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140th Thread :: 51st Single「愛を止めないで」
P r o f i l e Stage Name: Koda Kumi / 倖田來未 Real Name: Kouda Kumiko / 神田來未子 Birthdate: 13 November 1982 (Showa 57) Blood Type: A Hometown: Kyoto Hobbies: Shopping, Goods. Favorite Sport: Squash Favorite Type of Music: Hip Hop Favorite Dish to Cook: Niku Jaga (Beef and Potatoes) Favorite Saying: Ikkai ichi e (Once in a lifetime chance) Favorite Colors: Purple and green Favorite Season: Summer Favorite DVD: Haneru no tobira Favorite Brands: D&G and H・A・K Favorite Food: Okonomiyaki, 100% Fruit Juice, Perrier Favorite Japanese Artists: Toshinori Yonekura, Sukima Switch Favorite Western Artists: Christina Aguilera, Nelly, Pink, Pharrell Williams Something She Can't Be Without: Love Favorite Part of Her Own Body: The "kori kori" of her waist. Something Often Unexpected: 'No smoking & no alcohol' Something Unacceptable: Lies and deception Special Ability: To be able to talk until her voice goes hoarse. N e w R e l e a s e s http://rhythmzone.net/koda/discograp...ges/aiwo_2.jpg http://rhythmzone.net/koda/discograp...ges/aiwo_1.jpg http://rhythmzone.net/koda/discograp...ges/aiwo_3.jpg 51st single 「愛を止めないで」 Release date: 2011.09.21 [CD] 1. 愛を止めないで 2. You are not alone movie tie-up edition: 1. 愛を止めないで 2. あなただけが (Strings Version) 3. あなただけが (Music Box Version) [DVD] 1. 愛を止めないで 2. You are not alone D i s c o g r a p h y Spoiler:
L i n k s → Official Website → Official YouTube Channel → Lyrics Library → Singles in 320kbps → B-sides Collection → Concert Audio Rips → Music Videos → iPod PVs → All DVD Lives → Screencaps → Lyrics & Interview Translations Credits: Tsubasa, Kingdom, FinalFayth, Corvina, do it again, Cherrim |
Oh, hadnt noticed the new thread :P
Isnt her 2012 calendar cover yet? I'm so curious, I usually love her calendar shoots :D |
King Brunch News:
http://i51.tinypic.com/29pxef7.jpg watch: http://vimeo.com/28761625 password: ilovekuu CDTV Live Information: New Event! Misora Hibari Memorial Concert 「Okay, Japan! ～Watch from the sky Love song～」 Date: 11.11.11 / Venue: Tokyo Dome 出演アーティスト：AI/五木ひろし/AKB48/EXILE/岡林信康/倖田來未/郷ひろみ/小林幸子/近藤真彦/氷川きよし/平井堅/平原綾香/藤井フミヤ/雪村いずみ/ゆず（50音順） http://rhythmzone.net/koda/news/110908.html http://misorahibari-memorial.jp/ |
And yey for the new thread~ :) I wonder when we reach 200th thread 'cause then it's time to celebrate~ <3 And yes, I did listen to Dejavu on my way to work so I'm in a good mood. Choitashi Life's playing in my head even now. :D
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utanet uploaded the official lyrics already so..
You are not alone (translation) Spoiler:
Cute lyrics ^-^ |
^You are not alone has officially became one of my favorite Kuu songs now. I think this song will be my strength now <3
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the song lyrics are really direct and awesome :)
very encouraging for anyone |
Love the You Are Not Alone lyrics. Very sweet. I like it when singers write lyrics that are about things other than boyfriend/girlfriend love
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Awesome lyric! *-* I´m so excited with this song! but the pv preview I don´t like it! I hope a better PV! somethin heart touching like You´re so beautiful or walk-to the future-
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^^ me too :yes especially encouraging ones like this. Thanks for the translation tenshi!
