Weekly International Album Chart (Japan) - 11 July 2011
- Lady Gaga / Born This Way
- Beyoncé / 4
- V.A. / DJ Kaori's Party Mix2
- Kim Hyun Joong / Break Down
- Limp Bizkit / Gold Cobra
- Lady Gaga / The Monster
- Simple Plan / Get Your Heart On!
- V.A. / Songs For Japan
- Lady Gaga / The Fame
- Pitbull / Planet Pit
Lady Gaga again. In this chart week she sold over 54,000 copies, whereas she had sold just about 35,000 copies a week before. You can see a massive increase in sales. Total sales of the album is now expected over 300,000. She also enjoyed other albums of hers re-climbing the chart as you can see.
She stayed in 11 days in Japan in the end of the last month. She was everywhere during her stay. In particular, TV appearance was strong enough to get everybody from kids to elders keep her in mind. This clearly resulted in the sales as I explained above.
You may know "Born This Way" has been seen it underperforming. In its first chart week, impressively one million copies were sold in the states only. It got no.1 title in multiple countries. Yes, it looks brilliant. Nevertheless, this possitive news was soon overshadowed by the following sharp fall in sales and Adele winning back no.1 position in US after just two weeks of "Born This Way" release. Similar thing happened in the UK as you may know. It looks like Gaga wasn't able to respond to expectations by people from the music industry to the media to the masses.
In the meantime, in Japan, the album has never fall down from no.1 spot of the international album chart since its release. Additionally, the 82% drop wasn't interestingly a big news here (I think the Japanese don't like to report something bad and things that they don't want to know). Therefore "Born This Way" looks it's been doing very well here and is "looked" like it's been doing very well worldwide. I think Japan can be one of the countries that sold the album most physically if the trend continues. Every country has a different music market, doesn't it?
How about in your country? If you are from non-US/UK country, I'm strongly interested to know about that...!
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