[Charts & Rankings] The Official Oricon Thread of TROUBLE

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Oricon and Billboard have different sources when it comes to counting.
They overlap somewhere but the major difference is that Oricon goes with major shops, and Billboard counts some minors. (Billboard's main source is from Sound Scan Japan)
Billboard stopped disclosing numbers some time ago and that let Oricon become the only "mainstream" ranking reference.

Btw, All records shipped to non-Japan addresses do not count towards Oricon.
Oricon also established a rule for event sales a few years back, where only a maximum of 3 copies would be counted towards the ranking in 1 single transaction if sold at event booths (such as AKB events).

About digital sales, that only includes "digital purchases". Streaming is not a purchase.
Since the whole album was streamed before the physical and digital release, it's very understandable that the digital sales didn't do well. I guess they sacrificed the digital sales profit in exchange for the promotion strategy.