oh dear...

no it's not. :innocent

Waaah I totally believed F.A.G. and F.A.T. were possible singles xD;;;;;;.........

Lmfao. Some people don't catch on to sarcasm as well as others I guess. Lol.

Here's a question: Does This is not a love song end so abruptly on everyone's copy/rip of TRICK?

Also: Does anyone have the composers/arrangers/scans from the TRICK inside? I know they were posted in an earlier thread...
Which song lyrics do we have translated? All of them yet?

On mine too. When I first heard that I though it was an error during the rip.
But I think that it's an actual ending not an error.

^ Yeah I figured it was the right ending but it just sounds bad.

When I was listening to it at home my sister was like "Hot ending." Lol. (sarcasm)

Omg only 1pv but i hope trick song true :)

are they seriously going to give just "faraway" a PV? :grumpy a ballad should not get a PV, lol. i want, like, 3 PVs, not just one :weep

shouldn't we be getting more info about the new single like now...it's less than a month away...and a short month bc it's february->march....

and i imagine that once we get updates, there'll be added PVs to the list...:hopes:

:roflmao

Hell no, she cries too much for her bfs in her ballad PVs. She needs to get a life.

^uhhhh i think kumi already has a life...a very good one most likely.

and some of her ballad PVs are actually decent...i mean how complex can you get with a ballad PV?

even ayu doesn't stray very far away from the crying ballad video...she just has less PVs for ballads...i think one of the reasons kuu gets such a hard time for "having the same concept" is because she has so many ballads with PVs that it makes it look unoriginal but if they were more spread out with other more complex videos in between, they would be much more acceptable.

lmao of course not :P

it will be strange for a triple A-side single to get just 1 PV & not 3 man

I hope there will be 3 PV's, and yeah, it would be really strange.

It's be funny if Faraway was a cover of Misono's Day After Tomorrow song. Imagine her singing that! L0L.

maybe they are saving the pvs for her next album? :headache so they can be like HEY U CAN ALSO GET PVS FOR THESE TWO SONGS :yes

i want the new single now. i really wanna order but i need to see covers first!

TRICK 2nd week
day 4
position: #1 (back to #1 again)
sales: 4,128 x 1.7 = 7,018

total sales so far:
60,299 + 34,172 + 15,950 + 11,338 + 14,457 + 15,673 + 7,178 + 5,115 + 4,756 + 4,128 (x1.7) = 294,212

5,000++ more to reach 300k

OMG Bad News Kuu got 2# in UWC Behind Bruce Springsteen with 470k

Ooh Poor Kumi

cool, she went back up to 1! lol the artist who was number 1 yesterday only sold like 2k before index for todays.

no one is really able to hold their place on the charts anymore :no

Actually as we know that TRICK's first week official sales were 253,346 and this week's x1.7 by far gives another 36,001 (5,115 + 4,756 + 4,128 (x1.7) though as we know TRICK's index is lower than 1.7 but let's take it anyway) it's 289,347 and it needs more than 10,653 copies to reach 300,000 this week. It's a mistake to combine the first week's indexes since it was lower than 1.7 and we know the official first week's sales. Hopefully though enough people will buy it >_>.

oh, i didn't know that..
thanks for the correction
so.. it definitely won't reach 300k this week :thud

I think those are good sales. I hope TRICK is the #1 on the weekly charts again. :)

Btw, I just saw dirty ballroom concert. I loved that. I want that TAKE BACK remix because it was the best remix of the whole concert. Of course I loved every song (minus the meaning of peace of course). Awesome concert that was. My favourite performances were TAKE BACK, Always, Hana, Amai Wana, Hot Stuff, BUT, TABOO and Selfish. Even the special effects were nice though they almost killed my eyes. And Kuu didn't sound so bad as I thought she would. But I think I'm gonna watch this concert again a couple of times since it was so hot~ <3

Well, at least her outfit was nice :shrug (IMO).

Glad to see TRICK is back to #1 Daily :D

I wonder if it's possible for TRICK to remind at #1 for the 2nd week , it seems possible :shrug

I just got my TRICK CD+2DVD <3

I so cannot wait to watch the Dirty Ballroom later XD

well what I mean Kuu should do something more than relationships in her ballads, I like her old ballads PVs more than most recent those. But you are right that this kind of videos have been accepted in japan generally. This idea to do PVs never get old.

Well I don't know that kuu has experienced much in her life that would give her inspiration to write about...and the fact that I don't really see her as intuitive enough to take inspiration from other people's experiences...

To me...she seems to be one of the luckiest people in Japan, and I think she knows it.


I really do hope that sales will pick up...She had so much promotion too...didn't she?

Kuu Like a Sick And His midecin is near She should use it before it's gonna expire :(

Why are there no lyrics for INTRODUCTION FOR TRICK in the booklet? ;___;

And not for the Joyful joyful lalala so joyful g???eeeee?

Annoying. ><

Anyone know these?

BTW

Does anyone else think that the Dirty Dancing Ballroom effects are TOOOO much?
I was watching BUT, and it was honestly tiresome to watch. Seriously. I just got tired from following what the heck was going on. :-/ My eyes were like "nooooo turn this thing off we're bleeding!!".

