Morning Musume. '25 [75TH SINGLE "Ki ni naru Sono Ki no Uta / Akaruku ii Ko" on 7/2 ; Eripon's Last Single]

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2nd day on Oricon : Stay @ #2 with 1,157 sold
https://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/d/2025-07-02/

78,811 + 1,157 = 79,968

[Loverindesu]

What a bad graduation for Ikuta. The single is underperforming, the songs are awful, tickets for Budokan are still not soldout, she didn't got a solo song, her graduation was eclipsed for Kitario's scandal and Sakura's recent graduation announcement, she's second in both songs line distribution, and so on. A totally non-event.

[Sohee]

She’s getting a solo that gets released at the concert venue after the concert. Like most graduates have gotten, recently.

She can’t really sing (she even admits this herself so much xD) but she is in the center dance-wise a lot for the songs and that’s just as valuable as getting solo lines.

Not the thread for this but, In terms of “stuff” she’s getting though… rather than just her getting it, they have an entire variety thing on Hulu being both variety but it’s also presented as a “graduation trip” for the girls to celebrate her graduation. That’s a lot of money right there. And the Kawaguchiko live. And the budoukan show in July like, a month after the tour finished.
Idk. Having listened to interviews and stuff, I really get the impression that her biggest want for the group is group activities even with her graduating and that I feel is succeeding. So I personally wouldn’t call it a non-event.

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Billboard Japan First Three Day Singles Sales Report (6/30~7/2) :

Morning Musume. '25 @ #2 with 106,702 copies sold so far.

https://www.billboard-japan.com/d_news/detail/151132/2

boom! 100k for Eripon's last single!