Oricon Roundup 11/11: It's a Beautiful Day

ORICON ROUNDUP

Well ARASHI are just blitzing the charts this year, aren't they? Beautiful days is ARASHI's 4th single of the year and their 4th no.1 hit of the year. They hold the top 2 positions in the yearly sales ranks, with truth/Kaze no Mukou e at the top followed by One Love. Step and Go is in the top 10, while Beautiful days is 12 on first week sales alone. The ballad sold 351K and charted at the top of the charts all week long.
Fellow Johnny's group Kanjani8 fell from the top spot to 7th selling close to 22K. Sales are up from the previous singles' second week sales.

Urgh, another BEST album selling well? Actually not really ... you see Kato Miliyah's BEST DESTINY isn't really a typical BEST album, as the majority of the album is new material. The album is a collaborative effort which sees Kato-san sample other artists' material in each of her songs and is comprised of 4 singles from throughout her career plus a whole bunch of new songs. Either way, it sold well raking in 92K, up from Kato's last album TOKYO STAR.
Kings of the chart last week, Porno Graffitti saw both their BEST albums fall outside the top 5, ranking at 6 and 7 with sales above 20K each.

Berryz Koubou's newie MADAYADE failed to live up to expectations, halting the recent rise of the Berryz' girls. Coming off receiving one of the New Artist awards in Korea, you would have thought they would have gained on their past singles' sales but instead they sold over 7K less first week sales than their last single Yuke Yuke Monkey Dance. The single charted at a respectable 6th for the week, but sales of only 22.8K were disappointing.

CHARTS:

Singles:

01 Beautiful days ARASHI 351,860
02 Shish Kebab Yuzu 52,271
03 Toki no Ashioto Kobukuro 33,477
04 Kyou mo Dokoka de Oda Kazumasa 28,672
05 Wakaba Spitz 27,364
06 MADAYADE Berryz Koubou 22,861
07 Musekinin Hero Kanjani8 21,723
08 Nihon no Mikata -Nevada Kara Kimashita- Yajima Biyoushitsu 20,111
09 Angelic Smile / WINTER PARTY BREAKERZ 19,142
10 Somaru Yo chatmonchy 17,586

Albums:

01 BEST DESTINY Kato Miliyah 92,423
02 Surf Bungaku Kamakura ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION 56,110
03 Expressions Takeuchi Mariya 30,592
04 DJ KAORI'S JMIX II (Various Artists) 28,838
05 WE LOVE HEXAGON Hexagon All Stars 28,317