NINKI ratings for the week of 6/5~12/5/2013
Albums:
01 89.20 Domoto Tsuyoshi - Kaba
02 23.80 Hirahara Ayaka - 10 Shunen Kinen Single Collection ~Dear Jupiter~
03 20.00 Primal Scream - More Light
04 16.70 Rod Stewart - Time
05 16.50 Suzuki Masayuki - Open Sesame
06 15.30 The Wanted - The Wanted
07 15.10 Good Morning America - Mirai e no Spiral
Singles:
01 42.00 Kasai Tomomi - Mine
02 41.40 Hoshino Gen - Gag
03 28.80 Hijirikawa Masato (Suzumura Kenichi) - Uta no☆Prince Sama♪ Maji LOVE 2000% Idol Song Hijirikawa Masato
04 25.00 Ogura Yui - Baby Sweet Berry Love
05 20.40 Bakusute Sotokanda Icchome - Baito Fighter
06 20.00 Hikasa Yoko - Utsukushiki Zankoku na Sekai
07 19.40 May'n - Run Real Run
08 18.80 Abe Yoshiharu - R
09 18.10 fripSide - sister's noise
10 15.30 access - Eien dive
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.)
Wow at those numbers! Looks like we can expect low numbers next week. :(
Source 1, 2