According to the latest Oricon weekly sales charts, Thelma Aoyama's "Soba ni Iru ne" has reached an estimated total of more than 424,000 copies sold. This makes it the best selling single of 2008 so far, surpassing KAT-TUN's "LIPS."

"Soba ni Iru ne" charted in the Top 10 for its first 12 weeks. It also claimed the #1 spot on Recochoku's chaku-uta and chaku-uta full rankings for 3 months in a row, which had never before been done.