This week, SKE48 topped the single chart with their new single “Stand by you”, selling 234,008 copies in its first week.

RADWIMPS topped the album chart with their new album “ANTI ANTI GENERATION”, selling 77,095 copies in its first week.

Yonezu Kenshi retook the top spot on the digital single chart, topping it for the second non-consecutive week, with his single “Flamingo”, selling 35,438 in its ninth week.

RADWIMPS also topped the digital album chart with “ANTI ANTI GENERATION”, selling 14,340 copies in its first week.

This week marks the release of KinKi Kid‘s 40th single “Aitai, Aitai, Aenai“.

A ballad, the track was composed by veteran R&B singer Toshinobu “Toshi” Kubota. This is the groups second single of the year, their last being January’s  double a-side release “Topaz Love / DESTINY”.

A few months ago, Oricon announced that it was keeping up with the times and creating new charts. These new charts would be a combined single chart, a combined album chart, and a streaming chart. Those charts were introduced today.

The combined single chart will count CD singles, single song downloads, download single bundles (as in A-sides and other coupling tracks), and streams, using a point system. A CD single will count for one point, 2.5 single song downloads for one point, one download single bundle for one point, and 300 streams for one point.

The combined album chart will count CD albums, download album bundles (as in full albums), and streams, also using a point system. A CD album will count for one point, a download album bundle for one point, and 1,440 streams for one point.

The points for both charts will be revealed.

The number of streams will also be revealed in the streaming chart.

After this initial post, the three new charts will be included with the other Oricon charts.

With that being said, SKE48 topped the combined single chart with “Stand by you”, with 234,898 points. RADWIMPS topped the combined album chart with “ANTI ANTI GENERATION”, with 91,435 points. Aimyon topped the streaming chart with “Konya Kono Mama” with 1,539,441 streams.

Hello, Arama! Japan readers and welcome to this week’s installment of #1 Song Review! Last week saw AKB48 defeat Yonezu Kenshi, FranChouChou, and Aimyon. Aimyon is back this week, facing off against two newcomers and a blast from the past. Find out what Ronald thought of the songs that topped the singles charts this week and share your thoughts on them too!

We’re back with this week’s edition of Oricon Flashback. This is where we look back on what topped Oricon this week 5, 10, 15, and 20 years ago. Think of it as a way to reminisce and learn about the past of Japanese music.

This week, Sexy Zone topped the Hot 100 single chart with their new single “Karakuri Darake no Tenderness.”

Kobukuro topped the Oricon album chart with their new best album “ALL TIME BEST 1998-2018.”

Aimyon topped the Streaming Songs chart for the sixth consecutive week with her single “Konya Kono Mama.”

Yonezu Kenshi retook the top spot on the Download Songs chart with his single “Flamingo”, topping it for the second non-consecutive week.

Kobukuro also topped the Download Albums chart with “ALL TIME BEST 1998-2018.”

This week’s guests were Wagakki Band and Halo at Yojohan.

Wagakki Band – Sasameyuki

Halo at Yojohan – Kanashimi mo Itsukawa

Fully 19 years after the release of their previous studio album, “8”, alternative rock band THE YELLOW MONKEY have just announced that they will be releasing a new full-length record next year on April 17th.  Titled “9999” (“Four Nine”), this album will include the group’s previously released tracks “ALRIGHT”, “Suna no Tou”, “Roseana”, “Stars”, “Horizon”, and “Tentoumushi”, as well as a number of new songs.  The record is currently intended to be issued in two versions, with the contents of the DVD packaged with the Limited Edition to be revealed at a later date.

Additionally, the group have confirmed that new song “I don’t know” – which will be included on the album – has been picked up as the theme song for upcoming TV Asahi drama “Keiji Zero”.  The track is based around the theme of ‘memories’, and how their weight can fluctuate as the years go by.  Following the record’s release, the band will be embarking on their “THE YELLOW MONKEY SUPER JAPAN TOUR 2019″from April through September.

Though information about “9999” is currently sparse, you can find PV for the group’s most recent release “Tentoumushi” if you read on below.