Aya Hirano's Speed Star is #4 on Weekly Album Chart

posted on 2009-11-25 12:31 EST

Character voice's 2nd top-10 album sold 20,342 copies

Voice actress Aya Hirano's Speed Star album debuted at #4 on Oricon's weekly album ranking chart for the week of November 16-22. The two-CD set sold 20,342 copies. This is the second album in a row from Hirano to debut in the top 10; last year's Riot Girl sold 23,000 copies to land at #6. Speed Star's 13 tracks include The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya's new opening song "Super Driver" and Chiko, Heiress of the Phantom Thief's ending theme song "unnamed world."

The #1 album of the week was the limited first edition of B'z's Magic, which sold 340,630 copies. After debuting at #1 the week before, Arashi's My Girl album fell to #3 on the latest weekly singles chart with 42,302 more copies sold.