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Egan Loo wrote:

Retcon wrote:

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The "Cagayake! Girls" opening theme for the K-ON! anime peaked at #2 in April and has sold 1,459,000 copies as of this month.

Are you sure this is right? It sold a respectable 67k in the first week according to the other article, but the sales of these things are usually extremely front loaded. I have trouble believing it reached a monstrous 1.5 million from 67k in the first week. Are you sure the 1.5 million figure isn't the sale of all the K-ON! songs combined?

Oricon has apparently retracted the 1,459,000-copy statistic. It has edited its article to remove the sentence with the statistic.

With good reason. The best selling single of the year hasn't even sold 1 million copies yet. Don't say Lazy is actually the best selling K-On single with 162k copies sold so far, and Cagayake Girls has sold 146k copies so far.

A more impressive fact is that K-On music so far has had gross sales of $10.5 million

A good sales figure probably due to mixing moe and music. These are the types sales certain series on DVDs should have (though some have achieved it).