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The charts for December 2011 are dominated by another 1+ million selling single by AKB48 with their “Uekara Mariko” selling a huge 1,273,748 and putting it nearly 1 million ahead of the second place single. The rest of the top 5 singles is dominated by boy groups with Kis-My-Ft2, KAT-TUN, Tohoshiniki, and SMAP landing in the 2nd through 5th spots.

On the album side EXILE with album that includes member ATSUSHI’s solo debut “EXILE JAPAN/ Solo” takes the #1 spot with 350,277 sold. This album dropped on January 1st 2012 which was included in the last chart of the 2011 and they sold another 150,000+ the first week of January. In the #2 spot is Perfume and their album “JPN” just ahead of KARA’s consistent charting album “Super Girl” (charted for 6 weeks in the top 7). 

The top 10 chart for the singles and albums follow,

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Singles week chart preview 2012 January 2nd – 8th

A very quiet week for new releases after New Years and based on the Oricon daily numbers for singles the #1 spot will go to Johnny’s Entertainment group NYC (featuring member Yuma Nakayama) and their single “Wonderful Cupid/NYC Glass no Maho” with about 39,000 sold. This single was set for release on January 4th but came out the week before and charted 4th, don’t know why it got the earlier release.

Second spot should go to idol group YGA and their newest single “Rising Sun Japan!” with approximately 16,000 sold. Third spot looks to go to last weeks #2, AKB48 unit No Sleeves (nob3) and their single “Pedicure Day.

Hit the jump for the album chart preview,

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Jin Akanishi tops the singles charts with his latest single “Seasons” just edging out AKB48 subgroup No Sleeves (no3b) and sister group SDN48 who were 2nd and 3rd respectively.

On the album charts the combo album of EXILE and the solo debut album of member Atsushi easily topped while dropping on the last day of the week (January 1st). In second is a bit of a surprise as Girls Generation’s album “Shoujo Jidai” released back on June 1st got a huge surge of sales most likely due to the many year end concert/TV show appearances by Girls Generation.

Complete top 10 single and album charts follow,

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On July twenty-second, AKB48′s sub-unit No Sleeves (no3b) held a special event for Kotodama no Onnatachi, the au LISMO original drama in which they will play the lead roles and provide the theme song, titled “Kimi Shika” and set to release on August fourth. In the drama, they will portray three girls who use “the power of words” to save modern people worn out from work and love. With members Kojima Haruna, Takahashi Minami and Minegishi Minami each given their own episode for a total of four episodes (five minutes each), the drama, which first became available on July fifth, will reach its conclusion on the twenty-sixth this month.

During the day’s event, fans were able to view a digest version of Kotodama no Onnatachi and take part in a discussion with the girls about their troubles.

One person asked, “I can’t stop eating sweets—what should I do?” Kojima wondered aloud, “I eat nothing but candy, too—is that bad?”, whereas Takahashi answered positively, saying, “When I have dance practice, I eat chocolate and things like that to increase my concentration,” and Minegishi declared, “My favorite candy is hakata-toorimon!” Then, presenting their new song for the first time, they fascinated the audience with their change of expression, matching the tone of the song in a serious performance.

There was a rush of questions regarding the past few days’ rumored relationship between Oshima Yuko and Wentz Eiji in the interview after the event, to which Kojima said, “It’s unfortunate that there was a misunderstanding.

After all, as far as Yuko is concerned, the ‘you’ in ‘no one but you’ refers to me,” laughing as she invoked the title of the new song “Kimi Shika” in her statement. Minegishi added, “Yuko said herself, ‘[The reports] surprised even me!’”, both of them showing their support for their mutual friend.

Source – Sanspo

Translation – aramatheydidnt

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