Naichau Kamo Ranks at #3
Morning Musume’s latest single Naichau Kamo has ranked at #3 in the Weekly Oricon charts with sales of 44,121 – better than their last 4,000 below Resonant Blue. Not bad at all – it’s nice to still see Morning Musume charting high! They were only around 2,000 copies behind the #2, Acid Black Cherry.
Sales weren’t so favourable for soloist Matsuura Aya who managed to sell only 757 copies of her single in the second week bringing her to a total of 4,795 so far. Pretty poor for the once mega-idol Matsuura.
The ravex / BoA / Goto Maki colloboration single charted at #8 with sales of 15,074 – I expected this to do a bit better as all the tracks on the single are amazing! It quite possibly has more long lasting selling power than Naichau Kamo though.
News Round-Up!
Well, I’ve not posted in a little while due to various reasons; mainly ilness, school work and computer problems – in that order. Now for a round-up of all o the latest Hello! Project news!
Morning Musume in the USA!
Morning Musume will be appearing as the guests of honor at the upcoming Anime Expo ‘09 in Los Angeles. There seems to be a pretty concentrated fan effort to welcome them and I’m sure it will be pretty awesome! Pity I don’t live in America!
Naichau Kamo & Believe in LOVE
2009-02-18
- Morning Musume – Naichau Kamo (38th Single) (Limited A+B with DVD)
- ravex - Believe in LOVE feat. BoA (2nd Single) (Limited with DVD) (Goto Maki featured on b-side)
These two are pretty big releases and both are pretty nice singles – I really like Naichau Kamo though I think Believe in LOVE is pretty awesome too – Goto Maki’s track is also very nice and of high quality compared to what we were used to her releasing while she was a member of Hello! Project. Naichau Kamo debuted at No.2 in the charts, fell to No.3 and then rose again to No.2 today! Not too bad at all!
Otome no Inori Covers
Limited A, B, C & Regular.
Oricon
Matsuura Aya’s latest single, Chocolate Damashii fared rather poorly in the Oricon charts selling 4,028 copies in it’s first week and charting at No.19. This is her lowest charting single so far – just goes to show that a more upbeat single won’t necessarily get anymore sells. On a more positive note Satoda Mai’s newest single has now sold 42,131 copies in it’s 5th week of sales and is still charting! The tables have certainly turned in Satoda’s favour since 2007!
Matsuura Aya 21st Single (2009-02-11)
The soon to be axed Elder Club are getting releases thick and fast with the release of Matsuura Aya’s 21st single titled Chocolate Tamashii to be released on 2009-02-11 announced today. This release has been speculated at for a while as the Single V was revealed around a week ago – I didn’t want to post anything though until I had some concrete proof of the single’s existence (Thanks e-hon!). The Single-V will be released two weeks after the single on 2009-02-25.
Ayaya has gotten a few endorsements recently with a few more CMs to help promote her. Promosingly the single has been described as an “upbeat valentine melody.” I’m hoping for another Ki ga Tsukeba Anata type song!
New Profile Picture and Covers for Ayaya’s 6th album
Matsuura Aya has had a new profile picture uploaded on the Hello! Project Official Website and I personally think she looks really classy and pretty!
The covers for her new album and last as a Hello! Project soloist are pretty awesome – there’s ony one edition of the single and one cover shown is the inner album cover and the other the slip case. This is a step up from her last album, Double Rainbow, which had the same cover both for main album and slip case.
Upcoming Releases (2009~)
Lots of interesting new releases have been announced today, all of which will be released in January / February 2009! I’ll list them in order of release and you’ll also find them on the release-schedule page.
2009-01-21
- Matsuura Aya – Omoi Afurete (6th Album)
Who could have forseen this one? Most likely Matsuura’s final release with Hello! Project. Looking forward to this though I found Double Rainbow (her last album) a little boring.
2009-01-28
- C-ute – 4akogare MY STAR (4th Album) (Limited with DVD)
Woah! More releases? This could be interesting, especially that the girls are getting a little older now.
2009-02-04
- Kusumi Koharu – Happy Happy Sunday (6th Single) (Limited with DVD)
I’ll try not to judge too soon.
2009-02-11
- Morning Musume – Naichau Kamo (38th Single) (Limited A+B with DVD)
The title means “I might cry,” sounds pretty promosing to me and I hope it’s similiar in sound to some of their more recently popular singles; Onna ni Sachi Are and Resonant Blue to name two.
Today’s Releases (2008-09-25)
2008-09-25
- Shinoda Mariko – PENDULUM (DVD)
Today’s Releases
2008-09-24
- Morning Musume – Pepper Keibu (37th Single) (Limited A with DVD) (Limited B with Photobook)
- Ongaku Gatas – Come Together (3rd Single V)
- Matsuura Aya – Matsuura Aya Concert Tour 2008 Haru “AYA The Witch” (Concert DVD)
Morning Musume release their much anticipated 37th single today, it ranked at #4 in the Daily Charts which isn’t bad considering it’s up against the likes of Mr.Children and Ayaka x Kokuburu, I fear it will rank outside the Top-5 but let’s wait and see.
For those of you who are interested in sales and the likes, Ongaku Gatas latest singles has managed to outsell their last single by a few thousand copies which is always reassuring.
