Well, the album itself has been on preorder for a while.. D:

I don't think many had issues with the ordering situation other than CDJapan.co.jp. D:

let's hope it will stay on top for longer!

ayu really needs the sales this time!

The only bad thing about those many fans is that they don't really matter, because they are too spread out. World wide she sells maybe, what... hard to estimate anything, but very little. In Japan she sells huge amounts, on a small area. Promoting herself world wide would most likely not be profitable, the area over which she'd have to do it would be too big.

I know you weren't really talking about anything like that, and this isn't arguments against you, only thoughts I came up with when I read your post.

She probably realizes that the number of fans she has world wide is at least noticeable, but even if she knows about it there isn't really anything she can do about it, at all.

"Black Cherry" has a score of 24. LOL.

I wonder if a group of evil minded anti kumis made an attack on BLACK CHERRY, if that's the case.

I imagine that if that were the case, the Ayu-score should be in the negatives right now.. :|

I think it's just a matter of too much, too soon. Give us time to process the music, Avex!

You need a special kind of fandom to actually enter and vote for those albums, mainly I'd say the really fan-ish ones do, who know they'll love anything.

That would not render it with a score of 24, it can't be a natural thing.

^
Actually, Psy. X wrote in the official Koda Kumi thread that he got from JPM or something that a lot of her fans that had been with her from the start didn't like her new music, thought is was generic and didn't like it at all. So it's not that unlikely. Ayu never really had the same problem, because changes were expected of her and no change that ever occured to her was as big as what happened to kumi the past two years. Dig into it if you like.

And despite that, it still remains at the top of the pre-order chart. Look at the scores for Yume no Uta, 4 hot wave, and best ~first things~, and then compare them to how much they actually sold. Then compare the scores of Startin, Bold & Delicious, Blue Bird to how much they actually sold. Leads me to believe that a bunch of pro-Ayu fans are consistently voting her material high but as of late anti-Kumi fans have been rating hers poorly. :rolleyes

These scores are only an estimate and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the fans. Just look at B&D, scored high but did porly as a single. (Even if B&D was released long before (m)u, i doubt it can manage a ayu-standard sales =X )

I imagine that there would have to be MANY fans rating low, since a few votes doesn't really do much to a score..

I feel the same,but the fact is that fans will still buy the single despite its scores/quality.

Yeah, that's seriously evident with someone's releases >x<.

Actually it's like that for every artist in jpop. Mostly.

I'm wondering whether we are having the same idea of who 'someone' is.
:lech

everybody wants her... ive been brainwashed by ayu!!

no1!

Hey man, it was a deep statement. Just shrouded in the mists of facetiousness. Seriously though, a lot of people around here have said that they think Ayu is super pretty etc etc etc but that she doesn't drive them into a horny rage.* People really do love and care about Ayu as a person and THAT is beautiful thing. Thus, Ayu not only reaches out to people, but she also unites them as we are united here on AHS. She's somewhat of a saint, isn't she? She's human; that's starkly clear. But part of what comprises Ayu has an angelic quality.

On the flip side, the music industry in the US seems so depraved to me...

*new thread inspired
http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51213

In order for this post not to be hugely offtopic, allow me to bring it back around...

I foresee Secret shooting up again once we get a new burst of info. Who knows, there might be more than one of these resurgences...

That happens with all the artists. I still cannot understand why Exodus sold so much in Japan (perhaps it helped that no one understood the lyrics?) :P I'm a big Hikki fan, but that album nearly killed me.

No. 1 in HMV.co.jp today!!!!!!!!!!!