Yearly Oricon Rankings
 

Hope this wasnt posted.:(

Top 20 Best Selling Album
1 2,495,967 Utada Hikaru SINGLE COLLECTION VOL1 宇多田ヒカル 03/31/04
2 1,355,931 シフクノオト Mr.Children 04/07/04
3 1,222,444 JEWELS QUEEN 01/28/04
4 1,165,731 EXILE ENTERTAINMENT EXILE 12/03/03
5 1,059,534 Memorial address 浜崎あゆみ 12/17/03
6 1,041,878 EXODUS Utada 09/08/04
7 948,268 Wish You The Best 倉木麻衣 01/01/04
8 924,789 Under My Skin Avril Lavigne 05/12/04
9 917,896 PORNO GRFFITTI BEST BLUE'S ポルノグラフィティ 07/28/04
10 838,133 PORNO GRFFITTI BEST RED'S ポルノグラフィティ 07/28/04
11 758,194 冬の恋歌 OST完全盤-国内盤- リュウ／ソン 09/10/03
12 696,946 LφVE 中島美嘉 11/06/03 累計1,347,681
13 649,343 LOVE & HONESTY BoA 01/15/04
14 646,259 ONE × ONE CHEMISTRY 02/18/04
15 589,229 1st CONTACT ORANGE RANGE 12/17/03
16 580,344 TRUNK HY 07/14/04
17 550,398 EXPLORER 槙原敬之 08/11/04
18 536,562 BLUE ～TRIBUTE TO YUTAKA OZAKI Various Artists 03/24/04
19 527,283 ユグドラシル BUMP OF CHICKEN 08/25/04
20 519,300 LOVE PUNCH 大塚　愛 03/31/04

Top 20 Best Selling Singles
1 834,448 瞳をとじて 平井　堅 04/28/04
2 749,208 Sign Mr.Children 05/26/04
3 675,807 Jupiter 平原綾香 12/17/03
4 661,175 花 ORANGE RANGE 10/20/04
5 651,696 掌/くるみ Mr.Children 11/19/03
6 591,897 かたちあるもの 柴咲コウ 08/11/04
7 487,267 ロコローション ORANGE RANGE 06/09/04
8 452,130 君こそスターだ/夢に消えたジュリア Southern All Stars 07/21/04
9 430,535 桜 河口恭吾 12/10/03
10 428,233 Mickey Gorie with Jasmine&Joann 09/08/04
11 406,987 世界に一つだけの花 SMAP 03/05/03 累計2,515,552
12 405,600 さくらんぼ 大塚　愛 12/17/03
13 395,406 希望～Yell～ NEWS 05/12/04
14 365,206 誰かの願いが叶うころ 宇多田ヒカル 04/21/04
15 330,764 君にBUMP ケツメイシ 07/28/04
16 329,145 INSPIRE 浜崎あゆみ 07/28/04
17 326,791 ね、がんばるよ。 KinKi Kids 01/15/04
18 310,534 READY STEADY GO L'Arc～en～Ciel 02/04/04
19 301,843 Moments 浜崎あゆみ 03/31/04
20 301,275 CAROLS 浜崎あゆみ 09/29/04

Oh CAROLS will soon surpass Moments :eek

an 8-track mini-album made it to number 5 :eek

and with just 3 new songs :yes

Wow! Ayu's a BEAST! A 8 track mini-album made it to #5 *raaaaaaaaawr*

I like how Avril Lavigne is number 8 hahahaha

Stupid single collection...*grumble grumble*...didn't deserve....


Yay for Ayu at no. 5~ And boo for INSPIRE selling more than Moments and CAROLS.

so we get offical confirmation that carols finally broke 300,000 mark!!! yeah!

Go Ayu. and it's crazy to think that a mini album out sold all of those other albums.

Is anyone else sick of Ken Hirai always being at the top too? I mean, there's Utada who's always there, sure, but Ken Hirai is really getting on my nerves now...

I'm surprised that EXILE ENTERTAINMENT outsold Memorial address too. O.o

But then again, it IS a mini-album after all, which is quite impressive.

haha after reading the previous posts, i feel better. when i first looked at the chart, i was upset that utada's compilation cd had sold almost 2x more than ayu's album... but i forgot that it was just a mini-album. so i guess this sales # for ayu is very good :)

i wish ayu's singles could sell more thou... i can understand why the #1, #2, #4 singles are ranked that high, but i cannot understand why utada's 2-track single has sold more than any of ayu's 3 singles. CAROLS, and even MOMENTS, totally outshines utada's darekablahblahblahwhatever song.

"Dareka no Negai ga Kanau Koro" :laugh

Why do you understand the rankings for 1, 2, and 4? Enlighten me, because I don't get it. Especially because Orange Range's "Hana" has been out for like, a month.

Yes Hikki ... She is the best (sorry i know that this is a ayu fan forum but i love hikki ^^)

I love Memorial Address but i don't understand why sooo many people buyed a mini Album ... (Ups, I'm stupid, i also buyed it ^^)

Yeah! Go Ayu!

Because Utada's song was used as a theme song for the movie CASSHERN, so it probably got a lot more promotion than any of the ayu singles released this year.

ayu did great ^_^

i'm happy with what i see... is she the only singer in the top 20 single with 3 singles in it? :D :lech

Good point, I hadn't noticed that. :yes

All things considered, Ayu definitely did well this year.

and all people did was complain on how she's been going down. :rolleyes

Yeah, she did... What pic did u use in your siggy?

:laugh

And.. Go ayu! 5th place for a mini album released last year i good, huh.