#2? That's nice!

So if the first day of the third week sold 1066 copies, in 7 days it'll sell like 5500~6500 copies (?)

^

if it doesnt drop a lot..

Congrats to Ayu! Hoping she will stay in the top 5 for a while.

15th anniversary was all about celebrating the past, hence the nostalgic type-album with very familiar Ayu sounds. I think I would have enjoyed it more if she hadn't done the same thing a few years back with the Love songs era.

Now that this is over and done with, her next release should go back to pushing the envelope a bit more. This is where Ayu shines. It's not necessaily going to translate to sales, but its when she's pushing the envelope that she makes her best music as of late.

And with these dismal sales, nobody's going to be pressuring her to create familiar nostalgic-type songs that the Japanese should love. It clearly didn't work in this instance if that was Avex's goals.

3rd week she gets #1again..so good

I wouldn't call it condemning her being number 1. It's hard to feel very proud of it as the sales figures by itself is very low. A case like boys & girls where Ayu got number 2 but very high actual sales figures would be a much happier problem.

3rd Week
2nd Day
Position: #19

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2013-02-19/more/3/

A lot of new releases & looks like it's neck to neck between V6 & MISIA for #1 & #2 :O

Hmm maybe Ayu's 15th anni compilation will be called A Best -15th Celebration- ala Misia.

#1?! wow amazing!

3rd Week
2nd Day
Position: #14

increasing!! get up! get up! get up!

i hope for top 10 this week! (tho i know it will be difficult..)

2nd Day
Position: #19

3rd Day
Position: #14

UP! UP! UP!

I wish it would have been in the top 10 this week as well.
sadness.

4th Day
Position: #12

up!!

^Nice!!

She released some of her best music in 5 years with her 2 most recent albums (Party Queen and LOVE again), I don't see how her releases 'were a joke'. The problem is really just that she is no longer as relevant or as current in terms of popularity. It just happens, this is entertainment, tastes are fickle, they change, you can't always be at the top of your game.

I honestly don't think LOVE & again were releases that considered as a joke as I admit that the material for both contains some of her best stuff in recent times

It's just that I really disliked the way this whole 15th anniversary campaign was going towards , direction wise . At 1st no doubt about it when this was announced , I was excited but along the way , somehow or another , things got lost if not screwed up very badly

Didn't helped matters that Maro was dragged into all this & isn't it way too concidence he starred in You & Me , Wake Me Up & snowy kiss which coincides with the release of again (and A SUMMER BEST) ? It's the same when Mannie also starred in Virgin Road , Last angel & Love song prior to the release of Love songs which's like deja vu all over

She didn't need any form of unwanted publicity to sell records back then (especially when she was with Nagase for such a long time prior to their breakup) , I don't know why in recent times this has happened . I don't need that coming from her at all which makes her look a bit desperate & somehow or another even though the quality of her music to me is still there , professional wise ... it's a different thing altogether :shrug

5th Day
Position: #11

I was referring to the release pattern, not the songs themselves.

I agree.

^I second that

:banana1

a nice little increase!

Any hope that this album will get 100k in a long term? (the concert should help boost the album sales, right?"

its over 70K now... I would like it to hit 100K... they need to go ahead and make this gold, man!

My fingers aren't crossed for 100k
But I don't wanna be right in my 'LOVE will be the last gold certified Ayu cd'

If Miliyah Kato's album TRUE LOVERS sold 58K in the first week then 19K in the second week and total sales are at 107K+, ayu should be able to hit 100K too? Unless this album pulls a crossroad and end at 99K

She's already 7k+ behind, so she'd fall under 100k if she sold exactly the same as TRUE LOVERS from now on (which she probably won't, since she isn't as stable as TRUE LOVERS was).

Ayu won't hit 100k sadly, but she'll get close!

yeah..... ayu wont hit it guys =\

6th Day
Position: #14

aw shucks :(

7th Day
Position: #19

I didn't even think Love Songs would be her last certified platinum album back then. To be honest, I was surprised R&R Circus which was so upscale and brilliantly done could sustain it's own budget back then. If this keeps up I feel Ayu would really have to downsize the scale of her future PVs and concerts if it hasn't happened already.