^ Yea the effects are an overkill. They ruin the concert a bit for me >_<

@ emiko: I read somewhere (always forget where >.<) Kuu doesn't write about her own personal experiences in her lyrics. She says she listens to a melody of a song and imagines a scene/situation for it and places herself in that and writes what her feelings/thoughts would be then.
I do wish she wrote more personal lyrics like Ayu does though you could say they ARE personal as it is still her own thoughts..?

TRICK's promotion is huge, tones of tv performances, magazines and what not.
Kingdom didn't even get a quarter of it (and maybe even Black Cherry had less).

Yet all the power of promotion didn't do much this time, huh?

I'm still waiting for my copy :grumpy

If I can't wait I prob be buying the Taiwan press from my friend Cliff when it's out next Fri

That is because Dirty Dancing Ballroom can't be dirty enough without those effects. :P
Seriously, i think avex marketing are stupid. Good show doesn't need to do any extra effects, but now those effects kill my eyes, kill the sales, and kill kuuu.

The Dirty Ballroom was ok. I would have liked if SOULHEAD or KM-MARKIT sang with Kuu on D.D.D or Hot Stuff. But it was nice to see Mr. Blistah come out of nowhere xD

The performances were ok, I nearly fell asleep on Butterfly though. And omg the effects were too much XD

I thought the Dirty Ballroom effects was a nice idea. They just kinda went overkill a little bit.

Yay for Trick in full I can't wait, this single is going to be good I think.

EDIT: I made it to over 1,000 posts!. Yay.

Absolutely agree! I was so irritated when I found that! Hell why!?

^and yes most of the effects was so annoying! There should have been an option to turn it off... (>_<)

TRICK 2nd week
position: #1
sales: 3,346 x 1.7 = 5,688

1st week : 253,346
2nd week : (7,178 + 5,115 + 4,756 + 4,128 + 3,346) x1.7 = 41,689

total sales so far: 295,035

i'm a little bit confused..
how many days do we use to count 1 week sales?? 6 days or 7 days??

edit: corrected the 2nd week sales :)

^Yay for the #1 on 2nd week!! (^_^) Even with such low sales... (T_T)

Kingdom's first week sales were so better^^ There's no way Trick will surpass it xP

at least it's quite a safe bet to say that it will cross 300K in due time :yes

I think TRICK will be her 1st album not to get double or let alone triple platinum in status :(

The 1st weeks always have 6 days counted [Tuesday~Sunday (shown on oricon's charts on Wednesday~Monday)] the 2nd weeks, 3rd,4th etc. have 7 days counted [Monday~Sunday (shown on Tuesday~Monday)].

7,178 + 5,115 + 4,756 + 4,128 + 3,346 x1.7 = 41,689

2 more days left for the end of the 2nd week ^^.

Dont you mean her 1st album since Secret?

er yes 1st album since secret sorry :dead2

I know secret was certified double platinum so TRICK will be the 1st album since it not to get 2x platinum :(

depending on how many copies avex printed to be shipped around Japan to be sold I guess

oh okay! i'll edit the previous post.. sankyu!

actually the sales are VERY stable...so thats quite gd..
anyway we noe this is quite a strong album..hah

The album will probably sell around 370 k in the end.

not sure if I have mentioned this before but Taiwan & HK presses of TRICK are up for preorder via HMV HK & both editions will be out this coming Tue

CD (Taiwan press as the catalogue no.'s the same as the 1 being stated on avex taiwan's site) - http://www.hmv.com.hk/product/japanese.asp?sku=298457

CD + 2DVDs (HK press since the catalogue no.'s different from the 1 stated on avex taiwan's site) - http://www.hmv.com.hk/product/japanese.asp?sku=297960

CHEAAAAAAAAAP! I hope YA gets them soon!

^

OMG that is cheap. I spent $60 for the CD+2DVD and I could have gotten it for $30

^ That's why I wait hahahaha!

Better prices come to those who wait :cool

^

I'll take your advice for my next purchase

I couldn't wait for a Taiwan pressing to come out xD But it's fine, I have the album, and that's all that matters =P

i learned my lesson on that when i shelled out on a pre-order for the cd+2dvd version of black cherry.

x_x

never again.

Exactly. :yes I'll never understand why people will spend like $50+ dollars on one cd when there's going to a much cheaper version of the album coming soon.

they have Driving hits and the other best released on the same day as Japan too???but im sure thats the japanese ver.

finally TRICK IS COMING!

Yeah I haven't bought the Japanese version of anything before 2008 since I learned of OS versions lol.

