good to hear!

As for the total sales I think it will end up somewhere near 380k in the end. It is probably going to sell around 6k this week :(

At least there's some positive jump in rankings. Hope it can stay in top 20 next week too.

I'm almost sure it will do at least 7,500-8,000. =D

I'm glad it went up by 3 spots. :)

I was hoping it wouldn't go below 15k the last week, but it did xD Let's hope it will at least sell close to 7.5k :yes

thats great! :)

I hope it keeps in there or up!


this weekend helped!! :D



thanks!

thanks & it's a good sign that NEXT LEVEL rating via Oricon's site has gone up

at least it scored a high distinction already :laugh

Indeed, it's that kind of album that'll need time to grow on people..

GREAT!

Thanks for the update!

Japanese people are not rich and there are a lot of artist, its hard to sale today, I think she's doing a great job !

keep growing, please.
it should reach 350K

Many people got mad because of the amount of interludes, but they realized how great the album is!

WHAT?! :irked

^Hmm, their mean income per capita is one of the highest in the world but so is their cost of living. The price of the albums is one of the proof of that, it's almost three times the price of what an album would cost in my country (singapore)!

Actually i'm one of those people and i'm still sort of mad. 4 interludes!? At least one of the 4 interludes on Guilty was a pseudo-song.

Bridge to the sky is also like Mirror, Not yet, Catcher In The Light, everlasting dream with lyrics xD.
Just that in others besides mirror they have just choruses or verses (since she didn't plan to make them full songs).
3 of the interludes on NEXT LEVEL are purely with no lyrics though. =D

I feel like the same thing that happened to Ayu with Bold&Delicious/Pride is happening to her with Next Level. The genres she's using are just way too different for some people to appreciate.

I was hoping that NL would have more stay in the top 10, but I'll be happy if it hangs around in the top 20 for a few more weeks. I think the album will overall be looked at as one of her better in terms of experimentation, it will take a while to show this in sales though.

She shouldn't have experimented with the whole album though. I know some songs were 'ballads': Next Level and Curtain Call, but the other album tracks were... really bad.

I like the fact that she is trying new things... She needs to do that from times to times, so she doesn't give us M version 3, fairyland version 4 and who version 6...

Wow that's great :D I'm glad Japan is coming around :yes

Yeah this definitely seems to have the same affect on the public as Bold & Delicious did. But maybe most of the songs appeal to them live like B&D did as well.

I love it, too! But from my observation, Japan seems to love artists who stick to the same type of music over and over again. Look how long it took them to get use to Namie's new genre.