The Recording Industry Association of Japan (or ‘RIAJ’) has just released their hard copy sales certifications for the month of June.

This certification is based off the total numbers of CDs and DVDs sold to retailers.

RIAJ hands out these awards based on the following standards:

Gold - 100,000 units sold
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“Daiichi Kosho“, a karaoke system company, have revealed the top picks for their karaoke request ranking. The survey period spanned from the beginning of 2011 up until June 11th, and ranks the most popular karaoke songs for the first half of 2011.

AKB48 managed to dominate the first half of 2011, as well as Korean idols KARA and Shoujo Jidai (SNSD).

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The group GReeeeN has just launched its “Green boys Project,” another contribution to all of the people still dealing with the consequences of the March 11 earthquake. The project will revolve around the free release of their new song “Green boys,” which is being used as the theme song of the NHK program “Athlete no Tamashii.”

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