[11/23] Juice=Juice 16th single "Zenbu Kakete GO!! / Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe ~Koi no Rival Sengen~"

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5th day : #19
https://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/d/2022-11-26/p/2/

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Billboard JAPAN Top Singles Sales (11/21~11/27)

Juice=Juice "Zenbu Kakete GO!! / Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe ~Koi no Rival Sengen~"

1st Week
Weekly Rank #4
Total Sold 60,516

https://www.billboard-japan.com/charts/ ... h=12&day=5

Sold 57,623 in the first three days, and sold an additional 2,893 the rest of the week.

https://www.billboard-japan.com/d_news/detail/119390/2

[Zunu]

Those are respectable numbers but I'm still kinda disappointed. EMMM~KnRS is such a catchy song, it deserves 100k+ sales

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They didn't have any mini live events during release week, which is very odd. Someone in management f-ed up.

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Oricon Weekly Single Sales (11/21~11/27)

Juice=Juice "Zenbu Kakete GO!! / Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe ~Koi no Rival Sengen~"
1st Week
Weekly Rank : #5
Total Sold : 38,936

1st Week comparison :
13th single "Pop Music / Suki tte Itte yo" (39,648)

Juice=Juice needs to improve.

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Oricon Weekly Combined Sales Singles chart (11/21~11/27)

Juice=Juice "Zenbu Kakete GO!! / Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe ~Koi no Rival Sengen~"

1st Week
Weekly Rank #6
Total points : 40,050 pts (CD Sales + DLs)

https://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/cos/w/2022-12-05/

[Stereo]

For my taste it's the weakest single of all singles released by Juice=Juice. It's a miracle they sold so much. I have listened the songs maybe 3 times and never again. YouTube views are so low too. Hope they switch back to previous music style.
But i'm very happy if it please some people's. HP! is big enough to offer songs for everyone.

[CaptainBerryzGiraffe]

I agree with @Stereo, I just don't think the style J=J is going in is working at all. I also personally don't like it at all... But then again, I'm clearly not the audience for their type of music.

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Billboard Japan HOT 100

1st Week
"Zenbu Kakete GO!!"
Weekly Rank : #10
Total Points : 5,240

https://www.billboard-japan.com/charts/ ... h=12&day=5

Billboard Japan Download Songs

1st Week
"Zenbu Kakete GO!!" @ #56
"Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe ~Koi no Rival Sengen~" @ #79

https://www.billboard-japan.com/charts/ ... h=12&day=5

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Radio Airplay Promotion

"Zenbu Kakete GO!!" is selected as FM-Osaka's power play song for December.
http://www.helloproject.com/news/15412/

[Idol Tenshoku Ondo]

I didn't mind Zenbu Kakete Go, but it sounded so much like Namida no Heroine Kouban Geki to me that it felt like having a redundant song in my list and if I was in the mood I would always pick Namida no Heroine anyway. Eeny Meeny I just did not like.
It still feels really weird to me to have Juice=Juice without so many of the staples that made me love Ju=Ju when they started. I know Up-Front is running groups like this now, and I can see why they do it, but there's something about the new era of Juice=Juice that I cannot get around. Either way I hope for their sake that Up-Front corrects the course (and maybe floats the number of members back down around 7.)

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Juice=Juice 16th single internet signing event with Limited Stand 11.17.22

7:30pm~ Arisawa, Ishiyama

Highlights!

After having seen this a couple of times, it seems Sakura is the weird(er) one out of these two, which is completely opposite of my initial impression.

Yah.

Quite a few Japanese fans on their blog comments and on 2ch were praying that their manager doesn't get angry later at Sakura.

Nah.

They're a good pair, though. I can see them becoming close friends.

And I think they represent a deliberate change in Juice=Juice. Many people are complaining this single is lackluster and the group isn't as good as it used to be. Well, yeah, the group used to be a collection of some of the best singers in the history of H!P, but they were also kind of boring. And I think the management realized they probably won't achieve the same level of singing in one group again, so instead they've added new members who are decent singers but have more personality.

Does this mean Juice=Juice have lost the diva quality that distinguished them from other H!P groups? Maybe, yeah, I don't know. They've had a huge amount of turnover in the last few years. They need time to rebuild.