It’s new release Wednesday. Which artist or band took the #1 spot on the Oricon CD Single Daily Charts?

The Birthday -Ti Amo- [w/ DVD, Limited Edition / Jacket A]

EXILE

NOTE: EXILE takes the #1 position and Ayaka x Kobukuro enters at #2.  Morning Musume’s Pink Lady cover track at #3 and last week’s #1, V6 drops to #7.  Mr. Children continues to stay strong in the top 10.

1. EXILE - THE BIRTHDAY ~ti amo~
2. Ayaka x Kobukuro - Anata to
3. Morning Musume - Pepper Keibu
4. BREAKERZ - Sekai wa Odoru
5. Mr. Children - Hanabi
6. Angela Aki - Tegami - Haikei Jugo no Kimi e
7. V6 - LIGHT IN YOUR HEART/Swing!
8. Kato Miliyah - SAYONARA Baby / Aishiteru
9. Ponyo on the Cliff - Fujimaki Fujioka & Ohashi Nozomi
10. Suzuki Ami - Can’t Stop the Disco

As for the #1 Indies release on the Oricon Indies Daily Charts, it goes to Detroit Metal City for “SATSUGAI”.

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SOURCE: Data was translated from Oricon CD Single Daily Charts

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It’s new release Wednesday. Which artist or band took the #1 spot on the Oricon CD Single Daily Charts?

Light in Your Heart / Swing! [Regular Edition / Jacket C]

V6

NOTE: V6 takes the #1 spot while GLAY drops to the #9 position.  Nightmare and Angela Aki make the #2 and #3 punch into the top 3 and Mr. Children continues to hang in the top 4.  Okuda Tamio makes an appearance at #5 and “Ponyo on the Cliff” re-emerges into the top 10.

1. V6 - LIGHT IN YOUR HEART/Swing!
2. Nightmare - Lost in Blue
3. Angela Aki - Tegami - Haikei Jugo no Kimi e
4. Mr. Children - Hanabi
5. Okuda Tamio - Sun no Son
6. Shibata Jun - Koi wo suru hito - Orochi’s theme
7. Saito Kazuyoshi - Ya Mujo
8. Lil’B - Kimi ni Utatta Love Song
9. GLAY - Aka to kuro no MATADORA/I LOVE YOU wo Sagashiteru
10. Ponyo on the Cliff - Fujimaki Fujioka & Ohashi Nozomi

As for the #1 Indies release on the Oricon Indies Daily Charts, it goes to SHION for “Last Long~Secret of my Heart~.

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SOURCE: Data was translated from Oricon CD Single Daily Charts

For rankings comparison, please compare to Oricon’s NINKI Poll predictions for

GROUP: 20th Century

CD SINGLE: Ore Ja Nakya, Kimi Ja Nakya

LABEL: avex trax

CATALOG #: AVCD-31420/B

DURATION: 9:20

RELEASED ON March 26, 2008

1. Ore Ja Nakya, Kimi Ja Nakya
2. Ai ni Ikou

DVD: Region 2, 4:3, DURATION: 5:20

1. Ore Ja Nakya, Kimi Ja Nakya

It’s been about eight years since the last release of a CD single (Precious Love, 2nd CD single, rel. Sept. 2000) by 20th Century, which are essentially the three oldest members of the Johnny’s idol group V6.

The group consists of Sakamoto Masayuki, Nagano Hiroshi and Inohara Yoshihiko. In my opinion, are the better vocal-wise of V6.

Their third CD single “Ore Ja Nakya, Kimi Ja Nakya” features a song written and composed by Tortoise Matsumo of the rock band ULFULS and features an happy upbeat song which propelled the group to #1 on the Oricon Daily Charts on the day of release.

The DVD featuring the music video for “Ore Ja Nakya, Kimi Ja Nakya” is a humorous and somewhat cheesy video featuring the guys discovering Nagano hatched from an egg and trying to catch him. The guys are featured singing in an office with disco balls going on and the guys doing the robot dance.

The coupling song “Ai ni Ikou” features mid-tempo track which actually is a very, nicely composed song and actually enjoy more than the main track.

Bare in mind, because it’s a Johnny’s release, that means multiple releases and there are three versions.

Version A features a DVD, Version B features a bonus disk with I believe episodes from their radio show and 12-page booklet and version C (normal CD version) featuring an extra third track titled “20 Sensation”.

The CD insert is bi-fold with lyrics and production credits and information on their radio show “V6 NEXT GENERATION”.

All in all, I’ve been a fan of V6 since their first album and have watched guys from their variety show “Gakkou e Ikou”.

So, I’m used to their music and enjoy it. If there was only one caveat, for those of us who like to sing the karaoke, you would think their would be an instrumental track included. But there isn’t.

Also, I think that this CD single is better than their previous “WISHES〜I’ll be there／You’ll Be in My Heart” and “Precious Love”.

All in all, a good release for 20th Century. And with a release from them, you know that there will be a release for the other three members of V6 ala Coming Century.

BUY THIS CD SINGLE

Ore Ja Nakya, Kimi Ja Nakya [w/ DVD, Limited Edition Type A / Jacket A]

20th Century