Macross Frontier OST 1 Debuts in Oricon at #2 (updated)
Gosh, one rank shy of the top, but I suppose 50 thousand more album sales for Kat-tun is too tough to beat. Anyway, of 8 debuts in the top 10, being ranked the second overall isn’t too bad!
Let’s see how it fares in the weekly rankings, I’d say it’ll take either ranks 2 or 3 
The release of the album also made it to Oricon’s headlines.
From the news (and my little knowledge of Japanese, someone help me :P) it seems that the highest ranking Kanno ever got in Oricon before Macross F was #44 for CMYoko, and the Macross OST making it at #2 is somehow ground breaking for her career. How bad were her sales for the previous OSTs? Or is it just that the other OSTs were not given to her name because they were shared works with other composers?
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June 5th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
I assume its because tv/anime osts (although a large niche for otaku) never sell enough to get into the top 50 etc. so, it’s pretty cool Kanno finally broke it this year!
June 6th, 2008 at 12:23 am
I have got same ranking…This marossf album is best. Congratulations!
best ranking album release sales
27 攻殻機動隊 STAND ALONE COMPLEX O.S.T.3 07/21 10023
27「創聖のアクエリオン」オリジナルサウンドトラック 06/08 6923
24 TANK! THE! BEST! 12/22 12711
14 攻殻機動隊 STAND ALONE COMPLEX O.S.T.2 05/26 11713
24 攻殻機動隊 STAND ALONE COMPLEX O.S.T. 01/22 9311
22 COWBOY BEBOP CD-BOX 06/21 12050
14 COWBOY BEBOP Knockin’on heaven’s dor O.S.T FUTURE BULES 08/29 24200
20 COWBOY BEBOP originalsoundtrack3 BLUE 05/01 17080
June 6th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
The soundtrack already dropped way off the daily rankings (I can’t even find it), so I doubt it will even make it to the top 10 in the weekly Oricon chart.
June 7th, 2008 at 12:45 am
First off, the soundtrack is still at No. 3 on the daily charts, though the index figure is about half of what it was on Wednesday. However, this is normal performance and will probably increase over the weekend. The numbers you see next to the top 3 are not actually sales numbers, but and index figure. Multiply the total by 1.75 and you get a reasonably accurate idea of how many units have sold. (As of today, that estimate is 44k) From what i’ve seen of trends from day to day, I’d say that Yoko will end up with 60~70k by the end of the week and this soundtrack will sell over 150k by the time it’s off the top 200. A very impressive feat indeed. But hey … it IS Macross. ^_^
June 7th, 2008 at 1:45 am
Today it’s 3rd, why you can’t find it?
Here’s the daily rankings page:
http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/
June 7th, 2008 at 6:17 am
Damn she’s going to smash her record for the Bebop MOvie OST, she’s already at 19-20k after two days.
June 7th, 2008 at 6:18 am
Make that 25k after 3 days, she did 5132 on day 3 and ranked at #3 again. So Macross Frontier outsold what the Bebop Movie ost did in its first week in just 3 days time.
June 7th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Weird, I didn’t see the Mac F OST on the daily chart before. Guess I need new glasses.
June 8th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
It’s still at #3! That’s good
Sorry for the lack of updates, I came from a short vacation 
June 8th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
@yy - thanks for those figures
I’m wondering why they aren’t indexed in Oricon.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
I don’t mind purchasing imports when the music is THIS good.
I can’t wait for the ost and singles to arrive.
June 10th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
It’s official. Macross F OST I is the #3 album for the week and the first anime soundtrack in nearly 11 years to place that high (last one was the OST for ‘The End of Evangelion’). Overall sales for the week was 71,633.
It actually moved up to No.2 today, though Monday sales are usually very light. When it has to compete with new releases tomorrow we’ll get a better idea of just how much staying power it has. My guess is that it will do about half of it’s first week sales (around 30~35k) which will make it gold certified in two weeks.
Major kudos to Kanno, Maaya, Megumi & May’n & the whole Macross F staff!
August 21st, 2008 at 9:55 am
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