The top spot on the Oricon weekly singles charts is Korean group CNBLUE with their first single of 2012 “Where are you” with over 60,000 sold. Just making it into the #2 spot as predicted in our chart preview is ClariS and their 4th single “Naisho no Hanashi” currently featured as the ending theme song for anime Nisemonogatari . The Middle School duo just edged SKE48 who landing in the 3rd spot with last week’s #1 “Kataomoi Finally” with 32,000 sold.
The complete top 10 single and album charts follow,
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CNBLUE hits 2012 with their first single release “Where are you” and will top the singles charts with about 60,000 sold. On the album charts and perhaps marking that her come back is complete ayaka with her first album after a 2-year haitus, “The beginning” ranked #1 every day last week with a total of over 100,000 sold.
Read on for the rest of the projected top singles and albums,
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Korea’s largest music festival “26th Golden Disk Awards Ceremony” is set for the Kyocera Dome in Osaka Japan and span two days on January 11-12 2012. The “Golden Disk Awards” aka Korea’s Grammy is best known to the POP music world as “K-award”, selects the Grand Prize based on the sales volume of CD and digital audio. Nominees and more details follow,
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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.
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CNBLUE, who made a debut in Japan last year, will be making a comeback in the Japan with the single “Don’t Know Why”. The single, to be released on the 16th, will have 2 songs – “Lie” has been determined as the title song.
CNBLUE will also be having a live tour all over Japan, and the concert tickets were sold out within a minute. The three locations for the concerts include ‘Namba Patch’ in Osaka on the 16th, ‘Bottom Line’ in Nagoya o*n the 18th, and ‘Shibuya-AX’ in Tokyo on the 20th.
Source – allkpop
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