The two image song singles for K-ON!’s Mio Akiyama and Yui Hirasawa, recently released, have rapidly rocketed to the top of the Oricon national music rankings, grabbing the #2 and #3 spots, respectively.
This follows on the heels of the wild success of the show’s three earlier singles, Cagayake! GIRLS and Don’t say “lazy”, as well as the insert song Fuwa Fuwa Time, all of which danced around the Top 6 at various times over the last 2 months, with the first two even claiming the top 2 spots for a period.
The two CDs, the first pair in an apparent K-ON! image song series, have managed impressive sales numbers in their first few days of sale, of approximately 32,881 for Mio’s image CD, and 31,384 for Yui’s.
These figures put them several thousands of units behind the the releases beneath them, but still substantially under the 65,000 figure of the #1 CD, a release by the well-know group V6 (You might remember them as the performers of the 1st Inu-Yasha OP).
Both CDs contain six tracks in total, with each including 2 unique new image songs from their respective characters, as well as one new song “Let’s Go” that receives both a Yui and Mio version. The extra 3 songs are various instrumental-only versions.
Yui’s two songs are named ギー太に首ったけ / Giita ni Kubittake and “Sunday Siesta”, and the two from Mio are “Heart Goes Boom!!” and “Hello Little Girl”.
Here are samples of the main track from each of the girl’s singles, although they they stand a fair chance of being removed at some point in the future, so be quick:
Heart Goes Boom!!
ギー太に首ったけ / Giita ni Kubittake
Both Mio’s CD and Yui’s CD are now available for international purchase.
Via Yahoo! Japan and Oricon.
Whilst this success is impressive, there have been increasing concerns voiced by chart watchers that Oricon’s sales figures no longer accurately represent the buying habits of music lovers at large, who have increasingly turned to online distribution not well covered by these charts.
This has left them to be increasingly dominated by small but highly devoted groups of consumers, such as otaku Mio-fanatics…
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Peeps these days...
If something's getting the title , the trolls quickly go "it's @!##$@$%#$^$^&%& overrated! just die!"
But when it's not doing good yet there's a potential , they also come out and say "Why it's not !@##$%#% blah blah blah it's actually cool!"
It's really hard to entertain peeps these days eh ?
Not going to play those videos... Gotta buy those CDs myself :3
Those guitar earrings look so cute. Does anybody know if they actually exist?
Yui looks hawter on the album cover
Where the hell is my love is stapler?
I love the cover art of these, Yui's pose looks so cute X3 I can't wait for Mugi-chan's CD
Spanish : Queremos 2da temporada bola de maricas de 2ch que en el manga queda para otros 13 capitulos
English: 2ch want the 2nd season in the manga is 13 chapters for other
I love Yui.
Secconding that! Yui ftw
Yui's song was way catchier.
no one gives a shit about k-on anymore sorry bye
weee i don't want to WATCH K-on until Sankaku complex says that it's one of the best animes of the century because of IT'S STORY or until someone says so..
it’s one of the best animes of the century because of IT’S STORY.
:3
Glad Oricon's failure to join the 21st century got mentioned in the article. It's absolutely unrepresentative of music sales in Japan, yet so much of the music industry is based on it...
Yui looks hot. (Obligatory "Yes, I know she's a child" follows)
Don't worry. Being a lolicon is fine as long as you don't take it into real life (or if you're American or Irish since loli is illegal there).
everytime i see that picture of Mio it looks like theres a whole in her face where her nose should be :(
A whole what?
a whole cocacola bottle
I CAN'T UNSEE THE HOLE NOW! Thanks a lot Shaawin. DX
Why isn't "Watashi no koi wa hocchikissu" released in single ;__;
lol @ romanji
Romanji for then American keyboards :P
Screwed up my post. Anyway, I think they're realeasing "My love is a stapler" on another cd with all the other songs and variations of ones released.
Those two songs are the only really good songs on the character cds IMO. "Hello Little Girl" was a different style, but still good. "Sunday Siesta" bugged me. Don't know why. I just didn't like it. "Let's Go" was...nothing special. Its not bad, but it doesn't really stand out.
WE WANT MUGI SONGS !!!
July 15, comrade :3
yaay, finally! I love K-on songs.
I'm addicted to fuwa-fuwa time recently and now this<3
I feel like trolling a little.
This K-On hype is really getting old and boring. I wish more anime titles had half the attention as this one.
Kei-On!: worth watching once.
Haruhi: worth watching a few times.
Neither: worth the fanaticism they've had targetted at them.
They've reached the DBz/Pokemon/Yugi-Oh! stage: "enough, already!"
just stick to the simple quote:
'to each, his own'
enuph sayd
try taking your wish to juiz. maybe... just maybe... she can change people's opinion for K-ON! and lessen its hype, though apparently to do so she will need to choose the best method from 20,000 trolls XDDD
People have been digging pointless shows like these since even before Haruhi. I agree that it's nothing original, but it did its intended purpose well...
which is, of course, to pimp out a bunch of related merchandise to vulnerable otaku's.
K-ON! or gtfo!!
hey what can you do? its a fucking hit and people (for the most part) love it!
haha, liking something or not is always subjective so anime that caters or involves the masses will always become centerstage.
yui song owns
We have a yui fan! Give this man a cookie!
I'm kinda with you about this.
Srsly I agreed.
Hmm.. I liked Yui's song more then Mio's..
I agreed until Yui's voice came out
it reminds me of miku~
I enjoyed Yui's 1st track and the third track, not so keen on the second. Mio's I liked all three tracks. HOWEVER, I prefer Yui's version of track three over Mio's.
As far as second series goes, there's no manga left to animate. There's 2 volumes if I recall and they've done almost all of it.
The thing is though, it's an anime based on a 4koma. There's only so far they can take it before it becomes original content. A single 4koma lasts about 10 seconds. They somehow dragged out 13 25 minute episodes out of it. Either those 2 volumes are gonna be thicker than the list of people in Japan arrested for being lolicons, or they created original content and no one noticed.
tl;dr: Yui's awesome + needs second season even with original content
Get on with second season...
Only faggots whine for a new season. Get over it. Everybody liked K-ON! but if you want another dose, go draw the 4koma yourself or learn to wait.
shut up...
Only faggots wine about wining faggots...
Not sure
Red or white?
wooo I want buy that CDs
That'd take ages again, I sense hidden troll attempt again.
You know, unlike Haruhi, they have legitimate reasons for not rushing out a 2nd season soon.
Fillers/original-content material sucks, just a fact.
yeap, should wait for enough materials from the manga. then... K-ON! season 2! the world demands it!
Well, even after the second season has ended, people would still demand for a third season.
But hell, it's too much epicness in an anime for anyone to let it end so quickly.
Secconded, k-on! Will live on no doubt... There's nothing in me that's saying k-on! Will end.
could we just read the manga?
the manga is even worse than the anime
Hey... Anon.
You kinda tsundere, don't you?
aww, there is 2nd season =[ ?
yes, you could. feel free! but apparently the mass wants both, so what can we do, eh?
Hey remember that K-On?
*Above anonymous explodes*
Oooh...
Yes please. And don't mention K-ON ever again in the next decades, if possible.