NINKI ratings for the week of 20/12~26/12/2011
Albums:
01 86.30 FUNKY MONKEY BABYS - FUNKY MONKEY BABYS 4
02 78.90 Ketsumeishi - Hatsu Best! Aki Best!! 『Ketsu no Arashi ~Aki BEST~』
03 77.60 Ketsumeishi - Hatsu Best! Natsu Best!! 『Ketsu no Arashi ~Natsu BEST~』
04 77.10 Ketsumeishi - Hatsu Best! Haru Best!! 『Ketsu no Arashi ~Haru BEST~』
05 76.50 Ketsumeishi - Hatsu Best! Fuyu Best!! 『Ketsu no Arashi ~Fuyu BEST~』
06 32.60 Tamura Yukari - Haru Machi Soleil
07 21.50 Onmyoza - Kishibojin
08 20.40 INFINITY 16 - BEST MIX
09 18.20 Tony Bennett - All Time Greatest Hits
10 18.00 ATOM ON SPHERE - ATOM ON SPHERE
Singles:
01 148.50 SMAP - Boku no Hanbun
02 90.90 L'Arc~en~Ciel - CHASE
03 70.30 Acid Black Cherry - CRISIS
04 35.30 Bekimasu - Makeru na Wasshoi!
05 25.20 Alice Nine - Niji no Yuki
06 23.40 Fairies - HERO / Sweet Jewel
07 18.40 9nine - Chikutaku Tonight
08 18.10 Ayanokouji Sho VS Marty Friedman - SAMURAI STRONG STYLE
09 16.30 WEAVER - Egao no Aizu
10 16.20 JUNO - believe... ~Kimi wo Shinjite~
Note 1:
The NINKI ratings are the results of a POLL conducted by Oricon indicating degree of interest/degree of purchase intention in an upcoming release. Although the ratings are never a true reflection of sales, it does give a strong prediction about where the single/album will place in terms of popularity amongst the Japanese public. However, they are NOT an indication of how it will perform in terms of chart positioning and total sales for the week.
Note 2:
According to Oricon's note under the NINKI page, Oricon researches about 870,000 of its members by random sampling of 400 members in their 10s until 40s. 50 men and 50 women are chosen randomly to participate in each age group. (However, some popular artists have had NINKI exceeding 500, so we can only assume that Oricon has extended the polling to around 600/700 people now.)
Some other new release next week (according to CDJapan listing) include:
Albums - Tsuchiya Anna, Matsuura Aya, Tamaki Koji, SATOMi
Singles - F.CUZ, BREATHE, Shimizu Shota, INFINITY16 welcomez Wakadanna
Rooting so hard for both FMB and Ketsumeishi to do well! It'd be interesting to see who get the top spot, as I think both will sell around the same numbers. And although their NINKI is below 100, I'm almost positive that they'll do well since FMB's best album from February last year still charting and has sold 618,481 copies to date, while Ketsumeishi's studio album this year sold 88k in the first week. Ketsumeishi's sales might suffer a bit though since the sales will be split up among the 4 albums.
Also rooting for SMAP, ABC and Laruku! :)
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