11th! not bad
i hope it will rise...

It will probably plummet badly throughout the week, but I'm hoping that it'll hold steady, and hopefully outsell her last studio album.

That's not too bad. Hopefully it'll go up and stay steady in the top ten.

Anyone has ECHOES without the "glitch" at the beginning?

So probably something along 3 to 5,000 copies or less for first day sales?
The #3 album only had 10,826.

PB preview


umm yes, it is, I am not sure why Damita said no.

I want scans!!! She looks like ayaka back from 2009!

Oh, 11th is not bad! I'm soooo proud of alan and I hope that the album will rise!!!

Ahhhh~~ I can't wait to get my copy!!! :heart

The PB is gorgeous. She looks adorable, sweet and natural in these shoots. Love them! Thanks for sharing.

And 11th, not bad alan. At least it is in a top 20 and maybe it will rise into the top 10. That's what I hope for her.

Maybe you or I misunderstood, isn't resealable meant as it has a flap to reuse? Because mine certainly didn't come with that, for the box anyways.

Well, #11 is not bad to start, but I'm kind of thinking about the "sales > rankings" thought...

...?

Your rank depends on your sales....so it's more like sales=ranking

the competition this week is hard, the peak is good !!!
+1, please if someone wanna share this with us, it'll be really nice

I think that they mean that, artists have only sold 5,000 copies and have been at #1 before and artists have sold a lot more than that and have been at much lower rankings because of heavy competition. Just because alan is #11 doesn't mean it has really low sales, so that's why I think they said that the sales numbers are more important than the ranking number, but correct me if I'm wrong, Bigtop ^^.

I'm personally proud of her, but there's still the chance for it to go down :\. #11 on the first day is better than I anticipated though, considering March is full of major releases and the end of February had a few as well. I wish her the best :)!

btw, whoops for calling you Damit 0_o

^ LOL! I thought you were swearing xD well that's okay of course

I asked another alan fan if hers did come with a flap and hers did...she bought from CDJapan as well. I wonder why mine didn't? I have it right in front of me too. Maybe a mistake? Well I'll email them about that.

Anyways I uploaded Echoes, I'll put it in the download section~ What is that glitch anyways? Is it from the CD or just the up-loader's fault? Because I don't notice it...

OMG, THANKS a lot Damita !!!
it's so clear and HQ

The rip that's floating around right now is said to have originated from Tieba and the best album is just a compilation of tracks from the singles while the mini album has been ripped incorrectly so there's an audible glitch near the beginning of "ECHOES."

The FLAC that's floating around is just a transcode from the MP3s as well, so be aware of that.

I'm going to upload a proper rip with EAC over at JPS once I get my copy of the LE so keep an eye out for that. It should be up tomorrow sometime and will be in both 320 and V0. ;)

^ Did they make alan's chin smaller on that cover? Or is it just the angle of the pic?