& Thanks for the new thread Tsubasa <3 |
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^The CM is beautiful, thanks for sharing. :) Thank you for the 'You Are Not Alone' translation! It's made me love the song even more. :D
I think her calender was scheduled to come out in October...but there's been no more news yet. :) |
Lovely CM, can't wait to see the full PV.
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Beautiful CM <3
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^ you avatar is so cute :heart
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Beautiful CM and touching lyrics, thanks for posting them! :D And a Tokyo Dome live, yeah! Hiromi Go is right after her in that list, wonder if they'll sing together again, they make such a cute couple haha <3 |
^Wow, they've started performances for 'Ai Wo Tomenaide' already? D: They're really giving good promotion to this single early. I wonder why for this single? And not for 4 TIMES? I'm still disappointed there was no live for V.I.P, that would have been awesome. ):
I look forward to the performance, anywhoo! :heart Is that Ayu on the list there, too? I don't recognize the song name. |
Well, the single will be released in less than 2 weeks, I think we got a live from PLC that soon also, yeah? But I gotta agree that 4 TIMES promotion was psooooo poor, she had like 4 lives [lol at the pseudo pun] and all of PLC |:
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wow, that is gonna be one big episode~
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Kuu is still at #1 on recochoku.
They changed the cover from edition A to edition C, I wonder why. Single download/Chaku Uta full: #55 Poppin'love cocktail (#51) Chaku Uta: #1 Ai wo tomenaide (#1) #46 Poppin'love cocktail (#35) Videoclips: #36 KO-SO-KO-SO (#28) #63 Poppin'love cocktail (#51) #86 V.I.P. (#80) #91 Butterfly (-) Incoming movie clips: #1 Ai wo tomenaide (#1) #6 Cutie Honey (#37) #36 Butterfly (-) #38 Poppin'love cocktail (-) #42 Moon Crying (-) #49 IN THE AIR (-) #81 V.I.P. (#35) #83 WON'T BE LONG (-) #96 you (#100) RBT: #1 Ai wo tomenaide (#1) #28 Poppin'love cocktail (#27) #59 Anata dake ga (-) And here's another poll recochoku did. Hit songs about the moon: 1. 三日月 - 絢香 (Ayaka) 2. Moon Crying - Koda Kumi 3. 月のしずく - RUI 4. 月光花 - Janne Da Arc 5. 今夜月の見える丘に - B'z Thanks to Hikki-kun at JPC Thanks tenshi for the You are not alone translation. Love those lyrics, now I adore the song even more! :heart And by the way 14 million are Kuu's total physical sales (albums, singles and DVDs), not just her albums. And about 21,4 million for digital releases. Also, Dejavu re-entered the charts: 24 *,211,033 ***,331 Dejavu / 倖田來未 11/03/02 |
I'm so happy that we get to see Ai wo tomenaide lives soon, I can't wait! *_* I also love that song seems to become a huge hit, that's great. I hope Dejavu will chart a while too, since it deserves more sales. It's awesome~ <3
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Got my Edge Style October today and made scans.
http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/8...tyle002.th.jpghttp://img405.imageshack.us/img405/5...tyle001.th.jpghttp://img851.imageshack.us/img851/1...tyle004.th.jpghttp://img59.imageshack.us/img59/153...tyle003.th.jpghttp://img694.imageshack.us/img694/3...tyle006.th.jpghttp://img42.imageshack.us/img42/142...tyle005.th.jpg Love the first and the last one! Though Kuu always looks a bit weird with such a full fringe. Hope HQ scans will pop up sooner or later. |
omfg. :thud
oh but I love her with the fringe :heart I never get tired of saying how ****ing amazing her body is O_O Thanks soooo much for the scans :shughug |
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I have to get used to see her with full fringe again. It makes her look older and more serious. :laugh I just prefer the lighter one from second session era. |
Thanks for the scans :heart
She looks gorgeous ♥♥ |
Kuu looks so gorgeus in those scans <3
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I wasn't a fan of the cover, but the inside shots are great. :heart Kuu's magazine shoots are almost never a letdown.
