MYNAME's "I.M.G - Without You" Tops Oricon Album Chart + Listening Post!

[dc222.livejournal.com]

According to the Oricon Chart, MYNAME’s ‘I.M.G –Without You’, which was released on March 10, recorded 34,879 album sales and ranked first on the Oricon Album Daily Chart.

The album also placed first on the Daily Album Chart of Tower Records Shibuya store and the group proved its tremendous popularity in Japan.

MYNAME said, “When we heard the news, we were so happy. Since we’ve done activities in Japan consistently, we made a great result. As we released an album in Korea as well, we will keep doing our best.”

Meanwhile, MYNAME flew over to Japan for its promotion and the group will continue its activities in Korea a week later.


Sources: BNTNews, InsooOppa on SoundCloud

Comments

[hyungmoney.livejournal.com]

i haven't fully listened to this but i love 'music of my life' and the 'without you interlude' is making me feel some type of way

[celyn-jo.livejournal.com]

Looking at Oricon, they're the only artists who released in March 10, so it's not shocking that they got the number 1 spot for that day. They simply had no competition. http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2015-03-10/

For their second day (normal release date), however, says a different thing.

[win03die.livejournal.com]

like celyn_jo said, they released it they day before all other albums release. It means it was the slowest day of the week (being the last day of the 1st charting week of the releases that were out that previous week).
Imho doesn't really deserve to be called "tops oricon daily on the day of the release" because lol, but I guess the company is willing to stoop this low.

(also wow the gimmicks and selling less than 4000 on the 2nd day)

[dc222.livejournal.com]

It's a Daily Chart, meaning it ranks the album sales of that specific day. So it wasn't #1 on the day of release? Was it #2?

More important than the rank though is the actual sales of 34,000+ which actually bests the entire first week sales of every single one of their previous releases. Is that supposed to be negative news?

[celyn-jo.livejournal.com]

It was number 1 on its day of release because they avoided competition from other artists. Almost all artists release their singles and albums on Wednesdays, but they released theirs before everyone else. As for the other artists who released the previous week, of course, it's understandable that they'll have low sales by the end of the charting week.

I guess this would not have been an "issue" if they released their album normally. This kind of media play is honestly annoying especially if you consider their timing.

As for their actual sales, then good for them. I won't talk of gimmicks because some J-Pop idols use these as well (music cards, handshake tickets and concert tickets packaged in CDs, etc)

[gray-fairy.livejournal.com]

I'm glad they're at least doing well in Japan. This group is seriously SO underrated.

[seroquels.livejournal.com]

MyName bbs ;__; glad for some good news for them rme @ ppl only here to shit on this

I still haven't carved out the time to give their new releases a good listen, but hopefully this weekend.

[smilla-sini.livejournal.com]

I really like Labyrinth!

[antrea.livejournal.com]

Nowadays I like their Japanese releases better than their Korean ones :/
MYNAME slayyy