Chart News: BB: “Pokémon Theme” has best sales week ever.
Amid Pokemon’s resurgence and pop culture takeover, the English language version of the "Pokemon Theme," credited to Pokemon as the artist, blasts off again, bounding from No. 17 to No. 4 on Billboard’s Kid Digital Songs sales chart, reaching its highest rank ever, with a 1,079 percent gain to 7,000 downloads sold in the tracking week (ending July 14), according to Nielsen Music, easily its best digital sales week. The previous week, the track re-entered the chart with a 125 percent burst to 1,000 sold. The song had previously ascended to No. 10, dating to the chart’s January 2010 inception; until the past two weeks, it had not appeared on the ranking since February 2015. |