On July 25th, Kanjani8 released their latest single, “ER“, under the name Eight Ranger. This single has sold over 330,000 copies in its first week, topping Oricon’s single charts for the week of August 6th!
“ER” serves as the theme song for Kanjani8’s starring film, ‘Eight Ranger‘, which recently opened in theaters on July 28th. The first week sales for this single has exceeded “BANDAGE” (211,000 copies), which was released under the name LANDS as the theme song for Akanishi Jin’s starring movie, ‘BANDAGE‘.
This marks Kanjani8’s 10th consecutive single/album to top the Oricon charts. It’s also their first time in 3 years and 9 months to sell over 300,000 copies in the first week. Their last was “Musekinin Hero” back in October of 2008 (348,000 copies).
Kanjani8 is scheduled to hold a free event called ‘Matsubara Shinichi presents Sugohachi‘ on August 8th at Kyocera Dome. They will also hold their 8th anniversary event, ‘8 Matsuri ~Bokura mo 8cchai, 8cchake Matsuri~‘ , on August 4th and 5th at Makuhari Messe and from the 10th to the 12th at Intex Osaka.
Source: Oricon
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