According to Japanese media reports on August 12, the sales of Japanese singer Kenshi Mizu’s fifth studio album "STRAY SHEEP" were amazing, and the physical discs sold 897,768 copies and easily airborne the Oricon weekly ranking champion.
plus 109,192 downloads, the actual sales in the first week reached 988,960; and streaming media equivalent sales, the total sales of the album in the first week reached 1.015 million . It became the only album this year that sold more than one million in a single week, and it was the first week of the year that the title was actually performed.
This is the second single-week million album after the record of 1.304 million set by the boy group ARASHI album "5×20 All the BEST!! 1999-2019" last year. A solo singer, Ba Ye is so amazing!
and the top South Korean boy group BTS (BTS), which released the fourth regular Japanese album "MAP OF THE SOUL: 7~THE JOURNEY ~" last month, sold 564,298 copies Topped the album chart for the first week of sales at that time. It is also the highest record for the first week of album sales by an overseas male artist of all generations.
"World Bullet" is extremely popular. Before the strong return of Yonezu Kenshi, Bangtan's Japanese and Korean albums dominated the Jpop chart this year, and the combination of Japanese local singers, including the Jennis firm, was not enough. The bulletproof "No. 1 overseas" deserves its name.
Baye and Bangtan’s new albums are very nice. Hachiye’s "STRAY SHEEP" contains a number of hit singles such as "Flamingo" and "Red Pepper", as well as the theme song "Lemon" of the Japanese drama "Unnatural Death". This masterpiece began to sweep Asia in 2018. I also found RADWIMPS’s Noda Yojiro’s collaboration song "PLACEBO".
Bangtan’s Japanese album includes "Boy With Luv", "Black Swan", "ON" and many other songs that have been popular all over the world. There are also new songs "Stay Gold" and "Your Eyes Tell" ", well-made and full of sincerity.
