Quite interesting. Too bad because of the AT10 she's not doing TV promotion... Not even Music Station... But we'll have to see - but for the 49th single (the record-tying attempt) and the 50th (the record-breaking attempt, if 49th goes #1), I hope she can be back on TV...

EDIT: Oopsie! Arashi's right on Ayu's back! But I think Arashi would have way too much to catch up if they want to dethrone Ayu for #1, and that would be too late...

And the Hexagon All Stars, #2 in NINKI, is still struggling, not even in the top three or even the top five again...

^ the #1 is as good as hers ^^

only 6.000...u_u,go to the 100.00k ayu,you can!!

MOON / blossom is as good as getting #1 unofficially now . It's only a matter as to how much the 1st week sales will be

so I don't know why Bigtop is always forever bringing up ARASHI's name over & over again , it's a bit annoying isn't it ? :rolleyes

To be free was #1 already for this/last week . It's different if they released it on the same week as MOON / blossom innit ?

yay my kids are #5 today , Gekijou / hEaVeN is unofficially another top 10 for them :D

Ayu will ger her #1 weekly! I'm sure of it!!!! Let's support Ayu!


Depend On You Initiate!!!!!!! Yahoooooo!

@truehappiness: Ayu was even more hard pressed for time in the past. I know she's getting older, but I don't mind if ayu isn't promoting much, it's her marketing strategist's job!!! Also, she shouldn't be putting out releases if she's not promoting any at all. NL - RnRC was a promotion nightmare. I do not want to see a repeat in this era.

@Njanjayrp: Thanks, that made sense. Still, I hate her marketing team.

I wish people would STOP BRINGING ARASHI up. Yes, they're gaining in on her this week. They might even be no. 1 for the next couple of days. But ayu's already guaranteed the no. 1 weekly so it doesn't matter.

Also, there seems to be a new trend on Oricon that the second day's sales are almost as high as the first day's, but that a very strong drop follows afterwards. Don't worry, sales always rise again in the weekend!

er no most of the time Johnny's single sales for the 2nd week will drop like a hot potato

I do listen/support ARASHI but I don't bring up their name & rub it in everyone's face on here , it's really annoying if not sickening

I'm not the culprit in this matter so :o

MOON / blossom is already #1 for the past 3 days so it's something worth celebrating for

Then it should be

3rd Day
Position: #1
Sales: 6,062
Total Sales: 55,481

lol exactly like my prediction which I wrote earlier, I can be a fortune teller =P.

If it will sell above 5,000 for the next 3 days it can sell 70,000 but if it will keep dropping the same it might sell around 2,800 tomorrow...

I'm glad to hear that the next 2 singles will have promotion!

Anyway by far this week ARASHI sold around 26,674 in total.
They have no chance to be #1 this week unless if their sales will suddenly sky rocket a lot.

^Haha, your prediction beat mine! =P

I think it'll drop 'cuz it usually does. Hope it doesn't though. (^_^)

I wish tomorrow rise until 8.000k ^^,maybe in the weekend rise a little...

yeah they wouldn't & somemore To be free was only released in 1 CD + DVD edition

they cleared about 426K + in the 1st week so it's quite expected that 2nd week sales will drop like a rock

Well maybe avex made the tour special edition in order to raise the sales of Saturday (shown on Sunday) and Sunday (shown on Monday) (equevalent to 5th and 6th days)

She has the 2 shows in Koba tomorrow and 2 more days so hopefully it will give some extras though I'm not expecting anything. The boxsets of You were.../BALLAD 3 versions in the CDL didn't seem to help much from what it seemed.

Next week are the 2 final shows of the non SPECIAL FINAL portion of the present tour. :D
Then a-nation and then the SPECIAL FINAL.

Yes that's what I was saying, I completely agree with you : P

3rd Day DVD
Position: #3 (Music), #4 (General)

I just order 2 copies each of the special versions. So that's 4 more copies from me.

It might help though, because different from the YW box, these have a different covers and new poster. Think of it as a 4th version, it's different from YW, as they force them to buy all 3 to get the box, and not everyone will buy. Since they already have it, but this is different, it's cheap and new cover!

Hopefully you're right! the 5th and 6th days sales will tell ^-^.

Though it's specially to kobe (for the first week) I suppose so it's not even for tokyo. =P

I still hope for 100k like S/S ^^ Without promotion it would be great !

I think it will sale better at AT10 because of the special version. because it is cheaper then the normal versions. I hope at a rising in the sales, but i don't think that will happen

ughh.. how her DVD sold that low?? who is at #1???