King & Prince’s “Life goes on” is available in at No. 1 on this week’s Billboard Japan Scorching 100, dated March 1, marking the best gross sales week of this 12 months with over one million CDs offered in its first week.
“Life goes on” offered 1,051,909 copies this week to rule bodily gross sales and likewise is available in at No. 4 for video views and No. 12 for radio airplay. The million threshold for first-week CD gross sales hadn’t been surpassed since AKB48’s “Shitsuren, Arigato” (1,414,077 copies) and Nogizaka46’s “Shiawase no Hogoshoku” (1,049,667 copies) from March 2020, so the five-man boy band has achieved a serious feat this week.
“Life goes on” was launched as a double A-sided single with “We’re younger,” written by two of J-pop’s main hitmakers with music by Koji Tamaki and lyrics by Junji Ishiwatari, which additionally garnered consideration and got here in at No. 11 for video. The Johnny’s group’s beforehand launched songs are additionally performing nicely within the gross sales and video metrics, indicating that the ardent assist of the group’s core fanbase is influencing the so-called gray-layer listeners and leading to King & Prince’s dominance on this week’s charts.Two different songs debuted on the Japan Scorching 100 this week powered by gross sales. =LOVE’s “Kono Sora ga Set off” got here in at No. 2 for the metric with 216,215 copies, and Tsubaki Manufacturing facility’s “Machigai janai, Naitari shinai” at No. 3 with 99,816 copies. However the latter hit No. 16 for downloads and No. 44 for radio, which added further factors to offer the monitor a slim lead over “Kono Sora ga Set off” — “Machigai janai, Naitari shinai”” debuts at No. 3 on the Japan Scorching 100, whereas “Set off” bows at No. 4.
