[10/4 ORICON] Current Yearly TOP 40
 

-It's still a down year for both singles and albums, but there's still a few more big single releases in October that could boost TOP 50 singles sales up.

-Kobukuro's "ALL SINGLES BEST" just recently had the 2nd highest album 1st week sales of the year, behind Koda Kumi's "BEST ~second session~" with 556,988 units. "(miss) understood" doesn't count as it was over a 2 week period.

-It should be interesting to see how the bottom half of the TOP 10 albums will play out with 3 albums ("ULTRA BLUE", "(miss) understood" and "NAMELESS WORLD") all within at least 15k of each and now with "ALL SINGLES BEST" poised to pass 800k within at least 2 weeks.
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For those wondering how well 2006 is doing here are some stats:
2005 TOP 50 Single Sales (Up to 1st Week of October): 16,364,710
2006 TOP 50 Single Sales (Up to 1st Week of October): 15,996,077
2006 Decrease of 368,633 or 2.25%

2005 TOP 50 Album Sales (Up to 1st Week of October): 29,655,715
2006 TOP 50 Album Sales (Up to 1st Week of October): 26,677,625
2006 Decrease of 2,978,090 or 10.04%
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TOP 40 SINGLES
01 1,035,102 'Real Face' - KAT-TUN
02 *,754,448 'Konayuki' - Remioromen (Total: 847,932)
03 *,672,159 'Seishun Amigo' - Shuuji to Akura (Total: 1,617,474) *63rd best selling Japanese single*
04 *,596,555 'Daite Senorita' - Yamashita Tomohisa
05 *,562,196 'Tada...Aitakute' - EXILE
06 *,561,862 'SIGNAL' - KAT-TUN
07 *,511,562 'Junrenka' - Shonannokaze
08 *,483,860 'supernova/karma' - BUMP OF CHICKEN
09 *,419,399 'Taiyou no Uta' - Kaoru Amane
10 *,413,167 'Dear WOMAN' - SMAP
11 *,405,586 'Houkiboshi' - Mr. Children
12 *,383,467 '4 hot wave' - Koda Kumi
13 *,358,170 'milk tea/Utsukushiki Hana' - Fukuyama Masaharu
14 *,342,696 'Tabibito' - Ketsumeishi
15 *,340,768 'Triangle' - SMAP
16 *,330,164 'SPLASH!' - B'z
17 *,317,397 'SNOW! SNOW! SNOW!' - KinKi Kids
18 *,312,282 'Sorafune/do! do! do!' - TOKIO
19 *,310,516 'Natsumoyo' - KinKi Kids
20 *,304,370 'Shodo' - B'z
21 *,301,192 'Venus' - Tackey & Tsubasa
22 *,292,346 'Fever to Future' - GYM
23 *,287,307 'to U' - Bank Band
24 *,271,186 'Koi no Tsubomi' - Koda Kumi
25 *,260,667 'Sakura' - Kobukuro (Total: 421,698)
26 *,259,874 'Deep in your heart/+ MILLION but - LOVE' - Domoto Koichi
27 *,258,566 'BLUE BIRD' - Hamasaki Ayumi
28 *,233,375 'Yuruginaimono Hitotsu' - B'z
29 *,224,827 'I believe' - ayaka
30 *,222,848 'Sayaendou/Hadashi no Cinderella Boy' - NEWS
31 *,221,965 'DIRTY OLD MAN ~Saraba Natsu Yo~ - Southern All Stars
32 *,220,955 'Champione' - ORANGE RANGE
33 *,220,826 'Good-bye days' - YUI
34 *,218,807 'Teru no Uta' - Teshima Aoi
35 *,211,399 'Precious' - Yuna Ito
36 *,207,543 'Age Age EVERY Knight' - DJ OZMA
37 *,206,076 'ANSWER' - GLAY feat. KYOSUKE HIMURO
38 *,202,645 'Kitto Daijobu' - Arashi
39 *,200,531 'Osaka Obachan ROCK/Osaka Romanesque' - Kanjani 8
40 *,200,423 'Only Human' - K
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44 *,188,551 'Startin'/Born To Be...' - Hamasaki Ayumi

