The total number of sales for singles, which were written by Yasushi Akimoto has reached over 68,591,000 copies, making him the most commercially successful lyricist in Japan that he even surpassed late lyricist Yu Aku's record by 272,000 copies!
Akimoto has written the lyrics for many artists such as Onyanko Club, Tunnels and recently, he's best known for his work in AKB48, SKE48, NMB48 and many more. It's reported that he wrote the lyrics for 506 singles so far.
The best selling single he wrote was AKB48's 26th single "Manatsu no Sounds good!", which sold 1,822,000 copies. Moreover, about 30% (19,987,000 copies) of his total sales come from the AKB48 songs that he wrote.
Akimoto made his debut as a lyricist with "Kotoba ni Shitakunai Tenki" in October 1981. His first chart topping single was Momoko Kikuchi's "Sotsugyou" and a total of 87 singles, which Akimoto contributed the lyrics, have topped the chart ever since.
Source: tokyohive
Akimoto has written the lyrics for many artists such as Onyanko Club, Tunnels and recently, he's best known for his work in AKB48, SKE48, NMB48 and many more. It's reported that he wrote the lyrics for 506 singles so far.
The best selling single he wrote was AKB48's 26th single "Manatsu no Sounds good!", which sold 1,822,000 copies. Moreover, about 30% (19,987,000 copies) of his total sales come from the AKB48 songs that he wrote.
Akimoto made his debut as a lyricist with "Kotoba ni Shitakunai Tenki" in October 1981. His first chart topping single was Momoko Kikuchi's "Sotsugyou" and a total of 87 singles, which Akimoto contributed the lyrics, have topped the chart ever since.
Source: tokyohive
