Techno pop unit Perfume's new single "Laser Beam/Kasuka na Kaori" ranked 2nd place with 46,000 sales on the Oricon Daily Ranking chart on the day of its release, May 17th. In 3rd place is popular idol group AKB48's sub-unit DiVA's debut song "Tsuki no Uragawa" (42,000 sold), and continuing in 4th place is "Beast Idols" a.k.a. K-POP group 2PM's Japan debut song "Take off" (33,000 sold).

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In 4th place is 2PM, a 6-member male group from Korea who debuted in Japan with the catchphrase "Beast Idols." They performed live at the Makuhari Messe Event Hall in Chiba on May 12th, an additional performance added to their first Japan tour '2PM 1st JAPAN TOUR 2011 "Take off"' which reined in 8000 spectators, indicating just how much attention they received even before their actual debut.


Source: http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20110518...00333-oric-musi
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