Meanwhile digitally Ayu is enjoying success with this single. #2 on Recochoku Daily Albums

http://recochoku.jp/ranking/album/da...ate=4305070018

For the single to have charted within the top 10, for it's first week, is a huge accomplishment in itself & totally something for ayu to be very proud of! :D Even more so, since it charted within the top 5. :) This single deserved good sales & a great charting position, so I'm very happy. :) Go ayu! :heart

Digital sales:

1st week: #1
2nd week: #2

and on the daily rankings for the 3rd week she's still on #2!
And A BEST keeps on #5 week after week LOL

Can now anybody say that she is not on top? This is digital distribution era, few years ago i stopped buying games in physical copies and started getting only digital versions. She does fantastically digitially.

Can the digital sales be counted as well in the origin charts? It's ridiculous that they are not, we don't have a clear impression of what's popular

It's kinda funny when you compare oricon and recochoku positions, because on recochoku many times those same artists that do amazing on oricon are behind artists with much lower sales there.

For example, Ayu's single actually outsold TVXQ's new full album on recochoku, and it was the 1st week for both.

I really wish there was a ranking that considered both digital and physical sales, only then we would get a true view of the sales situation.

It doesn't inlcude poker face and YOU since they didn't enter the top 10.

Dream ON is under URATA NAOYA and a song is born isn't counted as an ayu single (like the others).

^ They didn't include Terminal either. It didn't even manage to get in the top 20, which is even sadder.

Well, it's a recut single with no PV and just one remix, which isn't that great.
It wasn't expected to do much.

This single, on the other hand, is doing pretty well.

I agree they should join physical and digital sells in one chart.

I know. I'm saying that technically she has 52 WITH Dream ON and a song is born since they're featuring credits. Most charts include collaborations with an artists total (Billboard, OOC, etc.) so I'm not sure why Oricon doesn't. :dead2

^ Maybe oricon doesn't count those because Avex doesn't do it either? a song is born and Dream ON were never included in her singles count by Avex, so maybe that's why oricon wouldn't count those as her singles either. idk, just speculating...

Oricon should track iTunes sales as well. Japan really loves iPhone. :D

Oricon should count digital sales for sure. But they actually missed the prime time for digital sales as those are going down already as well. Compared to 2006 there aren't that much certificafions for digital sales. At least that's what is officially released.
Sales are lower in general.
But if it goes on like that Oricon has to merge physical and digital together.

I'm so sick of waiting for Oricon to count digital sales. I feel like we definitely do not get an accurate representation of her sales. I feel like only hardcore fans by the physical releases...and 60% or more just buy the music digitally.

I saw some people talking shit about the sales figures and I was like...well, where is your fave on the charts? She got number 2 with this single, and I don't even know how much number 3 sold...

Huge drop for the single today. #34.

2nd Week
1st Day: Position: #10
2nd Day: Position: #5
3rd Day: Position: #4
4th Day: Position: #20
5th Day: Position: #29
6th Day: Position: #31
7th Day: Position: #34

thanks ^^ It might have sold around 3k

How about recochoku?

On recochoku the single was 1st for its first week end 2nd for its second week ! =)

Why? digital market has been decreasing that it's not important anymore

^By this logic, Oricon shouldn't count any sales anymore, as all the music market is decreasing...

-fangirlishly dreams that "Walk" could be used as the theme song to my anime I want to write-

The lyrics and everything would suit my story I've been writing so well.... XD

No, because in Japan digital music accounts only for less than 17% of total sales, as opposed to US where it accounts for more than 64% of total sales

There is someone bugging this page http://www.generasia.com/wiki/Zutto....hart_Positions

If any of you guys know who it is, please, tell them to stop. I left a message on the article so maybe that person will stop.

2nd week sales/ranking for Zutto.../Last minute/Walk - #11 ; 4,200

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/w/2015-01-12/p/2/

not a huge drop! I liked it =) even better than what I thought! But I do hope for a steady 3rd week so it can outsell Feel the love, although that will be difficult because January is a a really poor month for sales :~

2nd Week
Position: #11, Official Sales: 4,200, Official Total Sales: 32,646

A BEST is #1 daily on recocohku lol. This album is on fire!

The single is #7 on recochoku today.

On its 3rd week on recochoku the single is #8 and... A BEST is #1 weekly. XD

5k until FTL/MGR ?

Yes... Feel the love/Merry-go-round sold 37,366 in total.
Drops nowadays and sales in general are even worse.
If it can sell 35,000 it's pretty cool.

I thought exactly the same thing lol When will your faves?? xD

still better than kumi's sales :eviltongu

The single is #3 on Recochoku's monthly album ranking, and A BEST is #2!

The #1 is JUJU's new full album. Ayu's is a single (singles are counted on the album ranking as well), so I would say it did amazingly well, specially since it charted for less weeks than the first two. And A BEST just keeps slaying :D

ayu is just :love
any numbers how many time the single has been downloaded since then?

Zutto... / Last minute / Walk went back up to #15 yesterday

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/d/2015-01-08/p/2/

That's awesome! so it looks like this

3rd Week
Out of the top 30
4th Day: Position: #15

^ it was #45 on the 3rd Day and out of top 50 on the 2nd Day

Zutto is experiencing a better 3rd Week than Feel the love did

Does anybody know why this did happen? :love

I wonder if it's just due to 30 releases just dropped in their sales to a few copies under ayu's single lol.

