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Macross F OST 2 Debuts in Oricon Daily Album Rankings at #1

OMG OMG OMG!!! I feel so happy (what a funny thing to say since I’m not part of the production eh but whatever!)!

This is more than double the first day sales for OST 1, which sold about 10,000 in the first day! I think the first day sales of OST 2, that’s 24932 copies, is a safe distance from the sales of the #2 spot occupied by Mariya Takeuchi selling 11924 copies. It’s also a good position since there are 6 debuts, and the other debut landed at #3. So, while I think I’m counting chickens before they hatch, I can’t help feeling happy about the turnout. Finally Kanno gets a big one :)

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14 Responses to “Macross F OST 2 Debuts in Oricon Daily Album Rankings at #1”

  1. Mini-A Says:
    October 9th, 2008 at 8:42 am

    Omg…this is CRAZY! D=

  2. omo Says:
    October 9th, 2008 at 10:20 am

    Best OST/vocal image album/musical soundtrack from anime ever

  3. KT Says:
    October 9th, 2008 at 10:53 am

    Wow….I’m feeling very excited about this too!!! Can’t believe an anime OST managed to top the Oricon chart…..hopefully it’ll stay up there for the weeklies…^^ Omedetou!!!!

  4. beppu Says:
    October 9th, 2008 at 10:53 am

    Congrats to Yoko, May’n, Megumi, and all the other musicians on a job well done.

  5. Brownie Says:
    October 9th, 2008 at 11:18 am

    lol…that’s exciting. It’s a good soundtrack to begin with and two of my most favourite songs are on it. So that’s cool indeed.

  6. Kai Says:
    October 9th, 2008 at 11:29 am

    @Omo, better than Bebop? Are you sure :)?

  7. mai Says:
    October 9th, 2008 at 11:36 am

    @Kai - aha, good one! :D Let’s not forget Bebop, that one had one obsessive-compulsive director when it came to music, they just nailed it! There’s Tank! in the OP, then Green Bird, then Blue to name a few. Very memorable scenes, they just stick in your head, both music and animation :)

  8. mai Says:
    October 9th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    @all - get a view of the Macross F displays in Akihabara in this website:

    http://www.akibaos.com/?p=4172

    This one is especially surprising, just look at the shelves to the left:
    http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=20081007a05cj2.jpg

  9. Kai Says:
    October 9th, 2008 at 3:13 pm

    Although I love many of the songs in Mac F as a whole package it just doesn’t match Bebop for me. @Mai, the Ballad of the Fallen Angel episode is still one of my favourites in anime. Mai (Yamane)’s Rain leading into the Woo style fight in the church and ending in Green Bird is hard to beat in my book. And I still get man tears, even now, when I watch the Blue scene and credits. As Kanno efforts go, Bebop is a 10, Mac F would probably be an 8.

    As for the Akiba displays, interest in the show will be pretty high right now so they would be crazy not to push the album. Hopefully the demand will result in ost3.

  10. Westlo Says:
    October 9th, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    Mai you forgot something when looking at Oricon charts…. you have to multiply the sales by 1.75.

    So for this current week album sales are…

    ALBUMS
    x->1 - Macross Frontier - 24,932 (x1.7) = 42,384
    1->2 - Takeuchi Mariya - 9,917 + 11,924 (x1.7) = 37,130
    x->3 - melody. - 5,111 (x1.7) = 8,689

    Also Trickster falls fast…

    *3 *5 *5 *5 *7 *7↓14　水樹奈々 「Trickster」
    25 19 21 21 23 18／15　May’n/中島愛 「ライオン」

    And OST 1 gets a nice boost

    – — 46 49 — –↑29　菅野よう子 「マクロスF(フロンティア)O.S.T.1 娘フロ。」

  11. mai Says:
    October 9th, 2008 at 4:16 pm

    @Westlo - I don’t put the multiplier since it’s not an accurate number either, just an estimate. It’s a variable multiplier that sort of “guesses” the real sales figures since Oricon only tallies the big-name record stores selling the CDs within Japan. For anime CDs, the multiplier is generally thought of as higher than local Japanese artist CDs since many foreigners import anime CDs. But that is where it breaks down - how much do you multiply to get the accurate amount of imports, etc?

    So taking the multipliers aside, Oricon raw tallies are what I base my posts on, since it’s the base measure they use to rank the CDs. Good to have an estimate of what the real figures are using multipliers though, so thanks :)

  12. Naddie Says:
    October 10th, 2008 at 11:27 am

    WOOO! Congrats to the team! :3

  13. mai Says:
    October 10th, 2008 at 11:39 am

    I’ll do a daily tally in this comment.
    –edit–

    I just realized that I was tallying Mariya’s sales inaccurately: It’s her second week, therefore her sales on Monday will count along with the rest of the week. Macross F debuted on Tuesday, which means Tuesday onwards will be counted, along with all preorders that were made for it. So my tally before has been inaccurate to some degree. Macross F is still leading, but only by a few CDs, though I doubt that it will win right now against Mariya. First of all, her album is a best-of compilation album containing 4 discs, and while I don’t know if the CD count matters, but the best-of compilation of a popular artist is really quite hard to beat. So there, I rest my case, I still hope OST 2 gets rank 1 in the weeklies.

  14. Mar Says:
    October 11th, 2008 at 6:12 pm

    This is indeed great news.

    Thanks to Yoko Kanno, Gabriela Robin, May’n, Megumi Nakajima, and everyone involved with OST #2.

    I’ll definitely be purchasing this asap.

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