Koda Kumi goes to the top!
 

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Go to the top blasts to #1 on Oricon

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- Go to the top is Kuu's 9th #1 Single overall
- This gives Koda her 42nd Top 10 hit! Making her the female artist with the 2nd most Top 10 hits only behind Ayu who has 48!

SOURCE

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Before anyone gets upset Namie Amuro has a topic for Uncontrolled so why not Kuu? :love

Congrats! The single is terrible but she really deserves to be on top!

^LOL, hahahahaha
i'm glad she is coming back with another hit

Kumi has gone to the top of the charts! Its where she deserves to be :)

are you sure she got number 1 for the week?
She hit 10th 1 day and 7th on another...

i couldnt find weekly numbers.

Yupp! It's been confirmed by Oricon. The weekly numbers will be out tomorrow. :)

interesting, good for her.
although those numbers are so low, it was such a bad week for music...

55k is a pretty good for her. And this wasn't a bad week for music at all. All of the Top 3 sold about 50k+ which is good.

Queen of JPOP still tbh even if the single is a snooze fest.

I guess its relative.
I find it a pretty bad week, especially when some artist command 100k + for their opening weeks.
Although for kuu it's pretty stander. of late she hasn't been a huge seller.

No non AKB48 solo female has been selling a lot of singles. Kuu can still sell 150k+ with her albums while many other certain female solo artists have struggled to reach that mark. I'm so proud of Kuu and Namie that they can still get #1 albums and singles in this day and age. <3

#1 is #1. I'm taking the accomplishment for what it is. Plenty of other singers have built records on being simply the highest seller in the week, despite low numbers. Kuu can do it once, too.

congrats for Queen Kuu <3

Congrats kumi kuu
Not a fan of the single tbh but still, congrats!

TOP DIVA


:love

no female non-AKB related soloist has gotten a 100k first week for single sales in some time tho, need to update those standards tbh
the best this year so far is Nana Mizuki with 75k

^ you are missing the point of my post.
It has nothing to do with who got what.

I consider it a bad week in sales, nothing (for singles) broke 100K... if the final sales are right, with Kuu at 55K nothing even broke 60K... thats a bad week when you have other artist who can do more in sales. you said it yourself with Nana Mizuki. Namie's Sit Stay... did 77K and ayumi's last single L did 70K just to name two other female artist.

it is not a reflection on Kuu, its a reflection on the week

Ayu's last single was in 2010. Times have changed since and then and Ayu's album sales have been cut in half since then. Whose to say if Ayu released a single now she would do the same numbers? I really doubt she would and even if she did her numbers were nothing special either and were released in even deader weeks than this one. I agree with Nana and Namie but Ayu is not this huge seller either yet if she got #1 with the same numbers I'm not so sure you'd be saying the same thing.

It's funny to me when Kuu actually does get a #1 it's "oh it was a dead week" and when she gets #6 or whatever she's "flopping." Some people just never stop sigh.....

If the top is 75k....and this week did 60k...it's not really that bad, even relatively speaking lol

now if it was like 30k, sure.

But 60k? For singles? Guess people just differ on what is bad and what isn't.

I think this was just a busier week. SOME artists tend to release on relatively dead weeks. Sales are distributed differently then among the top 5 than here.

Think it's pretty amazing if true, what someone up there said about the top 3 all selling 50k.

like i said before, it has nothing to do with it being kuu. You are pulling at stray hairs. Its a dead week because the highest seller only did 55K... It could of been ayumi and I would be saying the same thing.
It could of been AKB and I would still say ITS A DEAD WEEK.

as for the bolded part, since ayumi did 70K it cant be deader then 55k, now can it... she sold 15K more copies. But just droping Ayumi and talking with Nana who did 75K, 20K more then Kuu is a little bit better...
I still wouldn't consider that a hot week though... its better, but not excellent.

100K for me is excellent and not many solo's get that anymore.

^ for gods sake , some get #1 with horrible sales like 15k ! , that's what you called a bad week.

Sales in 2010 is way higher than sales now . Kuu used to sell almost 400k with UNIVERSE , same as Ayu who sold more than 300k with RnRC .

Their sales are declining like 100% . So its pretty amazing for kuu the solo female artist in 2012 with 1-A side single to top a chart with 60k .

At least Kuu got a #1 with however many copies she sold.
Some artists don't even get the chance...

I wish angela aki got #1 with her 2K sales... :(

most weeks have one single that has amazing sales, usually the JE/AKB factor comes in here, and the rest pull decent numbers

this week the difference between Kuu and SuperGirls was a few hundred copies and third was a few thousand copies behind, so no it wasn't a dead week by any means

most people here are saying we aren't in 2007 anymore, update those standards since selling 55k is really good nowadays for singles for soloist, I would say excellent

by your standards only Masha,B'z,Mr.Children, and idol groups would meet it.............like whatever you can have your indivisual standards but overall they are quite unrealistic in today's climate of single sales

Amen! :)

Congrats to my Queen~ :heart

I just pretend that you didn't bring AKB on this thread (I can't stand them)...

Um, no.
I dont see why I have to update my standards to make you feel better about Kuu's release. You should just leave it alone and be happy that she got a number 1.

and quite frankly I dont see how my standards effect you in anyway. They dont bother you, or I should say they SHOULDNT bother you and if they do, then ignore them. And they really are not my standards but the certification standards.

But its no use trying to talk to Kuu-o-holic. I'm done with the topic. :shrug

ah but wait, I'd like to thank you for insulting all the "kuu-o-holics" before you left.

Classy.

^ hey now, I wasn't insulting. I used the term in the same way that people use it in ayu-stan... I was going to say Kuu-stan, but that just doesn't have same ring to it as kuu-o-holic. although I might drop the last -. just be kuu-ohlic... that might sound better. lol.

I was just done with 'discussing' what I think is a good week or not. It derails the thread and really has no point being in a thread just for Kuu's number 1 single spot.

I'm sorry, but I have to bring this up.
And I'm also sorry if I offend anyone, I'll edit the post (or delete it) if it seriously offends someone.

Anyway, while TeamAyu2004 used the term kuu-o-holic, which is cute.
BUT, randomjpop blogspot created a... Better name for a kumi koda fan

Behold:


I've been holding that in for so long, it isn't funny.

Loves it. My new religion! I guess I will have to leave the church of Hello Kitty, though :(

^ Wait! didn 't you know, The Church of Hello Kitty accpets ALL religions, so your good to go.

and DnB, you are amazing.. I peed a little inside. lol

:shughug^ thanks
But you have to remember, I didn't make it up myself, I just found it and use it.
I even changed my religion on Facebook to it XDDD

I tried to make Ayu one of those names but it flopped.