“Ikemen desu ne” soundtrack tops the Oricon album chart

It’s been revealed that “A.N.JELL with TBS ‘Ikemen Desu ne’ Music Collection“, the original soundtrack (OST) for the drama “Ikemen desu ne” and A.N.JELL’s debut album, has sold 150,000 copies in its first week, topping the Oricon Weekly Album Ranking for the week of October 17th. This marks the first time that a TV drama OST took first place in the charts.

The band A.N.JELL is comprised of actress Takimoto Miori, Kis-My-Ft2’s Tamamori Yuta and Fujigaya Taisuke, and Hey! Say! JUMP’s Yaotome Hikaru. Until now, the soundtrack for Kimura Takuya and Yamaguchi Tomoko’s 1996  drama, “Long Vacation“, has held second place on the charts, the highest position for a TV OST album. The record has now been broken for the first time in 15 years and 4 months.

The album has also set a record for selling the most copies in its first week as an OST for a TV drama. The previous record was set back in 1992 with the soundtrack for Yasuda Narumi and Nakamori Akina’s  drama, “Sugao no Mama de“, which held 4th place with 65,000 copies sold in its first week.

“Ikemen desu ne” is a remake of the Korean drama, “You’re Beautiful“, which starred popular actor Jang Geun Suk. The album comes with two discs and features four songs that A.N.JELL performed during the drama.

Source: Oricon

A.N.JELL, the band in “Ikemen Desu ne” to make a debut

On September 5th, it was announced that the band A.N.JELL from the TBS drama “Ikemen Desu ne” will make their official debut on October 5th!

This band was originally a fictional band for the drama with Johnny’s Entertainment members Tamamori Yuta (Kis-My-Ft2) as Katsuragi Ren, Fujigaya Taisuke (Kis-My-Ft2) as Fukishiro Shu, Yaotome Hikaru (Hey! Say! JUMP) as Hongo Yuki, and actress Takimoto Miori as Sakuraba Mio/Miko.

Their debut CD temporary titled “A.N.JELL with TBS ‘Ikemen Desu ne’ Music Collection“, will contain two discs – one including all four songs from the band and the other focusing on the OST of the drama with a special package to add. It will be released in two versions of Limited Edtion and Regular Edition with the limited version including an original PV and a special CD jacket. Also, the first-print version of this regular version will enclose a rare CD jacket before Sakuraba was a member.

Check out the whole track list below!

(Disc-1)

1. Promise
2. Futari
3. alone
4. Miss You

(Disc-2)

1. “Ikemen Desu ne” Main Theme
2. Girl’s Soul
3. Sunrise Shower
4. Youphoria
5. Pursuer
6. Aenakunaru Mae ni
7. Ashita Hareru Kana
8. Moon Knows
9. Run and Dive
10. Sky Sky Sky
11. Let’s Play Tag
12. Bad Relations
13. Akegata no Niji
14. You are not my angel
15. My Formal Crisis
16. The story has not ended yet
17. Tobikiri no Ai wo Komete
18. Asakiiro no Yoru
19. Someone’s Sorrow
20. He is my Hero
21. Yousei no Kattou
22. Kokoro no Oku no Hou e
23. “Ikemen Desu ne” Main Theme (String Ver.)
24. Aernakunaru Mae ni (Strings Ver.)
25. Akegata no Niji (Strings Ver.)

(DVD [Limited Edition only])

A.N.JELL [Music Video] (temporary)

Source: Tower Records

Image: “Ikemen Desu ne” Official Site

A.N. JELL delivers a special performance on “Coming Soon!!”

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Fictional band A.N. JELL from the popular drama, “Ikemen desu ne“, held a special performance on this week’s episode of “Coming Soon!!“.

Comprised of Hey! Say! JUMP’s Yaotome Hikaru, Kis-My-Ft2’s Tamamori Yuta and Fujigaya Taisuke, and actress Takimoto Miori, the band delivered a lively performance of the drama’s theme song, “PROMISE“.

“Ikemen desu ne” is the Japanese adaptation of the hit Korean drama, “You’re Beautiful“, where Takimoto plays ‘Sakuraba Miko‘, a nun who has pretend to be a boy in order to act as a substitute for her older twin brother, who asks her to sign a contract to be part of the popular boy band, “A.N. JELL”.