2009-06-20 00:48
just some little updates I gathered...
- There will be a Gokusen SP aired on July 11 on TV Asahi at 9pm to 10.54pm to promote the much anticipated upcoming movie. The casts in the movie across all 3 seasons are expected to be there, Kame is most certainly going to be there as he is one of the mains, as well as Nakama Yukie...Oguri Shun, Narimiya Hiroki, Ishigaki Yuma, Hayami Mokomichi, Miura Haruma etc are all expected to be there also...although there's still no official announcements on who exactly will attend, but these are some of the most likely.
The SP will also commemorate 7 years history of the live action series.
The movie will be out on the same day; July 11.
- And while we're on the subject of movies, there are talks that promotions for Jin's upcoming movie Bandage will begin in december...the movie is scheduled to be released next year.
- Movies aside...the group's most recent album Break the Records -by you & for you- was #12 on the Oricon half-yearly top 50 albums rankings with 237,145 copies sold...it's below expected ranking, but still a good result nonetheless.
I think the problem may be since the album contains many of their best ever hit singles, their fans have pretty much bought the singles already...so that factor may have impacted on the sales...perhaps if the album contained more new songs, then maybe it would sell more. And not to mention their 2 new singles One Drop and Rescue and the album were released only a month apart from each other...I think the release dates were too close to each other.
Music downloads have also become very popular in Japan, some people download the songs instead of buying the album. 5 of KAT-TUN's songs were in the top 10 most downloaded ranking...I think more people are starting to download their songs instead, which isn't good news for CD sales.
But on a more positive note, as expected, these guys managed to secure their positions in the oricon top 10 half yearly rankings for both Singles and DVD.
*infos read from various sources, such as Asianfanatics and Tokyograph and other fansites.
- There will be a Gokusen SP aired on July 11 on TV Asahi at 9pm to 10.54pm to promote the much anticipated upcoming movie. The casts in the movie across all 3 seasons are expected to be there, Kame is most certainly going to be there as he is one of the mains, as well as Nakama Yukie...Oguri Shun, Narimiya Hiroki, Ishigaki Yuma, Hayami Mokomichi, Miura Haruma etc are all expected to be there also...although there's still no official announcements on who exactly will attend, but these are some of the most likely.
The SP will also commemorate 7 years history of the live action series.
The movie will be out on the same day; July 11.
- And while we're on the subject of movies, there are talks that promotions for Jin's upcoming movie Bandage will begin in december...the movie is scheduled to be released next year.
- Movies aside...the group's most recent album Break the Records -by you & for you- was #12 on the Oricon half-yearly top 50 albums rankings with 237,145 copies sold...it's below expected ranking, but still a good result nonetheless.
I think the problem may be since the album contains many of their best ever hit singles, their fans have pretty much bought the singles already...so that factor may have impacted on the sales...perhaps if the album contained more new songs, then maybe it would sell more. And not to mention their 2 new singles One Drop and Rescue and the album were released only a month apart from each other...I think the release dates were too close to each other.
Music downloads have also become very popular in Japan, some people download the songs instead of buying the album. 5 of KAT-TUN's songs were in the top 10 most downloaded ranking...I think more people are starting to download their songs instead, which isn't good news for CD sales.
But on a more positive note, as expected, these guys managed to secure their positions in the oricon top 10 half yearly rankings for both Singles and DVD.
*infos read from various sources, such as Asianfanatics and Tokyograph and other fansites.
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