BE:FIRST's 'Blissful' debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated August 21.
The lead single from the septet's second album 2: BEdue on August 28th, dropped digitally ahead of the project on August 12th and reached No. 1 on the Japan Songs Chart after downloads, radio airplay and video views, while also reaching No. 7 for streaming. The track is the group's seventh No.1, following 'Gifted.', 'Bye-Good-Bye', 'Scream', 'Boom Boom Back', 'Mainstream' and 'Masterplan'.
Ms. GREEN APPLE's “Lilac” continues at No. 2, now in its fifth week in that position. Streaming (93%), radio (73%) and video (85%) are down from last week, but downloads are up (102%). The popular three-piece's latest single 'familie' follows at No.3, jumping from No.17. Downloads for this song featured in commercials for the new Honda FREED are down (75%) week-on-week, but doing well on streaming (179%), video (up three times last week) and radio (up 36 times last week).
Morning museum. '24's 'Nandaka Sentimental na toki no Uta' ('A song for when you're feeling kind of sentimental') bows at No. 4. Morning Musume's 74th single. The girl group sold 136,205 copies in its first week on top sales, while reaching No. 10 on downloads and No. 59 on radio.
Meanwhile, Vaundy's songs are on the rise. “Homunculus” moved 27-19 after its CD release with 3,843 copies, while “Kaiju no Hanauta” climbed 12-10, “Time Paradox” 32-27 and “Odoriko” re-released after two weeks, perhaps influenced by 24 -The big hitmaker's recent double-header with the band's back number (whose former No.1 song 'to new lovers' is at No.9 this week).
The Billboard Japan Hot 100 combines physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, video views and karaoke data.
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