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LiSA's Sword Art Online Film Theme Tops iTunes' J-Pop Charts in Taiwan, Singapore
posted on by Karen Ressler
The single for LiSA's Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale film theme song "Catch the Moment" reached the #1 rank on the sales charts for the iTunes and mora music stores in Japan. In addition, the single ranked #1 on iTunes charts in Taiwan and Singapore, and ranked #2 in Hong Kong and Thailand.
The single debuted on February 15 at #4 on Oricon's daily singles chart, but rose to #1 on February 18 and 19. "Catch the Moment" is LiSA's first single to rank #1. The single ranked #4 on Oricon's weekly singles list.
The film opened in Japan on February 18 and topped the box office in its opening weekend with 425,762,760 yen (about US$3.76 million). Odex screened the film in a limited engagement in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Brunei on the same day as the Japanese debut, and will have a wide opening for the film in the same territories in March.
Source: Animate Times