Thank you! If you have more stats it will be appreciated. I sometimes can't find them when it's under the 30s.

wow,first week was nice and 2nd week not so bad!

3rd Week

4th Day: #35

3rd Week

5th Day: #43

do they show sales on tuesday even if it's out of top30?

^yes, up to top 100

In wednesday or thursday we get top 300

I hope sales this week will be above 1,000 copies #fingerscrossed

3rd Week

6th Day: #47

3rd Week

7th Day: #50

How much did this sell on its third week?^^

No numbers yet, I'll announce as soon as I get them :)

^ thank you! Hope it'll come close to FTL-MGR. That would be a good thing, the sales of her single have been decreasing release by release, but this one actually did pretty good, selling almost like the previous one.

I think it's funny how almost everyone forgets the Terminal single exists, lmao :P (I like to pretend it doesn't exist either, lmao)

3rd Week at #40, with 1,262 copies sold. Total 33,908 copies sold.

It's not like I forgot it but... it's just that it was a strange release, its sales do not reflect the current state of popularity of ayu imho. So I just leave it out XD Never got why tho, maybe it's partly because of it being a recut single and partly because it's aimed at hardcore fans? dunno rly XD

I dunno either. I wish they had never released it tbh.

So happy about the numbers =)

It's because Terminal was just a big joke and not a single. :trolleyes

Guys it's pretty normal that a recut single won't sell as good as an original one ^^ By the way Terminal didn't have any promotion and it's far from what her Japanese audience is used to listen, it's not fair to use its numbers for comparison

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Originally Posted by LONJJONG (Post 3113919) 3rd Week at #40, with 1,262 copies sold. Total 33,908 copies sold.

Nice sales

I know right :P everyone forgets Zutto outsold 9 times Terminal!!

I hope Zutto will outsell Feel the love
seems it's not gonna happen, but Zutto is pretty close

I'd just like her to make a big comeback. I'm so done of reading comments on the net such as "ayumi is fallen" "no longer queen" etc. ugh. I love the direction she's taken and I just want her to be recognised more.

4th Week

1st Day: #49

by the way here are the numbers of its 3rd Week

3rd Week

1st Day: Position: #33
2nd Day: Position: #45
3rd Day: Position: #15
4th Day: Position: #35
5th Day: Position: #43
6th Day: Position: #37
7th Day: Position: #50

3rd Week
Position: #40, Official Sales: 1,262, Official Total Sales: 33,908

oh wait, is there no taiwan version this year??

Sadly , avex Taiwan has chosen not to make the single this time round ._.

http://www.avex.com.tw/Artist/artist...o=AVCD%2D83126

This time round , avex Taiwan released Zutto / Last minute / Walk digitally & not in physical CD mode . Likewise they didn't make for Terminal either

omg i'm waiting for official chinese translation lyrics....

Sales are actually pretty good. I wasn't sure if she's gonna hit 20k mark, but she sold over 30k. Great job Ayu!

Guys, a little off topic here, but would any member from the US, a native English speaker, send me a PM, please? It's urgent. (nothing dramatic or life-threatening)

EDIT: Problem solved. :D

Thank you brener for all of the info!

OMG :shakehead I wonder if she has a chance to rank in TW charts then

4th Week

2nd Day: #46

Updated thanks!
I should wait for your updates first brener!

If it manages to reach 35k I'll be more than happy :)

4th Week

3rd Day: #41

4th Week

4th Day: #48

4th Weeek

Position: #64
Sales: 741
Total Sales: 34,694

I'm kinda surprised, I was expecting at least a top 50 position =\ It must have sold nothing these days when it was out of top 50...

Anyways, today it rised to #44

@ayumisrael I updated generasia and I think the positions are correct now

Thank you brener!! =)

If it can chart another week it can get 35,000.

5th Week

1st Day
Position: #44

Just 1,378 copies away from FTL single ^_^

^ isnt it 2,717?

5th Weeek

Position: #113
Sales: 357
Total Sales: 35,006

Thank you dear Brener!
I'm glad that ayu's single sales barely drop. Just 2,000 less in a year's difference.

yeah! 35k!!

yes for the 35k mark! This single did very very well!

I'm glad, I thought it was out of top 200!

YES, 35k! :D

So happy!

Omigosh, I'm so excited!! Congrats~! :inlove

Hopefully LOVE CLASSICS sales will help Zutto to keep on top 200 for another week..

OK! Can't believe I'm excited about 35k, but I am! LOL I guess I prefer to be glass-half-full.

6th Week
Position: #153
Sales: 337
Total Sales: 35,343


LOVE CLASSICS helped it to maintain almost the same number as last week =)

Updated, thank you!

Not bad! I'm interested in how her new album will do. This single was a good start IMO!

The single is so great~ deserves every last copy sold!

7th Week
Position: #191
Sales: 207
Total Sales: 35,550

This single is saying goodbye to Oricon leaving behind such an amazing path.

I think this is its last week, good job, the drop between Ftl and this single is really small

Yep, 1,816 drop between single sales in a difference of a year.

I guess when you put it that way, i'm not that worried anymore. Good thing is ayu's latest single is gold and that's all I care about right now :luv2

isn't it smallest difference between two singles?

Last single sold 4,018

better to forget about Terminal =)

So it's the highest increase between two consecutive singles, almost 900% lol