NINKI ratings for the week of 11/3~17/3/2013
Albums:
01 78.20 Sakanaction - sakanaction
02 71.60 Bon Jovi - What About Now
03 52.20 AAA - Ballad Collection
04 26.60 m-flo - NEVEN
05 25.90 David Bowie - The Next Day
06 25.30 Daikoku-Danji - On The Way
07 24.70 √5 - ROOT FIVE
08 24.40 Orianthi - Heaven In This Hell
09 22.20 Daisuke - Hoshi no Drop
10 21.70 Sano Motoharu - ZOOEY
Singles:
01 249.70 Nogizaka46 - Kimi no Na wa Kibou
02 121.10 Yamashita Tomohisa - Ke Sera Sera
03 98.80 Kuwata Keisuke - Yin Yang / Namida wo Buttobase!! / Oishii Himitsu
04 63.60 SHINee - Fire
05 60.70 AAA - PARTY IT UP
06 53.20 E-girls - CANDY SMILE
07 39.80 Berryz Koubou - Asian Celebration
08 34.00 SHU-I - Achakocha SORRY
09 19.50 supercell - The Bravery
10 19.10 CROSS GENE - Shooting Star
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 (according to CDJapan listing):
Singles - SPYAIR, VALSHE, ART-SCHOOL, J-MIN
Albums - girl next door, TRF tribute album, BiS, BIGMAMA, Uemura Kana, PUSHIM, Ohashi Trio, BREATHE, 9nine, Sakuragakuin, Nerdhead, ORANGE CARAMEL
Sakanaction will probably get their first no.1. Go for it!
And I think that Kuwata-san might get ahead of Yamapi in the weekly sales.
Source 1, 2