^ Really? That's so nice of him, tbh I like YAMAPI & his group NEWS xD

Anyway, can you celebrate ?
Checkmate! 93,168 + 48,489 + 31,280 + 26,503 + 21,369 + 21,060 = 241,869

No.1 for the weekly chart
& No.9 for the yearly chart

I'm so happy for Namie that this album is doing so well!

http://www.youtube.com/user/avexnetwork
Avex font video is now Checkmate! CM, I guess even they were surprised by the awesome sale of Checkmate! lol

I'm glad checkmate is doing well

Namie is on a roll and nothing's stopping her since Play LOL

Nice numbers! I love seeing that the album is doing so well.

Holy moly, that's almost hit 250,000 copies on the first week. o.o Amazing, congrats to Namie. <3

Oh course, it's no surprise she sold that much since she's pretty popular girl right now which is awesome. It's like her second peak or something. :D

Such amazing sales, I'm happy for her.

I know second week is gonna be low, but hopefully she makes it to at least 320k in the next few weeks. Even though this is a collab album it defiinitely deserves it, not to mention it was so hard to find 320kbps rips of any song on there that was previously released, we always got stuck with the crappy quality :( now I have GREAT QUALITY!!! Love bumpin' make it happen when I drive so everyone can hear!!

amazing, i'm glad because the new songs are really good, she offers High Quality!!!

Namie Amuro scores 9th #1 album!!

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/961...kmatepromo.png

Namie Amuro's latest album Checkmate! sold 253,000 units this week securing her spot at the top of the album charts. This gives Namie the rare privilege of having a number 1 album in three different decades (90s, 00s, and 2010s) Overall it's her 9th #1 album.

http://aramatheydidnt.livejournal.com/2156004.html

I'm in loooove with Yamapi and NEWS and Ryo :luv2
And also, maybe After School (they do have a name, you know, not just "those K-pop girls") fans from Korea (or Japan or any other country for that matter) bought the album because of them, and thought "Maybe this'll be good"
After School is more popular than you'd think.

congrats to namie for another #1 album! :heart

it's also really nice to see that people like yamapi! :P definately check out NEWS if you can, too! their awesome. :D

^ I agree. :yes

So Namie's official 1st week sale is around 253,000,

'Checkmate!' even surpasses 'PLAY' 1st week sale which was 250,619

http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/87301/full/

Damn, she's selling numbers in the first week that I thought she'd only get in total.

Whoa, she's still too hot to handle...

Good job, Namie. I was not and still am not excited for this release because I couldn't care less about her collaborations. So far I haven't found any songs that I really like on that album as of now ( except for Luvotomy and Do what u gotta do, but I discovered those years back ) ,but I still wish her the best of the best :)

Wow! I thought that she got about 240k for the first week. I was initially thinking "Aww, she just narrowly fell short of 250k." I'm glad that I was surprised with 253k.

I'm really happy for Namie that her album is doing so well!

Gorgeous picture! *saves*