[10/4 ORICON] Current Yearly TOP 40

[ayu_fan929]

-It's still a down year for both singles and albums, but there's still a few more big single releases in October that could boost TOP 50 singles sales up.

-Kobukuro's "ALL SINGLES BEST" just recently had the 2nd highest album 1st week sales of the year, behind Koda Kumi's "BEST ~second session~" with 556,988 units. "(miss) understood" doesn't count as it was over a 2 week period.

-It should be interesting to see how the bottom half of the TOP 10 albums will play out with 3 albums ("ULTRA BLUE", "(miss) understood" and "NAMELESS WORLD") all within at least 15k of each and now with "ALL SINGLES BEST" poised to pass 800k within at least 2 weeks.
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For those wondering how well 2006 is doing here are some stats:
2005 TOP 50 Single Sales (Up to 1st Week of October): 16,364,710
2006 TOP 50 Single Sales (Up to 1st Week of October): 15,996,077
2006 Decrease of 368,633 or 2.25%

2005 TOP 50 Album Sales (Up to 1st Week of October): 29,655,715
2006 TOP 50 Album Sales (Up to 1st Week of October): 26,677,625
2006 Decrease of 2,978,090 or 10.04%
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TOP 40 SINGLES
01 1,035,102 'Real Face' - KAT-TUN
02 *,754,448 'Konayuki' - Remioromen (Total: 847,932)
03 *,672,159 'Seishun Amigo' - Shuuji to Akura (Total: 1,617,474) *63rd best selling Japanese single*
04 *,596,555 'Daite Senorita' - Yamashita Tomohisa
05 *,562,196 'Tada...Aitakute' - EXILE
06 *,561,862 'SIGNAL' - KAT-TUN
07 *,511,562 'Junrenka' - Shonannokaze
08 *,483,860 'supernova/karma' - BUMP OF CHICKEN
09 *,419,399 'Taiyou no Uta' - Kaoru Amane
10 *,413,167 'Dear WOMAN' - SMAP
11 *,405,586 'Houkiboshi' - Mr. Children
12 *,383,467 '4 hot wave' - Koda Kumi
13 *,358,170 'milk tea/Utsukushiki Hana' - Fukuyama Masaharu
14 *,342,696 'Tabibito' - Ketsumeishi
15 *,340,768 'Triangle' - SMAP
16 *,330,164 'SPLASH!' - B'z
17 *,317,397 'SNOW! SNOW! SNOW!' - KinKi Kids
18 *,312,282 'Sorafune/do! do! do!' - TOKIO
19 *,310,516 'Natsumoyo' - KinKi Kids
20 *,304,370 'Shodo' - B'z
21 *,301,192 'Venus' - Tackey & Tsubasa
22 *,292,346 'Fever to Future' - GYM
23 *,287,307 'to U' - Bank Band
24 *,271,186 'Koi no Tsubomi' - Koda Kumi
25 *,260,667 'Sakura' - Kobukuro (Total: 421,698)
26 *,259,874 'Deep in your heart/+ MILLION but - LOVE' - Domoto Koichi
27 *,258,566 'BLUE BIRD' - Hamasaki Ayumi
28 *,233,375 'Yuruginaimono Hitotsu' - B'z
29 *,224,827 'I believe' - ayaka
30 *,222,848 'Sayaendou/Hadashi no Cinderella Boy' - NEWS
31 *,221,965 'DIRTY OLD MAN ~Saraba Natsu Yo~ - Southern All Stars
32 *,220,955 'Champione' - ORANGE RANGE
33 *,220,826 'Good-bye days' - YUI
34 *,218,807 'Teru no Uta' - Teshima Aoi
35 *,211,399 'Precious' - Yuna Ito
36 *,207,543 'Age Age EVERY Knight' - DJ OZMA
37 *,206,076 'ANSWER' - GLAY feat. KYOSUKE HIMURO
38 *,202,645 'Kitto Daijobu' - Arashi
39 *,200,531 'Osaka Obachan ROCK/Osaka Romanesque' - Kanjani 8
40 *,200,423 'Only Human' - K
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44 *,188,551 'Startin'/Born To Be...' - Hamasaki Ayumi

TOP 40 ALBUMS
01 2,059,761 'Single Collection '95-'05 "UTABAKA" ' - Hirai Ken *69th best selling Japanese album*
02 1,754,014 'BEST ~second session~' - Koda Kumi *96th best selling Japanese album*
03 1,212,294 'Catch The Wave' - Def Tech
04 1,191,725 'B'z The Best "Pleasure II" ' - B'z
05 1,097,675 'BEST' - Nakashima Mika
06 *,877,433 '(miss) understood' - Hamasaki Ayumi
07 *,871,327 'ULTRA BLUE' - Utada Hikaru
08 *,864,743 'NAMELESS WORLD' - Kobukuro
09 *,826,450 'LOVE COOK' - Otsuka Ai
10 *,736,738 'Best of KAT-TUN' - KAT-TUN
11 *,672,641 'CYCLE HIT '91-'97 Single Collection' - Spitz
12 *,637,680 'Sora Ippai ni Kanaderu Inori' - Aqua Timez (Total: 639,855)
13 *,632,753 'HORIZON' - Remioromen
14 *,622,341 'BEST ~first things~' - Koda Kumi (Total: 1,830,134) *89th best selling Japanese album*
15 *,601,983 'Beautiful Songs ~Kokoro de kiku Uta~' - Various Artists
16 *,556,988 'ALL SINGLES BEST' - Kobukuro
17 *,540,953 'Daniel Powter' - Daniel Powter
18 *,535,583 'MONSTER' - B'z
19 *,535,215 'CYCLE HIT '97-'05 Single Collection' - Spitz
20 *,501,682 'ASIA' - EXILE
21 *,471,616 'Every Single Day -Complete BONNIE PINK (1995-2006)- - BONNIE PINK
22 *,464,545 'THE LOVE ROCKS' - DREAMS COME TRUE
23 *,457,078 'Confidence' - HY
24 *,435,842 'Pop Up! SMAP' - SMAP
25 *,431,604 'Home' - Angela Aki
26 *,427,037 'OUTGROW' - BoA
27 *,425,938 'Curtain Call: The Hits" - EMINEM
28 *,420,420 'Kanojo' - aiko
29 *,392,167 'Shonannokaze ~Riders High~' - Shonannokaze
30 *,390,407 'AMARANTINE' - Enya
31 *,360,718 'Stadium Arcadium' - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
32 *,356,218 'Confessions on a Dancefloor' - Madonna (Total: 409,281)
33 *,328,655 'Back to Bedlam' - James Blunt
34 *,323,636 'Wave' - YUKI
35 *,293,604 'Adult' - Tokyo Jihen
36 *,292,435 'Def Tech' - Def Tech (Total: 1,950,066) *77th best selling Japanese album*
37 *,255,754 'Ribbon' - Yuzu
38 *,253,137 'Fun Club' - ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION
39 *,250,698 'Call Me Miss...' - Crystal Kay
40 *,231,211 'Bakushou Super Live Dai 2 Shu! Ganbatte Itadakitaino...' - Ayanokouji Kimimaro
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2006 Current Breakdown of Singles (vs. Same Time 2005)
1 million+ = 1 single (vs. 0 single)
500k+ = 7 singles (vs. 5 singles)
250k+ = 27 singles (vs. 31 singles)

2006 Current Breakdown of Albums (vs. Same Time 2005)
1 million+ = 5 albums (vs. 7 albums)
500k+ = 20 albums (vs. 19 albums)
250k+ = 39 albums (vs. 47 albums)