[08/14] Morning Musume. '24 74th Single - Nandaka Sentimental na Toki no Uta / SaiKIYOU

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4th day on Oricon : #2 with 2,381 sold

https://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/d/2024-08-15/

95,281 + 2,192 + 1,319 + 2,381 = 101,173

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Promotion on TV

Morning Musume. '24 Ishida Ayumi, Sakurai Rio, and Yumigeta Ako will be studio guests on the show "Otoboke POPS"

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"Otoboke POPS" 8.18.24 - Studio guests Morning Musume. '24 Ishida Ayumi, Sakurai Rio, Yumigeta Ako
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1QAWNeSEYw/

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5th day on Oricon : no.8
https://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/d/2024-08-17/

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Billboard Japan First Three Day Singles Sales Report (8/12~8/14) :

Morning Musume. '24 at #1 with 140,277 copies sold so far.

https://www.billboard-japan.com/d_news/detail/140593/2

First Three day sales comparison :
"Suggoi FEVER! / Wake-up Call~Mezameru Toki~ / Neverending Shine" (127,269) *Fukumura Mizuki's last
"Swing Swing Paradise / Happy birthday to Me!" (119,100 ; #1) *Kaga Kaede's last
"Chu Chu Chu Bokura no Mirai / Dai Jinsei Never Been Better!" (110,528) *Morito Chisaki's last
"Teenage Solution / Yoshi Yoshi Shite Hoshii no / Beat no Wakusei" (138,000) *Sato Masaki's last

Billboard Japan screwed up, deleted the link, and changed Morning Musume. '24's First Three Day Singles Sales (with a note saying : "Corrected on 8/19" (took them 5 days to correct it)

Morning Musume. '24 at #1 with 130,985 copies sold so far. They didn't say why they made such a blatant mistake.

https://www.billboard-japan.com/d_news/detail/140696/2

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Promotion

A Morning Musume. '24 special corner will be broadcast during "Ministop Non-stop Music" radio inside Ministop convenient stores. From August 20th to September 2nd, Ishida Ayumi, Makino Maria, and Yumigeta Ako will appear.
Please check it out at a Ministop store nationwide.

http://www.helloproject.com/news/17757/

They did this before in 2020.

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6th day on Oricon @ #3 with 1,765 to end the week.
https://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/d/2024-08-18/

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Morning Musume. '24 at #1 with 130,985 copies sold so far. They didn't say why they made such a blatant mistake.

https://www.billboard-japan.com/d_news/detail/140696/2

At least they're still very comfortably in first place with #2 only at 22k.

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Billboard Japan Top Singles Sales Report (8/12~8/18) :

Morning Musume. '24 74th Single "Nandaka Sentimental na Toki no Uta / SaiKIYOU"
1st Week
Weekly Rank : #1
Total Sold : 136,205

https://www.billboard-japan.com/charts/ ... =08&day=26

Sold 130,985 in the first three days, and sold an additional 5,220 the rest of the week.

Surpasses the previous single's sales.

Their previous Weekly #1 was back in 2022 for "Swing Swing Paradise / Happy birthday to Me!"

https://www.billboard-japan.com/d_news/detail/140707/2

Previous Single 1st Week Sales total comparison :
"Suggoi FEVER! / Wake-up Call~Mezameru Toki~ / Neverending Shine" (135,797) *Fukumura Mizuki's last
"Swing Swing Paradise / Happy birthday to Me!" (121,814 ; #1) *Kaga Kaede's last
"Chu Chu Chu Bokura no Mirai / Dai Jinsei Never Been Better!" (123,471) *Morito Chisaki's last
"Teenage Solution / Yoshi Yoshi Shite Hoshii no / Beat no Wakusei" (151,068) *Sato Masaki's last

Eripon can now brag about being the best leader.

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Oricon Weekly #1 and 103k sold

1st Week
Weekly Rank : #1
Total sold : 103,399

*1 *1 *3 *2 *8 *3 **1

https://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/w/2024-08-26/

This is Morning Musume's first #1 single in 1 year and 8 months since "Swing Swing Paradise/Happy birthday to Me" (2022) and their 21st #1 single in total. This is Morning Musume's 74th consecutive TOP 10 single and they continue to hold the record.

This is the latest single of Morning Musume, the new 13-member group with Ikuta Erina as the 10th generation leader. This double A-side single includes "Nandaka Sentimental na Toki no Uta," a dark song with an impressive piano melody, and "SaiKIYOU," a dance number with impressive self-affirming lyrics.

Number of singles in the Top 10 : #1: Morning Musume. (74 singles), #2: AKB48 (63 singles), #3: Arashi, THE ALFEE (58 singles)

https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2340910/full/

Morning Musume gets another Gold medal

All 47 members of Morning Musume's history have now experienced getting 1st place on Oricon.

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Mezamashi TV morning news recognizing Morning Musume. '24's Oricon Weekly #1 ranking

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Oricon daily #9 to start the 2nd week
https://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/d/2024-08-19/

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Billboard Japan HOT 100

"Nandaka Sentimental na Toki no Uta"
1st Week
Weekly Rank : #4
Total pts : 6,745 pts

https://www.billboard-japan.com/charts/ ... =08&day=26

Billboard Japan Download Songs

"Nandaka Sentimental na Toki no Uta"
1st Week
Weekly Rank : #10

"SaiKIYOU"
1st Week
Weekly Rank : #14

https://www.billboard-japan.com/charts/ ... =08&day=26

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Daily #27 with new releases out
https://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/d/2024-08-20/p/3/

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Oricon Weekly Combined Single Sales (8/12~8/18)

Morning Musume. '24 74th Single "Nandaka Sentimental na Toki no Uta / SaiKIYOU"
1st Week
Weekly Rank : #1
Total Pts : 106,160 pts (CD Sales & DLs)

https://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/cos/w/2024-08-26/

Oricon Weekly Digital Single sales (8/12~8/18)

"SaiKIYOU"
1st Week
Weekly Rank : #14
Total Downloads : 3,025 DLs

"Nandaka Sentimental na Toki no Uta"
1st Week
Weekly Rank : #18
Total Downloads : 2,524 DLs

https://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/dis/w/2024-08-26/p/2/