I haven't seen any posts on here about the album and that honestly just weirded me out. Like how is a certain late 00s ringtone balladeer making more noise not that much noise but it's something than Perfume.

Edited September 18, 20242 yr by Meloetta Carey

Kana debuted with 92,000 physical copies sold first day at #2. She should take #1 on the weekly chart.

She truly won I fear. Congrats @Maresia and sorry @Suilen 

Edited September 19, 20242 yr by Britneyfan09

1 hour ago, Britneyfan09 said:

Kana debuted with 92,000 physical copies sold first day at #2. She should take #1 on the weekly chart.

She truly won I fear. Congrats @Maresia and sorry @Suilen 

Is the EP worth listening to? I like her voice but her music is a mixed bag...

I hope that the fans of that boyband which is above her are as unhinged as the arm*s

 

7 hours ago, Britneyfan09 said:

Kana debuted with 92,000 physical copies sold first day at #2. She should take #1 on the weekly chart.

She truly won I fear. Congrats @Maresia and sorry @Suilen 

so happy to see the japanese public welcoming her back with open arms 

 

already outsold perfume's latest album too!

 

Anyway, not very big on city pop, but this album was cute

 

 

20 hours ago, UrMom said:

Okay this song is 12/10. The sound is giving avex-era Ami Suzuki and the vocals are giving early Madonna. I have to stan.

 

Is this queen's discography worth checking out?

Her album Disco Volante is pretty nice, but that's probably her poppiest release. The rest is mostly hip-hop/reggae, and I'm still in the middle of exploring it. The album this smash feat. Kumi is from might be worth a try, though.

 

 

3 hours ago, Suilen said:

Her album Disco Volante is pretty nice, but that's probably her poppiest release. The rest is mostly hip-hop/reggae, and I'm still in the middle of exploring it. The album this smash feat. Kumi is from might be worth a try, though.

 

 

Thanks! Will check out her stuff.

 

"Switch" is a bop! I first heard it on Ku's Out Works & Collaboration Best album.

I guess she still has her fanbase, but the GP is clearly over her judging by the single's tankage and these drops. I don't think she's even reaching 100k sold this week.

 

 

On 9/18/2024 at 9:37 PM, UrMom said:

Is the EP worth listening to? I like her voice but her music is a mixed bag...

It's not bad, but also not anything super amazing. Eyes On You is the standout for sure.

25 minutes ago, Suilen said:

I guess she still has her fanbase, but the GP is clearly over her judging by the single's tankage and these drops. I don't think she's even reaching 100k sold this week.

 

 

I'm honestly shocked ddd. Kana always had pretty good longevity with her album releases. The first day number and the way that it's dropped so hard is really quite odd.

Kana flopping a lil with her comeback is not that shocking. Comebacks are not that impactful in Japan for some reason. Utada is the only one who served a truely iconic one and even she didn't reach the heights her fans swore she would if she came back. 

Edited September 20, 20242 yr by BowWow

1 hour ago, BowWow said:

Kana flopping a lil with her comeback is not that shocking. Comebacks are not that impactful in Japan for some reason. Utada is the only one who served a truely iconic one and even she didn't reach the heights her fans swore she would if she came back. 

She's not really flopping in the grand scheme of things. 95-99k first week isn't bad at all. It's just the way it was extremely frontloaded that I find surprising. Kana has historically been one of the girls who sold well overtime. I actually believe these may be her career best first day numbers, but the steep decline in the following days has been interesting.

Well, I'd wait for the combined weekly numbers to see the full picture since, who knows, she could be slaying on streaming. Her catalog numbers are pretty good, and the reuploaded old videos got plenty of views too. But I wouldn't be surprised if she wasn't slaying, either, because her hiatus might've prematurely given her a legacy act status.

japan was so excited for kana's return that everyone rushed to the store to buy the album day 1  the dragon quest of the music industry

Any kana updates?

Still hoping that Oricon will filter those sales like Billboard did with Paris Hilton's album.

Well, like I predicted, she couldn't even reach 100k with all metrics combined. We know that j-pop releases, especially by women, can be frontloaded, but 92k on the first day and 5k over the next 6 days? It's a mess. Perfume outsold her digitally (their album wasn't released physically), but they wouldn't have outsold her even with physicals anyway since they've been on a decline. Still, not a bad result for her, on par with those 2 previous unlistenable albums, though it will be nowhere to be found next week. Back not to caring about the charts until her next album without the comeback hype drops!

 

Oh hey queens, what do we think of this legend:

 

 

 

the way they keep taking her music on and off spotify every few months, please stop

 

 

Edited September 26, 20241 yr by Lil Mistee

On 8/31/2024 at 4:33 PM, Galaxy said:

 

The fact that these masterpieces are still not on Spotify...

mess not me reading this after

19 hours ago, Suilen said:

Perfume outsold her digitally

All I needed to read Legends.

hitomi and TK made magic here. One of the best songs of the 90s

 

 

thinking about how deep river is the standard all these years later … literally my fav jpop album ever 

 

 

3 hours ago, BowWow said:

thinking about how deep river is the standard all these years later … literally my fav jpop album ever 

 

 

Yup flawless album

9 hours ago, UrMom said:

hitomi and TK made magic here. One of the best songs of the 90s

 

 

I think this one is my fave TK-era hitomi track