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I put a bit info about the oricon chart stuffs on my blog a week ago: http://rologeass.tumblr.com/post/158...tered-top-5-of
2nd position on first day sales (with 19.104 copies). Top 5 on first week sales (with 30.000+ copies). Last edited by rologeass; Apr 3, 2017 at 09:55 AM. |
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Here's an official source for album sales, in Japanese
http://www.billboard-japan.com/sp/d_news/detail/49289/2 Yolo Taro also put this news on his twitter According to Oricon daily ranking, album entered album charts at 2nd position on 28/03, kept this place for 3 days, then 3rd place on 31/03, 8th on 01/04 and 28th on 02/04... No matter how good this album performed in sales charts, I keep wondering how much the demand outside Japan helped boosting these figures.... but I guess it's quite a lot. |
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Really wish we could've gotten Emil's Shop in English but I understand why we couldn't.
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Oricon has put weekly figures for last week album sales:
http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/w/2017-04-10/ NieR:Automata is No. 2 with 34,655 copies sold. |
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Frankly I'm suprised that even a brand new soundtrack sells so many copies in Japan, especially in that short time. From what I've heard before VGM soundtracks are more of a niche thing even in Japan, so I guess there's more to it or is this really just the exception?
In any case this is definitely interesting, I'm often wondering how well certain soundtracks actually sell. |
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It definitely is not the best selling soundtrack. Perhaps in recent years, but not of all time. VGMO has some numbers just from SQEX from 10 years ago:
http://www.vgmonline.net/salesfigures/ And even if you want to dispute it due to lack of cited source (though I'm certain Chris had one), a quick look around on oricon confirms the top seven numbers: http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/72857/full/ |
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It's unusual, but it happens.
To compare other recent VGM albums (week 1 sales): Final Fantasy XV: ~10,000 Persona 5: ~30,000 Zelda Orchestra Concert: ~10,000 World of Final Fantasy: ~1000 Saga Scarlet Grace: ~1000 |
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Hey, so did *anyone* notice pg. 7-8 of the Liner Notes? Yoko Taro's liner notes are ... special.
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It's hex code (0-9 and A-F). Converting that hex code into text (I think UNICODE? I used this tool http://www.unit-conversion.info/texttools/hexadecimal/ ) And here is your message... Quote:
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Someone pointed out on reddit that the OST is one of the best selling digital albums on Amazon US! Currently at #14 as of the time of this posting.
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Does anyone know which languages the songs are sung in? Besides the obvious English, French and Japanese. Songs like Amusement Park sound like they're not sung in a real language. Is it true that Emi Evans made up her own language and sings some Nier songs using that?
I've been going through all songs trying to figure out who sings what. Here's a list of what I've got so far. Any input is appreciated. Disc 1 Spoiler:
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Pascal's Song is in German Language
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Really? The pronunciation must be as terrible as Asuka in Evangelion, because I can't make out anything.
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But um ... which song is in French? It's not Emi's "Weight of the World." That's "Nouveau French," -- basically her chaos language, but in its first-draft French-heavy form (which she first used on Song of the Ancients). There's clearly no actual-French in that song. As for Baladium's claim about Pascal's song being in German ... The phonemes are there, but there's so much distortion, and it doesn't help that it's choral vocal and not a singular voice. I agree with BoneSatyr that if it is German, it's Eva-Asuka quality. There are also sections of "Pascal" that sound more Japanese then German. You'll hear two-syllable patterns like "Saka" and "Koshi" (or is that "Hoshi"?) that feel very Japanese. But then at like ... 2:48 I'm almost positive I hear the word "Scheide" or "Scheiden." I'd feel comfortable categorizing it as Neue-Deutsch, like Nouveau-French. But if they were true German lyrics, I'd love to see them and study them. What would be truly interesting is if the lyrics were all pulled directly from Nietszche Spoiler:
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At 0,33 its "Dann schenkt Gott mir ein ???" the last word sound like 'Schleife"
At 0,36 its "weil ich ,glaub ich " The next words are really hard to understand,but it sounds german. The refrain at 1,13 its "Weil ich dich mag, ich hab dich gern" I guess everything is in german but it hard to understand because of the bad pronounce I,m a native German but still its hard to understand. Last edited by Baladium; May 2, 2017 at 05:15 PM. |
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German is my second language, the only language I speak with any competence other than English (Japanese is read/write only, my spoken Japanese is weak).
Listening to it now, I hear every single thing you've written. You have my convinced that at the very least, there are fully German phrases in the song. I cannot rule out the possibility that our childish robot friends change languages somewhere during the song (did you hear "Saka" and "Koshi" like I did? Somewhere around 1,40). The lines you quote, though, are very interesting. "Then God gives me a 'loop'" (bow/ribbon, but also possible to be like a moebius strip, turing tape kind of thing) "Because I like you, I like (having) you (around)" ... there's something fun and simple and childish about these lyrics. Nice work Baladium. It's a shame that the full lyrics to Pascal weren't published in the liner notes. I'll do some digging to see if someone at MONACA can't give us the full set of lyrics. |
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Well, Okabe-san is standing firm on chaos language. I wrote the following to him on Twitter...
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I know I'm late to the discussion, but with the original NieR soundtrack, they didn't so much invent languages as imagine what each language would sound like after a couple thousand years of continued change and evolution, so someone playing the game would hear lyrics that sound like English or French or whatever but wouldn't actually be English, French, etc. I haven't seen anything specifically discussing this for the Automata soundtrack, but I suspect they took the same approach. It's a really neat approach, but can be rather annoying if you want a copy of the lyrics or even just want to sing along. :-)
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It's one of the instrumental layers of "Sound of the End". The version on the soundtrack has vocals on top of it.
Here's a game rip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9SxNzpsMqo |
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Where is the tracklisting from? My copy didn't have any.
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A bit late to the game here, but I just sent a request to MONACA asking for a list of who performed the vocals (officially). Doubt I'll get anything, but it's worth a shot! :')
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Absoluty stunning Soundtrack.
The chanting, piano and partial military esque implementations are simply excellent... This coming to Switch on 6 Oct is even better. Mhmmm |
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