'Okaerinasai' is no.8 on weekly Oricon with 13,498 copies sold

The numbers are in: Okaerinasai ended up beating Buddy's weekly ranking of no.10 to land in at no.8 on the Oricon weekly chart with 13,498 copies sold. Buddy itself dropped to 24 - not bad at all! In its second week it sold 3,906 copies. So although both singles sold similar numbers but in the end Okaerinasai sold about 10,000 copies more in its first week than Buddy.

I thought it would be the other way around, usually upbeat songs sell more but what a nice surprise! Apparently Yumin and Maaya are the perfect match.

And only another five days until the new mini album! The lovely countdown65 over at Maayas has made a cute banner for the right hand side of the this blog linking to Maaya's site for those who want more information about the release ^^ and Jason has put up a few previews of the tracks we've heard so far from the album. I must admit, it sounds great!

Remember to pre-order as well!