani8 released an unprecedented three singles on consecutive days, and all of them eclipsed the competition.
Including Kanjani8, 8 artists have held the top two spots on the singles chart, and 19 have held the top two on the albums chart.
Their "GIFT ~Shiro~," the first to go on sale, led the way at 117,000 copies sold. It was followed by "GIFT ~Aka~" and "GIFT ~Midori~," each of which sold about 114,000 copies. Besides them, the only other new singles in the top ten were from voice actress Minori Chihara (#5) and hip-hop artist SEEDA (#8).
On this week's albums chart, Ikimono Gakari took #1 with "Hajimari no Uta," selling over 200,000 copies. flumpool ranked second, with about 90,000 copies of their new release "What's flumpool!?" Every Little Thing's new best album came in at #4, while UNICORN's live album managed to make the #10 spot.
Also noteworthy was EXILE's "Aisubeki Mirai e" at #5, which has now passed 1 million in sales in the four weeks since its release. This is their sixth million-seller. Of the albums released this year, they are the third to reach 1 million, joining the company of Arashi's "All the BEST! 1999-2009" and GReeeeN's "Shio, Kosho."
At 11:15pm, Ayaka (22) who will take an indefinite break from her singing career appeared on stage at NHK's 60th Kouhaku Uta Gassen. Wearing a red dress, she addressed viewers before her performance.
"For me, singing is an essential part of life. For all of you who have always supported my singing and music, I will put my feelings of gratitude to you with this song."
With that, she sang her hit song 'Minna Sora no Shita'. Announcer Abe Wataru wished her the best and said,"I hope you return to this stage again someday." Actor Nishida Toshiyuki who is serving as a judge said as he wiped a tear away,"I'm tearing up. The power of songs is the power of life."
flumpool tak kenai sangat ar... lagu dia pon tak pernah dgr... selalu la tgk nama tu, tp tak pernah nk click tuk sedut...
Message from Miku
It’s Miku. I’m late in writing this diary, sorry. I hadn’t sorted out my mind, so I couldn’t write. It’s still not sorted out, but I’m going to be honest.
Members, staff and cafekko, together we grabbed the Budokan. Can you believe it, I never expected this when the band started. I still can’t believe it.
The wedding ceremony at Tokyo Budokan. I can’t tell in a single word how much I enjoyed it. More than enjoyable, my feelings were greater and different.
dh 6 thn upenyer
Then, January 5th was my birthday… It was really lonely. Usually, every year, we have a birthday live. This year, we didn’t. I notice this gratitude because I’ve lost it. I’ll be good if we can do it again sometime.
alaaaaaaaaaaaa...siannyer adik aku sorang nih... sorry... akak bz time tu...
next year yek...
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Post time 24-12-2009 03:23 AM
