Popular idol group AKB48's latest album "1830m" (released on August 15th) has topped the Oricon weekly album chart for the week of September 3rd, making it the first time that the group has topped the weekly chart two weeks in a row.

It was also the first time in 9 years since an album by a female group topped the weekly chart for two consecutive weeks since 12 Girls Band's instrumental album "Joshi Juni Gakubou~Beautiful Energy~."

Adding this week's sales, "1830m" has now sold total of 935,000 copies. A significant feat as it's been 9 years and 8 months since a female artist's original album has sold over 900,000 copies within two weeks since the release day, with Hamasaki Ayumi being the last to achieve the feat with her album "RAINBOW."

This was the last album for�Maeda Atsuko, who just graduated from the group as a member.

Source & Image: Oricon