Has anyone been paying attention to Ayu, AKB48 and Oricon recently? If you have been really keeping track of record for both Ayu and AKB48...
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AKB48 become first artist to have 20 consecutive million selling singles after 'Green Flash' surpasses 1 million sales
http://www.tokyohive.com/article/201...-million-sales
AKB48's 39th single "Green Flash" which Kashiwagi Yuki and Kojima Haruna serve as the center, sold 1,001,000 copies in its first week, topping Oricon's latest weekly single ranking.
"Green Flash" is the group's 26th consecutive chart-topping single, and they broke the record of "the most number of consecutive No.1 singles" (for female artists) which was held by Hamasaki Ayumi with 25 consecutive singles. Hamasaki Ayumi held the record for 4 years and 5 months.
Also, the single is the 20th consecutive million selling single (21st in total) for the group. Up until now, no artist has achieved 20 consecutive million selling singles, so AKB48 is the first one to accomplish it.
Not only that, but they also broke the female group's record of "the number of consecutive years with No.1 singles" which was 5 years and had been kept by Morning Musume (from 1998 ~ 2003). The record stood for 12 years as this is AKB48's 6th consecutive year to have a chart topping single since 2009.
Source: Oricon
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...well, there goes Ayu's #1 single streak. Last got #1 single in 2010 with "L", then broken three years later with "Fell the love/Merry-go-round", Ayu's streak of #1 singles that spanned from 2002 (!) to 2010 has finally been surpassed by AKB48 with their 26th single, Green Flash, just announced today.
For AKB48, you have to go back to 2009 when they got their first #1 single, "RIVER" - and they have been #1 since then. Just unbelievable.
This was a record that was certainly broken, despite all those worries whether that single will reach a million in the first week alone for the 19th consecutive time. Most people have been keeping an eye on its numbers only, but for those who've been keeping a track on Ayu and AKB48, that day has come - Ayu's consecutive #1 single reign has finally come to an end, among all female artists in the Oricon.
Ayu will still hold the consecutive #1 single among female soloists, since AKB48's a group. Long live the Empress!
Still have to congratulate AKB48 though for their successive efforts, although I still have to wonder about those "inflated" single sales they have been having (all because of those fanboys buying a whole lot of AKB48 singles just for handshake or senbatsu election tickets) - RIVER got 178,579 when it got #1; this one barely gets a million (by a thousand!); Labrador Retriever last year got 1.66 million...
I really miss those days. 2010. The year when the Ayumi Hamasaki world united in London for Rock'n'Roll Circus, and then the MOON/blossom-crossroad-L single trilogy that would be her last #1 singles up to today...time goes really fast. It's been five years since all those events occurred?