AKB48 breaks the 1 million sold mark again topping the Oricon weekly singles charts with “GIVE ME FIVE!”. The single sold 1,287,217 making it their 6th consecutive single to sell over 1 million copies. With this single AKB48 tops the record books with most consecutive 1 million selling singles with 6 (Pink Lady 5) and #1 singles with 12 (Morning Musume 11).

On the album charts Tokyo Jihen and their final compilation album “Tokyo Collection” tops with 36,004 copies sold. Landing in the 2nd spot selling 33,290 copies is Chatmonchy with their compilation album “Chatmonchy BEST 2005-2011”.

The complete top 10 single and album charts follow,

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ORANGE RANGE as promised has made their “Anniversary Song ~10th~” available for free via their 10th Anniversary website where you can download as MP3 or WAV file formats. They have also exposed a full music video for the song via the Victor Music Youtube channel. Video and links follow,

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FLOW will release “Rock Climbers” their first single of 2012 the same day as their new album “BLACK & WHITE” on February 22nd. The single comes in one CD only edition and the title track is featured as ending theme for TBS drama “Nonai Word Q Hikidasu”. More release details follow,

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Korean group BIGBANG has exposed the music video for single “BLUE” on their official Youtube channel and released the single via iTunes. The song is part of their upcoming 5th mini-album release “ALIVE” which is set for a February 29th release in Korean and a Japanese version that includes additional tracks on March 28th. Video and release information follows,

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FLOW is back with their 7th album “BLACK & WHITE” previously announced [here] and will also release a new single “Rock Climbers” both on February 22nd. Full release details on “Black & White” follow,

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