An Interesting Week in Oricon

The Oricon Charts this week are quite interesting in that AKB48‘s latest single Oogoe Diamond has sold an extremely respectable 48,258 copies in it’s first week; a whole 10,000 copies more than Morning Musume’s latest single sold, worrying stuff for Japan’s top girl group but good news for AKB48! Oogoe Diamond is now their best selling single.

Good news for Satoda Mai as well as her album with the Hexagon All Stars has managed to get to #1 with sales of 270,310 in it’s first week! Satoda Mai has had a more fruitful career outside of Hello! Project this year than all of her years in Hello! Project with Country Musume.

Pabo

Country Musume leader and sole member Satoda Mai’s new group with fellow Koi no Hexagon participants Suzanne and Kinoshita Yukina is called Pabo according to Centuryland. Pabo is Korean for idiot if I’m not mistaken. The single will go on sale on September 26th 2007 in two versions; the First Press will cost 1260yen and the Regular Edition will cost 840yen. I’m rather surprised there are going to be two versions of this single.

I think whoever came up with the name of this group is a right pabo…