yeah, that wouldnt make much sense since Michael jackson's thriller is the best selling album in the world with over 50 million...

i pre-ordered mine already!!! :) hope ayu will sell! the previews sound really good, people just buy this one and help ayu , PLEASE!, buy it for a present for others!!!

Cool! Thank you for the info. I'm excited to see the booklet!

Oh, I can't wait to buy this!! I wanna see the booklet soo badly!!

i wanna see the booklet too, i hope the photos in the booklet are better

this is utterly crazy!!

it's probably 87,300 OR 870,300, which I highly doubt.

wow thats cool! I am for sure looking foward to the booklet and I hope that it sales well!

thejadedangel: It's the latter - and I'm not kidding. Hirai Ken also did very well when he debuted last week, selling over 670,000 copies.

Still, no one can beat Hikki's 1.4 million. Sorry for saying this here but I think Ayu, while definitely being able to surpass the 1 million mark her first week, can't reach the 1.4 million that Hikki pulled for her single collection. Maybe I'll have to take that back two weeks from now, when Oricon releases its weekly rankings, but for now that's what I feel.

oops haha
i put some few extras zeros... :innocent
i meant 873,000 for its debute(Orange Range - musicQ)
sorry for the confusion

yea...hikki's UH single collection sold too well imho
just a best album
i wonder if ayu can do that with the new album
since it's the most anticipated cd according to oricon

Looks like ayu won't get "Artist of the Year" of Gold Disc Award next year just by how much Hikki's single collection sold...

ou. less make-up. i'll look forward to it.

oO;; that is really really awesome!! go ayu~

I'm only hoping that MY STORY sells more than RAINBOW. But there's no way that's it's gonna touch that new ORANGE RANGE album, in terms of sales though.

Fmm... interesting - thx~ 4 info :)

i really am not so sure if she could sell 1 million in one week. MA didnt do that either, did it?

Whoa, Orange Range totally surpassed my expectations. I would've thought 500,000 at the most...dang this beats their indie days.

MA sold 550k its first week, which I think is pretty amazing for a mini-album.

RAINBOW, Ayu's most disliked full-featured album it seems, sold 650k its first week.

I'd expect MY STORY to sell more than MA...hitting 600-700k copies its first week.

Then again the Japanese Music Industry is changing. Weak single sells may correlate with higher album sales now since consumers may prefer to have it all in one CD (like the US Industry, singles sales are really low but album sales are extremely high). Ayu had a weak singles sales this year, maybe people are tired of buying singles from her (since she has SOOO many) and are just anticipating for the album (hence the strong sales of MA, even though 5 of the songs were already released).

-Edit MA shipment broke 1 million copies sometime in Jan. (about a month after its release) And here MY STORY already broke 1 million in shipment a week before its release date. :yes I think Avex has a lot of preorders :cool

HOLY MOLY!! hahas i just got goosebumps. lmao.

I preordered mine already, so that's great for Ayu!