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The "Oricon Year" runs (as of 2006) from mid-December of one year to mid-December of the following year (was previously the beginning of December of one year, to the end of November the following year). Also to note, Oricon combines the last week of December with the first week of January, therefore an "Oricon Year" has 51 weeks versus a real year, which has 52 weeks. Despite this these weeks are counted as 2 instead of 1 in the chart run of a single or an album. There have been only a handful of #1 singles by (1980), " Flashdance... What A Feeling " by Irene Cara (1983), " To Love You More " by Celine Dion with Kryzler & Kompany (1995), "La-La-La Love Song" by Toshinobu Kubota with Naomi Campbell and " Candle In The Wind '97 " by Elton John (1997).http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=317101 HISTORY In 1967, Original Confidencial Inc., a base of Oricon was founded by Soko Koike. In November of same year, the company began tentative singles chart, and on January 4 1968 , the first Japanese hit parade called "Original Confidence" was officially started. In 1992, the company changed name to "Oricon", and seven years later, it separated to several subsidiaries. After the death of a founder in 2001, a senior company of Oricon has managed by his relatives. POLICY Currently, Oricon is counting sales of CD, DVD, video games and several other formats. Formerly, the sales of manga and books had also researched. In each Tuesday, the data of these charts are announced by a magazine called ''Oricon Style'' and an official web site for the Oricon. These results are based on the system called POS. Every Monday, Oricon receives data from some already registered record stores. Naturally, merchandise released from only excepted markets cannot reach to the chart. For example, the debut single of the idol group called News was released at 7-Eleven stores only (convenience stores have not been added to the registry), and was not added to the chart. Before leading of POS, results on the charts depended on faxes which were sent from record shops. The announced sales of materials by the Oricon only have inferential value and is not completely accurate. CONTROVERSY In 2006, Oricon launched a lawsuit against journalist Hiro Ugaya when he was quoted in a Cyzo magazine article as suggesting that Oricon was fudging their statistical data to benefit certain management companies and labels.http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070208f2.html CHARTS Current charts
Past charts
YEARLY CHARTS The year-end charts that shows the sales of albums and singles in Japan. 2007 Oricon Yearly Album Chart - Top 10 Source: 1 ALBUM RANKING Source: http://www.oricon.co.jp/tv/top40/ BEST SELLING SINGLES AND ALBUMS JANUARY 1, 1999 – APRIL 24, 2006 40TH ANNIVERSARY CHARTS In 2006 Oricon celebrated their 40th anniversary and released a list of the top selling acts and releases since the creation of the Charts. The winners were presented with the WE LOVE MUSIC AWARD in five different categories and they are: Total overall sales ;Male artists ;Female artists
Total number of #1 releases
Number of platinum (1 million copies sold) releases Consistently having each release enter at #1 since debut
Total number of weeks spent at #1
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