^x2
... lest we for forget though, the last few MM singles that managed to get an oricon weekly #1st after 2003 are
-- *1 *1 *1 *2 *4 *5 *1 *84,251 03/04/23(水) モーニング娘。「AS FOR ONE DAY」
-- *1 *1 *1 *1 *1 *1 *1 *40,967 06/11/08(水) モーニング娘。「歩いてる」
-- *1 *5 *1 *2 *5 *6 *1 *47,528 09/05/13(水) モーニング娘。「しょうがない 夢追い人」
If you take into account that the singles between those oricon 1st singles only averages about 30-50k total and compare it to MM's last three singles...
123 ワクテカ ヘルプミー
12/07/04 12/10/10 13/01/23
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━
火 *56,139 *54,047 *61,291
水 *14,104 **7,720 **6,786
木 *13,824 **3,995 **5,011
金 **4,682 **8,406 **5,312
土 **6,098 ***,*** ***,***
日 **3,856 **3,658 ***,***
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━
合 *98,703 *77,826 *78,400
I'm still PRETTY FRIKKIN HAPPY with the direction we're going right now