i'm glad it's still at #4 :yes

*Stay within top 5* *Stay within top 5*

Her rank is pretty good IMO, it's much better than what I had expected.

I thought she would have moved up like WISH did. But as long as she is in the Top 5 or 10 I have no problems. I'm actually kinda shocked that the album didn't just disappeared from the Top 30. Because to me Yuna has become irrelevant in Japan.

I reiterate my thought: Does anyone think that the starting beats of LOVE MACHINE GUN are EXACTLY the same as Kuu's Run For Your Life?

Same rhythm, but that's all. The drums used are completely different.

^Never heard Run For Your Life. I'll give it a listen to see.

DREAM CM



Live performances on Japan's songs: Precious (A capella verse+chorus), trust you, and Ima Demo Aitai yo...

^ Oh I should phrased it properly... yeah I mean the rhythm: it's really the same! Like I thought I was listening to Run For Your Life and then I realized it's LOVE MACHINE GUN. Cool song still though. :D

^I hear what your talking about. They do sound similar.

to me when I 1st heard Body , I had a bit of A Long Walk deja vu vibes

I don't know for you guys

& oh DREAM's holding steady at #4 again

wow, i dunno if it's a good or bad thing that it's not dropping :laugh

LOL :laugh

there're still 3 more days for the 1st week , Oricon wise so we'll see anything goes in days to come

It's a good thing of you ask me. Maybe her next album will do better if it has some singles that chart well.

I think we can officially say DREAM failed to reach 100K copies sold
probably 1st week will sell only 40K

obviously it's not getting 100K in it's first week, but it'll be a long charter and it'll sell 100K eventually. even WISH took long to reach 100K.

I mean for the total sales would not even reach 100K

ohh. well, i have hope that it will eventually, lol, but seeing as how the singles on the album didn't do so well (except for trust you) i think it's just doing pretty good right now. at least she's not at #10 orr something :P i'm satisfied.

I thought DREAM would be better than WISH, but :(

Finally, I listened to DREAM. I'm totally disappointed with the new song:

Love You : omg it hurt my ears! >.< The instru is horrible and the song is really bad.
Brand New World: that song is ok but not exceptionnal!
BAILA BAILA It's ok. I like the hawai sound.
LOVE MACHINE GUN is out of the album. It's not the same melody that we can hear in DREAM. But it's not special.
No One Else it's a Yuna's ballade. It's not really special.
Body I don't like it. The rythm is the same from the start to the end. It's really a boring song.

love you reminded me a bit too much of Amerie's 1 Thing. Other than that I pretty much liked every track xD

DREAM is down to #5 :(

^ it only went down by one. That's not bad at all! :)

frankly I thought DREAM might flopped but looks like it will be another top 5 hit for Yuna assuming the next 2 days , the chart position will not run amok

phew, thank god it's only at #5, lol.

Wow, she's doing extremely well given the circumstances.

yuna at the VMAJ!



Yuna @ MTV VMAJ 2009 - After Show Interview
http://www.mtvjapan.com/video/event/16667

OMG i thought i was the only one who noticed! i couldn't put my finger on the song that it sounded similiar to, but now i know! lol.

I don't really like the dress, but I think she looks good (make-up, etc.).

I 2nd that

what was she hiding in that dress ? O_O

if it's shorter , it would have been way better

wow...yuna sales is sucks a lot...
this year is really hard for female singer to shine...

That would look so much better if it defined her waist. She's drowning in fabric. It makes her look chubby.

she sure does Temmy

I still have to write up my review on DREAM in due time

I think her dress is cute. It does need to be devolumized in the stomach area, kinda giving her a baby bump when she isn't pregnant (to our knowledge j/k).

I think she has such a lovely figure...
Why is she swimming in that awful fabric?!

the printing on her dress reminds me of an animal...but i can't remember :headache a flamingo, maybe? or maybe it's a peacock :shrug

i can't get my head straight tonight, lol. but i think yuna still looks pretty.

peacock ? NAH , a peacock's blue & green in colour :laugh & a flamingo's pink , Lisa :P

the prints on her dress reminded me of an ocelot which's 1 of my fave animals in the cat family

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...0px-Ocelot.jpg

isn't it cute ? haha

^ :luv2

yea, i knew i was wrong, lol. i just thought the print looked familiar :tipsy

LOL she looks pregnant in there XD

LOL :laugh

it's like she's trying to hide something if you ask me

X_x her dress is awful but the haircut is so pretty.

