Q4: How does ORICON count and release their Daily Sales? giving the big CEOs of a company the sales figure of a product that their company manufactures. Picture the Hollywood movies we have probably seen countless times that illustrates a board meeting and some sales rep.
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Each item is given a specific bar code and when purchased will be tallied in order for companies to determine the sales figure of their specific product. Anyways, this system is similar to how the majority of products, not just singles/albums, around the world are tracked. I placed accurately in quotations because there are still small music store throughout Japan that do not give their sales figure on a daily basis but only at the end of each week. This allows ORICON to "accurately" release the sales figure of the single/album on a daily basis. Whenever that specific bar code is scanned (when the item is being purchased from a store) ORICON's data system tallies the number of times the bar code is scanned. This specific bar code is given to the people working at ORICON and stored into their data system, this system keeps track of that specific item for life. However, the daily sales do not reflect internet shops or venue/event sales those sales are reflected on the Weekly Chart.īefore the release of a single or album (this goes for all musicians and not just KAT-TUN) the record labels of the musicians provide unique bar codes for the multiple versions of a single/album, which specifically identifies that item when scanned during purchase (look at your own versions if you have them, they are all different and the numbers are off by likely one single number | bar codes are unique in a sense that there are no two identical bar codes in the world, they are like a person's finger print). And then by Dec 2010 the figure of retail outlets ORICON sources its data came from about 39,580 retail shops (CD shops, shops or book rental shops that sell singles/albums/DVDs, electronics stores, and convenient stores). However, by Dec 2009 ORICON began to compile its data from some 25,120 retail outlets.
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So on Mathe new system, the POS system, was imposed and initially it showed the daily sales figure of the single/album from approximately 3,370 music stores in Japan. This form of calculating sales was highly criticized by music critics and other music systems like Billboard (the North American equivalent of ORICON Inc.). So if the collective major music stores associated with ORICON at the time sold a reported 60,000 copies then that number was multiplied by 1.75 and thus the number projected would be 60,000 x 1.75 (=113,750) for that day. When ORICON first began, the old system took the estimated sales figure sold from major music stores (HMV Japan, Tower Records, etc.) and multiplied that number by 1.75. uses the POS system (Point Of Sale system), however, that is not how it worked when ORICON was first established. They tabulate sales figures from various sources that are included in the distribution of music and dvds and report those accumulated sales in 6 different charts: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, 1st half of the year, 2nd half of the year, and Yearly sales. is a holding company that was established in 1999 and provides the statistical report for the music industry. currently uses and began using on March 02, 2009
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The * at the beginning of the single's title indicates that the single was based on the old system and NOT the POS System that ORICON Inc. NOTE: The sales are in proper order most of the time sales go down from the previous day but there are exceptions like Yorokobi no Uta's 4th to 5th day sales, Keep the Faith & LIPS's 5th to 6th day sales, White X'mas 4th to 5th day sales, RESCUE's 3rd to 4th day sales as well as TO THE LIMIT's 5th to 6th day sales *NOTE: This post was created during the release of CHANGE UR WORLD, old comments will pertain to CUW single and onwards. PLEASE HELP SUPPORT KAT-TUN by purchasing Offifical CDs and DVDs from these ORICON sponsored online stores:ĬDJapan | YesAsia | HMV Japan | Amazon Japan For the sales figures and comprehensive explanation on how the ORICON System works, continue to read below! This post shows the daily sales which count for the first week sales of KAT-TUN's past singles, beginning with Yorokobi no Uta onwards.