First numbers for Oricon came in

And they are plenty promising!

Alright first off an explanation of what the Oricon Charts are:

The best way to explain what these charts are is that they are the Japanese equivalent to our Billboard charts and only track sales of CDs from stores that are associated with them (i.e. CDJapan) and they use the numbers from the day prior (as opposed to CDJapan using the actual day they are on) to determine the ranks for a CD.

For these reports I'm going to be using the following rankings:

CD Single Daily
CD Single Weekly
CD Album Daily
CD Album Weekly

Every day that I track here will have the following information:

Number of spots up from the prior day
Number of spots down from the prior day
Number of spots up from the prior week
Number of spots down from the prior week

Let's get started with today's report for the two projects

KAMIJO - LOUIS

8/27 - #14 (Debut on the CD Singles daily chart)

JUPITER - Classical Element

8/27 - #14 (Debut on the CD Album daily chart)

I will be keeping tabs on these as I said and reporting the numbers as I get them for the team.  The purpose is to have a set of numbers that we can use to back up our efforts to try and get promoters in the United States to bring artists over here.  Here's hoping that the projects do well and we'll be able to have plenty of ammo.

Talk to you tomorrow friends