Oricon Top Singles of 2009
Oricon has released the figures for the top 200 selling singles of 2009, records are kept from 2008-12-22 – 2009-12-14. Below I’ll include the singles of relevance but you can see the full list here.
#22: AKB48 – RIVER (2009-10-21) (214,449)
#39: AKB48 – Namida Surprise! (2009-06-24) (145,503)
#46: Friends & Hexagon All Stars - Naitemo ii Desu ka (2009-07-15) (114,858)
#47: AKB48 – Iiwake Maybe (2009-08-26) (113,502)
#53: AKB48 - 10nen Zakura (2009-03-04) (106,975)
#82: Morning Musume – Nanchatte Renai (2009-08-12) (70,299)
#108: Morning Musume – Shouganai Yume Oibito (2009-05-13) (53,950)
#121: Morning Musume – Naichau Kamo (2009-02-18) (50,313)
#134: Minami Akina no Super Mild Seven / Satoda Mai with Goda Kazoku - I Believe ~Yume wo Kanaeru Mahou no Kotoba~ / Don’t Leave Me (2009-06-17) (47,798)
#142: Morning Musume – Kimagure Princess (2009-10-28) (45,241)
#144: Satoda Mai with Goda Kazoku - Bye Bye (2009-01-14) (45,052)
#155: AKBIdoling!!! – Chu Shiyouze! (2009-04-01) (41,058)
#185: Berryz Koubou – Watashi no Mirai no Danna-sama / Ryuusei Boy (2009-11-11) (34,861)
#186: Berryz Koubou – Seishun Bus Guide / Rival (2009-06-03) (34,589)
#187: Yaguchi Mari / Air Band – Seishun Boku / Seishun Ore (2009-03-25) (34,354)
#192: C-ute - Shochuu Omimai Mochiagemasu (2009-07-01) (33,613)
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Kusumi Koharu Graduates from Morning Musume & Hello! Project
7th Generation Morning Musume member, Kusumi Koharu, graduated from the group and Hello! Project tonight at the final night of Morning Musume’s Concert Tour 2009 Aki ~Nine Smile~.
Her graduation was announced only a few months ago and she’s probably one of the last members anyone would have expected to graduate at this time. As a relatively popular member of the group with a somewhat sucessful solo career under her belt she’ll be missed in Hello! Project.
Many fans are hoping for 9th Generation Auditions next year, I myself would prefer an older girl to be added from Hello! Pro Egg personally!
Updates to follow
There has been a distinct lack of updates around here lately, sorry about that. The university I go to in Tokyo has a crazy amount of classes per week and the homework is also pretty taxing!
I’ll try and get into posting at least a few updates a week!
Also, if anyone would like to try their hand at writing for this blog comment and I’ll contact you by email.
New Singles for C-ute & S/mileage
It was announced yesterday that C-ute will release their 11th single this coming 2010-01-06 – the first major Hello! Project release of the new year. It will also be the group’s first single as a 5 member group, I’m hoping it’s something a bit more enjoyable than everything they released in 2009! The single is titled SHOCK!
S/mileage will release their 3rd indies single entitled スキちゃん (Suki Chan) this month on 2009-11-23, the group will most likely make their major debut next year though as their indie singles are published on TNX it’s unclear if they’ll debut under Hello! Project or TNX – I’m hoping Hello! Project!
Record Sales for AKB48
AKB48’s latest single RIVER has sold a staggering 178,579 copies in it’s 1st week of sales and ranked at #1 in the Oricon Charts – a first for AKB48.
These sales are really very impressive for an idol group and AKB48 seem to be going up and up in terms of sales and popularity, the area where I live is literally covered in posters for the group and it’s surprising all the different places the girls crop up both as a group and individually.
The single ranked at #4 today, one place ahead of Morning Musume’s newest single “Kimagure Princess -” not looking too good for Morning Musume!
I’m not really a fan of the direction AKB48’s music has taken and for me, they were at their best in 2007. Still congratulations to the group!
And then there were five
Umeda Erika graduated from C-ute last night at the final concert of their latest tour, this brings C-ute down to a five member line-up – the smallest major group in Hello! Project now.