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wow thanks a lot for the scans, Kuu looks so awesome and fierce :love :love
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Kuu's sexy :luv2
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Thank you for the scans, kuu looks gorgeous. :heart I really like the 1st and 2nd picture. :) |
The original release date of Ai wo tomenaide always was 21st September, cause of the movie. XD
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^I wonder where I got November from then. O.o
Oh well. :D I'm looking forward to the performances. :heart I wonder if she'll perform 'You Are Not Alone'? |
^ Music Station? It's already confirmed that she'll be singing Ai wo Tomenaide.
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^Oh no I know she'll be performing Ai Wo Tomenaide at Music Station, I just wondered if at some point she'll be performing You Are Not Alone. :)
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Anata Dake ga strings version and music box version? Crying and shaking right now 8D
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love those EDGE style scans! :heart thanks for sharing!
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Still at #1 today, 4 days in a row.
Single download/Chaku Uta full: #57 Poppin'love cocktail (#55) Chaku Uta: #1 Ai wo tomenaide (#1) #40 Poppin'love cocktail (#46) Videoclips: #37 Butterfly (#91) #39 KO-SO-KO-SO (#36) #76 Poppin'love cocktail (#63) Incoming movie clips: #1 Ai wo tomenaide (#1) #4 Cutie Honey (#6) #22 KO-SO-KO-SO (-) #25 Butterfly (#36) #34 Poppin'love cocktail (#38) #53 Chiisa na Koi no Uta -ETERNITY～Love＆Songs～LIVE (-) #87 V.I.P. (#81) RBT #1 Ai wo tomenaide (#1) #27 Poppin'love cocktail (#28) #99 Suki de, Suki de, Suki de (-) |
^ great news!
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can't wait for the single to leak! :D
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Those magazine scans look amazing, she's so gorgeous.
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And woo for #1! My mood has suddenly taken a 'Kingdom' turn, so I am currently listening to 'Koi No Mahou' stuck in my head. :D Lovely nostalgia from when I first bought the album when it came out in 2008 and listening to it over and over is coming back again. :heart Kingdom was the first Kumi album I bought. I was a fan since about 2006, but only discovered the wonder that was Yeasia til 2008. :roflmao |
She's still #1? Congrats for my girl! :heart
I'm listening to OUT WORKS & COLLABORATION BEST right now. I remember that when it was released, I had a very painful experience when I was fighting with the tags all the time. I didn't know which were the right ones and now I don't even care anymore. XD |
A little question:
Does the music video of "Love goes like..." come in the CD+2DVD version of BEST ~ss~? |
^ nope. it was only included on the second session tour dvd (disc 2)
http://rhythmzone.net/koda/discography/RZBD-45564.html |
^Oh! What a bummer!
But thank you anyway! :D |
I love Love goes like.... Its the song that made me a Kuu fan. I had known about her for a long time, but I didn't take notice until BUT. Then I decided to give her a try. I went through a few songs and was like "she's okay", but when I heard Love goes like... it was instant love. Its quite a powerful song.
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^ Definitely one of her BEST! Perfect release during her peak.
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Love goes like... is awesome. When I heard it for the first time, it was instant love because I love R&B songs like that so much. After I saw the second session tour performance I think Love goes like became of my top 5 favorite songs. XD Also, after I saw that performance I kinda thought that Kuu is really the only queen out there. I've never seen anyone do something like that before~ 8D What a epic performance indeed~ :heart
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Love goes like... is one of my all time favorites too :)
I still remember how much I loved the SS tour performance the first time I saw it!! |
I totally got used to Ai wo tomenaide, love it so much now!
