Nikkei Ent. magazine's ranking for CD sales for 2012

[umbrellaphone]

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[eevaleena]

Okay. Now I finally understand why SoundScan numbers ALWAYS lower than Oricon. I just found out about SoundScan few month ago, so I had no idea why ^^;

[sonia_san]

Oh please, not ALWAYS. Just for example:

16h Tia Tia ‏@whited_79

Note that Soundscan doesn't cover stores like AKB shops and mu-mo/Avex shops, that's why you're not seeing AKB/Avex artists selling much.
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16h Tia Tia ‏@whited_79

Lately, Soundscan seems to cover more small/suburban/countryside stores compared to Oricon, but Oricon still covers the bigger ones more.
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16h Tia Tia ‏@whited_79

As for 8EST, it's 362k+ on Soundscan vs 363k+ on Oricon.
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16h Tia Tia ‏@whited_79

And then Ai Deshita sold 324k on Soundscan vs 320k on Oricon. Aoppana however, sold more on Oricon with 239k vs Soundscan with 234k.
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16h Tia Tia ‏@whited_79

Also very very interesting to note, Soundscan vs Oricon numbers. Singles-wise, ER sold 380k on Soundscan, while 374k on Oricon.
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16h Tia Tia ‏@whited_79

Copied from twitter so the older ones is in the bottom.

[kazuninomi]

i think soundscan is better than oricon

it tells the real sales of music without the bonus^^

[pipisays]

It's interesting to see the akb numbers without the theatre editions, they're still pretty high but I didn't realise Uza did as low as it did even with 6 versions counted.

Personally I think I prefer soundscan charts over oricons. It's not that I don't think theatre editions or special johnny shop versions shouldn't count as sales but the oricon numbers just always look a bit false instead of a reflection of popularity when you know it's just fans buying multiple editions.

edit: out of curiosity does anyone know the best place to see soundscan's weekly charts? It'd be interesting in the weekly oricon single/album/dvd arama posts to have the soundscan numbers too sometimes.

[eevaleena]

Here: http://www.phileweb.com/ranking/ Someone provided this link before. I think around the time YamaPi lost his number 1 spot to the Korean artist.

[kerplunk]

wow some numbers are lower than oricon which is understandable but then you have force by superfly selling 241k but the oricon numbers say 216k???

[asaphira_sachi]

It's possible that Soundscan counted smaller stores that Oricon didn't count.

[kerplunk]

So its safe to say that most artist sell more than what oricon publishes?

interesting...

thanks tho

[thewarpedmelody]

Just curious, what does "bonus editions of the CDs are not counted." means?

[umbrellaphone]

http://aramatheydidnt.livejournal.com/4491445.html?thread=236241077#t236241077