you're welcome guys

Hope It can pass B&D sales before stop charting

So how's the sales like for last week?

I can see you really dislike the movie already! Hahaha, oh well just Ayu's luck~

livedoor only give update until top 50..
R/S out from top 50

Awww... Out of the top 50 already? I'm not too surprised.

Sucks that it is out of Top 50. :/

^Agreed, although it's chances of charting well were totally killed by NEXT LEVEL's announcement.
Why buy the single if you can buy the album, right?

^Adding to the ayu collection, remixes and instrumentals... Not enough to entice me though. I was hoping riozz or ayumisrael could get the figures somehow haha...

has R/S stopped charting?

ayu broke 300K.... yay~

88　*50　***,628　130,162　**7　浜崎あゆみ 「Rule/Sparkle」

Got this from Ryo at the Oricon thread in the Asian Media Chat section :

Top 50 Singles Of '09 :

11 *,130,162 ***,628 Rule/Sparkle / 浜崎あゆみ 09/02/25

OMG RULE DID SO WELL IT IS SUCH AN AMAZING SONG! GOOD NUMBERS!

I wonder how it will look like in the end of 09. But for now its a good place! ^^

seeing as it's only april, i'm sure it will move down the list a lot by the time 09 ends, haha. but as for now, it did pretty well, seeing as the album was announced and all. I guess i didn't have super high expectations for it anyway xD

At least it will stay on top 50 after the end of 2009, hopefully

seems that way to me, 11 after almost one fourth of the year will stay top 50 unless theres an surreal amount of well selling singles, and ayus next single will sell better, anyway

^The sales this year must be quite pathetic for Rule to be no.11. Then of course, there was the monster of arashi's single selling half a million. It was mentioned that NL is no.7 for the first 4 months of the year too. Wonder which popular artiste might release this year.

^ how can anyone keep doing that?! blows my mind.

at least R/S had a good run for such terrible circumstanes. Ayu should have included a track on the single that wouldn't be included on the album to help sales.

Total Sales: 122,125...

I hope she will sell more copies...

Amazing how R/S is among the most succesful singles of 2009 so far with such low sales... Sales keep getting worst every year!

The total is 130,162.
The first thead isn't updated xD.

lol ARASHI's Believe / Kumori Nochi , Kaisei is already aiming for 625K now Elaine & something tells me that they might be getting the #1 & #2 on the yearly singles chart AGAIN when they released their next single Ashita no Kioku / Crazy Moon ~Kimi wa Muteki~ next month on 27th

Top 50 singles 2009

*1 *,623,453 **6,535 Believe/曇りのち、快晴 / 嵐、矢野健太 starring Satoshi Ohno 09/03/04
*2 *,406,938 *10,764 愛のままで… / 秋元順子 08/01/23 累計568,334
*3 *,370,429 **2,828 RESCUE / KAT-TUN 09/03/11
*4 *,329,679 ***,530 ONE DROP / KAT-TUN 09/02/11
*5 *,327,180 **8,434 ひまわり / 遊助 09/03/11
*6 *,231,122 ***,*** 弱虫サンタ / 羞恥心 08/12/10
*7 *,210,280 ***,*** 約束 / KinKi Kids 09/01/28
*8 *,190,891 ***,*** Days/GREEN / 浜崎あゆみ 08/12/17
*9 *,147,947 ***,*** 今宵、月が見えずとも / ポルノグラフィティ 08/12/10
10 *,138,185 **1,555 浪曲一代 / 氷川きよし 09/02/04
11 *,130,162 ***,628 Rule/Sparkle / 浜崎あゆみ 09/02/25

as you can see Days / GREEN is still doing well . It's a bit sad that it has stopped charting/selling

I think that will go for Rule / Sparkle soon

:yes

Wow... she's one of only two females on that chart...

^^Not surprising. Ayu is still our queen!

Sales are definately hard for female artists, I'm hoping she keeps Rule/Sparkle up there in top 10 or 20 for the year!!

it's & I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing goes for male solo artistes too (where are you Ken Hirai T_T)

I doubt if D/G can be pushed out from top 40. at least like MW at #33 at the end of 2008
D/G is pretty good in chart
no one female singer outsell it so far

I think the fact that R/S sold less than 1k is a sign that it will stop charting soon. Nice run and hope it stays in top 50 annually.

To Karen: Yeah yeah, I'm sure arashi will release with a bang AGAIN. You know how Wiki claim ayu once accounted for 40% of avex's profit? I think arashi is doing that for JE now. Not even KATTUN is selling very well. Only Arashi.