The chorus is stuck in my head, was singing it in my mind almost the whole day. I'm actually surprised about that, lol. recochoku rankings for today: Single donwload/Chaku Uta full: #54 Poppin'love cocktail (#57) Chaku Uta: #1 Ai wo tomenaide (#1) #36 Poppin'love cocktail (#40) Videoclips: #41 KO-SO-KO-SO (#39) #44 Poppin'love cocktail (#76) Incoming movie clips: #1 Ai wo tomenaide (#1) #23 KO-SO-KO-SO (#22) #35 Poppin'love cocktail (#34) #48 Koi no Mahou (-) #55 Cutie Honey (#4) #69 V.I.P. (#87) #83 Anata dake ga (-) RBT: #2 Ai wo tomenaide (#1) #31 Poppin'love cocktail (#27) Koi no Mahou PV is so random to show up, especially so high. XD |
Woo still #1, you go my girl! :heart
Love Goes Like...was an instant love for me too. BEST~ Second Session was the first tour I ever bought. The performance and PV of Love Goes Like... is very powerful, I love it. <3 I found a HD Blu-Ray rip of the PV on Youtube: I ripped it so if anyone wants I can try and provide a download link. And I've also got an instrumental for Love Goes Like...from Utauga if anyone wants it: http://www.mediafire.com/?2yzmym2zyyj ALSO, has anybody seen these scans of the limited edition version of Brazil Photobook? http://kumi-flash.blogspot.com/2011/...ion-2-new.html :heart |
Those scans are from Lidayu from KumiloveS, she always spends so much time scanning all the stuff in high quality! :heart
Love goes like... is one of my favourite songs as well. The perfromance at Best ~ second session~ was and still is absolutely amazing! As well as the PV or the visuals for the screen, I just damn love how she looks and acts there, the dark concept. And the other connected interlude movie after the performance, where she transforms into a colorful butterfly! Though I like her dark and evil better. :laugh |
^Ahh yeah I've seen her credited in a lot of posts, it's so nice of her to do that. :heart
I really like the images in the limited edition, I think I'm gonna have to make a set with them. :D |
I love the Limited Edition pics of BRAZIL. Kuu ever so gorgeus~ :heart
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That Koda Kumi reign just won't let up.
I'm addicted to the preview of Ai Wo Tomenaide! |
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I really don't understand Kumi's management. While it's not really important, Ai wo tomenaide has no chance of getting #1 on Oricon and #2 is questionable too :\ She hasn't had a #1 single since Alive/Physical thing. I wonder why they don't care about position when it comes to her
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^Suki De x3 was #1 on the daily charts. Only #2 on weekly though. Does that still count as a #1? Who knows? 4 Times didn't do so well on Oricon which is maybe why they're giving Ai Wo Tomenaide more promotion. It would be nice to see it #1 on Oricon but I'm not too worried. As long as it dosen't go below #5 hahahaha.
Here's the link for the HD blu-ray rip of Love Goes Like... PV for people who wanted it. :) http://www.mediafire.com/?6o8lzcbscdu8nfi |
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sorry just thought i'd mention that, i love em both but some friendly competition is always fun Um yea i actually hope kuu gets a number 1 single soon! |
Ai wo Tomenaide is still at #1 on chaku-uta and incoming movie clips :3
http://recochoku.jp/recochoku_ranking/index.html and.. I can't stop listening to it :heart |
^ I know.. I love it to bits :heart The climax is soooooooooooooo sad & beautiful :dead2
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^Yeah I suppose it's the weekly that actually counts. ): I'm happy Ai Wo Tomenaide is still at #1 though, it seems to be doing quite well! :heart
Speaking of Ai Wo Tomenaide, I'm listening to it right now. At first I really didn't have much interest in it (Which was a kumi first for me!), cause to me it sounded really generic, and still sounds a lot like her older ballads...but since listening to it a few more times I've grown more and more attracted to the melody, and the lyrics are beautiful. :) And she sings it with such emotion, too. I also really love the bridge at the end, as well. :heart I still think You Are Not Alone will be my fav though. :) |
Watching Love goes like... again made me watch a bunch of her vids during her peak and I forgot how amazing those times were.
