AKB48 22nd Single 'フライングゲット' (Flying Get) First Week Sales

Reported on Oricon News, AKB48 created yet another mark on the Oricon chart with their 22nd Single 'フライングゲット' (Flying Get) selling more than 1.354millions copies in the first week. This made the single the best first-week-sales in the history of Oricon! The second placing now is AKB48's 21st Single 'Everyday、カチューシャ' (Everyday, Kachuusha), which sold about 1.334million copies in the first week.

AKB48 started to top the Oricon weekly-sales chart since their 14th Single 'RIVER' in 2009, which makes them on tie with the legendary idol duo Pink Lady, who released “Chameleon Army” nearly thirty-three years ago, on having nine chart-topping singles consecutively and also the status of a female group with the highest number of million-seller singles in a row.

That's totally awesome! Way to go AKB48! Congratulations!! ^o^

My recent post on the AKB48's 22nd Single first day sales here.

(Source: tokyohive|Oricon)

UPDATE (19th September):

The sales of the AKB48 22nd single reached 1.5 million, 4 weeks after it was released, with it's latest weekly sales at 23,000 copies. This makes it the 2nd consecutive single to reach 1.5 million sales, where 'Everyday Kachuusha' sold 1,573,000 copies in total.

The record of selling 1.5 million copies for 2 consecutive singles has been accomplished by B’z in 1993, Mr.Children in 1994, and in 1996, KinKi Kids in 1998, and Utada Hikaru in 2000. AKB48 is thus the first female group in history to achieve this.
(adapted from tokyohive)