On the single side, μ’s / Hoshizora Rin, Nishikino Maki, Koizumi Hanayo topped the chart with “Angelic Angel / Hello, Hoshi wo Kazoete”, with its 1 CD only edition selling 83,269 copies. It is the best selling single this week.
On the album side, Kis-My-Ft2 took the top spot with “KIS-MY-WORLD”, with its 2CD+DVD Limited Edition A selling 87,959 copies. The 3 editions of this album took the top 3 spots on the chart. Between the 3 editions of this album, “KIS-MY-WORLD” sold 201,114 copies, making it the best selling album this week.
The Oricon physical music sales charts for the week of 6/29 – 7/05 have been released!
Rightfully so, Sexy Zone champion the charts with their latest song and ninth overall single “Cha-Cha-Cha Champion” selling 108,003 units in its first week.
Kis-My-Ft2 top the album chart with their 4th album KIS-MY-WORLD selling over just a handful over 300,000 copies.
Check out the top 10 of both charts below!
Popular digital download platform Recochoku recently published its rankings for the first half of the year to their website; these charts cover the period starting from January 1st through June 30th of 2015 and represent data collected from across Recochoku’s many services.
Atop the Overall Artists chart is Sandaime J Soul Brothers (from EXILE TRIBE), their strong showing owing largely to the steady performance of hits “R.Y.U.S.E.I.” and “Eeny. meeny. miny. moe!”. On the other hand, the Digital Singles chart is crowned by SEKAI NO OWARI’s incredibly popular “Dragon Night”, the song a constant presence on many of Japan’s digital charts earlier in the year. Finally, the Top New Artist thus far this year is comedic duo Kumamushi, who were propelled to further fame by the release of the witty and endearing “Attakaindakara♪”.
Read on below for the Top 25 of the Artist and Digital Singles charts and the complete New Artists chart.
B’z topped Recochoku with “RED”, which was recently released digitally.
Over on iTunes, Hoshino Gen is on top with “SUN” for the second week in a row.
And since June just ended, we also have the Recochoku monthly chart!
On October 10, Spangle call Lilli line will have a show at Tokyo’s LIQUIDROOM. The show is titled “evoke spirits from the other world.” This will be the band’s first show since their June 5, 2010 show at the same venue.
The band is also working on their first studio album since 2010’s “forest at the head of a river.” To tide fans over in the meantime, today Spangle call Lilli line released the music video for a new song titled “azure.” The mostly black and white clip sees the band continuing with their downtempo blend of rock and electronic music. Check it out after the jump!
On July 22, Wakusei Abnormal is set to release their 3rd mini album, “Kokoro Koko ni.” Today, the duo released the music video for the release’s opening track, “Muteki no Koibito.” In the video, the ladies can be seen smashing a television, breaking a lamp, and gutting a sofa. At different moments in the video, their heads are replaced with various things such as a steak, a bottle of nail polish, and a glass of soda, mimicking the cover of “Kokoro Koko ni.” Check out the video after the jump!
This week’s guests were Sexy Zone, Charisma.com, and coalamode.
Sexy Zone – Cha-Cha-Cha Champion
Charisma.com – Otsubone Rock
coalamode. – Dan Dan Dan
Back in May, renaissance man Maroka Uchiyama released his debut album, “FAKE.” Today, he released 2 music videos to help promote the album. One is for the opening track “Human Explosion”, while the other is for the album’s eighth track “F**k For The Fake.”
“Human Explosion” is a pulsating dance track. The video starts off with what looks like a raw egg hitting a concrete floor. The video then cuts to Maro showing off his well-toned body, before going into some glow in the dark body paint segments. He dances with some other shirtless men. There’s also clips of glass breaking and Maro trying to break though a plastic barrier of some sort, while shirtless of course.
The second video is for the rock track “F**k For The Fake”, which for this video appears to be retitled just “FAKE.” This music video is an extended form of the album’s trailer. In this video, a shirtless Maro can seen doing a number of things: playing in paint, playing the drums, playing the guitar, having a skull projected on his face, smashing televisions, posing with a small child…
In related Maro news, he recently took a trip to New York City. He displayed his musical talents to the people of the city by performing in a subway station.
Both music videos as well as photos from Maro’s New York City performance can be seen after the jump!