While some may beg to differ, since Koda's peak, there haven't been any other female singers experiencing the same amount of attention. I want the Jpop industry to pick itself back up again. :( |
If Kuu doesn't get #1 on weekly charts on Oricon, I'm happy with the digital charts' success~ :heart
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^Me too. :heart
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Also her vocals are amazing in the whole recording. I really wonder when they did record it, cause with all touring and promoting her voice wasn't up to par almost the whole year. Weekly sales for 4 TIMES: 49* 2,035 倖田來未 Total : 70,555 Don't know if 4 TIMES promotions was bad, it was onesided for sure, performing just one song. Maybe bad considering it was her 50th. With Ai wo tomenaide it's her yearly ballad single and they normally do promote it pretty well...but even Suki de/Anata dake ga was a double a-side last year and she just performed Suki de out of it. They always have one head song with every single for Kuu. I don't care if she gets weekly #1 on Oricon, though I would be happy about it. Her sales are the thing that matters and those are stable. And cause she has no streak or anything and Avex never pushed her for getting #1s everywhere, they just take one release date and go with it like always. Her release dates are more connected with her schedule and promotion issues like e.g. the movie premiere for Ai wo tomenaide. |
well her sales as a solo female artist considered to be SO AMAZING !!
nowadays it's rare to see a single by a solo female sell +100k , so good job for Kumi :heart |
So, I finally got around to adding the Secret live to my audio thread if anyone's interested :D
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^Omg, amazing :D That's the only audio rip I'm missing. Thank you so much <3
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Perhaps not living in Japan doesn't give me a lot of right to say this, but being a music consumer of the current age of music has given me this idea: perhaps Kuu's success with digital charts and not so much with physical sales is due to her much younger and "hipper" fanbase. Not only has Kuu kept her fans from the earlier stage of her career, but she has attracted a much younger crowd, one that only downloads music. I don't buy CDs of my favorite North American artists. I use iTunes. I only have Japanese CDs because that's the only way yo support them from Canada. And adding to that, she has no streak for avex to worry about its like, why bother? In comparison, since some one decided to drag Ayu into this, perhaps on of the reasons she sells best physically, but not better digitally is that her fans are the same crowd that has been with her since her peak, and they are CD buyers. I've noticed that with Japanese fans, there are more older Ayu fans, as old as 40, where are Kuu fans are in their 20s and younger. And I honestly wonder, not to be negative toward Ayu, would she still have her streak if avex had just let things be released whenever, not caring about the weekly competition?
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^I don't mean to bash Ayu at all either, but I agree with you 100%.
And today I was surfing on generasia because I was bored and saw that Kuu is not the record holder for best selling female solo DVD anymore. I began to wonder who did actually sell more? Kuu did sell over 330,000 copies with secret -first class live- and now someone has sold more. There was no info about who it was and it annoys me because I'm so curious. XD Does anyone know about this or was what I read just some troll crap or something? :D |
New Dejavu Tour setlist (Ai wo Tomenaide is on the setlist now)
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Even with the previews (POP DIVA and the tv report) my excitement is almost zero. |
I still love the track listing. <3 I'm happy that Ai wo Tomenaide is now there too. :)
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Seems like BE MY BABY and Poppin'love cocktail will be on the tv version of a-nation'11 (Maybe Megumi no Hito will be also included)
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I think it was there before, too, but I am ultra happy that 小さな恋のうた is in this tour:heart I love this song so much.
Even though I am not so excited yet, I can't wait for the DVD to come out. I always get most excited when I have the real thing in my hands and can "experience" the whole concert.:laugh |
hey guuuuuys :)
I'm working on a new remix EP with remixes from Kuu, Ayu,... ;) I just finished my POP DIVA remix and wanted to share it with you http://ugoboy.tumblr.com/post/102090...o-mix-download http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr...yzo1_cover.jpg please listen and tell me how you like it <3 |
^ It's really cool! I love it. :luv2 The break is hot.
