Rock'n'Roll Circus NINKI chart ranking

[Coelacanth]

What exactly is the purpose of NINKI? It's so pointless.

[rakeru]

Of course it'll be #1, but I'm not expecting sales to be all that great. >.< Good to see she has a lead on the competition, though.

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by Coelacanth

What exactly is the purpose of NINKI? It's so pointless.

I suppose it's for people who only buy what's "in" and they can look at the NINKI to decide what to buy, haha.

[Jwiz]

^ No wonder Arashi's sales keeps getting higher and higher sigh.

[Unai_]

We will see R'n'RC sales next week, i don't like NINKI so much because i don't understand xD!

NL sales were not too high but the album was on charts for a big period !

[Bigtop]

Well, I think this might be a little bit harder, particularly because of UVERworld, but they're not doing a promotion path strategy that Ayu is using...

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

I suppose it's for people who only buy what's "in" and they can look at the NINKI to decide what to buy, haha.

No one even knows/cares about what Ninki is unless they have an Oricon fetish or something. It's really not a big deal here I don't think.

[ストロボ・EdGE]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

No.

I don't know what they use, but they tend to say "400 people were polled" but sometimes numbers can climb into the high 500s if it's Arashi or something. I really don't know HOW / WHY that hapens, but I guess it'd be better to say that these NINKI numbers are a sort of index that comes from some other figure. Like if there's a high percentage of old people, their "yay I will buy it" counts as more... or something, haha.

Then what's the highest you can get? I always assumed the ninki number was the number of people who responded positively out of the ones polled.

[truehappiness]

Then what's the highest you can get? I always assumed the ninki number was the number of people who responded positively out of the ones polled.

Highest I've seen was 570+.

575.00 嵐 - Ａｌｌ　ｔｈｅ　ＢＥＳＴ！　１９９９－２００９

Another really high Arashi NINKI:

Singles

Arashi - 453.9
Tohoshinki - 105.7
flumpool - 68.7
GACKT - 40.4
C-ute - 40.1
Sakai Ayumi x twenty4-7- 25.1
John Hoon - 23.5
Tsuchiya Anna - 20.8
Kalafina - 19.7
AZU - 15.7

Albums

Fukuyama Masaharu - 218.1
Sid - 42.4
Toshihide Baba - 21.1
MEGARYU - 20.3
Micro - 16.6

Ayu's is higher than Fukuyama Masaharu's for Zankyou, and he ended up selling a LOT.

SunshineSlayer commenting on the single one elsewhere:

Holy freakin' HUH?! That is by far the highest Ninki number I've ever seen....isn't it supposed to be 400 people only?!

I honestly didn't see Arashi going any higher than they currently were given the current music industry conditions but wow, that's awesome if this Ninki number actually ends up being an accurate indicator.

It doesn't appear that we know exactly how they calculate the NINKI... -sigh-

Another recent NINKI:

01 250.50 東方神起 - BEST SELECTION 2010
02 46.50 May J. - for you
03 36.10 AAA - HEARTFUL
04 30.90 茅原実里 - Sing All Love
05 26.10 The Birthday - STAR BLOWS
06 22.40 樋口了一 - よろこびのうた
07 17.00 SunSet Swish - 夕暮れマエストロ
08 15.30 相川七瀬 - NANASE AIKAWA BEST ALBUM "ROCK or DIE"
09 14.20 Lil Wayne - Rebirth
10 11.20 Blur - All the People: Blur Live at Hyde Park

#1 here was only about 30~ points higher than Ayu. I suppose Arashi is just... amazing?

[ストロボ・EdGE]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Another recent NINKI:


#1 here was only about 30~ points higher than Ayu. I suppose Arashi is just... amazing?

Number one on that list is Tohoshinki..

In any case, yes, I'm tired of Arashi and this boy band fever (although Tohoshinki has some good songs). The era of solo female singers needs to shine once more!!

I don't even care if it's not Ayu, just... not all these dancing, lip synching man-boys.

[truehappiness]

Number one on that list is Tohoshinki..

I know. My Arashi comment was in reference to their ability to get HUGE NINKI numbers compared to other acts. It was unrelated to the chart specifically.

[ストロボ・EdGE]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

I know. My Arashi comment was in reference to their ability to get HUGE NINKI numbers compared to other acts. It was unrelated to the chart specifically.

Oh okay, haha. I'm sure you can tell the difference by sight 東方起神　and　嵐．

Going back to what I said earlier, I'd assume you don't personally actually care about (or detest the fact of) boy bands being at the top though right?

[truehappiness]

Going back to what I said earlier, I'd assume you don't personally actually care about (or detest the fact of) boy bands being at the top though right?

Eh?

Well, I pretend that they don't exist usually on the charts since their inclusion throws off the top 20 yearlies since there're like 5 singles from 3 different boy bands in it, haha.

So I like to think of the yearlies without them and judge people's sales from there, haha.

[Sironigous]

I'm starting to think that NINKI is based on the sales of the last record...

[Cherry Dynamite]

Boy bands begone! I just wish they'll disappear from the face of the music industry.