Confusion in ORICON News Update

[Kogepan_19]

Originally Posted by maikaru

Then I would suggest that Oricon counts the fact that it DID achieve number 1, just not on the first day.

Also, I don't think many people in Japan actually care about Oricon charts anymore, because there's been scandal after scandal of rumours that companies use different tactics to skew the oricon charts, or that the Oricon doesn't chart some sales from small stores, etc...

So the total sales sold cannot be reflected accurately by the Oricon charts.

Then wouldn't the same have to apply to Matsuda Seiko as well, since there's no way she can achieve number 1 weekly for 24 singles without having any of them taking the number in daily sales?

I definitely agree that probably many people in Japan don't care about the ORICON charts anymore, but I definitely thought it was interesting to point out this contradiction. I would say that the popularity of charts and records are definitely still active on international Ayu forums though, and of course it's great for Ayu to achieve another record but it just feels kind of pointless sometimes.