AKB48 tops Oricon’s ‘Yearly Market Report’ total sales
It was revealed on Oricon’s 2012 “Yearly Market Report,” which summarized the total sales for music and software, that AKB48 has for the second time in a row topped the “market share by artist” category with approximately ¥19,100,000,000 ($212,104,276 USD) or 5.9% of the market share in sales.
Last year, AKB48 topped the 2011 chart with ¥16,280,000,000 ($180,788,357) in sales, but …



