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NEWS: 'Lion' is 4th Macross Frontier CD Single in Top 5

mike_s_6 wrote:

I'm not sure if the Slayers one was reported or not, but I suppose that if it made it to the top 3 in the weekly (as opposed to just daily) rankings, then to be fair, ANN should have reported it. To date, these are the Macross F CDs, their highest weekly rank, and whether they were reported or not: Triangler: Rank 3 - Reported Diamond Crevasse: Rank 3 - Reported OST 1 (Nyan Fro.): Rank 3 - Reported Seikan Hikou: Rank 5 - Not reported Lion: Rank 3 - Reported So as you could see, it's consistent that if the CD gets within top 3 in their weekly ranking, then its gets a report in ANN.

Most definitely not.

... but I suppose that if it made it to the top 3 in the weekly (as opposed to just daily) rankings, then to be fair, ANN should have reported it.

Actually, JA wikipedia says it only hit #5.

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/STARCAMP_EP

But yeah, Eternal Blaze and Secret Ambition should have been reported, although, like you said, one is three years old and the other over a year old.

When I said that it's consistent that "if the CD gets within top 3 in their weekly ranking, then it gets a report in ANN", I was referring only to the Macross F list. Besides, I was only trying to point out what ANN's (apparent) standard is.

And I've said and pointed out by example that the apparent "standard" is that it's ANN just picking out Macross (or Haruhi as well) is probably because the title "Macross" is much louder and makes for a better headline and not so much to do with the actual ranking/singer. *shrug*

houkoholic wrote:

And I've said and pointed out by example that the apparent "standard" is that it's ANN just picking out Macross (or Haruhi as well) is probably because the title "Macross" is much louder and makes for a better headline and not so much to do with the actual ranking/singer. *shrug*

I wonder if there's an ANN representative reading the boards? It seems to me that there is no one from them monitoring Oricon directly, though I don't really blame them. They are a company, which means they reserve the rights on what to publish or not, with a priority perhaps on what attracts website views. I'm not going to be a judge on the ethics of this, besides, this thread is about the success of the Macross F CDs, and not how ANN chooses their headlines.

I'm glad some people pointed out the news about Ponyo and the others, because otherwise, I wouldn't have heard of these either. But that's not to dampen the spirit of Macross F's or Haruhi's successes (I heard that Haruhi stayed in the top 100 for the whole year, and the Macross F OST 1 reached top 3 after 11 years of not having any other anime album reach that spot), just because ANN chooses what they want to publish.

Are you implying that ANN somehow has either hindered, or helped a sound track's ranking on the chart, by simply whether it decides to publish a report about it, or not?