Macross OST 1 Debuts in Oricon Weekly Charts At #3
Today, OST 1 debuted in the the Oricon weekly rankings at #3 with 71633 units sold. It’s also fair to note that before Macross F OST 1, the last anime OST that made it to the top 3 in Oricon was the End of Evangelion soundtrack, 11 years ago.
Cheers for the Macross/Kanno/Sakamoto/May’n/Megumi/and everyone else communities 
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June 11th, 2008 at 11:36 am
gone up to 2nd place now
June 11th, 2008 at 11:53 am
For the weekly rankings, it’s still #3, but for daily, it’s #2. Is there still hope to get to #2 in the weekly rankings? Hmmm. Buy everyone! Buy it! Buy for your friends too if you can
June 11th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Hooray! Cheers!
June 13th, 2008 at 1:35 am
daily charts just dropped to #6, but its slowly moving back up.
June 13th, 2008 at 10:12 am
There were tons of debuts, and it’s really tougher to top the Albums charts than the Singles. At least it got to #2.
June 13th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Nabbed from Ykfan via ffbum:
http://ykfan.cn/bbs/thread-4845-1-1.html
Post-1990 Anime related albums in Oricon Top 10 on debut:
Debut week | Oricon Rank | Albums sold | Album Title / Composer or Type
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1990/03/26 9th 11,730 Samurai Troopers ／TV Soundtrack
1993/08/30 7th 36,830 Yu Yu Hakusho Music Battle ／TV Soundtrack
1994/03/28 10th *20,870 Yu Yu Hakusou OST Vol.2／TV Soundtrack
1994/05/09 5th *30,420 Yu Yu Hakusou Meikai Shitou Hen - Honoo no Kizuna／Movie Soundtrack
1994/06/13 9th *21,950 Ah My Goddess Music Collection Vol.2 Super／Soundtrack
1994/08/29 6th *35,700 Yu Yu Hakusou Music Battle 2/TV Soundtrack
1995/02/13 9th *38,250 Macross 7 MUSIC SELECTION FROM GALAXY NETWORK CHART／Fire Bomber and others (3 weeks consecutive in the Top 10)
1995/06/19 4th *84,800 Macross 7 Let’s Fire!!／Fire Bomber
1995/09/04 9th *43,620 Macross 7 LIVE FIRE!!!／Fire Bomber
1995/10/30 9th *67,550 Macross 7 SECOND FIRE!!／Fire Bomber
1996/02/26 4th *81,620 NEON GENESIS EVANGELION II／TV Soundtrack (2 weeks consecutive in the Top 10)
1996/06/03 1st 117,190 NEON GENESIS EVANGELION III／TV Soundtrack (2 weeks consecutive in the Top 10)
1996/12/30 5th 85,950 NEON GENESIS EVANGELION ADDITION／Movie Soundtrack
1996/12/30 10th 56,390 Sakura Wars Vocal Collections／Kouhei Tanaka and others
1997/06/23 1st 209,930 EVANGELION DEATH／TV Soundtrack (2 weeks consecutive in the Top 10)
1997/10/06 3rd 164,820 THE END OF EVANGELION／Movie Soundtrack (2 weeks consecutive in the Top 10)
1997/12/15 10th 53,250 EVANGELION-VOX／LOREN and others
1998/05/11 10th 42,900 Sakura Wars 2 Vocal Collection／Kouhei Tanaka and others
2008/06/16 3rd 72,000 Macross FRONTIER O.S.T.「Nyan Fro」／Yoko Kanno
I do note that Macross 7 was fairly successful on the charts, and that last 10 year gap, wow. Eva albums also tore up the charts.
June 13th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
I can’t believe that the Evangelion OST 2 one had 81,000 sales and landed itself on the 4th only!
Recent technology allowing people to download music have generally led to an over-all decline in CD sales all over the world, so I would say that Macross F getting up there is a success parallel to what the Evangelion OSTs achieved.
June 21st, 2008 at 7:20 am
The OST dropped to 6th on the 2nd week, but at least it’s on top of Kat-tun. There are 4 albums that debuted this week. Without the debuts, it would have been second to Minmi’s album.