Hey everyone!!! I just made m4r ringtones of WARNING and The Gift for iPhone so if anyone is interested, u can DL them here :)

http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showth...wpost&t=121322

^ I don't have an iPhone, but you are so awesome for doing that for others.

Late to give my view on this info I know, haha. The previews of six of the new tracks intrigued me, certainly a mirror to an old album that's for sure. WARNING. The show must go on. What can I say other than that I can't wait. Bring on covers btw.

Why is there no music card for A ONE?

I hope the album is released early to iTunes 2-3 weeks like Colours. Really excited to hear the album.

I heard a song in the previews that sounded similar to Bye bye Darling from LOVE again :-D

One week before sounds very likely :)

Wow it's less than a month before release and no cover announcement yet. When is the cover usually revealed, by the way?

From what I remember it's usually 3 weeks before the release.

I don't. That slaughters physical sales.

Should be very soon.

Although I don't know for sure, this could potentially be a reason why she decided not to release this album in music card form:

Oricon to Cease Counting Music Cards as Part of Sales Totals

I'd really want it to be released on its release day for once, or only a few days before, not a whole week! We have approx. 4 weeks left, i think we'll survive the wait :yes

Oricon is managing to become more and more irrelevant each year. Physical sales keep decreasing fast, but they keep coming up with more rules that will reduce the numbers even more...

Now a days I'm much more interested on digital rankings for Ayu's releases.

^Digital sales in Japan also regularly go down each year as well.

I'm one of the people who never believed that oricon should combime physical sales with digital sales but oricon should have digital sales chart as well (just separated).

Idk how useful it would be. For singles it would be for sure, but the first album ever certified digitally was the Frozen soundtrack and it was just certified Gold. Now that Ayu doesn't even get Gold certifications, and she releases everything early digitally anyway, it could help. I wouldn't expect it to improve leaps and bounds though.

Physical sales should be combined with digital sales. Each copy should be counted no matter in which form someone bought it (CD, CD+DVD, CD+BR, Playbutton, USB stick, MUSIC CARD, digital download etc.)

It's too hard to track everything. Physical should be separate.

Didn't they also stop counting copies that CDJapan/YesAsia/other shops ship overseas? I agree that they should count EVERYTHING as long as it means that somebody bought the songs (including digital, playbutton, music cards...) but yeah it'd be hard to track everything.

Yes, they did.