I dunno what to think. I love the album. hope it does well :)

Oh well. What was everyone expecting? Let's hope this "THEY KNOW IT'S IN STORES IN 1/1" theory is right. :D

AYUMI HAMASAKI MUST BE #1 WITH SALES OF 1M+ FOREVER! >=O

SO LOW!!! C'MON JAPAN BUY IT!!!

yes!..same sentiments..1.01.2008 is what most people refer as the official release date of guilty..only die-hard fans knew the common practice and buy it on christmas =)...since GUILTY is currently being heavily promoted...i believe sales will most likely soar higher as time goes on as even those who're not a fervent fan of ayumi but were impressed by her or knew her by promotions will buy GUILTY on 1.1.2008 onwards :yes

Technically, anybody who bought (m)u would know of the practice so.

first week sales should be as much.

relying on the theory that "lol! 1.1.08 = release date! <3"

that said, I do want this to sell more than Secret.

its not really good chart..
i hope 1st week it can sell more than a best 2 white or more than 475K in 1st week..

Well dun forget oricon will combine 1st + 2nd weeks sales together. Though I dunno if it's a positive or negative to GUILTY.

If the 2008.01.01 official release date theory is happening and more people will get the album afterwards, the longer chart run will definitely making ayu getting another no. 1.

BUT if this theory doesn't work... Well two options available:
1) the sales of GUILTY keep decreasing so it cannot beat Kobukuro (and maybe even EXILE, but doubt ayu will get no. 3 because EXILE and ayu are practically under avex.. providing that rhythmzone is under avex)

2) the sales of Kobukuro and EXILE decreases dramatically while GUILTY's sales are steady. Then ayu will get herself another no. 1.

I'm sure Kobukuro's and EXILE's sales will decrease, but honestly, Ayumi isn't known as the steadiest seller in Japan. D: Let's just hope her decreases will be smaller and her increases bigger.

^ does combining 1st + 2nd weeks sales helped m(u) in it's sales back then? (sorry im a late ayu fan)

maybe 1st+2nd week combine guilty can reach 1st week

i hope exile and kobukuro sales will decrease dramatical..so guilty is the 9th album streak at 1st..

This won't be #1. Kobukuro and Exile will most likely beat her in the long run.

OK... I guess we have to account some facts for the index:
1) usually cds released on Wednesday in Japan, so GUILTY is supposed to be arrived at cd stores on the 26th rite? But this time avex released it on Tuesday the 25th (so that people can buy the cd on the x'mas day).. Therefore, unless you're hardcore fans, otherwise normal people would think that GUILTY should be in store on the 26th.

2) Maybe not lots of Japanese go shopping on x'mas day. (I guess we'll need someone living in Japan to tell us if that is true or not).

3) Usually the sales shown on the first day is the preorder sales...


Points 1 and 2 are positive, while point #3 is negative. I mean, the first day sale of GUILTY is combination of the "surprise Dec 25th in stores sales" + preorder sales. So that means there is not much preorder for GUILTY this time.. :no



The "first week" sales of (m)u was around 600 - 680K I guess, which wasn't too bad. But this album showed the short chart run of ayu's album in the first time. I think Memorial address and MY STORY's two weeks combined sales are around 700K, not significantly higher, but both albums went over 1 million copies eventually. (m)u didn't.

if someone still do not buy this album, pls try to book it in this week. I think it is only thing we can do in this moment.

Isn't this just 12.25.07 sales? Maybe the sales will decrease as soon as people recover from their christmas money loss... ;)

Like I said, Dec 25th sales are combination of Christmas day sales + preorder sales. I dun really think preorder sales would be affected by the money loss issue that much. Most people would have preordered the album during the first 2 weeks when the album was available to be ordered (that means it's around mid nov).

i agree with bluegie in poitn 1 and 2..
and i think japanese people spend alot of money for xmas day..
so in my opinion they think they wil buy this album later

let me soo tomorrow's chart

oh i see...yeah that's quite disappointing:(

Must have faith in GUILTY sales; im sure it will rise when the official date is near.

The album is friggin amazing, I hope it will do well

It's so less :(

What were the sales of "Secret" first day? This seems sooooooo low.. :(

And Ayu's sales are never steady...