Japanese Superstar Group SixTONES has debuted at #1 on the United World Chart with their 2nd Studio Album, 'City', and 424,000 equivalent sales units! One year ago the group's debut album '1st' landed at #1 with 467,000 sales! 'City' was released January 5, 2022, and includes their 4th chart topping single "Boku wa Boku Janai Mitai Da", released on February 17, 2021, and their fifth #1 single, "Mascara", released on August 11, 2021. "Boku wa Boku Janai Mitai Da" was used as the theme song for the movie LiarxLiar, which SixTones member, Matsumura Hokuto, played a lead role in. "Mascara" was written and produced by King Gnu's Tsuneta Daiki. One song from the album, "Rosy", was used as the theme song for the Japanese dub of Spider-Man: No Way Home!
SixTONES was formed by Johnny & Associates in 2015, whose late President, Johnny Kitagawa, initially named as "SIX TONES", but later changed to "SixTONES". The "stones" pronunciation refers to "6 uncut diamonds", where the group's potential is revealed after continual polishing and refining of the members' skills. The name also refers to the six members having six different tones, with unique personalities and sounds in the group!
The group made an explosive debut on January 22, 2020 with their 1st Single "Imitation Rain", a double A-side CD single with Johnny's other group Snow Man called "SixTones vs Snow Man". "Imitation Rain" was composed and arranged by X Japan's legendary musician Yoshiki, and the CD sold 772,902 incredible copies in 1 single day, eventually crossing 1 MILLION in the following few days and topping the Oricon weekly Chart! On July 22, 2020, SixTones released their 2nd single "Navigator". "New Era", was released on November 11, 2020, and was used as the first opening of Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon.
SixTones released their first album, 1ST on January 6, 2020 and topped both the Oricon Albums Chart and Billboard Japan Hot Albums Chart, selling over 467,000 copies in Japan in its first week!
SixTONES have sold 5.84 million physical copies in Japan so far!
