Acid Black Cherry has exposed the album jacket covers for their upcoming album “2012” which is set for release on March 21st. Early details on the new album were previously posted here at Comtrya Sugoi check those out and the jacket covers that follow,
Fresh off of charting #3 on the weekly Oricon rankings with their new single “YES”, Acid Black Cherry has released the single’s 3-minute version of the music video. “YES” is Acid Black Cherry’s 5th and final of their 5 singles in 5 months consecutive release project. The project includes singles, “pistol” (Sept-21st 2011), “Shangri-La” (Oct-19th), “butterfly” (Nov-16th), “CRISIS” (Dec-21st), and “YES” (Jan-18th). The music video follows,
BUMP OF CHICKEN and their new single “GOOD LUCK” topped the singles charts with more than 135,000 sold. The single is featured as the theme song to film “Always Sanchome no Yuhi ‘64”.
As predicated in our Chart Preview it was very close for the 2nd and 3rd spots but IDOLING!!!’s new single, “MAMORE!!!” with 56,232 sold just edged out Acid Black Cherry’s 5th consecutive release single “YES” with 54,434. Fourth spot went to easy listening pop group Ikimonogakari and their 22nd single “Itsudatte Bokura wa”.
The complete top 10 single and album charts follow,
BUMP OF CHICKEN and their new single “GOOD LUCK” will easily top the singles charts based on the Oricon daily numbers with more than 135,000 sold. The single is featured as the theme song to film “Always Sanchome no Yuhi ‘64”. On the album side #1 is too close to call, read on for the rest of the projected top singles and who’s close in the albums preview,
[Update: New post with jacket covers for “2012” exposed]
Acid Black Cherry headed by visual kei artist yasu launches “2012”, their 3rd album on March 21st and it will be full of their 5 consecutive month single releases – “Pistol”, “Shangri-La”, “Chou”, “CRISS”, and “YES” as well as their singles “Re:birth” and “Shoujo no Inori III” plus 6 additional tracks. The release will come in 3 editions, 2 CD+DVD with a different bonus DVD and one CD only – the editions will all share the same CD tracks. Release details though still limited follow,
Watch or download Acid Black Cherry’s live concert held back on July 23rd, 2011 at Fuji Q Highland Conifer Forest. Concert video and download links follow.
Making this concert available for free viewing or downloading is part 3 of the band’s, “Thanks 4 You ABC Dream CUP 2011”, to commemorate their 4th anniversary by giving a ‘thank you’ to all their fan support over the past four years. The first part was free Chaku-Uta download for ABC singles, and the second was the Fuji Q free concert for 40,000 fans – what is part 4?
Acid Black Cherry is getting ready to release “CRISIS,” their 4th single of their 5-consecutive month single release project. Leader yasu’s new look is out now (see above) and the single will be released on December 21st. Check out the short preview video and see if the song fits the previously described “intense and heart-felt rock song”. Video courtesy of Acid Black Cherry’s official YouTube channel, plus the jacket covers + track details follow,
The final of the five consecutive release project by Acid Black Cherry will be a single titled “Yes” and is set for release on January 18, 2012. The title track of this single is described as the ultimate love ballad.
The b-side song will be a track written 10 years ago by yasu as a Recreation Song for radio show “All Night Nippon Super Neptune” and it will be titled “Stop It Love.” The single “Yes” will come in a Limited CD + DVD edition of 50,000 copies, a Limited CD only edition, and a special “Thanks to you” single song edition available at Tsutaya Records stores.
Check back for more details to be posted as they become available.
Starting last September Acid Black Cherry begin a five consecutive months release project. The 4th single “CRISIS” is detailed in a previous post and it will be released December 21st.
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Two Johnny’s Entertainment groups topped the charts with week – the debut of Sexy Zone on the singles charts and Kanjani8 on the album charts. Overall a strong week for single releases as only last weeks topper SKE48 managed to stay in the top 10 at #8.
In a close second place was AKB48 subunit Not Yet with their single “Pera Pera Perao” and third went to Acid Black Cherry’s “Chou” their 4th single in four months. They have one more single to go in their consecutive month release project.
On the album charts Kanjani 8 took top honors with their 4th #1 album “FIGHT” and T.M.Revolution’s compilation album of theme songs contributed to the Sengoku Basara anime and game franchise, “UTAGE” was a nice second on the chart.
Complete charts follow after jump.
AKB48 sister group out of Namba, Osaka, NMB48 again blasted the charts at #1 with over 265,000 sold of their 2nd single “Oh My God!” With their 1st single also selling at +200K makes it two in a row for NMB48 and is a first for any female group. Making a strong showing at #2 is BUMP OF CHICKEN with their single “Zero” at over 163,000 copies sold. “Zero” is featured as theme for popular RPG game “FINAL FANTASY TYPE-0.” KARA should have picked a different week to release their newest single “Winter Magic” but they did well to land in the #3 spot.
Fall anime theme songs from Minori Chihara and Maaya Sakamoto make the charts in the 9th and 10th spots respectively.
On the album side duo Tegomass consisting of NEWS members Yuya Tegoshi and Takahisa Masuda hit the #1 spot with their 3rd album release “Magic of Tegomass.” Kazuyoshi Saito and his new album “45 STONES” slides into the #2 spot just ahead of Coldplay’s “Mylo Xyloto” in #3.
Complete charts follow after jump.
“CRISIS” will be Acid Black Cherry’s 14th single over all and the 4th single from his five-month consecutive release project. It’s described to be an intense, heart-wrenching rock tune. The b-side song is a cover or “recreation track” of Watanabe Misato’s 1986 hit song, “BELIEVE”.
The 2nd single in this consecutive release project “Shangri-La” was dropped this past Thursday the 21st and the 3rd “butterfly” is set for November 16th.
More images and details on these releases after the jump,
