^No wonder that his single doing good on oricon as well...

^That Southern All Stars guy, that's why. Honestly, though, I'm not a fan of Keisuke Kuwata, but so do many of us here at AHS. But personally, I don't really like him very much... :grumpy

2nd place isn't bad tho.

Recochoku Album Chart June 2016

#19 M(A)DE IN JAPAN (wow, released at the end of June and already in top 20)
#41 A SUMMER BEST

Recochoku Album Chart July 05, 2016
#5 - M(A)DE IN JAPAN (steady)
#15 - A SUMMER BEST (up)
#47 - A COMPLETE ~ALL SINGLES~ (up)

She truly gained digital power since the success of A BEST ! :yes

So... I just checked Recochoku daily, and MADE IN JAPAN is at 11 (up)

http://recochoku.jp/ranking/album/da...ate=4305070018

amazing records :D

June 29 - July 05 Week
#2 - M(A)DE IN JAPAN
#22 - A Summer Best
July 11
#7 - M(A)DE IN JAPAN

Today Rainbow appear on album chat at position 15..wow..what happen

Now it's down to 34... but awesome anyway! :yes

That's surprising!

still the appearance of Rainbow on the chart is suprising..and it's stay there for not just one day only.

Maybe it is because pretty soon it will be it's 15th anniversary of release? I'm just guessing.:laugh
I am pretty surprised as well. But I am glad Rainbow is getting some extra love.

RAINBOW is awesome album. That's why it appeared on the chart. :D

Today RAINBOW is #44 ^_^

A SUMMER BEST is #32 in monthly chart... :D

I am baffled. Maybe it had some kind of deep cut in the price?

Yup. There is a special right now to get the entire album for 1650 yen (regular price 2350 yen). Loveppears is 1350 yen (regular price 2650 yen)

QUEEN OF SUMMER DISCOUNT SALES

Recochoku Album Chart 8/27

#3 A BEST
#6 A SUMMER BEST
#34 A BEST 2 BLACK
#41 A BEST 2 WHITE

iTunes Japan All Genres

#3 A BEST
#19 A SUMMER BEST
#30 A BEST 2 BLACK
#37 A BEST 2 WHITE
#128 Duty
#148 A ONE
#194 A Song for XX

iTunes Japan Pop Chart

#1 A BEST

iTunes Japan J-Pop Chart

#5 A SUMMER BEST
#11 A BEST 2 BLACK
#14 A BEST 2 WHITE
#42 Duty
#52 A ONE
#72 A Song for XX
#94 LOVEppears
#96 A COMPLETE ~ALL SINGLES~
#106 WINTER BALLAD SELECTION
#107 Rock'n'Roll Circus
#115 RAINBOW
#119 Love songs
#120 MY STORY
#140 I am...
#157 Secret
#159 NEXT LEVEL
#160 (miss)understood
#186 Memorial address
#199 M(A)DE IN JAPAN

a-nation always helps. I'm glad to see this.

19 albums in J-POP TOP200!! WOW!!

a-nation magic?

A-nation and sales help!

I doubt it has anything to do with a-nation, as a-nation just happened the day after.

the reason why this happened doesn't matter imo, the most important thing is that people are still paying to hear her songs :yes this shows she's not over yet

I'm hoping for A BEST to be able to get a certification for 100.000 copies sold

Recochoku Album Chart

8/29 (daily)
#4 A SUMMER BEST
#5 A BEST
#18 A BEST 2 ~WHITE~
#22 A BEST 2 ~BLACK~
#41 A ONE
#46 NEXT LEVEL

8/17～8/23 (weekly)
#42 RAINBOW

July 2016 (monthly)
#15 M(A)DE IN JAPAN
#32 A SUMMER BEST

Also:

Recochoku Video Clip Ranking (Weekly) 8/17～8/23
#88 FLOWER

Recochoku Video Clip Ranking (Monthly) 2016/7
#26 FLOWER
#37 Mad World

Recochoku Chaku Uta Ranking (Monthly) 2016/7
#79 Mad World
#103 FLOWER
#150 Summer Love
#177 TODAY

