FREE (4th week sales)

FREE finally reached the 100k mark in sales this week! It ranked at #13 this week with 8,509 copies sold, making the total sales 105,675.

SALA ~Superior~ CM

Erika's done another beautiful commercial for the hair product, "SALA." Looks like we're seeing more of Mont Saint Michel, too!

Below are some promotional photos as well as the commercial itself.

BARFOUT! 07.04.2007 scans

Reminscencing the past update, here are the complete scans for the July 4^th issue of Barfout! are here.

MTV Feature Page

Another page for Erika has been put up this time by MTV Japan with the rolling theme of ERIKA　Ｘ　Erika Sawajiri. It features a few videos of the making of FREE and a lot of images, sadly the second video has to be subscribed and it seems that only people of Japan can do so.

Click the below image to view the currently available video:

Source: MTV Featuring: 沢尻エリカ introducing ERIKA

Various ERIKA Updates

Erika's FREE is #1 for its first week. It was #1 almost every day this week. The first week sales are 50,287 copies! She managed to outsell the #2 single by over 10,000 copies!

Now on to more good news! Erika is the 2nd artist in history to have the first 2 singles rank at #1 on the charts, in the history of oricon charts! (Which is about 40 years). The only one to accomplish the same goal, was Hiroko Yakushimaru (Who played Erika's mother in the 1 Litre of Tears drama) in 1983.

FREE Sales!

Erika's debut single FREE has been #1 every day since the release! Total estimated sales up to now are 45,252 copies. Erika is also expected to get #1 for the weekly charts as well.

FANTASY PV!

The video for FANTASY released today! It features Erika in various scenes, deciphered

as a dream by the little girl in the video. The password is erika-sawajiri.co.nr, as always.

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If you like these songs, and videos, we ask you to please purchase the single!

BARFOUT AUGUST 2007

Erika is on the cover of BARFOUT magazine for the august 2007 issue! Here is the cover:

FREE DEBUTS AT #1

Erika's debut single FREE debuts at #1 on the oricon charts! First day sales estimate is 15,889.



Charts

FREE FRONT AND BACK COVERS

Here are pictures of the front and back of FREE. The first image should be familiar while the back image is of ERIKA in a similar position.
Scans of these as well as the 12 page booklet will be up very soon!

FANTASY PV Peview

FANTASY now has a PV, and the preview was put up on Erika's official site! From the preview it looks like a very nice PV! We can't wait for the full thing!


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FANTASY the CM song for music.jp

FANTASY has been chosen as the CM song for www.music.jp. The CM will be on the air beginning this month.