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AKB48's 5th Consecutive Single Sells 1 Million+ Copies
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
The Mariko Shinoda's first time as a center singer on an AKB48 single CD.
"Ue kara Mariko" topped Oricon's weekly single CD sales ranking dated December 19, and AKB48 became the first artists ever to sell four consecutive "First Week Million" singles in Japan. All five of AKB48's 2011 single CDs have sold over one million copies. AKB48 has released six total single CDs to sell more than one million copies including "Beginner," which sold 826,989 copies in its first week in 2010.
AKB48 are now the Japanese female artists with the most million-selling singles, having sured GLAY for having five million-selling singles in a row.
Source: Oricon via My Game News Flash
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