It's so cute Karen *.*

So... are there any scans of the album somewhere?

not yet but if anyone wants , I can scan everything up pertaining to the CD + DVD of DREAM as soon as the OS press's made available here to be sold

DREAM's down to #6 today

The dress must be a maternity dress and she bought it cos she wants to hide her LOVE MACHINE GUN!

Jokes aside... chart position is dropping... I guess this is the only week it will have a TOP 10 weekly... : \

she's gorgeous

better dress than last year IMO

That's so sweet of you, KarenPang.

I'll wait when it comes then.

heavily in my opinion.

Exactly what I was thinking! :D

oh no..#6? i think it's gonna get a top 5 weekly position, though.

at least it will be top10 overall

I was expecting maybe top20 & let alone top30 :dead2

anyone wants to read my review on DREAM ? :innocent - http://karenpang.blogspot.com/2009/0...ito-dream.html

trust you did wonders....very successful

how looks her dress last year?

DREAM's down to #7 today aka the final 6th day in the 1st Oricon week

I think it's better that she started off high and then slowly charted down. At least this way we know she made it into the Top 5 on the weekly chart.

I'm not sure but I think this article says DREAM came in 7th. And here I thought Top 5. :(
Oricon

^ I think that article is for the day that DREAM went down to #7 :yes

no way. it can't be #7! it's got to at least be #4. maybe waterballoon is right :shrug

Yeah the article is titled June 1st... which is well yesterday; the day she dropped to #7... so fingers crossed!

The article title says the HIATUS got their or his (IDK if it's a band or not) first #1 album. The article date is today June 2nd, and in the article they have the issue date of the new chart 6/8 and say the HIATUS is #1 with 80k copies sold.

Yuna got 7th place. At least she's still in the Top 10.

that's really disappointing then. i expected at least top 5 :(

Oh man like #7 weekly?... That's quite unexpected since she only got #6 and #7 on the last 2 days of the oricon week... :(

I was thinking Yuna would get #5 weekly.

look like she's got #7 instead :weep

Maybe the fact that her singles didn't do too well played a role in DREAM's sales. Anyway I'm happy for her. Hopefully she'll have better sales in the future.

She should pull a May J. and move to avex. She's doing better than she did when she was with Sony.

**1　*79,727　the HIATUS
**2　*64,570　平井堅
**3　*32,228　Green Day
**4　*26,662　May J.
**5　*23,645　Eminem
**6　*19,633　YOKO KANNO SEATBELTS
**7　*19,528　伊藤由奈
**8　*18,583　DJ KAORI
**9　*17,814　Linkin Park
*10　*11,440　MEG

what a massive flop if we compare it with HEART album

poor yuna

Everything since HEART is considered a flop then. HEART only did good because of ENDLESS STORY and Precious.

19k? Oh dear. I was expecting at least 25k :(

^Maybe if she didn't drop during those days she maybe would have sold close to that.

... agreed. She should have moved to avex... man doesn't avex KNOW that there's a POTENTIAL in her that NEEDS to be discovered... SO BADLY???

^ that or STUDIOSEVEN Recordings's spending their $/efforts on someone else like Sister Angela Kuroki Meisa & YUI since all of them are under the same record label

oh well poor Yuna :( , at least DREAM didn't debuted at like at the bottom 20 or something

I'm pretty sure every label out there Yuna has potential, but even if they wanted her they have to wait until Sony either drops her or her contract is up. A move to avex will probably be the best thing she ever did in her career.

She released ENDLESS STORY in 2005... usually such contracts are either by years (5 maybe? so next year will be her last), or by the number of albums the artiste has released.

:no :no on that Mishelle

it's notoriously known that avex artistes's material are being placed on quantity rather than quality to a certain extent

I don't want that to happen to Yuna at all

Oh poor Yuna -__-
Dream is even her best album....it's a pity :(

^ Agreed... I like DREAM the most of her albums!

@ Karen: Hmm... well but it's safe to say that avex at least ensures some sort of quality as well... I mean, Yuna has great songs now, but she lacks promotion. Like it's as if that's the only thing that's lacking for her in a celebrity... @_@ avex can provide that, defenitely.