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http://www.tokyohive.com/2011/07/akb...d-of-all-time/ |
Well, at least Kuu still holds the most seeling DVD by a solo singer :D'
omg this remix is awesome, i'm downloading it now! |
so hot! love the remix!
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Amazing remix, Zelda-Maker! I'm listening to it right now, and going to download it FO SHO. :heart You should make more if you want to, you're very good. :) |
^ I'm also sure they have lots of fans among adult 40-50 years old men :laugh oh well
^^^no, the most selling female artist is ayu :think http://www.tokyohive.com/2011/05/ham...sic-dvd-sales/ or may be AKB48 has already beaten it :laugh |
^ Oh, I didnt mean DVD overall sales, I meant a DVD with the highest number of copies sold :P
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yeah, it seems like she still hlds this position among solo artists :ybiggrin |
Ai wo tomenaide debuted at #2 on chaku uta full and videoclips, but she's behind EXILE so no wonder :P she only dropped to #4 on chaku uta, #3 on movies and went back up to #1 on RBT
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thanks so much guys! <3
I'm working hard on my EP and I hope you'll like it when it comes out :) |
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^ I'm totally looking forward to your EP :)!
Your fan-made remixes are probably the only ones I like! The POP DIVA Remix is amazing! |
wow!! amazing remix!! much better than the official ones :D u should be working with avex to make them know how to make a good remix hahahaha!
my congrats! I'll wait your EP! |
Good that Kuu still has the best selling solo female DVD record in her name. That's all that matters to me. :heart
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Full recochoku rankings for today:
Single download/Chaku Uta full: #2 Ai wo tomenaide (-) Chaku Uta: #4 Ai wo tomenaide (#1) #47 You are not alone (-) #81 Poppin'love cocktail (#49) Videoclips: #2 Ai wo tomenaide (-) #30 KO-SO-KO-SO (#35) #47 Poppin'love cocktail (#63) Incoming movie clips: #3 Ai wo tomenaide (#1) #6 You are not alone (-) #15 Cutie Honey (#49) #53 KO-SO-KO-SO (-) #71 Hot Stuff (-) #77 Moon Crying (-) #95 Poppin'love cocktail (-) RBT: #1 Ai wo tomenaide (#2) #44 Poppin'love cocktail (#39) #68 You are not alone (-) #72 Anata dake ga (#78) #88 Anata dake ga (Strings Version) (-) Chaku Uta full chart is dominated by Exile songs right now! XD Your are not alone was released yesterday as well as the strings version of Anata dake ga. Weekly recochoku rankings, 2011/09/07～2011/09/13: Single download/ Chaku Uta full: #59 Poppin'love cocktail (#33) Chaku Uta: #1 Ai wo tomenaide (-) #42 Poppin'love cocktail (#29) Videoclips: #32 KO-SO-KO-SO (#24) #55 Poppin'love cocktail (#32) #87 V.I.P. (#65) Incoming movie clips: #1 Ai wo tomenaide (-) #11 Cutie Honey (#32) #38 Poppin'love cocktail (#25) #42 KO-SO-KO-SO (#56) #45 V.I.P. (#55) #80 Butterfly (-) RBT: #1 Ai wo tomenaide (-) #85 Anata dake ga (#89) Ai wo tomenaide and its predecessor Anata dake ga charting togehter. :laugh @Zelda-Maker: The remix is nice, good work! Looking forward to the rest. |
I suddenly began wondering how many #1 digital hits Kuu actually has so far. o.O She seems to be always at #1 at some point :D
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I just have a list of all her digital certifications. XD
But at least one song from every single is mostly charting on the top 10, debuting among the first 5. |
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