DCT Rates in the 2005 Half Way Point

[tachikaze]

Singles:
http://contents.oricon.co.jp/music/spec ... 01_01.html

yeay! soba iru-ne is #1

my favorite J-POP song for a while & Aoyama Thelma comes across as pretty smart, classy, cool, and collected in her TV interviews

Albums:
http://contents.oricon.co.jp/music/spec ... 01_03.html

DCT checks in @ #5 with "And I Love You"

As usual the rest of the Oricon is kinda a wasteland, though I've found Hajime Chitose's stuff to be eminently listenable.

[tachikaze]

Oh, the #1 single sold less than 500,000 CD singles . . . I wonder if we'll see any more million-sellers of physical media . . .

Ah, in 2007 sen-no-kaze-ni sold 1.1M.

2006 kat-tun sold 1.038M in 2006

nobody in 2004 or 2005 had a million-seller

Sakura was barely a million-seller in 2003

Hamazaki Ayumi had a million seller in 2002

Here's a chart of JPOP million sellers:

http://www.musictvprogram.com/corner-ra ... ingle.html

DCT has #10 with 2.5M sales for "LOVE LOVE LOVE" (1995), with additional million sellers in "Kessen-wa kinyoubi", "Sankyu", "WINTER SONG", and, surprisingly, "go for it!"

B'z has 15 million sellers, all the same.