It depends. I think they gave her like 5 album contract seeing how she was signed when she was popular so....

People in Japan don't seem to care about quality, I mean she puts out great singles and they don't really do well.

^ Or rather they don't know much? I mean Ayu's NEXT LEVEL is a prime example of how bad promotion/advertising can lead to not-so-good sales... and I mean I've really never like 'seen' any big Yuan promos after the NANA thingy...

And she has some of the most beautiful songs ever like trust you and miss you... and got to sing a duet with Celine Dion, but it seems like no one "knows' Yuna or what she has been up to, and those 19k+ ppl who bought DREAM are more or less her hardcore fans or something

:bsigh I don't know... and it's a 5 album contract, well 2 more before she has the option to move to another recording company!

true

I think what's lacking with poor Yuna's lack of promotion no thanks to STUDIOSEVEN Recordings

Jun Xiang we have to stop replying at the same time xD xD

Sony is known for promoting only if there's a major tie-in. That's what Sony relies on, they pretty much do nothing beyond that. For example, H&MC was promoted like crazy during Ichirin no Hana release -Bleach was ultra popular then-, getting on almost every live TV performance possible. Enari ~Tooku ni Aru Akari~ has a modest Gundam tie-in and no TV performances. Sorry best example I can come up with where I really know what I'm talking about.

guys I called Sony BMG earlier on & they told me that the OS press for DREAM will be made available for sale here sometime next week

it will be imported from Hong Kong , just like what they did for WISH & HEART

a bit odd that they're manfacturing the S'pore press of Ken Hirai's Ken's Bar II locally though o_O but oh well , both albums will be sold here by next week in due course :D

DREAM Poster - http://www.yesasia.com/global/ito-yu...0-en/info.html

nice ! & the HK press for DREAM is already made available for sale on YesAsia

I can't wait to get it in due time here when Sony BMG import the stock from Hong Kong to be sold here

front & back covers of DREAM

http://i381.photobucket.com/albums/o...6/DSC02963.jpg

http://i381.photobucket.com/albums/o...6/DSC02964.jpg

oh wow I love the packaging , it's so cool *___*

it's shiny & glossy just like the packaging for Koi wa groovy x2

oh it's shiny!!

now I REALLY want it :luv2

Hehe, I've just ordered a CD only version from CD japan.

Does the CD only version (regular ver.) also have that shiny packaging if anyone knows? And how the booklet,etc. ?

^ For my CD+DVD only the slipcase is shiny and the booklet isn't, so I guess the CD Only isn't shiny :shrug

^ Oh,well that's fine I guess. I don't mind it xD.

The cover is so pretty and shiny.

Yuna is back in the Top 20 at #18.

*6 *7 *9 24 24 23↑18　伊藤由奈 「DREAM」

oh that's nice! :yes :love

Ooo the covers are so sparkly!

to be honest, even if something is promoted a lot, it still doesn't mean it's going to sell well. Koi no groovyx2 was promoted A LOT here. A LOT. It was played in shibuya constantly, and trains were plastered with the GAP ads and the tv's even had the making of and interviews playing--yet it sold poorly. And also, Japanese people still like upbeat songs, and Yuna tends to rely on ballad heavy things.

The problem is that she isn't striking a cord with Japanese people.

And from what people said about Sony, Miliyah Kato has never really been heavily promoted, she usually has like one performance per new thing, and she's selling well. I think her new album will get #1 if there isn't any big competition. She's becoming a style icon amongst Japanese youth and her lyrics are really meaningful.

A lot of people here don't speak Japanese and therefore only listen to Yuna for her personality and the music of her songs. The lyrics meaning's aren't the most important things to you (generally speaking) so it's easy to say that this album is amazing or something like that.

I'm not trying to say that popularity in general doesn't account for a lot of sales, but I mean, there are a lot of other aspects.

:D

^ Haha, you've made a cool point here... she doesn't strike a chord with the Japanese... as in, the lyrics do not click with them? Eh, true though, I don't know any of her translations... though I really like how miss you sounds.

Hmm... I don't know, it's quite sad then~

the CD pics looks so pretty! :love

Wow, the cover looks so much prettier physically.

the HK press will be made available to be sold here next week & that goes for Ken Hirai's Ken's Bar II album too . I already saw the links up at YesAsia & HMV HK pertaining to DREAM

whee