R/S did well for a single considering that it was released a month before NEXT LEVEL was released so hats off to it

:yes

KAT-TUN has more or less lost their peak when comes to single/album sales (I STILL LOVE THEM THEIR MUSIC ROCKS OK) . They don't have the same selling power as they once had when they finally were able to debut 3 years ago with a BIG BANG (7 editions of their debut single Real Face anyone ? :dead2)

But it's fine since as time goes by , their music just keeps getting better & their new album Break the Records -by you & for you- is already shaping up to shoot straight to my fave album of the year list once again just like last year's KAT-TUN III -QUEEN OF PIRATES- :smitten

Unlike their koukai's KAT-TUN , ARASHI took a good 8-9 years to get to where they're which's a very rare sight in the Jpop music scene . It's not often you see an artiste who has been around for 10 years & they only manage to hit it big only just last year in which their hard work has definitely paid off big time

I noticed too that KAT-TUN album sales seem to be going down quite a bit. I'm not a big JE fan, but I thought KAT-TUN were like the most popular group right now, so I was surprised to see that QUEEN OF PIRATES album didn't even break 300k. At least Ayu can keep up with them in albums cause NL already beat that. I think it's weird cause some of their singles sold up to like 400k and Ayu's now sell in the 100-200k range. :conhuh Also, I think R/S had a pretty good run considering the circumstances. Glad to see it did better than peeps thought it would. :D

yeah I was very upset that QoP didn't break 300K which sucks because it's such an amazing album & it was the 1st full length Johnny's album that I listened to & I have to say it's 1 of the best if not the best original album that I have heard last year , Johnny's wise

that's the thing with Johnny's bands

they can sell a LOT for singles but can barely do squat when comes to albums

it's always the norm for them , I rarely see a Johnny's band that can sell a lot for albums & little for singles .

In fact probably never at this day & age

Times are changing, the sales will never be like they was back in the time. (if Japan wont do like in Sweden, since ipred and piratebay the CD sales have gone up 30%...)

Anyway, the sales always kicks down with time in physical sales. I think we should take more note on is the physical sales and the digital together. I mean, Ayu keeps her #1 spot and that is still kickass! :D

130k is satisfying for me :D

Most of the top placers are from JE.
After I watched the debut PV of those guys, no doubt that they had this strong appeal and charisma to their music and to their image compare to Ayu.



In Ayu's case on R/S, even though it has low sales, it gets the #1 spot though.
Its a good thing to be appreciate the single's performance even it was paired on a "flop" movie. :rolleyes


I think it will surpass B&D....

wah i wish days/green was still charting >_< would have been nice if it hit 200k :P

but it's interesting that there are only 2 female artists on that list. it's amazing, actually.

it's kinda like last year when Aoyama Thelma released Soba ni Iru ne & Soba ni Iru ne was #1 for the 1 1/2 of the year

maybe the same thing's happening again right now to Ai no mama de . The whole sleeper hit issue's pretty cool

hopefully R/S can outsell B&D/Pride in due time

you can say that again :yes

Days is the reason for the success of Days/GREEN.

<3 Days, like totally!

lol it's weird that this's not really a fave song of mine in NEXT LEVEL , I love GREEN on 1st listen though :luv2

took me forever to appericate Days

I know I'm just weird

R/S hasn't surpassed B&D? Aw, her sales are really getting more front-loaded these days. Maybe it can chart for a few more weeks depending on how other singles do.

I did the same thing though. I loved GREEN and Days seemed too boring. Now it's the other way around. After the PV I need some time to cool off from GREEN, even though I'm still humming it at work :tipsy

I like to think that the remixes helped R/S sales but three versions was horrible :shakehead

something happened after I saw the PV for Days :laugh . Before that , I can't remember how it sounded like at all :dead2

lmao

if you think 3 versions of a single's bad , how about 4 & let alone 7 *points to KAT-TUN's DON'T U EVER STOP & Real Face*

:dead2 & yours truly bought all 4 editions of DUES -_-'''

I also liked GREEN from the first listen but Days seemed so mundane but it has grown a lot on me since. My friend said it's the Japanese culture to have so many varieties. If they see only 1 version, it's sort of like a turn off... Utada Hikaru CDs seem to be immune to this theory though.

I think 3 versions for R/S is quite standard. Now the USB thing for NL seems like a gimmick but a very beautiful and practical gimmick. Everyone could use an USB.

i dont think the remixes helped rule/sparkle...the remixes were awful...(the scoustic ones arent, i mean the others). i hate them so much hahaha i havent been able to even listen to them...

