NothingFails wrote:I'd love to see the info for Pink Lady. I know they were a phenomenon in Japan but I've never seen chart positions
Yes, Pink Lady is the legendary female duet which was extremely popular late in the 1970s.
Their main records are as follows.
*Most weeks at #1 Artsit:63weeks at #1
*2 years consecutive annual single chart #1 and 4 singles in TOP10
1977 annual single chart
944,270
Nagisa no Sindbad - Pink Lady
865,080 Seisyun Jidai - Koichi Morita & Top Gyaran
845,010
Wanted (Simei Tehai) - Pink Lady
747,480 Katteni Siyagare - Kenji Sawada
708,190 Mukasino Namae de deteimasu - Akira Kobayashi
668,520 Amayadori - Masashi Sada
658,750
Carmen'77 - Pink Lady
646,640
S.O.S. - Pink Lady
628,110 Situren Restaurant - Kentaro Shimizu
566,000 Feeling - Hi Fi Set
1978 annual single chart
1,553,890
UFO - Pink Lady
1,460,360
Southpaw - Pink Lady
1,102,050
Monster - Pink Lady
919,270 Kimino Hitomi Ha 1000000Volt - Takao Horiuchi
829,390 Hohoemi Gaeshi - Candies
799,760
Toumei Ningen - Pink Lady
699,520 Canada Kara No Tegami - Masaaki Hirao & Yoko Hatanaka
652,490 Mr.Summertime - Circus
639,450 Jikan Yo Tomare - Eikichi Yazawa
627,420 Wakare-Uta - Miyuki Nkajima
*5 Singles consecutive Million seller
*9 Singles consecutive #1
*Kiss In The Dark entered Billboard HOT100(#37).
and more...
(Left:US disk,Right:Japanese disk)
Pink Lady
Singles sales and chart positions in Japan.
1976/08/25 Pepper Keibu # 4 , 45 weeks, 605,480
1976/11/25 S.O.S. # 1(1week) , 38 weeks, 654,300
1977/03/10 Carmen'77 # 1(5weeks) , 36 weeks, 663,000
1977/06/10 Nagisa no Sindbad # 1(8weeks) , 38 weeks, 1,000,280
1977/09/05 Wanted (Simei Tehai) # 1(12weeks) , 33 weeks, 1,200,860
1977/12/05 UFO # 1(10weeks) , 32 weeks, 1,553,890
1978/03/25 Southpaw # 1(9weeks) , 29 weeks, 1,460,360
1978/06/25 Monster # 1(8weeks) , 20 weeks, 1,102,050
1978/09/09 Toumei Ningen # 1(4weeks) , 22 weeks, 886,270
1978/12/05 Chameleon Army # 1(6weeks) , 18 weeks, 707,570
1979/03/09 Zipangu # 4 , 13 weeks, 268,940
1979/05/01 Pink Typhoon # 6 , 17 weeks, 298,250
1979/07/05 Naminori Pirates # 4 , 13 weeks, 241,830
1979/09/05 Kiss In The Dark # 19 , 15 weeks, 110,580
1979/09/09 Monday Mona Lisa Club # 14 , 12 weeks, 111,700
1979/12/05 Do Your Best # 36 , 9 weeks, 51,460
1980/03/05 Ai Giri Giri # 58 , 4 weeks, 16,810
1980/05/21 Sekai Eiyu-Shi # 45 , 4 weeks, 16,780
1980/09/21 Utakata # 48 , 10 weeks, 39,850
1980/12/05 Remember # 86 , 4 weeks, 10,330
1981/01/21 Last Pretender # 85 , 3 weeks, 7,800
1981/03/05 Oh! # 46 , 7 weeks, 27,950