"Most Rented Singles" Ranking, Onegai Ranking (Partial List)
 

So...was watching CDTV and they were doing a ranking of the 100 Most Rented Singles in Japan based on Tsutaya's records.
Edit: sorry, this was Onegai Ranking, not CDTV.

Sorry, I didn't make a complete list. It gets more complete towards the end. But I got all of the more... "popular" singers lol.

99 hamasaki ayumi - voyage
77 utada hikaru - final distance
73 koda kumi - koi no tsubomi
70 kuraki mai - feel fine!
69 utada hikaru - dareka no negai ga kanau nara
68 morning musume - love machine
66 akb48 - heavy rotation
64 otsuka ai - smily
62 nakashima mika - yuki no hana
60 nana starring nakashima mika - glamorous sky
59 utada hikaru - can you keep a secret?
55 crystal kay - koi ni ochitara
47 orange range - locolotion
45 otsuka ai - sakuranbo
44 hirai ken - pop star
43 every little thing - fragile
40 greeeen - aiuta
31 aoyama themla - soba ni iru
29 zone - secret base kimi ga kureta mono
28 utada hikaru - hikari
27 utada hikaru - sakura drops
26 otsuka ai - planetarium
25 hirahara ayaka - jupiter
22 chemistry - pieces of a dream
21 greeeen - kiseki
20 reira starring yuna ito - endless story
17 shuji to akira - seishun no amigo
16 misia - everything
15 kobukuro - sakura
14 shibasaki kou - katachi aru mono
13 utada hikaru - flavor of life
11 utada hikaru - traveling
10 utada hikaru - colors
9 fukuyama masaharu - sakurazaka
8 smap - lion heart
7 rui - tsuki no shizuku
6 shonan no kaze - junrenka
5 ketsumeishi - sakura
4 orange range - hana
3 smap - sekai ni hitotsu dake no hana
2 hirai ken - hitomi wo tojite
1 remioromen - konayuki


Included, forget position:
kaoru amane - taiyou no uta
otsuka ai - yume kui
orange range - asterisk
every little thing - untitled 4 ballads
every little thing - mata ashita


I did this quickly and I haven't included any of the kanji or what have you but I just thought it was interesting!

Konayuki :bawl
Why would people bring that song upon themselves over and over again?! :bawl

at least there's lots of hikki on the list lol

Konayuki will go down in Japanese pop music history. Love that incredible song.

Who rents singles?
What's a konayuki? It sounds tasty, like a bootleg takoyaki

Lol @voyage
YESSS @colors!

A lot of ppl, especially now. Why buy a single for 1800 yen when you can rent it for max 200 lol.

Yep, most of my friends who are casual listeners rent.


Thanks for this info! Pretty interesting.

Complete chart. In Japanese.

http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/onegai/up_...html#project01

Wow, I forgot how popular Ai Otsuka used to be. lmao

Thank you Zemus. :)

Do they rent the single and rip it into their computer?

As far as I know the rental system is big in Japan, right?
So I'm not surprised there's a ranking. :D

Yes, that's right. Nothing is stopping you from copying the tracks to the computer. ;)

Well I guess that 200 yen is a good price to rip singles to your computer, especially if they have a nice exclusive b side.

Interesting how few Arashi and AKB singles you see there. Maybe it's cause everyone is buying them :laugh