Recochoku Ringtone Ranking (Daily) 8/28
#62 HEAVEN
#85 Days

Recochoku Ringtone Ranking (Weekly) 8/17～8/23
#96 MY ALL

Recochoku Ringtone Ranking (Monthly) 2016/7
#26 Mad World

iTunes Japan Top Albums - All Categories
#3 A BEST
#14 A SUMMER BEST
#33 A BEST 2 -BLACK-
#36 A BEST 2 -WHITE-
#144 Duty
#155 A ONE
#186 A Song for XX
#194 LOVEppears

iTunes Japan Top Music Videos - All Categories
#74 BLUE BIRD
#197 Rule (Original Mix)

iTunes Japan Top Albums - Pop
#1 A BEST

iTunes Japan Top Albums - J-Pop
#4 A SUMMER BEST
#11 A BEST 2 -BLACK-
#13 A BEST 2 -WHITE-
#53 Duty
#56 LOVEppear
#59 A ONE
#62 A Song for XX
#113 WINTER BALLAD SELECTION
#114 MY STORY
#115 NEXT LEVEL
#116 Rock'n'Roll Circus
#117 I am...
#130 M(a)de In Japan
#133 RAINBOW
#144 Love Classics
#150 Love songs
#153 (miss)understood
#156 A Complete - All Singles
#188 sixxxxxx - EP
#190 Memorial address

iTunes Japan Top Music Videos - J-Pop
#59 BLUE BIRD
#139 Rule (Original Mix)
#154 Days
#168 JEWEL
#186 my mame's WOMEN
#198 part of Me

Ooh so happy to see Made In Japan songs charting ^^

I feel that her image is getting better each year...I remember when she appear on last year a-nation she didn't get huge cheers from the crowd but this year it's louder and more excited when her part began.

It's reflected on digital chart...

I would say that her image is gettin better too...
But I'm gonna say that the crowd was more loud in 2014 than this or last year... ;)

^ i agree! since she has that doctor friend, stories about her marriage/divorce/private life has been quite ( some rumors, or gossip is always included in beeing fame. in 2013/2014 one rumor after another came up to the news page. )

Well done to A Summer Best for doing so well!

That's so cool! Thanks for the information :) I'm glad to see her albums charting.

progress was certified Platinum for 250,000 digital copies.

source : http://aramajapan.com/chart/the-reco...ugust-3/64422/

wow 5 years later

Wow, I didn't know progress had that much popularity! Nice tho.

Yeah, it's quite popular. I always see it on top performed Ayu songs list at karaoke.

Also warm welcome from tales fans for this song

That's nice! Thanks for sharing the information :)

Progress and Song 4 U are really popular thanks to the Tales saga, they're opening for Tales of Xillia and Tales of Xillia 2, I'm huge tales fan and I almost had a heart attack when I found out Ayu was the one singing the openings :D btw thanks for the info!!

progress is gold, I still listen to it regularly and (surprisingly, because it sounds very Japanese to me) it got several of my friends into Ayumi! I just love the few rising notes just before the chorus!

Anyways, very random to see this song pop up now, but congratulations I guess!

It seems A COMPLETE is #4 @ iTunes Japan o: Could someone verify this? lol

http://kworb.net/charts/aitunes/jp.html

A COMPLETE now have huge discount and costs only 900yen. I saw it was #7 few days ago

That's right! Better than EXILE's new best!

http://i.imgur.com/QHi2D6c.png

It's also charting high on Recochoku..

can't wait for we are the queens rank...hopefully it will get number one

I found this image
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtieVGgVIAEVaiI.jpg

where do you find it?

^^ That's weird. I can't see the song in any ranks.

iTunes Japan: http://www.apple.com/jp/itunes/charts/songs/
Recochoku: http://recochoku.jp/ranking/single/d...ate=4305070016

Sorry! I thought I shared the link
https://twitter.com/TKYN35_TA/status/781548627529302016

Just saw this one on FB not sure wich Rank is tho.

http://i.imgur.com/1X2eZ7Q.jpg

Recochoku September 2016
#22 A COMPLETE ~ALL SINGLES~
#23 A BEST (LOL)

When will Oricon start to include digital sales? It's pathetic how in 2016 it still only counts physical releases

Hope that We are the QUEENS reaches no. 1 weekly! Though it didn't get that much promotion than Step by step I think it's still possible. I guess I would go crazy if it really reaches no. 1 weekly! :D Then we could say "Hey, look! Ayu has another no. 1 single" although it's digital it's still a single.

