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Not getting much love in the Oricon Charts
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Topic Started: Mar 21 2011, 05:03 PM (1,626 Views)
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alrick13
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Mar 21 2011, 05:03 PM
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First of all I don't intend to make a flame thread I'm just pointing out my observations.
I've been searching generasia for artist that I like to see how well they are doing in terms of sales. Recently I'm curious with female bands like Scandal, Stereopony, Chatmonchy, Gacharic Spin, Eu phoria so I checked all their single and albums to see the corresponding rankings and sales.
I arrived at the conclusion that they are not getting much love that they deserve, I just can't see why an all female band so talented and hot is struggling to enter the top ten spot for the first week of release. Among the more active bands (Chatmonchy, Scandal, Stereopony) Chatmonchy has the more solid fan based as evident in their last 3 release Hyoujou, Awa Come, and Last Love Letter with an Oricon ranking of 5, 6, 7. While for Scandal R-Girl's Rock!, Nanka Buttobase, Pride ranked 9,3,7. For Stereopony Over Drive, Over the Border, Chiisa na Mahou ranked 28,12,23. I thought with the popularity of K-On attention will be shifted to female bands but girl and boy groups still dominate the charts.
A reason maybe they are not getting the same promotional effort from their record companies as compared to the resources dedicated to Girl and Boy groups...
Or maybe the genre itself (all female band) is in a decline after Zone.
Anyone can share they're thoughts on why the female bands are not as Popular, Marketable, and Loved as girl and boy groups?
*Special mention Negoto... they have only 2 release so far a mini album ranked at 23rd and a single at 11th place for the first week.
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Zer0zUNLTD.
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Apr 11 2012, 01:51 AM
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I wonder how stereopony feels about "Namida no Mukou" being their no. 1 Oricon song... Just to put myself in their shoes for a bit... I would say to myself, "We got so much better songs than that one!"
I have high hopes of success for stereopony. But no matter what happens... I'm sure the big guy up in the sky has big plans for them as he does for us all!
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Apr 30 2012, 08:33 PM
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I couldn't agree more with Amat and RS but yes we have to wait for the "Stereopony Culture" to build up. Their experimenting and the promotion for their off event stuff needs more attention. that why there will be more fans ^___^ and ofcourse without a doubt they are the most Kakkoi girl-band ever in J-pop/rock
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Apr 30 2012, 11:57 PM
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Wat I think is that stereopony does seemed to be middle ground just like stated earlier. To be honest, I have no clue wat makes an artist tick and top charts. I actually discovered stepo through oricon charts with HnH. So they do have a pressence in the charts.
However, i have been following japanese mainstream for 7 years and I noticed trends change from singer-songwriters and pop/rock bands (usually guys who play instruments with female vocalists) rock based industry to pop idol industry with some hip-hop (jpop and kpop idols).
So today's industry doesn't really cater towards jpop/rock, but who know in a few years time there maybe a change again and rock based music will dominate again. Anyway, for those who observe Oricon charts for year 2011, I notice three type of artists dominate which are 48 groups, Johnny groups and K-pop groups.
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