Why would you think that they are failing elsewhere?

I still think that the fact that many people bought the album on the venue will make the numbers quite lower than they actually are, usually there are no venue sales on the very first week, but time there was...

The stores have the album for sale at Ayu's section.

This! People have to learn that we are not in 2006 anymore!

I can't believe people get so worked up over a shop display...

She's doing alright by female solo standards anyway. The only downside is she doesn't do promo anymore which makes albums feel like less of an event. :(

I saw the sequel this past weekend. Might have even been better than the first one :)

Kisumai topped the album charts this week with 246k copies sold, UVERworld was #2 with copies around 90k, Oda Kazumasa sold 75k copies with his new album and was #3 on Weekly Albums.

sources: http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2039532/, http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2039531/

My thoughts for Colours are around 45-50k, hope I'm not all that wrong.

I'm NOT surprised it's not even in the top three with the boys taking them all - or maybe the top four. Most likely it will be #5, but I'd be surprised if she goes outside the top five...

There aint no way for it to be out of top 5.

OMG

Soundscan (Another chart which count less copies than Oricon) says Colours sold 23,438 copies!!

Total might be more than 30k :D So relieved I thought it was going to sell almost 20k

Source: For"A"ver Club

#1 Kis-My-Ft2
#2 UVERworld
#3 Oda Kasumasa
#4 Tsuyoshi Nagabushi
#5 FROZEN OST
#6 ayumi hamasaki
#7 Christ Heart
#8 Itano Tomomi
#9 Namie Amuro
#10 DJ KAORI

Ayu should be #5 on Oricon :D

I went to Shibuya today and of course I had a quick look at Tower Records while I was there (love visiting Tower Records), so to shut up whoever says the album isn't on the stores or isn't being displayed here it is:

On the first floor (the floor with the new releases):
http://imageshack.com/a/img822/5192/cqsx.jpg

And also on the daily top 20 shelf:
http://imageshack.com/a/img841/8440/s5i85.jpg

And on her section on the j-pop floor:
http://imageshack.com/a/img829/6784/j41e.jpg


Whoever says the album isn't for sale for sure didn't even try searching...


And of course I also saw the awesome huge billboard in front of the station, so cool, you can even see it from the train arriving and leaving the station :heart

NEXT LEVEL sold around 240k in its first week. Her first album to not break 100k in the first week was Party Queen. It almost did though. I remember people being worried about RnRC not selling over 200k though haha.

From For"A"ver Club FB, it's stated that ayu is on #5 with the sale of 39,295. Please correct me if i'm wrong.

^ Yep, weekly results are out and Colours sold 39k! And people saying it wouldn't reach 20k...

And for people so worried about positions, it's all about who else releases on the same date. If Colours had been released last week with 39k it would have been #2, but this week it's #5, it's completely relative, A Classical got #1 with 25k last year...

OMG! :love I love this photo! Really.

Love songs 272,653k
Party Queen 148,290k
LOVE again 88,825k
Colours 39,295k

Someone posted this, WOW to see the drop for each year !!

But it's their totals lol Colours is just 1st week... so it might sell like 50,000.

#5 is quite good for a singer being active for 16 years I think. Of course, it would have been awesome if she had beaten those boy groups ahead of her tho, but I'm fine with a top 5 position myself. :)

aahh so its their total, lol! ok I got it now xD

2nd Week

1st Day

Position: #8

https://twitter.com/tomo_coco73/stat...92584357793792

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Twitterが荒れてると思ったら… 残念です。。 思ってもない。言ってもないのに こんな記事が出て本当に悲しいです…。。(>_<) 浜崎あゆみさんのファンの皆さんご迷惑おかけしました。でも私の言葉ではありません(*_*)

It seems that Tokyo Sports & Yahoo Japan misreported Tomomi had declared a 'war' against Ayu and she was frustrated because her album couldn't outsell Ayu. Tomomi explained through her latest tweet saying that she never said such thing and felt sad.

Article : http://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/entame...inment/287304/

Aww poor Tomochin T_T