Sakurazaka46 Debut at No. 1 as Stray Kids Soar to No. 2 on Japan Hot 100

Sakurazaka46 launch at No. 1 on this week’s Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated Oct. 11 to 17, with its latest single called “Nagaredama.”

The J-pop girl group’s third single sold 407,334 copies to rule physical sales, while also scoring points in a balanced way across most metrics. The track comes in at No. 2 for look-ups — which counts the number of times a CD is ripped to a computer — No. 3 for downloads (8,080 units), No. 11 for Twitter mentions, No. 19 for radio airplay, and No. 29 for streaming (3,052,441 streams).