Since I know a lot of people come here looking for frip’s Oricon rankings, fripSide appears three times in the current Oricon yearly singles chart
#099 | LEVEL5-judgelight- / fripSide – 61,333 [02/17/2010]
#177 | only my railgun / fripSide – 34,006 [11/04/2009] (89,438 overall, 307 copies for 11/22/2010)
#194 | future gazer / fripSide – 28,954 [10/13/2010] (1,283 copies for 11/22/2010)
Source: JPM
Make sure to preorder your album soon! The limited editions are almost out of stock at online shops. If you can manage it, try to buy from either HMV, CDJapan, or YesAsia because their sales are included in the Oricon charts. I think HMV is out of limited editions and CDJapan says 15 left at time of this post.
YesAsia | CDJapan | HMV | Play-Asia
Completely off-topic, but has anyone else noticed for a couple years now that YesAsia has listed Binarydigit in frip’s list, but it’s always been out of stock? Did they ever carry it or has it always just randomly been there, always oos? I mean, I have it, but I wonder if anyone was actually able to buy the album through YA
Woah I am suprised that Judgelight sold more than railgun, considering how railgun seems to be more popular. Perhaps people grow to realise that Judgelight>railgun lol
Oricon Yearly only counts the sales of a single/album for the specific year, so it’s not ranking omr based on anything it sold in 2009, it’s ranking by the 30,000 copies it sold in 2010.
Yikes i just saw the actual sales figure of OMR. Seems that pple really like that song. Or maybe it is because of late in autumn?
this chart gives a good idea on song popularity: last.fm fripSide Charts
one of the PV uploads on YT also has 1.5mil views
so it was definitely because of omr. its a strong song that had a strong tie-in
not saying late in autumn isn’t amazing. it’s a really beautiful song and i love it very much <3
I think the same about omr x)
I’ve been wondering so much about its popularity, as I find it great (just like other fripSongs) but a little bit repetitive (to me OMR is awesome, but level5 f****** awesome)
What’s the point in ranking future gazer when it’s only out since October?
The yearly chart auto-ranks the top selling singles in a given year as the year goes by (I think every week). future gazer just happens to be the 194th out of the best 200 selling singles of 2010 so far even though it was released last month. Just like AKB48′s Beginner is the best selling single of the year and it came out a couple weeks ago
hope popularity of fripSide will soar after the release of their album. Looking forward to the day they acheive a top Oricon ranking in the future =)
me too! i hope their album does really well next week.. omg next week? this month just flew by!
haha. can’t wait for the album to arrive at my doorstep! Hope there will not be early leaks as what happened to future gazer (I think)
unfortunately it happens to most artists in this age =( i really hope it wont happen either, but if it does, we can only hope it persuades some people to be like “hey this sounds awesome” and buy it
at least those of us who bought it will have the real thing!