This week’s singles charts are topped by KAT-TUN with their 19th single “Fumetsu no Scrum” selling over 157,000 copies. The single is featured as theme song for TBS/MBS TV drama series “Dragon Seinendan”. Landing in the second spot is rock band BUMP ...

BUMP OF CHICKEN has updated the release details for their new single “firefly” which is featured as the theme for Fuji TV drama series “Iki mo Dekinai Natsu” (Breathless Summer") that stars Emi Takei. The full track list and cover...

Band BUMP OF CHICKEN has their 23rd single “firefly” announced for release. The single is featured as the theme for Fuji TV drama series “Iki mo Dekinai” that stars Emi Takei. It’s the group’s second single of the 2012 and...

The month of January sees another AKB48 family group in the top spot, this time its SKE48 and their single “Kataomoi Finally” that sold over one-half million for the month. The next 3 spots find singles from BUMP OF CHICKEN, KinKi Kids...

BUMP OF CHICKEN and their new single “GOOD LUCK” topped the singles charts with more than 135,000 sold. The single is featured as the theme song to film “Always Sanchome no Yuhi ‘64”. As predicated in our Chart Preview it was very close...

BUMP OF CHICKEN and their new single “GOOD LUCK” will easily top the singles charts based on the Oricon daily numbers with more than 135,000 sold. The single is featured as the theme song to film “Always Sanchome no Yuhi ‘64”.  On the album side...

Set for release January 18th, 2012 - this newest single from BUMP OF CHICKEN is “Good Luck.” The title track is featured as the theme song of the film “Always Sanchome no Yuhi '64.” More details on this release follow,The third track is an instrumental...

AKB48 took their turn blasting the charts with their single “Kaze wa Fuiteiru” selling over 1.3 million copies. Landing in second for the week was MBLAQ and their single “Baby U!” This single is also featured as the opening theme for anime Beelzebub....

AKB48 sister group out of Namba, Osaka, NMB48 again blasted the charts at #1 with over 265,000 sold of their 2nd single “Oh My God!” With their 1st single also selling at +200K makes it two in a row for NMB48 and is a first for any female group....