Charts: aiko reaches #1 after 11 years

After 11 years as a major label artist, singer-songwriter aiko has finally achieved her first #1 with her 25th single. “milk / Nageki no Kiss” sold over 71,000 copies to give her the victory on the charts this week, beating out new releases from Acid Black Cherry and Morning Musume.

The bottom half of the top ten were all new singles, released by BREAKERZ, FUNKY MONKEY BABYS, BoA, Takashi Kondo (as Kyoya Hibari), and Nana Tanimura.

On the album charts, reunited rockers Unicorn took the #1 spot with “Chambre,” selling 159,000 copies. They are only the second group to release a chart-topping album after reuniting, with the first being Kaguyahime in 1978.

UVERworld’s latest, “AwakEVE,” also did well, selling 116,000 copies to take #2. At #3, BEAT CRUSADERS were far behind. Tomoyasu Hotei and BUCK-TICK also made the top ten, at #5 and #7 respectively.

Source:
Oricon