My reason for not buying Asian music is the prices that are way too high for me. Seriously, I could get 2 albums of western pop with the prices of one J-Pop CD. I wish Japan lowered their prices 50% then I could have better chance of buying music.

^ That's why I've been finding way better to purchase from Amazon JP. Most albums have some quite nice discounts on Amazon JP, so I purchase there and I use their free shipping to my Tenso account, and then pay Tenso's SAL shipping to me (their SAL fees are quite reasonable). From my calculations, thanks to Amazon JP's discounts this way is by far the cheapest for me, AND with Tenso's SAL shipping I can always avoid taxing (which is a big issue here in Brazil). Besides, this way my purchases also count on Oricon :)

Amazon JP can ship internationally directly of course, but only with more expensive shipping options that will get me taxed here in Brazil for sure, so I rather use Tenso...

^ Your way is really insteresting, I think I'll try it next time I buy something!

Omg I'm gonna try this!! Thank you so much :D

Did anyone talked about sixxxxxx on Billboard Japan's Hot Albums?! it debuted on #3 place and DCT was #1, it means they're doing even better on radio stations and streamings, I mean, how is that even possible? are the stations really playing their old songs right in the middle of the current hits? And are people really watching they're old videos to give them streaming? Or…. are all this fuzz around two or three new songs on this album with new videos and they're turned out to be smash hits?? Or are those songs being massively downloaded? legally talking

Rise to #6. Top 10 confirmed! :D

I just tried this out for the first time the other day because I was ordering like six or seven items. Makes sense, for sure...especially with this free trial of amazon prime for amazon.co.jp. Yay!

well..it will be in top10..but I doubt that it will reach 10k this week...hopefully 10k..but I think it will be around 7-8k

^ no. it'll reach barely 5000

yup, hardly 5k….

How is sixxxxxx doing in iTunes Japan? I remember reading an article that iPhones are selling extremely well in Japan, so I thought most people would just buy their music through iTunes, since it's so much easier and cheaper than physical CDs.

the last update…

sixxxxxx - EP
#26 Japan
#95 Taiwan
#119 Hong Kong


and DCTs best album

Dreams Come True the Best Watashino Dorikamu
#1 Japan


it explains why they were also #1 on billboard japan this week

sixxxxxx went up to #5

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2015-08-15/

Yay!! Sixxxx might actually sale close to A One.

Yaaaaaay...number five.....

I bought the album because I respect her as an artist and as a fan I respect the songs and the separation between private life and work. This is my opinion
And I'm so happy to know ayu from my mom who live in Japan.

Dropped to #11 yesterday :-\

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2015-08-16/p/2/

Well, at least it is going to be in the top 10 for one more week.

Wow, I'm surprised about that jump to #5! Nice!

10 today.
http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2015-08-17/

#5 this week with 5,533 copies sold. Total 36,521. Better than expected, though it seems unlikely to sell close to A ONE. And apparently DCT is #1 again with 32k copies so even if sixxxxxx were to be released this week, it couldn't get #1 either :(