Nah i'll give it an 8. New albums have strong first day sales usually. But top 10, definitely.

even if the numbers aren't what people were hoping, the positions are pretty respectable. so glad there's another rise!

not much strong competitors that will be released within the next few weeks album wise (except this week's Kanjani8's PUZZLE) & maybe L'arc en Ciel's Ken's IN PHYSICAL when it's out next Wed but it will be a different case when KAT-TUN drops their 4th album Break the Records -by you & for you- (omg J-One Records , where're the covers for the album , it will be 2 weeks + before it's out but NOTHING YET even though the whole album has practically leaked out grrr :grumpy)

I just hope NEXT LEVEL can linger onto within the top 10/15 within the next 2 weeks if possible

it's a good sign that it's still in the top 10 a month+ since it was released , guess the fact that she's touring to promote it is helping it , 1 way or another

hopefully her tour will help NL to get to top 5 or even top 3!!!

I just hope it will be consistent!

Btw ayu sold by far this year 665,776 copies (Days/GREEN, Rule/Sparkle, NEXT LEVEL and AC ~AS~ 2009 oricon year counted).
With the DVD of AT08 it will be around 735,700.

Also this year I'm sure she will sell more than million copies overall of CDs/DVDs ^^.

Not really, but Im trying to ignore the indexes since it shows much realistic figures to the album or single sales. :)

Yay, 300.000 sales! ^^

As far as from Jan 1st 2009? Cool O_O;

If she can , i'll be very happy ! i just have a thought that this year'll be the first she can't sell million copies and that makes me sad ~~!

^I'm pretty sure she can if she releases 2 more singles or something. Plus PCDL will be out soon too!

i hope for a top 5 by the end of this week and of coz 350k~~:dead2

^That's quite unlikely, unless Sunday sales spike...majorly, which I doubt. Hope for 10K or above, okay?!

yay... that's great news

NL rank #7 for yearly 2009 so far

*1 1,215,640 **1,751 SUPERMARKET FANTASY / Mr.Children 08/12/10
*2 *,788,462 **2,847 EXILE BALLAD BEST / EXILE 08/12/03 累計1,732,363
*3 *,523,023 *62,540 DO YOU DREAMS COME TRUE？ / DREAMS COME TRUE 09/03/21
*4 *,436,368 *13,571 レミオベスト / レミオロメン 09/03/09
*5 *,393,759 **1,505 My song Your song / いきものがかり 08/12/24
*6 *,380,334 **1,079 TRICK / 倖田來未 09/01/28
*7 *,319,656 *28,575 NEXT LEVEL / 浜崎あゆみ 09/03/25
*8 *,290,886 **6,739 アルトコロニーの定理 / RADWIMPS 09/03/11
*9 *,244,001 **1,666 シャンブル / ユニコーン 09/02/18
10 *,212,411 ***,*** GIRL NEXT DOOR / GIRL NEXT DOOR 08/12/24

^Oh, thx for this. She's pretty far away from TRICK for some reason...

Give her some time. TRICK did come out 2 months earlier after all.
Go Ayu!
(And I got my USB + 2CD+DVD of NL this week! :D
Now all that's left is that Deji Deji Diary... YA better find a supplier soon D: )

^ and TRICK steady on chart.

4th Week 6th Day

Position: #6

Still 6 =D

cool! :D thanks!

looks like it's cozying up to #6 :D very nice