Creepy Nuts’ “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born” tops the Billboard Japan Hot 100 again this week on the chart dated March 20.
Now in its eighth straight week atop the Japan song chart, the MASHLE season 2 opener has surpassed Gen Hoshino’s “Koi” and is tied with Official HIGE DANdism’s “Subtitle” for consecutive weeks at No. 1. (The current record for the longest consecutive stay atop the Japan Hot 100 is 21 weeks, held by YOASOBI’s “Idol.”)
On the chart tallying the week ending March 17, “BBBB” returns to No. 1 for downloads with 21,307 units (though down by about 4.4%) and continues to rule streaming with 24,945,758 weekly streams (up 17%). The rap banger also rises to No. 1 for video views by a margin of more than 6.4 times over the song at No. 2 (12,089,850 views) and moves 2-1 for karaoke, dominating four metrics of the chart’s methodology this week. Creepy Nuts dropped the CD version of the song on Wednesday (March 20) and is set to kick off its nationwide tour on Friday (March 22), and it doesn’t look like the duo’s biggest hit to date will be slowing down anytime soon.
AKB48’s “Karakon Wink” debuts at No. 2 this week. The 63rd single by the long-running girl group is off to a great start, launching with 463,564 copies to top sales. The song celebrates the “graduation” of member Yuki Kashiwagi, who will be leaving after 17 years of being one of the most beloved and well known members of the group in its 19th year.
Number_i’s “GOAT” stays in the top 10 at No. 5 this week, selling 19,459 copies in its second week of CD release to surpass 500k copies total. The track is at No. 2 for sales, No. 11 for downloads (3,926 units), No. 36 for streaming (3,109,214 streams), No. 8 for video views (1,151,338 views) and holds at No. 1 for radio airplay.
Fujii Kaze’s “Michi Teyu Ku (Overflowing)” debuts at No. 8 after dropping March 15. The 26-year-old singer-songwriter performed his latest single, written for the Japanese movie April Come She Will, on the premiere episode of NHK’s tiny desk concerts JAPAN series broadcast on March 16. In its first week, the track reached No. 3 for downloads (11,394 units), No. 20 for streaming (4,067,422 streams), No. 7 for video (1,208,331 views), and No. 12 for radio.
The Billboard Japan Hot 100 combines physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, video views and karaoke data.
See the full Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart, tallying the week from March 11 to 17, here. For more on Japanese music and charts, visit Billboard Japan’s English Twitter account.
