NINKI ratings for the week of 18/2~24/2/2012
Albums:
01 81.60 V6 - Oh! My! Goodness!
02 74.20 MISIA - Super Best Records -15th Celebration-
03 49.30 BRAHMAN - Chokoku
04 44.30 SUPER☆GiRLS - Celebration
05 36.70 MONGOL800 - GOOD MORNING OKINAWA
06 25.70 Hanazawa Kana - claire
07 23.60 TOUYU - Tokyo Pleasure Ground
08 21.30 HUSKING BEE - SOMA
09 20.30 KREVA - SPACE Instrumentals
10 18.00 D=OUT - Kabuki Desuko
Singles:
01 556.70 AKB48 - So long!
02 50.50 E-girls - THE NEVER ENDING STORY
03 43.60 TOKIO - Lyric
04 37.20 ayaka - beautiful - Chiisana Ashiato
05 36.80 THE ALFEE - Final Wars! / Mou Ichido Koko Kara Hajimeyou
06 33.90 KEITA (from w-inds.) - Slide 'n' Step
07 33.30 ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION - Ima wo Ikite
08 29.20 MAN WITH A MISSION - Emotions
09 20.90 Hirano Aya - TOxxxIC
10 19.50 Kiryu - Etsu to Utsu
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.)
I won't mind either V6 or MISIA getting no.1, so I'll be rooting for both acts. It has been a tough start to the year for AKB, so let's see how they'll do with this single. And I wonder how E-girls will do with a remake. I'm also hoping that TOKIO and ayaka will get decent numbers.
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