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After the release of the single “FREE” in July, ERIKA will bereleasing her 2nd single entitled “Destination Nowhere”. This year,Erika Sawajiri had become a singer in the name of “ERIKA” and way backin August 2006, Erika Sawajiri under the character “Kaoru Amane”, shehad already released a hit single “Taiyo no Uta”, so that sum up atotal of 3 singles by her “FREE” & “Taiyo no Uta” both managed to debut at 1st place inthe Oricon Chart and they had a amazing sale record as well, furthermore Erika Sawajiri is the only artist in 39 years to get their firsttwo single hit number one since Hiroko Yakushimaru in 1983. ERIKA latest single “Destination Nowhere” will challenge the gloryof having three number one hit singles, will Erika Sawajiri set a newrecord in Japan ? we will know the result soon. Next according to a research done by Oricon three weeks before therelease of the single, people in Japan who knew about ERIKA and“Destination Nowhere” hit a total percent of 52.5%, record has it thatthe result of the single sale will be fine, when more than 50% percentof the total person they approach knew about the release. In gender wise, the result were stronger in female side, regardingto age, better result were given by the younger generation. Accordingto the latest research result for the female side,it managed to hit14.8% and will most likely to hit 13% to 15% the week before therelease.  There isn`t much gap in result between the different age group andgender, but when the question was change to “Are you interested andhappy about the release of the new single?”, age group 10 to 20 fromthe male side had the highest support. It`s believed that they will bethe key group to purchase and support ERIKA’s new single. Source: http://contents.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/49704/ Chinese Translation credit to terrywangxc @ E.O.C English Translation by hydetetsu Grammatical Error Corrected By An_Apple Sawajiri Erika China http://sawajiri-erika.cn/2007/11/erika-the-singer-to-challenge-the-record-of-having-3-number-one-singles.html |
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