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

By: Mar

Mar — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:12:29 +0000

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.

By: mai

mai — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:39:36 +0000

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.

By: Naddie

Naddie — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:27:34 +0000

WOOO! Congrats to the team! :3

By: mai

mai — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:16:34 +0000

@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

By: Westlo

Westlo — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:47:08 +0000

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。」