AKB48's 'Shitsuren, Arigato' Rules Japan Hot 100 With Biggest First-Week Sales of 2020

billboard.com:

AKB48's 57th single, "Shitsuren, arigato," blasts in at No. 1 on this week's Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated March 16 to 22, with a record-setting 1,414,077 copies sold, making them 2020's first act to sell over a million copies in its first week.

The J-pop girl group leads physical sales and rules this week's chart fueled mostly by this metric. The single comes in at No.

6 for look-ups, No. 18 for radio airplay, No. 20 for Twitter mentions, and No. 75 for downloads. AKB48 has consistently exceeded the million mark with their first-week sales: In reverse order from their previous release, "Sustainable," which sold 1,628,184 copies, "Jiwaru Days" sold 1,404,936 copies, and "NO WAY MAN" sold 1,350,736 copies, so the figures for "Shitsuren,