Her biggest competition is SID and they've basically been about 20~30k off from her first weeks for the past 2 years. (Even more before that, but they only started gaining popularity in 2008)

SID & flumpool are probably her main competitors this week but I don't think they will be much of a threat

they generally do sell well for rock groups but obviously not as much as estalished ones like GLAY & let alone B'z

Nackar_91 - before SID went major , they were already popular in the indie music scene & they used to be visuel kei too but they ditched that totally some 4 years back

I know that, I've been a huge SID fan for years now, but even though they were already popular their sales weren't near the level they're at now, which was relevant to the discussion.

So crossroad's officially #1!
oricon released the article!

ayu has 24 consecutive #1 singles, thus she in tie with seiko matsuda!
Female & Solo artist with most consecutive #1 singles along with seiko.
She also has 36 #1 singles! =)
Congratulations ayu!!

Crossroad's official first week sales are 73,500~74,500!

Source: http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/confidence/80460/

Congrats Ayu! We knew you'd do it! (Well there was some serious doubting going on, but still XD)

Congratz Ayu!! :D
Im so nervous!!! ;p
I ordered crossroad and L together
so my order will help crossroad second week and L first day :)
gooo AYU!! :D
This record is so close !;p

Go AYU!!!! Woooooot!!!!

;)

(Better) promotion.

Everyone is a marketing expert on AHS xD

But tons of promotion always help, hit singles like forgiveness and talkin' 2 myself prove it!

Yay congratz Ayu!!

I wonder if Seiko watching somewhere, scheming....

But seriously, I wonder how she feels about her legacy almost being eclipsed? Disappointed, bitter, indifferent, happy for Ayu's success?

Honest question, how does that even help you personally? Does that just make you feel better to see her on a TV screen or in a magazine? I mean she already has a lot of magazines lined up and she performed crossroad at a-nation and on TV, plus she has the 7-day live... what, this weekend??? Seriously, what more do you want? :laugh That truck to drive around with her face on it or what? LOL.

Don't know how will Seiko react - maybe congratulate her?

By the way, she released another compilation album called "Touch Me, Seiko II", but she was out of the top 30...

^ Ouch! After Seiko's record. I wonder how long Ayu will continue to get #1 singles... What if Ayu's new record is unbeatable...?

^That will be coool!!!
I'm glad for ayu, she works a lot for this record, just another No.1 single and she is gonna be the winner!!

L is the one that breaks the record now :) what an epic moment

It's cool that by coincidence the record breaker (presumably) is also her big 50th single. I can't get over how perfect the timing is.

Yeah... isn't that more than a coincidence? :P

No, I want lives on Music Station, Heyx3, etc. It doesn't "make me feel better", whatever it was that you were implying by that. But as long as I've been listening to Ayu, TV lives have been part of the new single out excitement. I love those shows, especially Msta seeing favorite artists together and interacting and then performing their new songs. Ayu performing live is one of my favorite parts of there being a new single out. What's wrong with that? :/

Don't really care for her being on magazines constantly, and I'm not in Japan so I don't care for trucks rolling around with her face on them. But I get it that Ayu is SUPER busy and she has a lot going on, but in any case it isn't like she's the one that books the lives or anything; I just feel these singles should've been performed on TV more, that's all. The Music Station performance of crossroad made me love and appreciate the song so much more when I didn't care for it much. At least it seems to me, a good way to promote your songs is to perform them on TV which leads to this clever comment:

Wow, L is going to be a big single for Ayu. Let's all hope for the best!