6th week
Position : #27
Official Sales : 3,959
Official Total Sales : 200,211

ayu did it!!!

7th Week

1st Day
Position: #19

ayu's 2011 total singles/albums/dvds sales: 703,122

oh yes baby! Great great great!

It passed 200k? YAY! :D

yay...
finally 200k.....

hurraaay. 200K. it has really big chance to outsell Kuu's deja vu.

God, finally ! Now let's see how far it can go by now..

YAY!!! Finally =) hope the sales will steads ard 2000copies for a few more weeks

yaaaay! as I thought it's already 200k!! :woohoo

Woooot wooooot!!! Goooooooo ayu!! :) 200k!!!! Keep it up ayu!

200k (: ~ GO FIVE~~

finallyyyy!!!!!!!! :D
I think it will sell close to 210 k :D

FIVE BANZAI!

yaaay 200k mark reached!
Congratz Ayu :heart

AWESOME!!! im so happy!!!

lets hope the blu ray release will boost the sales =D

yesssss FIVE is awesome...
finally it has passed 200K!!

So happy now! the album crossed 200k and her total sales also reached 700k! next target is 210k!^^!

YAY! o(^.^)o

So happy for her!!!!! :luv2

Oh so amazing!

I hope I have some money to get a copy to support the ranking. :(

w00t! I'm happy it made it!!

YAY!! Congrats Ayu!!

5th and 6th week were both better than Love Songs(By 1k and 0,1k copies)
As predicted, it keeps selling better than Love Songs did since week 4. :innocent

after it's 6th week Love songs went on to sell another 10k. I wonder if FIVE will manage to do the same.

I wonder if had this been a full album would it have sold more than Love Songs, or is one of the main reasons this is selling so well is because it is a mini album hm.... questions questions XP

^ i am pretty sure the main reason is Progress

^ yea of course, but i wonder if it was a full album WITH progress would it have been even more successful or if the reason it's doing so well is because it's a mini (cheaper) with progress

wow!!! yay!!! it passed 200K!!!! *.*

full album always sell better than mini-album so yeah if it was full album, it would definitely sell better than FIVE

but i wonder if the reason it sold so much is because it was cheaper? :S i unno allowed the casual fan to buy it (or the tales of xillia fans) otherwise its another 20$ or so more im not sure they would have bough it... WTV doesnt really matter :P just a random thought, would have been cool to see FIVE sell more than LS

Wow... Congratz Ayu......

amazing, 200k is really good for a mini-album !!!
and i hope she can sell more than kuu :x

i hope that her new full album will outsell FIVE and Love songs

Guaranteed if she brings back CREA, works with BOUNCEBACK and also DAI + HAL.

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I agreed with you Zeke. If only CREA, BOUNCEBACK, DAI and HAL make their comeback...her album would be outsold her last album...maybe~~ :)

and with Timmy too, it would be orgasmic *-*

CREA, BOUNCEBACK, DAI ,HAL + Timmy = A BOMB

it's out of top 30 today,
maybe due to some new releases ^^

it's okay. I'm glad that this album sold really well.~~anybody knows which artists sold their mini-album as high as Ayu? :)

yeaaaaaaaaaaah I'll die for that :thud

i think this album sold well also because ayu has been involving herself in "rebuilding" JAPAN again with her LOVE & HOPE campaign.. the POWER of MUSIC concert, so people might have touched by her act?

^plus tales of xilla~

Without a smash hit preceding the album or something that will suddenly re-spark the general public's interest in Ayu's music, we'll be happy if the next studio album outsells FIVE.

:yes:yes:yes

Though now that I see Kaela Kimura's sales and how much has Kana Nishino dropped and the fact that Dejavu will probably be outsold or if not then nearly outsold by FIVE one has to admit that Ayu's over-all staying power in the Japanese music industry is stunning and that despite of everything she is indeed a legend who has seen many other stars rise to the top and drop like a rock to the very bottom.

How I LOVE what you just said!!!

I knew that this album was going to hit the 200.000 mark! Congrats ayuuuu.

imo it's because it's a mini-album and it's pretty cheaper..progress for sure attracted many new fans that usually don't support Ayu..

Honestly after the positive surprise of Love Songs I wasn't ready to appreciate a full studio album..Were you?

totally agree :yes:yes:yes rise and fall of so many female singers. but ayu still managed to maintain for soooo soooo many years :love

yeah, you're right :yes

agreed

#24 today :D

cool!!!

great. when RIAJ will release new certifications?

She got #1 Monthly for September? That is amazing! Never thought I'd see her do that again.

FIVE is #30 today.

Also yesterday Mste showed her total sales for albums and singles: 49,700,000
Which means 1 more album and 1 more single (probably) and she hits 50,000,000 :D

Hope she'll do something to celebrate that! (though i really doubt this!^^!)

:( I thought she had hit the 50 million mark already. But at least it'll happen eventually!

She did taking DVDs into equation but in these totals achivements they count only albums & singles.

Maybe because the best dvd sellers sold 4 or 5 million of dvds in total and it's too small to insert to the achivement or maybe because it's a dvd and not CDs.

I don't think that would do anything to sales. Do people who buy her works in Japan even care who makes the songs?

No they care if they sound good and these people are basically "the" sound of AYU.

