LiSA is the first female artist to achieve top-selling song downloads in Japan for 6 weeks – News

LiSAthe new single “Homura”, the theme song of the Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Mugen Train Movie anime, has been ranked # 1 on Oricon’s weekly digital singles chart for six straight weeks. It is the third single to accomplish the feat in the history of the charts, after Kenshi Yonezuthe 2018 single “Lemon” and the 2019 single “Uma to Shika”. LiSA is the first female artist to accomplish this feat.

LiSAThe latest single from has also ranked # 1 on the Oricon Weekly Streaming Chart for six straight weeks, and is the first single to maintain more than 10 million streams per week for five straight weeks.

The single recorded 52,422 downloads during the week of November 16-22 of Oricon’s digital singles chart, and was downloaded a total of 574,458 times over six weeks.

The single “Homura” was released on October 14 and sold 68,000 copies on CD in its first week. She is the first artist to rank No.1 for three consecutive weeks in 12 years and 10 months, since the group SMAP achieved the feat with their single “Dangan Fighter” in January 2008.

LiSAthe previous single “Gurenge” (the theme song of the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba TV anime) became the third most downloaded song in Oricon’s digital singles chart history in June of this year. In July, the single was in the top 10 for at least 27 consecutive weeks and in the top 10 for at least 44 weeks since the song’s digital debut in April 2019. During the week of April 20-26, it has risen . from the fifth to the fourth most downloaded song in Oricon’s digital singles chart history. During the week of April 27 to May 3, the single recorded its fifth week at No.1 on the chart (including two consecutive weeks in May 2019, one week in December 2019, and weeks April 20-26 and 27. April-May 3).

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