Browsing KinKi Kids

The month of January sees another AKB48 family group in the top spot, this time its SKE48 and their single “Kataomoi Finally” that sold over one-half million for the month. The next 3 spots find singles from BUMP OF CHICKEN, KinKi Kids, and  Korean singer Kim Hyun Joong respectively and all surpassed the 100,000 sold mark.

Finishing the top 5 singles for the month is super seiyuu/singer Nana Mizuki and her single “Synchrogazer” which is featured in Winter anime Symphogear with over 69,000 sold.

On the monthly album charts EXILE and their album “EXILE JAPAN/Solo” spent 2 weeks in the number #1 spot In January and easily takes the top spot for the month with over 336,000 sold. In the #2 spot is ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION and their album “BEST HIT AKG” with over 133,000 sold. Rounding out the top 3 is Koda Kumi and her album “JAPONESQUE” with over 118,000 sold.

The complete top 10 single and album charts follow,

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Topping the weekly singles charts is the 32nd single from Kinki Kids, “Kawatta Katachi no Ishi” with over 123,000 sold. Its also the 32nd consecutive #1 on the weekly charts from this prolific and successful duo of Domoto Koichi and Domoto Tsyuoshi. Congradulations!

Second spot goes to one of our favorites Nana Mizuki and her single “Synchrogazer” with more than 51,000 sold. The single is featured as the opening theme for anime “Symphogear”. Third spot on the charts sees 2AM and their Japanese debut single “Never let you go – Shindemo Hanasanai”.

The complete top 10 single and album charts follow,

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Singles week chart preview for January 9th – 15th 2012

The newest single from Kinki Kids, “Kawatta Katachi no Ishi” will easily top the singles charts based on the Oricon daily numbers with more than 117,000 sold. The single is number 32 from the duo of Domoto Koichi and Domoto Tsyuoshi and also makes their 32nd consecutive #1 on the weekly charts!

Second spot should go to one of our favorites Nana Mizuki and her single “Synchrogazer” with more than 48,000 sold. The single is featured as the opening theme for anime “Symphogear”.

Third spot on the charts should go to 2AM and their Japanese debut single “Never let you go – Shindemo Hanasanai”. Remaining top 6 should be fought out between D☆Date, ViViD, and Kyary Pamyu Pamyu.

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TV Asahi’s long running weekly music show “MUSIC STATION” will be off next week December 16th while they prepare for their mega year-end show “MUSIC STATION SUPER LIVE 2011.” The 4-hour event will be broadcast live from Chiba Makuhari Messe on December 23rd starting at 7:00PM.  More details including the full list of 30 artists set to perform on the show follows,

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A strong month for powerhouses Arashi (#1 single, #7 album), AKB48 (#7 single) and its sister group SKE48 (#2 single) and subgroups Not Yet (#4 single), French Kiss (#5 single), and Johnny’s Entertainment groups Sexy Zone (#3 single) and Kanjani8 (#2 album) on the monthly charts.

KARA – perhaps the hottest female idol group out of Korea these days managed to top the album charts with their release “Super Girl”. Two real ‘super girls’ – YUI was #3 on the album charts and singer/voice actress Nana Mizuki was #6. 

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SKE48 easily took top honors last week on the singles charts with the release of their newest single, “OkiDoki” selling over 380,000 copies. On the album charts, KinKi Kids album “K Album” sold 151,000 copies to land in the top position.

In the other top singles slots – J Soul Brothers (3rd generation) single “Refrain” landing in the number two spot,e Arashi’s single “Meikyu Love Song” released the previous week held strong in the third spot, Kana Nishino newest release “Tatoe Donna ni…” was 5th, and new theme song “CHANGE !!!” for anime “Idolm@ster” sung by the voice cast hit number 6 on the chart.

On the album charts staying strong for the second week YUI slid only one spot into second position with her release “HOW CRAZY YOUR LOVE” and Maaya Sakamoto album release “Driving in the silence” landed number 3. For Sakamoto it was her 3rd release in the past 5 weeks having charted with 2 previous single releases..

Complete charts follow after jump.

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ABK48, KARA, aiko, Ikimonogakari, 2NE1, Koda Kumi, and Kana Nishino are just part of the huge line-up of performing at this year’s “Best Hit Song Festival 2011.” The annual show has set their line-up of 17 artists to perform live at the broadcast venue Kobe World Memorial Hall.  Produced by Yomiuri TV (YTV) the event is to be broadcast live on NTV Thursday 7:00-9:00pm November 24th. For the 3rd year in a row the show will be hosted by Eiji Wentz, Maki Nishiyama, and Seiji Miyane.

The traditional awards usually presented at this show, the “Grand Prix” and “Newcomer of the Year” will be held back in respect of the victims and many charitable works by artists as a result of this past March’s Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Previously EXILE had won the “Grand Prix” award the past 3 years.

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TV Asahi’s long running music show "Music Station" has announced the performers for their upcoming Friday the 28nd of October show: Perfume, AKB48, KinKi Kids, JAY’ED X JUJU, and Sonar Pocket.

Long time duo of Domoto Tsuyoshi and Domoto Koichi who form KinKi Kids will perform the track “Negau Ijyo no Koto Inoru Ijyo no Koto” off their upcoming (Nov. 9th) and first album in more than 2 years. KinKi Kids have released 31 consecutive #1 singles – from 1997 to the last one this past June.

Perfume visited Music Station just last week and is performing for the 4rd time this year. They will perform "SPICE" which is the title track to their current single. ABK48 is listed as preforming one of their “Special Medley” songs – hopefully to include their newest single “Kaze wa Fuiteru.”

JAY’ED and JUJU perform their love ballad single “Eien wa Tada no Ichibyo kara” and Sonar Pocket performs their single “365 Day Love Story.”

Images and performance details on the jump,

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