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Old 5th January 2013, 12:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Polyrhythm View Post
Oricon went into some wacky end of the year schedule...they've stopped counting daily sales until January 3. The AKB48 stage albums released on 1/1/13. I wouldn't expect them to chart that well actually....they're just stage albums after all (even though that's where their best material is at and these "lost" stages are amazing).
Yeah, I'm not surprised about that. I agree with you. This isn't considered part of the "core" releases (in my definition - "core" releases are new singles, studio albums)...so I'm guessing this would sell modest at most, maybe something like for "hardcore" AKB48 fans or something...