NINKI ratings for the week of 17/12~23/12/2012
Albums:
01 200.80 Ikimonogakari - Baradon
02 64.40 UNICORN - Quarter Century Single Best
03 60.70 Kimura Kaela - Sync
04 49.40 UNICORN - Quarter Century Live Best
05 47.10 Choshinsei - SUPERNOVA COLLECTIONS
06 42.60 THE ELEPHANT KASHIMASHI - THE BEST 2007-2012 Oretachi no Ashita
07 32.80 Makihara Noriyuki - Dawn Over the Clover Field
08 21.80 Kusuo - √0
09 19.10 m-flo - m-flo DJ MIX "BON! ENKAI"
10 16.20 HMO Toka no Naka no Hito。 (PAw Laboratory.) - (Near Equal) MULTIPLIES
Singles:
01 201.00 Nogizaka46 - Seifuku no Mannequin
02 50.50 CNBLUE - Robot
03 43.10 supercell - Giniro Hikousen
04 43.00 Berryz Koubou - WANT!
05 41.40 DIR EN GREY - Rinkaku
06 23.80 GACKT - WHITE LOVERS -Shiawase na Toki-
07 21.90 GReeeeN - Yuki no Ne
08 21.60 DEEP - Yokaze
09 19.70 NICO Touches the Walls - Yume 1 Gou
10 18.20 KOTOKO - Restart
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 - MISIA, Babyraids, Daisy x Daisy, ACIDMAN, MINMI
Albums - BENI (live CD), TRF Idol Tribute, Hi-Fi CAMP, ET-KING, Dohzi-T, UA, ROMEO
Though I don't approve of this release by Iki, still good luck to them! Also rooting for THE ELEPHANT KASHIMASHI, DIR EN GREY, GReeeeN and NICO.
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