So anisong singer LiSA (Risa Oribe) just got her first-ever Oricon #1 weekly, I heard? She released two best albums "LiSA BEST -Way-" and "LiSA BEST -Day-" and picked up a 1-2 weekly. But not without competition from Korea's EXO-CBX (three members of EXO), they put up a good fight against LiSA throughout the week!
But in the end, LiSA has joined an elite, exclusive club that, interestingly, Ayumi Hamasaki is part of (remember A BEST 2 back in 2007?) - LiSA is the newest female artist to pick up a 1-2 weekly album ranking in the Oricon in the same week. (Alongside Ayu and LiSA, JUJU and Kana Nishino also achieved that feat.)
Honestly, this was LiSA's BEST (pun intended) shot at a #1, she has been waiting for a #1 weekly ranking for quite some time.
So this is how close LiSA was to EXO-CBX at the end of the week:
(EXO-CBX was on top of the Billboard rankings, though, but Oricon is more notable. Although I'm still skeptical with all the changes Oricon has been making, from not counting foreign sales, to limiting 'bulk' sales to 20 copies counted per order - I'm not sure if those changes, particularly foreign sales, actually helped LiSA propel her to 1-2...)
16th May 2018, 06:54 AM
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