NINKI ratings for the week of 3/12~9/12/2012
Albums:
01 402.60 EXILE - EXILE BEST HITS -LOVE SIDE/SOUL SIDE-
02 156.90 YUI - GREEN GARDEN POP
03 156.00 YUI - ORANGE GARDEN POP
04 88.30 Hamasaki Ayumi - again
05 61.20 BIGBANG - SPECIAL FINAL IN DOME MEMORIAL COLLECTION
06 38.20 HY - Route29
07 32.30 fripSide - Decade
08 22.40 androp - one and zero
09 20.10 the dresscodes - the dresscodes
10 18.80 Haruhata Michiya - FIND MY PLACE
Singles:
01 552.10 AKB48 - Eien Pressure
02 88.40 EXILE ATSUSHI - MELROSE ~Aisanai Yakusoku~
03 67.10 GLAY - Unmeiron
04 65.30 GLAY - JUSTICE [from] GUILTY
05 45.80 EGOIST - Namae no Nai Kaibutsu
06 35.70 2AM - Dare ni mo Watasenai yo
07 29.20 Suzuki Fuku - Iya Iya YO~!!
08 27.60 √5 - Shinsei Ω Shinwa / Boku Tokidoki, Yusha
09 23.20 Hotei Tomoyasu - Don't Give Up
10 23.00 Nakashima Mika - Hatsukoi
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 releases next week (according to CDJapan listing):
Singles - Matenrou Opera, NEGOTO, MONKEY MAJIK + Oda Kazumasa, Dorothy Little Happy, Yoshiki Risa, access, INFINITY 16, Bikyaku Jidai
Albums - UNICORN, Matsushita Yuya, JOKER, MONKEY MAJIK, UNiTE, SAYONARA PONYTAIL, ASAMACK, POLYSICS, May J., TEE, Juliet, Hirose Kohmi, PENICILLIN, Ahn Jae-Wook
I have no doubt that EXILE will top the albums chart next week, but I'm also not surprised that their NINKI is lower than their usual 500 points. Also rooting for YUI, HY, androp (hopefully they'll do as well as back number!), ATSUSHI, Root 5 and especially GLAY!
Source 1, 2