Unless of course there is no OS version, then I just get my parents to buy it :cool

yeah that's true :laugh

same for me , I only go for Japan presses only if there're no OS presses

I prob will be getting TRICK when the Taiwan press's out , I don't think I wait for stupid Warner to bring it or produce it here locally :irked

i do it because i make good money and i want to actually support my favorite artist during their first week on the oricon? :shrug

i agree and also because i can only switch the region on my DVD player 5 times and it's set on region 2 and OS DVDs are region 3 and most of my other stuff is region 2 and then i wouldn't be able to change it so the money i'd spend would be useless.

besides OS packaging is made of cheaper plastic and the cases smash way easier and the paper quality of the booklets is cheaper (at least that's what i've heard from a bunch of people who have some JPN press and OS press)

^ the spine of the obi is also different, it's always white with blue text. not much of a difference but I care about those small things :laugh

Hmm.... alright sales for the 2nd week so far. I was expecting so much more :(

Pssh I need your job then :roflmao

In 2008, it was Ayu's anniversary so I went all out and bought the Japanese press of almost everything and was happy to see I contributed, but I can't afford to do that all the time -_-;.... So if you're place is taking any applications, holla at me ;)

oh yeah i forgot about that. it'd look really bad bc i have all my cds with the obis on them with the spine sticking out (like books lol)

if i'm going to collect something i'm really picky about it. :yes

to be honest i rarely buy cds at all.. LOL. there are a few artists i support, but other than that i download mostly everything. kumi is one of the artists i support, plus i don't even use the cds more than a couple times, it's all mainly for the support factor. so to buy the os would be pointless for me i guess.

but i understand not everyone can afford it. i just think it's kind of rude to say that people are stupid for buying the jp edition and not waiting for the os one.. you know?

^^I guess that's the case with everyone now. CDs (especailly Japanese press) are too expensive and its kind of a waste to buy them because everything's up for download sooner or later. I mean, one can keep buying releases by 1 or 2 of their favourite singers but not more (unless they're frikkin rich and have loads of money to spare :P) Soo... I guess that's why Kuu's TRICK sales are so low. Even though the album itself is amazing.

Agreed.

I agree. That's why I prefer Japan presses.
Besides, I rather spend my money on good quality stuff anyway.

1->1->2->1->1->1 - Koda Kumi - 7,178 + 5,115 + 4,756 + 4,128 + 3,346 + 4,336 (x1.7) = 49,060

1 more day.

^^Oh well.... at least it was better than yesterday's sales...

My TRICK copy still hasn't arrived :irked
I hope it will arrive tomorrow ... :bsigh

^

Haha.

@Luv ~Venus~: Because some people actually care about supporting Kuu and are excited to get her new material asap? -_-;

That's mean, you shouldn't laugh at the poor gurl when she hasn't got her copy. :no

that goes for me as well , I don't have it yet :grumpy

I'm still waiting for the Taiwan press to be out by next Fri , I hope I wouldn't be charged a bomb for it :dead2

Good, that the sales increase.. i hope it breaks 300k tomorrow!

anyway, do anyone notice, that one of Kuu's dancer (i think it's Fuuko) made a mistake on dirty ballroom live?
well, she didn't wear one of her "glow in the dark" glove during TAKE BACK (on her right hand); and then in the middle of the song, you can see that she already wore it :innocent

O~God, i watch too much dirty ballroom *7 times already :thud*

^^Woah!! 7 times!! You must really love it :dead2

YEAH! i love it!
i watched Black Cherry Tour more than 10 times.. :lech
i always enjoy watching her concert
*except Yokohama premium hall.. it's boring*

Your computer DVD player? Just use VLC Media Player, you can play any region with it. :yes

Yeah, that's what I do. I never have to worry about switching the codes or anything. VLC Bypasses everything!!!!

Baby all I want is your bling bling bling and your car car car

I love BBB xD

i just saw the FREAKY live...omg its bad...she overdid it

TRICK end of 2nd week
position: #1
sales: 4,992 x 1.7 = 8,486 *yeah! increase again!*

2nd week sales: 7,178 + 5,115 + 4,756 + 4,128 + 3,346 + 4,336 + 4,992 (x1.7) = 57,547

total sales *estimation* : 253,346 + 57,547 = 310,893 :love

ah it has passed the 300K mark now , sweet :D

Congrats to her for passing the mark! ^^

Yay! She did it!

Nice sales. :) She really did it. And she is #1 again on the weekly charts? Awesome. <3

yeah there wasn't much competition as far as I know this week on the album charts which's good for her :yes

Lol, it seems that with every album release for Kuu avex will choose a date where she will get #1 for more than a week xD

At least she sold more than 300k!

Woah! Word is getting out that her album is good, no?

I'm glad she at least reached 300k.

Her sales have been pretty steady as well.

I need everyone's opinion on this, I really like TRICK but I can't stand That Ain't Cool and I want to replace it with a b-side from one of Kuu's TRICK singles in my iTunes but I'm not sure which one. Also I'm thinking about replacing stay with me, Joyful, or Moon Crying but I'm not sure which one as well. What songs should I replace them with?

^ Replace anything with Always! I love that song, it should have been on the album...

^ Yes! Definitely stick Always on there. Along with Lady Go!

oh yeah, turn Joyful into Lady Go!

lady go! and always are love :love

^^ I like Joyful :(

Take out Moon Crying and add Winter Bell :yes

Lady Go! was a great song. I agree that it was a shame that it wasn't included on TRICK.

A lot of great b-sides were omitted... it seems this year her b-sides were sometimes as good as or better than the a-sides...