SHINee's Japanese sales for single "Sherlock" reaches second place on Oricon daily

[unreal.livejournal.com]

SHINee's single "Sherlock" reached second place on Japan's representative music ranking site, Oricon on May 17th. They achieved the status on the singles daily chart after just one day, their single having gone on sale on the 16th of May.

This particularly significant for SHINee as they managed to overtake popular local group AAA, who was pushed to number three with their single "Still Love You". AAA had released their single on the same day as SHINee.

SHINee's Japanese version was a follow-up from their Korean version, which had been released on March 19th. Back then SHINee had met up with reporters from OSEN, where they stated, "After a month of activies in Korea, we will be promoting earnestly in Japan. We will work as hard in Japan as in Korea."

Previously "Sherlock" had come in first on Taiwan's music chart G-MUSIC (April 20th to 26th)and FIVE MUSIC (April 20th to 26th), amongst others.

Meanwhile SHINee has completed a Japanese arena tour, and will be holding twenty performances in seven Japanese cities till July 1st.

Source: osen, koreaboo, oricon 5/15, oricon 5/16 & oricon 5/17

Can anyone virtify if Koreaboo tranlated this right?. If not osen did a bad job because Shinee was second they day they released their single 5/15 and not 5/17 like osen says. So basicly AAA overtoke them and not otherwise. And so far the sold about 40,000 copies if people want to know

Comments

[volume1995.livejournal.com]

i am not believing anything until i see weekly

[unreal.livejournal.com]

Right now they are below AAA in sales so Swalows need to step up their game if they want to overtake AAA in weekly sales.

[aurora2687.livejournal.com]

Doubtful, some Japanese fans already bought or are buying the Korean version. Fans are estimating the Japanese release will reach 50,000 for weekly, I think they've sold over 40,000 by the 3rd day so far - similar to Lucifer I think.

[volume1995.livejournal.com]

Didn't expect them to actually "win".. lmao AAA have been in the game for way too long and shinee is just another ~hallyu boyband~

[aurora2687.livejournal.com]

lol, it's just a sales ranking, is there actually 'wining'.

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

SM needs to release new Japanese songs instead of remakes if they want SHINee to make it in Japan.

[aurora2687.livejournal.com]

Wondering when EMI are actually going to take Shinee's Japanese career more seriously, fans are already disappointed that they're not being promoted properly - one morning show guesting is not enough!

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

Can we like be specific, 2nd could mean weekly. Anyway congrats even though they really shouldn't still be doing remakes.

[http://users.livejournal.com/___varying/]

I really like the Sherlock b-side! It's so mellow.

[itskimbitches.livejournal.com]

Who's 1?

[yuki-yang.livejournal.com]

SKE48 (Aishite Loveru!) - 98,952 + 288,164 + 39,124 = 426,240

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[iphridian.livejournal.com]

So far:

SHINee (sherlock) - 28,045 + 8,889 + 3,991 = 40,925

and if you want to know who would be taking this week's number one spot in the weekly, well

SKE48 (Aishite Loveru!) - 98,952 + 288,164 + 39,124 = 426,240

[uledy.livejournal.com]

"anyone can make it in the top 3 for daily singles..." blah blah blah. At least they placed. I honestly don't really care, tbh. They're not really promoting in Japan at all ...They've done a live stream interview, a morning show, and EMI put out one ad (that's off the top of my head) and that's it.

I just want them to be successful so we can keep getting Japanese photoshoots because I really like all the styling for their Jpn promotions. And their Japanese originals are pretty good too.

And I guess they mean overtake because SHINee was no. 2 and AAA was no. 3 on 5/15 (then they ignored the fact that the next day it flip-flopped and is remaining that way...)