[Update]

The official numbers have been released, and Morning Musume sold 100,598 and got #3 for the week! It’s not exactly 101,000, but by tomorrow they should have a couple thousand more. The post has been updated to include the correct number, but congratulations again Momusu!

Morning Musume’s 50th single titled One Two Three / The Matenrou Show has sold 100,598 copies in its 1st week.

This is their 50th consecutive top 10 single.

7/16付週間SGランキング｡1位キム･ヒョンジュン183,478枚､2位山下智久118,981枚､3位モーニング娘｡100,598枚､4位SUPER☆GiRLS71,736枚､5位2PM+2AM’Oneday’54,734枚｡p.tl/vZ0F

— ORICON STYLE編集長 (@hisaka2u) July 10, 2012

Here are some of the other singles 1st week sales for comparison:

1999/07/14   *102,750        Furusato
2012/07/04   *100,598     One Two Three / The Matenrou Show
2003/07/30  　*98,028　     Shabondama
1998/01/28　  *95,060　       Morning Coffee
1998/05/27　  *86,670　       Summer Night Town
2003/04/23  　*84,251　       AS FOR ONE DAY
2004/01/21　  *78,142       　Ai Araba IT’S ALL RIGHT
2003/11/06　  *73,884      　GO Girl ~Koi no Victory~
2003/02/19　  *72,594      　Morning Musume no Hyokkori Hyoutanjima
2005/07/27　  *68,009     　Iroppoi Jirettai
2004/05/12　  *67,144　      Roman～MY DEAR BOY～
2004/07/22  　*58,435     　Joshi Kashimashi Monogatari
2009/08/12  　*54,973     　Nanchatte Renai
2007/04/25  　*53,551　     Kanashimi Twilight
2005/01/19　  *51,421      　THE Manpower!!
2004/11/03  　*50,967　     Namida ga Tomaranai Houkago

Currently it has outsold the 1st week sales of 33 singles, making it the best 1st week since 2003, and it has also outsold the total sales for 28 singles. Currently it’s the best 1st week for Michishige Sayumi and Tanaka Reina since they joined, outselling the 1st week of their debut single Shabondama

With the amount of promotion this single has it was not surprising that we would see high numbers, but I’m really happy that those numbers exceeded my expectations since it’s amazing news for all Momusu fans. It might be due to the amount and quality of promotion since the group has appeared in quite a lot of places and held a lot of events, so I hope that UFA does continue to provide this amount of promotion for future releases since it does pay off. That and the new sound definitely mix well to provide an amazing single that appealed to quite a lot of people.

It’s only one single and we still have to see if the numbers continue to rise with each release from now on or at least remain steady, but for now at least it’s a great moment for all Momusu fans, both in the amount of sales for this single as well as the 50th consecutive top 10 since they have shown that after 9 years they still have what it takes to compete against other idol groups.

It will be interesting to see how their next single does, and if UFA will keep up the amount of promotion, but for now:

Congratulations Morning Musume!

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