NEWS tops album, single charts

Tokyograph News · 11-12-2007, 10:35 PM

Last week, pop group NEWS simultaneously released their 7th single and 2nd album. Both releases made it to the top of the charts, with their single "weeeek" selling 263,000 copies and their album "pacific" selling 196,000 copies.

This is the 10th time in Oricon history that an artist has been #1 on both charts, with the last occurrence achieved by KAT-TUN in April 2006. The only other artists to accomplish the feat are SMAP, KinKi Kids, Masaharu Fukuyama, Ayumi Hamasaki, WANDS, and Seiko Matsuda.

These two releases also extend NEWS' current streaks of chart-toppers - so far, all seven of their singles and both of their albums have entered the rankings at #1.

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11-12-2007, 10:35 PM	#1
Tokyograph News Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 11	NEWS tops album, single charts Last week, pop group NEWS simultaneously released their 7th single and 2nd album. Both releases made it to the top of the charts, with their single "weeeek" selling 263,000 copies and their album "pacific" selling 196,000 copies. This is the 10th time in Oricon history that an artist has been #1 on both charts, with the last occurrence achieved by KAT-TUN in April 2006. The only other artists to accomplish the feat are SMAP, KinKi Kids, Masaharu Fukuyama, Ayumi Hamasaki, WANDS, and Seiko Matsuda. These two releases also extend NEWS' current streaks of chart-toppers - so far, all seven of their singles and both of their albums have entered the rankings at #1. Link to article