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Hey! Say! JUMP topped the sales charts this week with their latest single “OVER,” selling over 265,000 copies. This breaks their personal record for highest first-week sales, surpassing their 2007 debut single “Ultra Music Power” (247,000). They now have 7 consecutive #1 singles starting from their debut.

1. Hey! Say! JUMP - OVER - 265,390
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Oricon has released its half-year photo book ranking for the year of 2011, proving AKB48’s huge popularity once again.

Coming in first place on the photo book chart with over 113,000 units sold is “AKB 1/48 Idol to Koi Shitara… Koushiki Kouryaku Visual Book“, which also topped the charts in the last half-year ranking for photobooks. “AKB48 Yusatsu ( Read more... )

Oricon surveyed 900 employed people between the ages of 20 and 40 on which celebrity they thought had an “ideal new employee” image.

The results from the survey can be seen below!

Male Category

10. Oguri Shun
9. Mukai Osamu
8. Sakurai Sho
7. Koike Teppei
6. Okada Masaki

5. Sato Takeru
4. Ishikawa Ryo
3. Saito Yuki
2. Miura Haruma
1. Mizobata Junpei

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Last week, Kanjani8 released their new single “My Home,” the second of three singles in consecutive months. It went on to sell a little over 158,000 copies, becoming their fourth #1 single in a row.

Meanwhile, the AKB48 sub-unit French Kiss took the #2 spot with “Kakkowarui I love you!” All three of their singles so far have placed in the top five, ( Read more... )

Below is the result of Oricon’s Weekly Charts for the week of May 16th!

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Single Weekly Ranking
1. “Shoujo Hikou (Limited Edition A)” - PASSPO☆ : 5/4 (42,706)
2. “Your Luv (Limited Edition A type)” - MBLAQ : 5/4 (40,281)
3. “Let It Go (A type)” - THE ALFEE : 5/3 (23,018)
4. “Let me cry” - Jang Keun Suk : 4/27 (22,707)
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Kanjani8’s 16th single, “T.W.L / Yellow Pansy Street,” topped the rankings this week with almost 201,000 copies sold. This is now their 11th number-one single, and their 3rd in a row.

1. Kanjani8 - T.W.L / Yellow Pansy Street - 200,816
2. F.T Island - SATISFACTION - 34,163
3. SCANDAL - Haruka - 21,974
4. B'z - Sayonara Kizu Darake no Hibi yo - 19,235
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