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Posted by ustar TH STAFF Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Nogizaka46's 2nd single tops Oricon's weekly chart

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Nogizaka46's 2nd single, "Oide Shampoo", has sold 156,000 copies in its first week, topping the Oricon Weekly Single Ranking for the week of May 14th. Meanwhile, AKB48's Sashihara Rino's solo debut single, "Soredemo Sukidayo", sold 124,000 units, ranking in 2nd.

Both singles were released on May 2nd, and Nogizaka46 showed an impressive achievement on the�first day (May 1st) by selling 111,000 copies compared to Sashihara's 57,000. Sashihara gave a promising challenge by topping the daily charts for 5 days in a row (May 2nd to 6th).

With this, Nogizaka46 has broken their previous record of 2nd place with their debut single, "Guru Guru Curtain" (136,000 units), while Sashihara surpassed fellow AKB48 member�Watanabe Mayu, who also made her solo debut this year with "Synchro Tokimeki" (123,000).

Regarding the results, Nogizaka46's center Ikoma Rina expressed, "Honestly, I'm surprised. We used to be normal girls, but we've become idols. It made me realize how much we've grown." She continued, "Nogizaka is only at the starting point of the slope. We will do our best to become legit idols!!"

Sashihara, who took on the group by herself, commented, "I lost to Nogizaka-san, but I'm satisfied because this is the result of both of us working hard. The outcome is important, but after releasing my solo debut single, I was most happy to receive encouragement from my fans. Thank you very much."

"Soredemo Sukidayo" came in 4 different versions, but the 'Theater Edition' wasn't included in this ranking. Since Oricon's single ranking only includes singles that contains 4 or less songs, the�'Theater Edition' (5 songs) was omitted.

Source: Oricon

  1. SASHIHARA-RINO
  2. NOGIZAKA46
  3. ORICON-WEEKLY-SINGLE-RANKING
  4. SOREDEMO-SUKIDAYO
  5. OIDE-SHAMPOO
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