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One Piece Sets Another New Annual Sales Record in 2011

Alafista — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:14:23 +0000

One Piece has been setting awesome record sales with the release of each new volume (Vol 61-64) throughout this year, and hence its not surprising that One Piece refreshed its benchmark for most copies of manga sold within a year.

For the period between 22 Nov 2010 till 20 Nov 2011, One Piece has sold an impressive sales record of 37,996,373 volumes, about 5 million more copies when compared to last year’s record.

As for the rest, Naruto was ranked 2nd this year with 6,874,840 copies sold, and Ao no Exorcist ranked third with 5,223,712 copies sold.

Source: Oricon

Oricon Reveals 2011 Artist Total Sales Ranking

Alafista — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:43:25 +0000

We are nearing the end of the year and its time to read the report cards of all the artists. Considering that AKB48 managed to capture all the top five spots for this year’s top selling single, its hard to imagine anyone else that could win the title of top grossing group in terms of total sales.

Oricon totalled the sales from all CDs (singles & albums), DVDs and Blu-Ray and here are the top grossing artist for 2011:

AKB48: 16,282 million yen
Arashi (嵐): 15,369 million yen
EXILE: 5,603 million yen
KARA: 4,926 million yen
SNSD (少女時代): 4,049 million yen

Its quite interesting that two female korean pop group has managed to capture the top charts as well. Based on the rankings, it seems like Japan still love their female pop band more than the boy bands.

Japan’s Queen of Commercials is AKB48 Oshima Yuko

Alafista — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:55:57 +0000

Almost every month we will get to see few new commercials featuring members from the popular idol group AKB48, and I’ve also featured some of these CM from time to time. Oricon has compiled the ranking of celebrities which were employed to endorse products of different companies and amazingly Oshima Yuko has TV endorsements from 19 different companies between 1 Jan 2011 till 30 Nov 2011.

Even the most popular child star Ashida Mana which is making headlines so often has only managed to secure endorsements from 15 companies, and is ranked 4th.

Source: Oricon

Anyway below are a couple of my favorite commercials featuring the AKB48 girls:

Nintendo Excellent Performance in 2008

Alafista — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:18:55 +0000

We all know that Nintendo raked in big bucks from their Nintendo DS and Wii. But how well did they really perform?

Here’s a look at their ranking on the Tokyo Stock Exchange 2008 market ranking:

1. Toyota Motors: 10.160 trillion yen
2. NTT Docomo: 7.915 trillion yen
3. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group: 6.5109 trillion yen
4. Nintendo: 4.7813 trillion yen
5. Tokyo Electric: 4.586 trillion yen
6. Takeda Pharmaceutical Company: 3.7823 trillion yen
7. Canon: 3.6945 trillion yen
8. Honda: 3.4971 trillion yen
9. JT: 2.95 trillion yen
10. KDDI: 2.8478 trillion yen

Sony didn’t do that well, they are not even on the top 10 list, only managing to capture the 23rd spot.

Source: 47News via 2ch News Navigator and Kotaku

Maybe its a hint that I should be getting a Wii too ^^