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BanG Dream!'s Poppin'Party Single Debuts at #1 With 27,000 Copies
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The "Initial/Yume o Uchinuku Shunkan ni!" single by franchise, sold about 27,000 copies to rank #1 on the Oricon weekly singles chart for the January 6-12 week. The single is the first CD — single or album — by Poppin' Party to top Oricon's weekly charts.
The single shipped on Tuesday, and the single's title songs are the opening and ending themes, respectively, for the licensed the anime and will stream it.
The BanG Dream! franchise focuses on competing girl bands. A notable trait of the franchise is that most of the voice actresses of the story's in-universe bands perform live on stage while playing their respective characters' in-story instruments.
The main BanG Dream! television anime's first 13-episode season streamed the series as it aired.
The franchise also inspired an anime opened in 56 theaters in Japan last September.
The BanG Dream! franchise's Argonavis from BanG Dream! AASide will debut in the latter half of 2020.
Source: The Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
