AKB48’s team photobooks all place within TOP 3 on Oricon rankings

On July 22nd, AKB48 released 3 photobooks, each of which featured a team, and all 3 books got TOP 3 on the Oricon weekly photobook ranking for the week of August 2nd.

Below are the first week sales:

1. AKB48 VISUAL BOOK 2010 featuring team A – 20,000 copies

2.AKB48 VISUAL BOOK 2010 featuring team B – 19,000 copies

3. AKB48 VISUAL BOOK 2010 featuring team K – 18,000 copies

It seems like anything about AKB48 sells quite well these days.

Source: Oricon Style


discussion 6comments

  1. because they sell sex -_- there, i said it.

  2. @iduncare: Don’t know about that.

  3. lol wow.
    i’ll listen to their music but never ask me to name them all.
    lol
    good for them =]

  4. AKB48 is very liked in Japan

  5. whoaa…n k-pop idols trying to take over japan?? no chance at all…

  6. thats not bad