^ Honestly that's already been happening where the PVs are concerned.

Today ayumi ranked the 9th!

3rd Week
Position: #15
Official Sales: 6,469
Official Total Sales: 75,098

this week it'll be around 80k!
it still can beat 100k before getting lost in the chart!

I'm just abit sad that LOVE again sales is lower than LOVE sales. that's pretty weird tbh

When LOVE was released, the Maro scandal had not appeared yet... that's why. It's sad but we will have to wait until japanese public forgives Ayu

man.. what the japanese public calls a scandal... lol
still in the top 20... thats nice.

wow, back in the top 10

i always thought that the japanese public actually liked the ayu-maro thing '-' weirdos...

^ I think they would approve of their relationship if not for the fact that this somewhat happens coincides with the releases of again & LOVE again which's perfect timing much ?

The sales of LOVE again reflects that despite it being a full length album (with it being released in 6 editions inclusive of the Playbutton edition) , it's selling much lesser than what LOVE (which was released in 3 editions) obtained which's bad

Just imagine should LOVE again gets released in the standard CD and CD + DVD which for her case , I can't visualise it at this point in time at all

Then again it's not the 1st time I've seen a mini outsold a full length album so =O

^

that's a point...

LOVE again has exited the top 30 ._.

Bye-bye 100k

2nd Day
Position: #38

Bye bye darling's forgotten cousin

^ :laugh

Where is it today?
Off the charts?

probably....

#34 today

Oh that's nice..went up a bit

#29 today =)

#25 today

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2013-03-01/more/4/

go up!

Nice! ^^

The album LIVE's again :syeah

#29 today

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2013-03-02/more/4/

thanks


it will hardly hit 80k this week =\

#28 today xP

maybe it'll get gold..

i'm thinking about 3k for this week :p

^ Me too

I'm more for 4,5k :yes

4th Week
Position: #40
Official Sales: 3,993
Official Total Sales: 79,091

I finally got LOVE again and A classical. Yippeeee

5th Week

1st Day
Position: #14

The album got that HIGH on the charts?
WHEEEEEEEE!!!!

O_O Cool...

i really dont want to see how the next album sales... man!

Next album is gonna be a disaster

Album sales have dropped so rapidly :weep

Really disappointed with the sales. This album really awesome, beautiful, ayumi voice got much better. Every tracks bring me back to her songs in the past

Sales are sooo bad..too bad, shouldn't have disrespected fans so much.

Must be a pretty dead week for music if this is so high in the charts today

If her marketing team doesn't get replaced next year looks very bleak. I really won't be surprised if part of this tour has many empty seats.

^Aw c'mon, Ayu's popularity may be slowly fading, but there's no doubt that her tours are still top notch :yes

For all we know, her sale numbers may not reflect the number of fans, what with all the piracy and illegal downloading :shrug

What do you mean?

As a matter of fact, the nagoya concert has been sold out. Unfortunately, i wasn't still not able o get mine. Ayu' s selling power has been decreasing but she's now a legend that everyone knows.

Yes but sold out to resellers and scalpers is different than the arena being full the day of the concert.

people will get over it sooner or later....:innocent and if she does good stuff (i'm not sure if there's a word "good" in ayu's fans' dictionary) and doesn't go all blah with her pvs, i think next album should do better, not that i care for sales but..yeah xD

It's safe to say that ain't gonna happen, I don't think the Maro controversey did that much damage. Avex know this is where the $$ is and they treat it accordingly. I went to her 3rd Osaka show in as many months last year and there wasn't a single empty seat. She did 6 shows in Osaka in her last tour over 6 months, and there was demand for all of them. Pretty insane for an artist who is "losing popularity".

^Concert wise, she is pretty much only behind Namie among the girls...