Compilation albums sell so much in Japan, insane

Most likely it will not reach no.1 maybe just in top 10..max in top 5

Hmm I guess you are right but I still keep my little hope! I mean maybe it's #1 in a special category like wasn't Step by step #2?
I know it got the drama as promotion but I think it wasn't that famous and lately the Clash of Queens 30 secs CM boomed so maybe she still has a little chance but I don't put my hope that high. Nvm, we will see how good it charted! ;)

Day 3 (October 2nd): #18

Was it #1 on day one and/or two or what?

^ It was #3 on day 1 on the normal daily single chart. And iirc it was #1 on the "high resolution" single chart. Didn't check day 2. And I don't remember the chaku uta and ringtone positions, but they were lower than #3.

^ Thank you! So is there still a chance for #1 on the high resolution single chart? Sorry if I annoy somehow but Recochoku always confuses me a bit.

^ She's down to #6 on the High Resolution single chart today, so I don't think so :(

^ Oh, that's sad. :( Maybe YouTube spot helps a bit but I don't think so... :/

what a wonderful view today's chart is

http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/...pseyuljem5.jpg

It would be good for promotion that the people at Japan buy the single and get a code for the game or something like that.

According to RIAJ, two songs have been certified for September 2016!

Platinum (250,000)
BLUE BIRD

Gold (100,000)
Song 4 u

http://aramajapan.com/chart/the-reco...ember-3/65884/

JUSTICE FOR LOVE AGAIN! (I feel blue bird was released in another life... it's been more then 10 years)

Song 4 u! Awesome.

I love seeing Ayu and Hikki together at the top of the charts!

yay for song 4 u <3

A Complete costs only 9oo Yen at that time ...

^ Yes, everytime she is on top is due to discounts but people taking advantage of the discount are a proof that they are interested at least a little in her music.

^Pretty much, if there was no interest, it could be for free and people wouldn't download it. Seens like Avex is using promotion as a way to re-introduce her hits to people.

Yeah, it doesn't matter that A COMPLETE is being sold for really cheap, people wouldn't throw their money away if they didn't have an interested for at least some of the songs in the album. Glad to see both Utada and Ayu selling well digitally. :yes

Recochoku Year-end Charts are out and Ayumi is #29 in Overall Artist Ranking.:shakehead I believe she was #23 last year or so, however it's surprising to me she's that hight since A BEST was not discounted this year (I think it was still discounted in January though):love

EDIT: ALSO:

A BEST #55 and A COMPLETE ~ALL SINGLES~ #74 in the Overall Albums Chart :)

wow Impressive... since we had way less new material this year.

recochoku celebrates 15 years and for this they put a ranking of the best selling artists and songs of these 15 years together.
Ayu is at #3.

http://recochoku.jp/special/100529/?...ate=4299010125

Top 10 artists:
1. EXILE
2. Koda Kumi
3. Ayumi Hamasaki
4. ORANGE RANGE
5. Kobukoro
6. Ai Otsuka
7. GReeeeN
8. Hikaru Utada
9. Kana Nishino
10. Mika Nakashima

For songs HEAVEN charts at #49.

Damn you, Kuu! >: (

...

OF COURSE NOT! Glad to see both of them in the top-3!!! Congratulations to them!!! GO AYU!!! (Also congrats to Hikki)

It makes sense that Koda Kumi would be above Ayu on this list.:think
I'm surprised to see Utada towards the bottom though.

Golden days of JPOP. I am surprised to see Ayu above Kobukoro, Kana (especially here somehow) and Hikaru. Ayu's peak ended before Recochoku got popular...so it makes sense Ku is #2.

NEXT LEVEL (Song) certified gold by the RIAJ

http://aramajapan.com/chart/the-reco...eleases/68348/

:woohoo::woohoo:

I actually really enjoy the song so I'm happy people are still listening to it! And good for Ayu! She may not be selling a lot of new music lately but at least people are still buying her older stuff, lol

next level was my first album.. im so proud of it... :-D

Not that surprising with Kana Nishino actually, as she just got popular, when digital sales went down already. It's already a big achievement for her to get in the Top 10, considering digital sales aren't that strong anymore for a while now.

KKBOX 2016 Japanese Artist HITS in ASIA
http://i.imgur.com/TGcdEbTm.jpg

https://www.kkbox.com/jp/ja/column/s...09-1375-1.html

A Complete has sold 11,770 digital copies in 2017.

https://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtop...57647#p6357647