Melon Kinenbi 3rd Colloboration Single: “Sweet Summer Suicide Story”
First of all, how awesome is that title? Secondly, I love the cover. Melon Kinenbi are doing pretty exciting stuff right now and I have really liked the two previous colloboration singles, one which is yet to be released. This one is out 2009-08-12 and is a colloboration with Midori†. You can see Melon Kinenbi and Midori† together below:
By the way, I’ve updated the Release Schedule & History pages with new info!
Oricon for Kago Ai, Melon Kinenbi & AKB48
Kago Ai & Melon Kinenbi both released singles today, Kago’s being her debut solo single and the Melon Kinenbi single being the first of five colloborations, this one with Beat Crusaders.
Kago has charted at No.26 with no hesitAtIon, I was hoping she’d chart a bit higher but I guess I shouldn’t expect too much, especially as there hasn’t been too much promotion for this single.
Rather surprisingly Melon Kinenbi have charted at No.27 with Don’t Say Goodbye and considering this is an indie release sold only at Tower Records the ranking isn’t half bad!
The real victiory in the charts this week is for AKB48 who have managed to reach No.2 in their first day of sales with 41,064 copies of their new single Namida Surprise! sold in one day!! Amazing!
2nd Melon Kinenbi Colloboration Single with NEW ROTE’KA
Melon Kinenbi will release their 2nd colloboration single of five with the rather zaney group NEW ROTE’KA on 2009-07-22. The single will be called ピンチはチャンス バカになろうぜ！, Pinch ha Chance Baka ni Narouze! If you search NEW ROTE’KA on Youtube you’ll see they’re a pretty crazy group – this single should prove interesting!
Melon Kinenbi will release the first of their colloboration singles next week with BEAT CRUSADERS – if you’re in Japan get yourself out to Tower Records and pick up a copy!
FIVE New Singles for Melon Kinenbi
Somewhat shockingly Melon Kinenbi is set to release five colloboration singles in a rock style, the first will be with the well known group, BEAT CRUSADERS. The singles will be available only at Tower Records and through the fanclub website which means we can’t hope for any big sales figures. Mano Erina’s last indie single Lalala-Sososo was sold only at Tower Records and sold 600 copies – not actually too shameful.
It’s good to hear the girls are getting new material!
The first single with BEAT CRUSADERS will be released on 2009-06-24 and so far is untitled.
Today’s Releases (2008-12-10)
I’ve stopped posting daily releases lately as I feel they’re sometimes a bit redundant but today we have a lot of big releases so I think it might be worthwhile giving them a mention!
2008-12-10
- Shugo Chara Egg – Minna no Tamago (1st Single)
- Abe Natsumi – Abe Natsumi Best Selection 15 Shoku no Nigaoe Tachi (1st Best-Of Album) (CD + DVD)
- T&C Bomber – Taiyo to Ciscomoon (T&C BOMVER) MEGA Best (1st Best-Of Album)
- Country Musume – Country Musume MEGA Best (1st Best-Of Album)
- Nakazawa Yuko – Legend (1st Best-Of Album)
- Tanpopo / Pucchimoni – Tanpopo / Pucchimoni MEGA Best (1st Best-Of Album)
- Melon Kinenbi – MEGA MELON (2nd Best-Of Album)
- V.A. – Shuffle Units MEGA Best (Compilation Album)
- V.A. - Special Units MEGA Best (Compilation Album)
- V.A. – Pucchi Best 9 (Compilation Album)
- V.A. – Pucchi Best 9 DVD (PV Collection DVD)
- C-ute – FOREVER LOVE (7th Single V)
- MilkyWay / SHIPS – Kirarin Revolution 3rd Tour Stage 2 (Anime DVD)
The Hello! Project compilation album Pucchi Best 9 as well as all of the Mega Best albums were released today, the highest charting being Abe Natsumi’s at #15 in Oricon; it’s bound to fall substantially though considering the success of her latest single (more on that in the next post).
Pucchi Best 9 has charted at #22 today and like Nacchi’s album will most likely fall out of the Top 30 very soon.
All of the other albums have failed to chart within the Top 30.
On a more optimistic note Shugo-Chara Egg’s debut single Manna no Tamago has charted at #5 in the Oricon Daily Charts – quite impressive for a group of newbies. We’ll see how that does all week I guess, let’s hope for a Top Ten ranking at the end of the week. Although the single isn’t my cup of tea I’d be more than happy for any Hello! Project group to have some success right now!
Melon Kinenbi to Remain as a Group (Update)
Saito Hitomi and Ohtani Masae of Melon Kinenbi have confirmed that the group will remain together after the mass graduation of the Elder CLub in March. This is good news for fans of the group and I’m glad they’ll be staying together.
Whether they release anything is another question.
[Update:] Murata Megumi has confirmed Melon Kinenbi will remain with Up-Front.
Lots of New Upcoming Releases!
Hello! Project seems to be bombarding us with a slew of upcoming releases, below is a list of all newly announced products. Take note of the MEGA Best albums, these are interesting and pretty cool but at the same time have little selling power I feel. I think I’ll perhaps pick up Pucchi Best 9, Country Musume MEGA Best and Taiyo to Ciscomoon (T&C Bomber) MEGA Best if I can afford it!
2008-11-26
- C-ute – Untitled (7th Single)
2008-12-10
- T&C Bomber – Taiyo to Ciscomoon (T&C BOMVER) MEGA Best (Best-Of Album)
- Country Musume – Country Musume MEGA Best (Best-Of Album)
- Nakazawa Yuko – Nakazawa Yuko MEGA Best (Best-Of Album)
- Tanpopo / Pucchimoni – Tanpopo / Pucchimoni MEGA Best (Best-Of Album)
- Melon Kinenbi – Melon Kinenbi MEGA Best (Best-Of Album)
- V.A. – Shuffle Units MEGA Best (Best-Of Album)
- V.A. - Special Units MEGA Best (Best-Of Album)
- V.A. – Pucchi Best 9 (Compilation Album)
- V.A. – Pucchi Best 9 DVD (PV Collection DVD)
2008-12-17
- Kusumi Koharu – Untitled (3rd Album)
