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Okay,I’m still totally excited about Hey!Say!JUMP‘s new song Romeo & Juliet, but before we look into the future let’s have a look back. The Oricon year is officially over, and here are the Top20 best selling singles of 2009, with Johnny’s releases in bold font.

*1 *,656,676 Believe/曇りのち、快晴 / 嵐、矢野健太 starring Satoshi Ohno 09/03/04
*2 *,620,557 明日の記憶/Crazy Moon～キミ・ハ・ムテキ～ / 嵐 09/05/27
*3 *,513,186 マイガール / 嵐 09/11/11
*4 *,489,138 愛のままで… / 秋元順子 08/01/23
*5 *,423,004 Everything / 嵐 09/07/01
*6 *,377,516 イチブトゼンブ/DIVE / B’z 09/08/05
*7 *,377,097 RESCUE / KAT-TUN 09/03/11
*8 *,359,556 ひまわり / 遊助 09/03/11
*9 *,331,248 ONE DROP / KAT-TUN 09/02/11
10 *,299,246 急☆上☆Show！！ / 関ジャニ∞ 09/11/04
11 *,285,228 恋のＡＢＯ / NEWS 09/04/29
12 *,279,264 THE HURRICANE ～FIREWORKS～ / EXILE 09/07/22
13 *,277,071 悪魔な恋/NYC / 中山優馬w/B.I.Shadow/NYC boys 09/07/15
14 *,270,513 THE MONSTER ～Someday～ / EXILE 09/04/15
15 *,269,747 THE GENERATION ～ふたつの唇～ / EXILE 09/11/11
16 *,249,549 Loveless / 山下智久 09/11/18
17 *,241,305 たんぽぽ/海賊船/其の拳 / 遊助 09/06/24
18 *,237,314 BANDAGE / LANDS 09/11/25
19 *,231,122 弱虫サンタ / 羞恥心 08/12/10
20 *,229,866 MY LONELY TOWN / B’z 09/10/14

Well, congratulations to Arashi for having four of the five best selling singles in Japan this year, which is quite an awesome achievement. Go Arashi!

Also congratulations to Nakayama Yuma w/ B.I.Shadow who made it to #13 in the yearly charts. For comparison: Hey!Say!JUMP‘s debut single Ultra Music Power was #14 in 2007, their last single Mayonaka no Shadow Boy was #21 in 2008. So NYwBIS did actually very nicely indeed, and they still do. The single is still selling ~450 copies every week, which is quite amazing for a single that was released five months ago. If it continues selling at this rate it will pass the 1-million-mark in October 2040. Go NYwBIS!!!

I don’t know, I liked NYwBIS, and I think it’s kinda sad how Johnny obviously dropped them even though they did a good (and successful) job. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. To honour and celebrate Nakayama Yuma and B.I.Shadow I’ve upoloaded their medley from last week’s Shonen Club. Quality isn’t great, but what are you gonna do.

Download: SC 2009-12-13 Nakayama Yuma Medley. avi – SC 2009-12-13 Nakayama Yuma Medley. mp3 – Credit fumatanjj2

One of the best singers in all of Johnny’s, no doubt.

In other news, Snow Prince came in at #10 in their 2nd week in the weekly sales charts with 8,607 copies sold. Again more than half of these were sold on Sunday when Shintaro attended an event to promote the movie. Now here’s an idea: they should just place Shintaro outside Shibuya Station, next to Hachiko, and have him sell the CD personally to whoever passes by. They’d have a #1 hit in no time. Anyway, the total for Snow Prince is now 28,791 copies sold. Go Snow Prince Gasshoudan!

And finally, will Hey!Say!JUMP‘s new song Romeo & Juliet be released as a single? I don’t know. All I know is that HSJ will be on Music Station Super Live on Christmas Day, and now that they’ve already performed R&J on Shonen Club it would be kinda stupid not to perform it on MSSL as well and stick with the old crap instead. Just sayin’.

Christmas is only nine days away, and suddenly being a JUMP fan is very exciting again.

And the winter concert tour starts in Osaka this Saturday. Who knows, maybe they have some sort of big announcement to make.

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