It's interesting to see the akb numbers without the theatre editions, they're still pretty high but I didn't realise Uza did as low as it did even with 6 versions counted.
Personally I think I prefer soundscan charts over oricons. It's not that I don't think theatre editions or special johnny shop versions shouldn't count as sales but the oricon numbers just always look a bit false instead of a reflection of popularity when you know it's just fans buying multiple editions.
edit: out of curiosity does anyone know the best place to see soundscan's weekly charts? It'd be interesting in the weekly oricon single/album/dvd arama posts to have the soundscan numbers too sometimes.
That's not true, it just means the mu-mo store doesn't meet the requirements to register with Soundscan. Since SS requires different standards to Oricon, and Oricon is considered a more mainstream chart in JP, stores tend to want to abide by Oricon standards. And it goes both ways ie 7-11 store sales don't count towards Oricon, but that doesn't mean 7-11 are messing the numbers.
Personally I think I prefer soundscan charts over oricons. It's not that I don't think theatre editions or special johnny shop versions shouldn't count as sales but the oricon numbers just always look a bit false instead of a reflection of popularity when you know it's just fans buying multiple editions.
edit: out of curiosity does anyone know the best place to see soundscan's weekly charts? It'd be interesting in the weekly oricon single/album/dvd arama posts to have the soundscan numbers too sometimes.
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And it goes both ways ie 7-11 store sales don't count towards Oricon, but that doesn't mean 7-11 are messing the numbers.
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