I think HAL is kind of dead though at the moment which is why we have no more HAL arrangements (at least, it's just one guy now) and BOUNCEBACK is okayish, I suppose. Their work with Ayu was amazing but their work with idol soloists/groups nowadays is kind of really bland and just blah.

Just because they had previously made great tracks doesn't mean that anything they make afterward will be just as good. I'm pretty sure that people were really NOT into CREA's last solo works. I remember loving them at the time but for many people, winding road and Humming 7/4 are some of the worst CREA work ever.

DAI + HAL compositions would be good for Ayu's sales, but not her music. Ayu does NOT need another generic fluff song just to sell well in Japan. I think FIVE had enough of those (beloved and to a certain extent, progress). New and interesting compositions like BRILLIANTE will win out anyday, even though they won't be songs loved by the Japanese public.

Good? Hmm I always tend to like the songs that the Japanese public eats up less for some reason. I preferred GREEN over Days, GAME over INSPIRE. alterna over fairyland and so on.

I thought Will was quite boring to a certain degree. Not as grand as everyone made it out to be. Love winding road now, it's so nostalgic sounding and bittersweet. I have never had a problem with Humming, although I can see why to some/most it would be annoying.

I don't think DAI+HAL should be considered generic, I mean, they did a lot of the Ayu classics that are just so original to her.

I prefer Days over GREEN, GAME over INSPIRE and as far as fairyland/alterna, it depends on my mood.

About BRILLANTE, to me the overall sound of the song wasn't "new" - it was refreshing to me because it sounded like something she would have released before, years ago. It has more of that "Ayu" feeling to it - maybe because it's original. But it's nothing extraordinarily out of the ordinary. The chanting is really the only thing that's out there and I would like the song better had the chanting not been included.

The chanting part it's what makes BRILLANTE a gorgeous epic song. If there wasn't it, BRILLANTE would be considered a BALLAD -part II- type of song. In my opinion, of course :yes.

I second this..the song in its complex is absolutely great but I wonder if it didn't have the chanting would we have liked it the same way? Probably not.

Well I always skip past the opening chants to get to the part when the music really begins. It's too drawn out for me.

I don't know even if it would help her sales to be sincere... Most of the time when an artist don't survive their own peak, one of the reasion it's cuz they kept releasing the same kind of stuff over and over again, times changed and their style got boring...


Bringing HAL, CREA and DAI back would only help her sales if the songs were good and if they fit this era as well as their compositions did before...

I've always thought that the chanting was tacky. Personally, it doesn't add anything to the song and what made me adore the song was her vocals.

The chanting is the main thing I love about BRILLANTE. The vocal melody itself is nothing special and without the chanting the arrangement would just be another "traditional grand ballad" with a more depressing twist.

200k! awesome sales for this mini-album

the chanting isn't so bad, but knowing timothy did it really brings it down for me (nothing against him, but i'd just rather not know, mystery is good). now i'd really rather it not be there.

Congrats for passing the 200k mark! So happy for her. I love how she is still a fairly strong seller and great quality music maker.

7th week
Position : #28
Official Sales : 2,663
Official Total Sales : 202,874

2,6k.. yeah, I saw that coming xD not bad :D

wow... 7k to go to 210k..
:D

does anyone know how many weeks left until the end of 2011 chart run? 8 or 9 weeks?

210k seems really possible..
maybe she can beat kuu's Dejavu

According to generasia, there are left 8 weeks until this year's chart ends..

I want this happen and i guess it 'll!LOL!

1st Day
Position: #29

all of us!" =D

7th week is #38 :yes

Right, thanks ^^

i hope we'll have some steady sales next week too..

If blue ray ver is also counting the sales of FIVE, 210k is really possible :p

Guys... considering Ayu's usual album chart life, this is going to chart for at least 15 weeks total... x_x You are overlooking her sale power... 210k+ is almost sure....

I really hope FIVE will cross 250k
so Ayu will have 25 albums that certificated as Platinum (even she has several albums that cetificated as Million)

It will chart on the separate charts for BDs.

^ do you know that for sure? because how come the CD+DVD version dont count for DVD charts? why would the CD+Bluray count for bluray?

It's not CD+Bluray. It's just Bluray.

^oh okk

it doesnt need to sell over 250k copies to be certificated as platinum, since the certifications are based on shipments. Kumi's Dejavu was certificated as platinum with only 211k copies sold =D So theres a big chance that FIVE will have that achievement soon.

btw.

8th Week

2nd Day
Position: out of top 20


8th Week

3rd Day
Position: #20

and @ayumisrael, correct me if im wrong but according to oricon 8th week 1st day the album position was #29, not #28. check
oricon site for 10/17...

looks like we're having an increase on sales this week!! =D

hope the sales stay this way for a few more weeks =) 210,000 would be great

Yeah I thought I fixed it thanks! I did now. ^^

I'm so glad to see it jumped to 20 yesterday XD

tho today it's out of top 30 =\

5th Day
Position: #30

nice =]

Woheee it already passed 200k, nice.
Pretty impressive for a mini album.

25 *,211,033 ***,*** Dejavu / 倖田來未 11/03/02
26 *,202,874 **2,663 FIVE / 浜崎あゆみ 11/08/31

FIVE is behind Dejavu now and within 2-3 weeks Love Songs will be pushed out from top 20

time to take over Dejavu!!!