I personally LOVE Green's CMJK remix and Rule's 80 Kidz. Infact they were so awesome that I had to have Version C. I thought the acoustic ones were boring.

Yeah the acoustic ones didn't impress me as much as I'd hoped. They're still pretty though.

12 *,130,540 ***,378 Rule/Sparkle / 浜崎あゆみ 09/02/25

last week for R/S in chart
even it cant outsell B&D/Pride

100k is great for singer like her in my country

Gosh, i'm surprised it is still charting with those figures.

but japan isnt your country, japan is the second biggest music industry in the world, 100k is nothing

nothing? lol Tell that to a few thousands of artists who have never even sold close to those numbers

100k wasn't nothing, now, it's a lot =)

8th week
position : #124
sales : 378
total sales : 130,540

you can count with your hands the number of artists than can pass 100,000 copies... nowadays it is A LOT!

But nothing compared to her sales a few years ago(even if you calculate with the declining sales), for ayu, its nothing, a single seeling under 100k from ayu is just ...o.0...o.0...o.0

^you really shouldnt compare her sales from even 2 years ago or so to her sales now..since there has been HUGE changes in the music and financial world

I used to think that to, especially when i saw the drop in sales between Rainbow and Memorial Address singles. But even when she was selling very well, she would sort of like get top 20-50 for singles sales and top 10 for albums on an annual basis. So relative to everyone else, she's still on top of the rankings, at least for albums. I agree that even if you compare relativity, she's not as popular as before but the drop is not THAT big if you look at it from this perspective. It's just my opinion :)

Singers in America have been selling terribly for a while now as well. Singles that sell 30k in the first week can still expect to get around #2 on the chart - that should show you the extent to which sales have declined heavily in Japan.

12 *,130,816 ***,276 Rule/Sparkle / 浜崎あゆみ 09/02/25

i thought that R/S stopped charting by now

this year chart is very low.. even sales 200 copies still in top 200. usually the least sales will be around 300-500

^Yeah, sales in general aren't great as they were used to be and this is one of the many evidences. =\

Rule/Sparkle could chart for 9 weeks even though the album was just 4 weeks away. xD
ayu's awesome.

those sales are really good!!

you guys are right, but so sad R/S even cannot outsell B&D which is havin same pattern in the release. B&D sold less than 1st week R/S but end with higher number than R/S did

But Bold & Delicious was released in 2006, general sales and ayu's popularity were higher, that's why Rule/Sparkle did great considering everything. ^__^
A lot of people barely believed it will sell 100,000 before its release..

wow!
R/S was staying alive until this moment?!?
That's great!

Thanks for the update!

her sales always decline year by year. if in 2005 B&D could sell 86K and R/S could sell 95K in first week, then at least R/S should sell higher than B&D because the opening sales is so promising.if it's 130K for total sales then the normal opening week should be less than 80K. it's mean Ayu's sales decline very quick after 1st week

can R/S really make 3k more (to reach B&D's sales) when it's charting with only 200 per week? i feel like it's going to drop out soon.

Still selling pretty good!:yes

I really doubtful

I'm glad it's still on the chart. :)

thats rly good that it's still around.. people must not be sick of the songs yet!

I guess it's final sales would be around 131k which is quite good. The debut sales were prolly better that B&D/Pride due to the fact there were 3 ver. Plus maybe people simply decided to buy it on it's first week. Just cuz it's debut sales were better than B&D/Pride's and it didn't manage to outsell it doesn't make it less successful. It's one of the best selling female singles this year.

I feel there's no way. I agree it's going to drop out of top 200 soon too.

bye bye R/S

199　124　***,276　130,816　**9　浜崎あゆみ 「Rule/Sparkle」

last week for R/S

THat's a pity, such a great single! :yes

:(

oh well at least it had a ride on the charts

Ranking & Sales are updated.

thanks for the update.. it's nice to see if it can stay on cahrt for 10 weeks at least

so the *undead is dead :dead2
anyway great fighting spirit on the chart for R/S

Not even 10 weeks of charting? Oh well, it was a fun single while it lasted.

Top 50 Singles Of '09 :

13 *,130,816 ***,*** Rule/Sparkle / 浜崎あゆみ 09/02/25

alas it has stopped charting/selling :(

already stop charting for 2 weeks, Karen

So the final sales are 131k (around ~it prolly sold 200 copies more in these 2 weeks).

^If it doesn't chart, the figures will not be accumulated. So it's still 'stuck' at 130,816.