Japan's Weekly DVD and CD Rankings for Nov 21 - 27

RyanSaotome said:
Damn, heavy BD week. Was hoping to see the MajiKoi numbers. Glad to see Persona 4 sold well, though a little bit less than I expected. Stalker projected 45k, but expecting that much is probably unreasonable.

scrotey said:
Aw disappointed My Dearest didn't come out on top.

5camp said:
Holy shit Persona 4? I mean, I like it a lot, but from the responses I've seen from fans, I wasn't expecting it to do anywhere near as well as that

dtshyk said:

Blu-ray
**, 10,891 10,891 (Macross Frontier Super Live Cosmic Nyaan)
14, *4,441 *4,441 Hoshi wo Ou Kodomo

Single CD
22, *7,418 *7,418 Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai "Watashi no Ki Mo Chi"
46, *2,968 *2,968 Tales of Symphonia: Sekai Tougou Hen "Ho N To U So/ Su Ki Ra I"

Album CD
*3, 82,649 82,649 Mizuki Nana "The Museum II"

dtshyk said:
Temporal Anime DVD + Blu-ray Sales Ranking for Autumn 2011
*1, 33,365 Persona 4 The Animation
*2, 18,205 Working'!!

ringoo4 said:
Persona 4 is a huge success contrasting to how much trouble it had during the production.

Eternal_Shield said:
I am surprised that "Oath Sigh" got on top of "My dearest"

Nachtwandler_21 said:
Idolmaster still has the same sales? Does 2nd volume has the game bundle version to?

jmal said:

Idolmaster 2 PS3 game has sold 82,419 after 3 weeks, but that includes the version without the anime BD. So we have zero way of knowing how many bundles sold, and zero way of knowing how many of those bundle purchases would have been standalone BD purchases if the BD weren't in the LE of the game release.

I haven't seen G4U with v2 sales yet but we should get them today or tomorrow if it ranks, I guess. But of course we have zero way of knowing how many of those would have been standalone BD purchases either, same problem as with vol. 1 though not as severe.

In short, Idolmaster sales numbers are utterly worthless and we have no clue and never will how well the anime would have sold. Sucks.

lostmymusic said:
*1, 24,120 24,120 Persona 4 The Animation

Serious? Didn't expect that. I know the game's very popular, but I didn't expect it to sell quite that much.

IZUMI64 said:

the game sold more than 100,000 almost 200.000 copies just in first week. you can use that data as comparison...

jmal said:
Could hit 40k eventually, but subsequent volumes will likely drop down into the 20s. Amazon Ranking Stalker tallies for v2 are implying about that much, especially if we assume its estimate is high, like it always is with hugely successful releases..

RyanSaotome said:
The funny thing is how people thought they'd actually cancel it because of some animators who thought they were more important than the project when they've got a massive hit on their hands.

dtshyk said:

DVD
*3, 10,958 *,*10,958 Gintama' vol.5 Limited Edition
*9, *3,819 *,**3,819 Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai vol.6 Limited Edition
16, *2,785 *,**2,785 Bleach Hamen Metsubo Hen vol.10
26, *1,259 1,105,863 My Neighbor Totoro
27, *1,238 *,**1,238 Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu Ni! vol.3
28, *1,212 *,**1,212 Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira vol.3 Limited Edition

Blu-ray
*3, 19,676 19,676 Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada

Single CD
10, 28,070 28,070 Guilty Crown "My Dearest"
22, *7,418 *7,418 Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai "Watashi no Ki Mo Chi"

dtshyk said:
21, *1,637 *,**1,637 No.6 vol.3 Limited Edition

*1, 24,120 24,120 Persona 4 The Animation

RyanSaotome said:
I'd expect at least 2/3 of its sales to be the Gravure thing. Its like what, 15 dollars more and it lets you take pictures of the girls doing all kinds of poses in bikinis. What Idolmaster fan wouldn't get that instead.

So 20-25k is my estimate.

If G4U Vol. 3 is any indication, its the 40th ranked video game on Amazon Japan, and video game sales are much much higher than anime. So 40th could easily be in the 15-20k range.