Kenshi Yonezu's new album "LOST CORNER" tops the charts for the fourth consecutive time! For the second consecutive album, he has achieved first week sales of over 300,000 copies.

■It also debuted at number one on the Oricon Weekly Digital Album Ranking!

Kenshi Yonezu’s sixth album “LOST CORNER,” released on August 21st, debuted at number one on the “Oricon Weekly Album Rankings” (dated August 27th) with first-week sales of 377,000 copies, setting a new record for first-week sales by a solo artist this year.

This is the second consecutive album to exceed 300,000 copies in first week sales, following his previous album “STRAY SHEEP”. This is the first time in 14 years and 8 months that a solo artist has achieved two consecutive albums with first week sales of over 300,000 copies, and the first time in the Reiwa era. This makes his fourth consecutive album to reach No. 1, including “STRAY SHEEP”, “BOOTLEG” and “Bremen”.

In addition, CD shipments of “LOST CORNER” exceeded 500,000 copies in the first week after its release, reaching half a million copies shipped (according to the record company as of August 26th). Due to its appearance on the MBS/TBS program “Sunday First Time Hearing” last week and in the media related to the movie “The Last Mile”, the album continues to receive a great response in its second week after its release, and expectations are high for it to break even more records.

It also debuted at number one on the Oricon Weekly Digital Album Rankings (as of September 2nd) with 14,349 first-week downloads (hereafter DL), setting a new record for the highest number of first-week DLs for a solo artist this year. This is his third number one album, following “BOOTLEG” and “STRAY SHEEP.”

Furthermore, in the “Oricon Weekly Streaming Ranking” (August 28th), the theme song for NHK’s “Tora ni Tsubasa” (Tiger Wings), “Sayonara Mata Itsuka!”, exceeded 100 million cumulative plays, ranking 20th with 3,903,592 weekly plays.

With a cumulative total of 100,621,508 plays, Kenshi Yonezu’s 13th work (“Eine Kleine,” “LOSER,” “Peace Sign,” “Gray and Blue (+Masaki Suda),” “Lemon,” “Flamingo,” “Uma to Shika,” “Kanden,” “Pale Blue,” “M87,” “KICK BACK,” “LADY,” and “Sayonara Mata Itsuka!”) has surpassed 100 million cumulative plays, breaking his own record for the second-highest number of works to surpass 100 million plays by a male solo artist in history.

Furthermore, it has won first place in the “HOT Albums” and “Top Albums Sales” on the “Billboard JAPAN” charts, and is dominating the ranking charts.

Kenshi Yonezu will appear on the September 1st broadcast of MBS/TBS’s “Sunday First Time I Hear” and TV Asahi’s “EIGHT-JAM.”