^i think Ayu concert still the biggest one....

Namie sold more on DVD / Blu-ray, but not on tickets number

^Live Style had 32 dates... Hotel Love Songs had 28 dates... The average capacity for the arenas are 10,000, so, +-320,000 for Namie and +- 280,000 for Ayu. Not a big difference at all.^^

Even if people over here seens to believe she is a ****** performer lately, it still is considered her strongest point in Japan.

I don't blame her Team. Is Ayumi's fault she is not selling. Instead of focusing on her career and performing she is in NY,LA etc... with Timmy having fun. If she doesn't care why should I?.

I'm sure Namie is crying all the way to the bank people can't stop talking about her. LOL:roflmao:roflmao

^
The thing is that fans seem more worried about her sales that Ayu herself lol She is the best selling solo singer and by far !! 100K more or 100 K less copy I don't think it's a big deal for her !

And she is in NY/LA for work not for fun just for say ^^

edit: One good exemple IMO Ayu with Again (4 songs) has sold 34 K first week a lot of fans complain Ayu is definitly over, I am afraid for fututre releases etc... Kumi with Colors the cover (11 songs ?)has sold 33 K first week we don't hear the fans say anything !

I'm joking, some people feel like they were mislead somehow regarding Love, Again and Love Again :headache

If you add the sales of Love, Again and Love Again together then the album has sold over 100k :D

http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net...hOpjjJEMoQKJU_

320 K for Ayu this time ^^ but it's pretty equal ! Ayu & Namie are the female singer in japan with the most attendances =) Except last year Namie was well above because she makes a dome tour !

Even with the empy sections ayu's still ahead with Namie. (Hence why she keeps performing many dates).

Exactly right. And even then, she scored two #1's with the 5 month campaign release. Completly unintentional with the 8th being the set date and often without even a full week of sales. This stands for something.

Tour's going to be big. "15th anniversary lives", Japan will lap them up based on her tours getting bigger and bigger every year and this being a sentimental tour controlled by the fans. She does more dates now than she's ever done in the past. Why? Demand! $$$. Sales from CDs - much less $$$ for both avex and ayu unless her albums and singles shift significant units. Remember that royalties for each CD sale go to the composers/arrangers, so LOVE again's sales aren't generating much income for either Avex or Ayu. These concerts? Much bigger slice of profit for all involved.

I wouldn't be surprised if Ayu does a more substantial 2nd leg of the tour in September/October. It's quite amazing that her tours are getting longer with more demand but sales are down.

Don't forget about legal download via mobile phone, iTunes and many others :yes

so this week it'll sell about 2k~2,5k

so it'll cross 80k mark and maybe 2 weeks more to get 85k :D it'll probably get more than 90k, but unless touring makes sales better I don't think it'll cross 100k -_-

So... how did it chart yesterday?

That too :laugh

Do we have any current numbers on her digital sales?..

Live style was 2011 no?
If so, POM have more date wise. Was it 36 tour dates for POM? And I'm pretty sure HLS wasn't just 28 dates....

I didn't think the Maro thing was that big of a deal either, but apparently it was pretty wide spread. People who don't even follow Ayu seemed to know that "she is now with a married man who has a child". I personally don't think its anyones business and shouldn't matter, but in Japan appearance is everything it seems and this did not reflect well on her character.

Usually Ayu's shows still sell out (although yes, judging by the reseller shops, quite a few tickets end up there). I was surprised to see Avex doing promo for this tour though; usually they don't because the tickets pretty much sell themselves for her concerts so that did make me think they might be worried about ticket sales this year.

Huh? How? The Best Fiction Tour alone had 64 dates all in arenas. She just performed 8 shows at Dome's. That right there surpasses the total for an entire Arena tour. Both tour a lot, but for the past several years now Namie's attendance top Ayu's and for sure DVD/bluray sales top Ayus. I don't know why that should really matter much though. People should just be happy that any female artist is making it to the top of the charts these days even if it might not be their favorite.