Sashiko Defended Her Record Of Photobook Sales of 1st Week From Yukirin-san

Tommy Kono April 26, 2012

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2nd Photobook of Yuki Kashiwagi, a member of popular idol group AKB48, sold 47 thousands for the 1st week, making it ranked 2th in book sales ranking of all genre.
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First week sales of 47 thousands is the 2nd largest number for solo photobook of female person, after Rino Sashihara’s 1st photobook “SASHIHARA RINO1stPHOTOBOOK Sashiko”.

Note: First 2 weeks sales
1st 2nd totak
57,226 – 18,654 – 75,880 指原莉乃1stフォトブック『Sashiko』(2012/01/19) sashiko
40,584 – 31,539 – 72,123 大島優子1stフォトブック『Yuko』(2011/06/17) yuko
31,068 – 29,634 – 60,702 篠田麻里子 MARIKO magazine (2011/10/28) mariko
45,209 – 13,508 – 58,717 渡辺麻友写真集『Mayuyu』(2011/05/13) mayuyu
38,483 – 15,394 – 53,877 前田敦子写真集『Bukiyoh』(2012/03/16) atsuko
26,492 – 10,746 – 37,238 松井玲奈ファースト写真集『Kingyo』(2012/03/01) rena
19,322 – ##,### – ##,### 小嶋陽菜写真集『Onnanokono kamisama』(2011/03/15) haruna

Total sales so of this week
change – total – (this week) – title(release date)
→ – *98,352 – (+##,###) – 指原莉乃1stフォトブック『Sashiko』(2012/01/19) sashiko
→ – *91,393 – (+*4,953) – 前田敦子写真集『Bukiyoh』(2012/03/16) atsuko
→ – *68,983 – (+##,###) – 佐々木希『Non・non』(2011/12/01)
→ – *67,853 – (+##,###) – AKB48 Twenty-Four Hours (2011/12/20)
→ – *50,679 – (+**,645) – 松井玲奈ファースト写真集『Kingyo』(2012/03/01) rena
☆ – *47,379 – (+47,379) – 柏木由紀写真集『Yu, Yu, Yukirin…』(2012/04/19) yukirin
↓ – *32,081 – (+##,###) – 小倉優子のHappy Wedding(2012/01/26)
↓ – *31,577 – (+##,###) – 少女時代1stオフィシャルフォトブック『Holiday』(2011/11/30)

Source Oricon

Since the graduation announcement of Acchan, sales of her photobook “Bukiyoh” has dramatically increased at the pace of exceeding Sashiko’s photobook in total. Anyway, you must don’t miss the fact that while Yukirn, Mayuyu andAcchan are enjoying big marketing such as Big bill boards, media exposure, bonus events from the beginning, Sashiko’s photo-book’s successful sales was relatively unexpected which made publishing company printed 4 times to add enough stocks in the market to meet it’s demand. If you’re not a noob, Sashiko has started enjoying tons of exposure in all kinds of media or events since some time around when it turned out her photobook is selling much better than expected. Following this successful her photobook debut, she goes on to make her solo debut as a singer, star a movie for the first time this summer, etc. Sashiko’s popularity is mostly from her bold but timid character which have gotten fairy sympathetic reception from Japanese both girls and boys. Simple most persuasive proof of her popularity can be seen in the number of her fan thread in two channel.

Ranking of the number of fan thread on two channel
1st 2277 Sashiko
2nd 1460 Acchan
3rd 1215 Oshima
4th 906Yukirin

I sometimes think there’re tons of AKB48 forum overseas but nothing can be compared to two channel’s thoroughness (online-forum-wise, Japan is fairy advanced). Why don’t they merge together and set up one aggregated platform for AKB48, instead of going the opposite direction of making one-stop website for AKB48 fans…