The all important 6th AKB48 general election is underway, and with sales on the first day topping 1,462,000 a new record has been set – though online there is some doubt as to just how they accomplished this feat, with vast numbers of sales evidently going the creepy otaku desperate enough to buy scores of copies so they can vote up their favourite girl.
According to AKB48’s number one chart shill Oricon, their new single “Labrador Retriever” hit 1.462 million copies “shipped” on its first day, beating out the previous “Sayonara Crawl” by a suspiciously slight 11,000.
How it managed this feat is may well be obvious – the more dedicated fans have long made a point of demonstrating their devotion to their girl of choice by photo-bragging their boxes of voting ticket laden CDs on 2ch and elsewhere:
Outside AKB worshiping circles their antics seem to have resulted in them being more shunned that never:
“What a waste.”
“This is just farcical.”
“200 singles a box?”
“All the discs in just one of those photos would buy an artist onto Oricon’s charts…”
“At least they seem happy.”
“They really are trash. Someone should make an issue out of this.”
“What do they do with all these discs…”
“They buy all these and all they get to do to them is shake their hand!”
“With that kind of money you should just go to a brothel and be done with it.”
“Cool Japan indeed. More like Crazy Japan.”
“The shame of Japan!”
“At least sell the tickets on their own!”
AKB48 and their fans: the true culprits behind climate change.
The final comment has a point, they could just sell the voting slips for 100 yen each and be done with it. Shops could stock them easily.
1.462 million copies sold, few people buy it…
look like AKB48 doesn’t popular as they thought or popular because they like their song, it only for a certain fanatic group and milking their money.
all cd end up at garbage place.
I’m just surprised none of them have thought of just sticking the CDs up on Ebay after getting their voting slip thing, why throw away as garbage when there’s a demand for cheap Japanese music on Ebay? They won’t make their money back but they would ease the pain a bit on their bank balance.
Imagine if this guy is a 40-50 y/o head of a major business company, secretly spending his money (bypassing the accounter and taxes to avoid it being recorded) on those disks. You never know if your boss some closet pervert.
Oh look its the AKB loot hoarders again