ORICON ROUNDUP 8/26: ARASHI [[x2]]

ORICON ROUNDUP: I'm seeing double this week as ARASHI manages to score two top ten places on the Singles Chart. Their newest single Truth / Kaze no Mukou he scores a massive 468K, rocketing to the top of the chart and eclipsing the record for debut single sales for 2008. The previous highest selling debut was KAT-TUN's DON'T YOU EVER STOP which sold 382K back in May. Their last single One Love is the current best-selling single of the year and continues selling, staying put at no.9 this week with another 13K copies sold bringing their total sales to 492K.

Porno Graffitti's Gift debuts at a strong no.2 with 57K while May'n and Nakashima Megumi's collaboration Lion sits at 3rd. Continued strong sales from Southern All Stars and the Fuijioka Fujimaki and Oohashi Nozomi pairing see their respective singles fill out the top 5 while last week's no.1 from SMAP falls down to no.7.
Buono!'s newest single Gachinko de Ikoi! debuts at no.6 with 25K, lower than their previous singles but still with decent sales. Satoda Mai's group Aladdin manages to just stay in the top 10 with another 12.5K sales.

~ Deja vu ~

Namie Amuro continues her domination on the Albums Chart with BEST FICTION at no.1 for the 4th straight week. Tokunaga Hideaki's BEST SINGLES album falls one spot, surpassed by Slipknot(USA), while the Detroit Metal City album is at 4th. Saitou Kazuyoshi's SINGLES BEST album jumps up into the top 5 at no.5 while SOFFett's debuts at #10. Chart regulars Koi no Uta and GReeeeN fall out of the top 10 (It was bound to happen eventually) placing at 11th and 14th.
Leah Dizon's new album fails to make the top 10 on debut, unfortunately charting at no.16 with a rather average 8.6K.

CHARTS:

Singles:

01. Truth / Kaze no Mukou he ARASHI 467,288
02. Gift Porno Graffitti 57,667
03. Lion May'n / Nakashima Megumi 56,455
04. I AM YOUR SINGER Southern All Stars 30,207
05. Gake no Ue no Ponyo Fuijioka Fujimaki & Oohashi Nozomi 29,331
06. Gachinko de Ikoi Buono! 25,469
07. Kono Toki, Kitto Yume ja Nai SMAP 20,465
08. GIFT Mr.Children 20,338
09. One Love ARASHI 13,374
10. Hi wa, Mata Noboru Aladdin 12,587

Albums:

01. BEST FICTION Amuro Namie 88,335
02. ALL HOPE IS GONE-SPECIAL EDITION- Slipknot 44,888
03. SINGLE BEST Tokunaga Hideaki 43,382
04. Makaiyuugi - for the movie - Detroit Metal City 19,756
05. "Uta Utai 15" SINGLES BEST 1993~2007 Saitou Kazuyoshi 16,018

10. SOFFet BEST ALBUM ~ALL SINGLES COLLECTION~ SOFFet 12,757
11. Koi no Uta (Various Artists) 10,693
14. A, Domo. Ohisashiburi Desu. GReeeeN 10,008
16. Communication!!! Leah Dizon 8,620

NOTE: I've decided to switch the date of the Oricon Articles to the Tuesday release date rather than the previous weekly date which Oricon uses. This is because it tends to create confusion being a week later than the charts are posted and the fact that I have to constantly check since I have no idea how they work it out. Tuesday dates from now on *nods*