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Ae! Group's "Emotion" Takes No. 1 on Billboard Japan Hot 100

Kiran MachadoPublished 2m ago2 min readBased on 2 sources
Ae! Group's "Emotion" Takes No. 1 on Billboard Japan Hot 100
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Ae! Group's single "Emotion" has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, according to Billboard. The chart was released on 11 November and counted sales and listening from 2 to 8 November.

The Billboard Japan Hot 100 is a weekly ranking that adds together several measures: physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, video views and karaoke data. "Emotion" is the title song of Ae! Group's fifth single, released on 4 November. It sold 496,736 copies, the highest total on the sales measure. It also ranked No. 2 for downloads and No. 9 for radio.

Second place went to BE:FIRST, whose "NOW U KNOW" debuted at No. 2. The track is the lead song from the group's fourth album, BE:4U, which has 13 songs and came out on 3 November. "NOW U KNOW" topped the downloads measure with 13,621 units, a unit being one download counted, and also led video views. It placed No. 2 for radio.

BE:FIRST's album track "It's not a bad life" entered at No. 70. It is the theme song for the film RYUJI.

back number's "Christmas Song" returned to the chart for the first time in about 10 months. Its gains on the previous week were 122% for streaming, 168% for video views and 137% for karaoke. Karaoke data counts how often a song is used in singing venues, so those figures track people singing along as well as listening at home.

The Billboard Japan chart page also lists further positions. EBiDAN's "Yes! Tokyo", which features Chotokkyu (Super Express), M!LK, SUPER★DRAGON, Sakurashimeji, ONE N' ONLY, Gen'in wa Jibun ni Aru (The Cause Lies With Me), BUDDiiS, ICEx and Lienel, is at No. 3. YAO's "Arifureta Sekai no Hate ni (feat. Awich, CHICO CARLITO, ONE OK ROCK & Paledusk)" is at No. 12. ILLIT's "You're Under Arrest" is at No. 13. M!LK's "Bakuretsu Aishiteru / Sukisugite Horobi!" (Explosively in Love / Too Much Love, Destroyed!) is at No. 15, and RIIZE's "Sunburst" is at No. 16.

For artists and their teams, a weekly chart is a public tally of one week's buying and listening. Each place on it stands for a run of sales, streams and views, and behind every one of those numbers is a fan who chose to press play or buy a copy.

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