Single Keyakizaka46 1st [Silent Majority] (2016/04/06)

5th week sales: 8,798
rank: 7
http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/w/2016-05-16/

Total: 333.305

 

In plays on YouTube, Silent Majority (1.202 million plays) has now passed Seifuku no Manekin (1.201 million) to become the most played Sakamichi group song of all time. There may or may not be differences in availability (like when the official MV was taken down) that help explain this, but it is in any case a signal accomplishment.

In an interview on Oricon, Ikoma Rika said it was amazing and added: "Personally, I want to share in their popularity." Nogizaka captain Sakurai Reika, on the other hand, although impressed by their quick advance, in particular their appearance on Music Station, said they were still young and she refused to lose. Nogizaka has to keep working hard, she said.

 

awesome achievement! now that I'm a bit bored with this single, thanks to my habit of replaying all the the 6 songs on infinite loop lol. I really hope the 2nd single would come out soon! Assuming July is usual release date for summer single it would be a month from now before they release the main song's MV. Can't wait!!

 

what does sakamichi mean?

lol sakurai reika is jealous.

 

Sakamichi essentially means slope
the "saka" means hill

The "saka" is used in the names Nogizaka and Keyakizaka. Nogizaka46 was named after the street that Sony's office for music entertainment, and from my understanding Keyakizaka was also named after a street (originally Keyaki was called Toriizaka, which was definitely the name of a street)

Edit:
@Rurouni beat me too it

 

oh okay thanks. i thought nogizaka was the name of a train station though? or is the station named after the street?

 

Keyakizaka46 1st Single 13th Round Handshake Sales.

Finally Fuuchan! Congrats!

 

Congrats, Fuu-chan!!
Satoshi too...

and this week sales (6th week): 6,212 (rank:16)
http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/w/2016-05-23/p/2/

total sales: 339,517

 

Alright, Fuu-chan!

As I've always been saying: Support the back row. Eventually one of them may become a 'Nishino' or 'Misa-senpai' or 'Ashurin' and be a regular front row member. Support them now and you'll be rewarded in the future.

 

Woah! More than 300k is sold really amazing achievement!


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Japanese YouTube views went over 14 million a few hours ago. Now reported at 14,116,544 views. International views on VEVO not quite 6000.

Babymetal's worldwide views of Karate are not too far behind, lol - at 12,760,253.

 

Wow thats absolutely amazing, 7 million per month lol
Its really the third time they've struck gold with their songs, after hebirote and kfc. I can't wait to see how high it will go in the next couple years

 

Not sure why the Japanese are still crazy about Keyakizaka46, while the foreigners don't know about them. It doesn't help either when the YouTube Red situation blocks even the VEVO upload in the United States. (>_<)

 

^ Youtube Red just started in Australia as well and suddently the Keyaki VEVO is blocked, however the Nogizaka one is not :/

Anyway I think there are lots of foreigners who love Keyakizaka but we've all already seen the MV so no reason to go to youtube to watch it again!

 

So, 350 000 break this week or next?
Not sure, are someone just that fact?

 

Foreigners have to be a bit in the know to even find them. And even if they do, idol pop is not a thing in the West, that much. Babymetal gets known by doing a version of a Western genre, adding their form of idol pop sort of by stealth. Sugar-coating idol pop with metal? Lol. And three girls is a more familiar thing to foreigners than twenty.

To me it's obvious why Japanese love Silent Majority. It's a great song, and it suits the mood of many young people, who are fed up with traditional Japanese conformity and longing to find a way to break free. It helps a lot that they can understand the strong lyrics, which the group sells so well.

I haven't quite got my head around the fact that the anti-conventional song is presented in a somewhat militaristic style. Not sure what effect that has on viewers.

 

Why would how much Japanese like Keyaki have anything at all to do with if foreigners know/like them or not? That makes no sense.