Japan's Weekly CD Rankings for May 8 - 14

tsubasalover said:
CD Single
*9.　10,000　*,*10,000　Tetsuya Kakihara "Tokonatsu Wave"
13.　*7,554　*,**7,554　SID "Butterfly Effect"
18.　*4,329　*,*66,477　Cinderella Girls Gekijou ED "Kira! Mankai Smile" by THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS LITTLE STARS! [Uzuki Shimamura (CV: Ayaka Ohashi), Miho Kohinata (CV: Minami Tsuda), Mayu Sakuma (CV: Yui Makino), Momoka Sakurai (CV: Haruka Terui), Anzu Futaba (CV: Hiromi Igarashi)]
21.　*3,580　*,*51,765　Detective Conan Movie 21: The Crimson Love Letter ED "Togetsugyou ~Kimi Omou~" by Mai Kuraki
27.　*2,991　*,**2,991　Natsume Yuujinchou Roku OP "Floria" by Tomohisa Sako
33.　*1,955　*,**1,955　Fukumenkei Noise OP "High School [ANIME SIDE] -Alternative-" by in NO hurry to shout； (Inclu. IN "Wednesday Beauty")
39.　*1,693　*,**1,693　Fukumenkei Noise ED "Allegro" by in NO hurry to shout；

CD Album
*1.　23,894　*,247,173　Yuzu "Yuzu Iroha 1997-2017"
*7.　*8,897　*,*43,330　Aimer BEST SELECTION "blanc"
*9.　*8,760　*,*42,804　Aimer BEST SELECTION "noir"
33.　*1,560　*,*37,067　Detective Conan Movie Theme Song Album "20" All Songs~ by Various Artists

NeoAnkara said:
12.　*8,236　*,**8,236　Mae e Susume! / Yume Miru Sunflower by Poppin'Party
45.　*1,371　*,*21,942　BLACK SHOUT by Roselia

Well not as good as Roselia first week but still it's on the right track. Now waiting for Shuwa Shuwa time.

hpulley said:
Black Shout will always sell better than Popipa it seems. Re:birthday coming soon too.

NeoAnkara said:
It include Tamashi no Refrain right? The official chanel have show Tamashi no Refrain live performance too.

tsubasalover said:
52.　*1,062　*,*69,639　MANKAI☆Kaika Sengen by A3ders! [Sakuya Sakuma (CV: Koudai Sakai), Tenma Sumeragi (CV: Takuya Eguchi), Banri Settsu (CV: Chihiro Sawashiro), Tsumugi Tsukioka (CV: Atsushi Tamaru)]

tsubasalover said:
*9.　10,000　*,*10,000　Tetsuya Kakihara "Tokonatsu Wave"

jayvee2016 said:
*6.　24,410　*,*24,410　Kinmirai Happy End by CYaRon!

hmmm... is this the lowest weekly rank of aqours or LL sub units? Glad it reach top 6 though

Shizucchi said:
Ouch, those CYaRon sales. Not bad at all, but for the LL franchise...

hpulley said:
The rank doesn't really mean anything. Believe it or not this is higher in units sold than wk1 of CYARON's first single's first week which was 22K. CYARON is the least popular subunit. Azalea will be higher and Guilty Kiss will be way higher, just like Bibi.

hpulley said:
Agreed, it isn't much of a boost.

Printemps sold 1K, 16K, 39K and 40K in week one of their four singles. Aqours sales are lower than Muse after the second season overall. Perhaps with a second season and a movie they will approach Muse but I don't think they will ever surpass Muse.

See https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1156141

novalysis said:


I'd just to like to chip in here with some food for thought.

Happy Party Train, Aqours third single sold 54.5k on its first week, with an 8k boost from Aquarium, the second single, which sold 46.8k. This represents a 16.4% boost from the second single. HPT was released last month, which makes it a fairly current gauge of the health of the franchise as a whole, and Love Live Sunshine's Season two prospects.

We must remember that HPT has outsold Bibi's 4th Single, which had 51k sales and every single Muse single with the exception of Moment Ring, the last Single which sold a remarkable 96k. Essentially, before the Love Live Movies, only two Muse albums have beaten Happy Party Train - that's Bibi's third single and the OP of SIP Season 2. It was only with the Movies that we start seeing Muse albums actually get past 80k - before that, the record was 69k*. So, does CYaRon's shockingly bad performance necessarily bode ill for the franchise? I'm going to run a few numbers and let the readers decide.

Firstly CYaRon's Kinmirai Happy End actually did WORSE than AZALEA's FIRST single, by about 200 copies. It now has the dubious honour of being Aqours second WORST selling album ever. This means that if AZALEA second single did worse than CYaRon, it would sell less than AZALEA's first single.

Secondly, did CYaRon grow in proportion with the growth implied by Happy Party Train? As previously mentioned, HPT sales were 16.4% higher than Aquarium. Had CYaRon grown by the same proportion, CYaRon second single should have sold somewhere around 26.6k copies in its first week. Essentially, CYaRon's performance is disappointing in light of HPT

This suggests two things. Either sub-units, in general, are not capturing the full boost from the anime and the First Live. Alternatively, CYaRon is exceptionally unpopular among the sub-units, and have bled support in the year between its release. One evidence comes from how badly CYaRon's BD single performed when Lantis previewed it vis a vis the other subunits. CYaRon's P.S Mukogawa had 194k views on the Lantis Channel, while Guilty Kiss Guilty Eyes Fever had 440k views.

Now, this doesn't mean Guilty Kiss will sell twice the number of copies as CYaRon (in the unlikely event that happens, this will mean that Guilty Kiss second single will beat Aqours second single, which means Lantis has a possible Babymetal on their hands) , but it does indicate there's a CHASM between CYaRon and Guilty Kiss in terms of popularity. For reference, AZALEA's Lonely Tuning had 240k views. And Lantis uploaded the full version of Aquarium two weeks ago, and it has already more than 300k views and counting.

Whether or not then, the shocking poor sales is due to CYaRon itself, or whether it indicates the sub-units aren't able to capture the anime boost properly (do remember, Sub-units don't exist in the anime continuity) will probably depends on how AZALEA's upcoming Second Single, Galaxy Hide and Seek fares. If AZALEA grows at the same proportion as HPT -> Aquarium, Galaxy Hide and Seek should sell 28.6k, up from 24.6k. I'd say if AZALEA breaches 28k, then the cause for these poor sales is likely due to CYaRon's unpopularity.

Notes:
* I am only talking about the sales of music singles here, not Anime BD sales or LIVE albums.

jayvee2016 said:


good point there.. Im not an avid fan of aqours as I was to µ's so I don't really pay much attention to statistics now. A question though

Why are you comparing the aqours CD sale (HPT) to a sub unit of µ's (BiBi)? It is more fair to compare sub units songs of both idol units imo

And knowing that LL is a well known franchise right now.. I think it is expected that they will sell bigger number than µ's back then before LL movie was released dont you think so? but 2k increase doesn't really justify it.

Ofc I agree to you that Cyaron may just be the least popular sub unit in aqours.. much like printemps to µ's