TOP 40 ALBUMS
01 2,059,761 'Single Collection '95-'05 "UTABAKA" ' - Hirai Ken *69th best selling Japanese album*
02 1,754,014 'BEST ~second session~' - Koda Kumi *96th best selling Japanese album*
03 1,212,294 'Catch The Wave' - Def Tech
04 1,191,725 'B'z The Best "Pleasure II" ' - B'z
05 1,097,675 'BEST' - Nakashima Mika
06 *,877,433 '(miss) understood' - Hamasaki Ayumi
07 *,871,327 'ULTRA BLUE' - Utada Hikaru
08 *,864,743 'NAMELESS WORLD' - Kobukuro
09 *,826,450 'LOVE COOK' - Otsuka Ai
10 *,736,738 'Best of KAT-TUN' - KAT-TUN
11 *,672,641 'CYCLE HIT '91-'97 Single Collection' - Spitz
12 *,637,680 'Sora Ippai ni Kanaderu Inori' - Aqua Timez (Total: 639,855)
13 *,632,753 'HORIZON' - Remioromen
14 *,622,341 'BEST ~first things~' - Koda Kumi (Total: 1,830,134) *89th best selling Japanese album*
15 *,601,983 'Beautiful Songs ~Kokoro de kiku Uta~' - Various Artists
16 *,556,988 'ALL SINGLES BEST' - Kobukuro
17 *,540,953 'Daniel Powter' - Daniel Powter
18 *,535,583 'MONSTER' - B'z
19 *,535,215 'CYCLE HIT '97-'05 Single Collection' - Spitz
20 *,501,682 'ASIA' - EXILE
21 *,471,616 'Every Single Day -Complete BONNIE PINK (1995-2006)- - BONNIE PINK
22 *,464,545 'THE LOVE ROCKS' - DREAMS COME TRUE
23 *,457,078 'Confidence' - HY
24 *,435,842 'Pop Up! SMAP' - SMAP
25 *,431,604 'Home' - Angela Aki
26 *,427,037 'OUTGROW' - BoA
27 *,425,938 'Curtain Call: The Hits" - EMINEM
28 *,420,420 'Kanojo' - aiko
29 *,392,167 'Shonannokaze ~Riders High~' - Shonannokaze
30 *,390,407 'AMARANTINE' - Enya
31 *,360,718 'Stadium Arcadium' - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
32 *,356,218 'Confessions on a Dancefloor' - Madonna (Total: 409,281)
33 *,328,655 'Back to Bedlam' - James Blunt
34 *,323,636 'Wave' - YUKI
35 *,293,604 'Adult' - Tokyo Jihen
36 *,292,435 'Def Tech' - Def Tech (Total: 1,950,066) *77th best selling Japanese album*
37 *,255,754 'Ribbon' - Yuzu
38 *,253,137 'Fun Club' - ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION
39 *,250,698 'Call Me Miss...' - Crystal Kay
40 *,231,211 'Bakushou Super Live Dai 2 Shu! Ganbatte Itadakitaino...' - Ayanokouji Kimimaro
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2006 Current Breakdown of Singles (vs. Same Time 2005)
1 million+ = 1 single (vs. 0 single)
500k+ = 7 singles (vs. 5 singles)
250k+ = 27 singles (vs. 31 singles)

2006 Current Breakdown of Albums (vs. Same Time 2005)
1 million+ = 5 albums (vs. 7 albums)
500k+ = 20 albums (vs. 19 albums)
250k+ = 39 albums (vs. 47 albums)

Bad year for Ayu compared to any of her previous years.

The drop in total album sales on the Japanese market is just crazy.

I would think that Ayu's popularity is declining when Kumi is ascending. Feel really sad about this...As with the other popular singers of today (e.g. Mika Nakashima)

Sucks for Ayu. Like whoa.

Doesn't suck much for Koda, though. But... the chart timing is a tad confusing to me. Why isn't Koda placed higher on the list with he album sales? Am I missing something?

Bueller?!

I'm not sure what you mean. She is at #2 for album sales.

And yes, easily Ayu's worst year sales wise - but can't say I'm too suprised since I wasn't that impressed w/ either single this year, especially when it came to the PVs.

Seems like Ayu will only release two singles on this years Oricon chart, or is B&D counted as a 2006 single?

^ I always wondered about that. I hope someone explains where it charted on the Yearlies.

Real bad year for Ayu eh?

It seems that B&D is out of the top 100?? It's supposed to be counted in this year's oricon.

Really bad year in general I'd say. Usually I at least remember some of the most sold songs because they were somehow good or at least memorable (like orange range) for some strange reason. This year I can't even remember most of the songs in the top 20 even though I knowI've listened to them at some point.

well atleast the albums above miss understood are best of albums...

well about utada's i thjink thats fine lol

yeah...a really bad year for ayu...
but hope next year will be better, she need something to blow her popularity up...maybe her A BEST 2 will get a HUGE SALES!!!

@eu - That applies to all albums except 03 1,212,294 'Catch The Wave' - Def Tech.

She has got this years 2nd best selling original album.

^ oh forgot that... well atleast its the highest original album by a solo female artist so far XD

and wow this is the first time ayumi beats utada in terms of album sales lol

Well, yup, bad sales for Ayu for this year. At least her tours are a sellout! But musically wise, I think she really needs to find her footing again. Everything from her is still great, just that I though BLUE BIRD was really one tad of a boring pop tune. The rest is great though. I really like her recent stuff except BLUE BIRD.

Utada's album still have like 4, or is it 8? weeks to beat (miss)understood on this years chart... :/

Thanks @__@

i hope it doesnt outsell (m)u XD im also an utada fan but i like ayu better

but i twill probably outsell (m)u... but still... high hopes for me :P

i completely agree about this. unless ayu does a reinvention of herself, she can't remain as the queen of pop. :no

wow TOKIO single beated Ayu's hehe

Tokio's song Sorafune is from my boss my hero! pretty good!

thanks for the information. :)

whats up with that KAT-TUN album? its sold way more than #2.

The phenomenon KAT-TUN isn't hard to explain.

6 incredibly talented and deliciously hot young men ... sick amounts of promotion ... boom bada boom boom bam!