Karen, you wrote upside that its, Sunrise/Sunset's 3rd week, it's the 4th now. XD

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oops sorry , my bad . I think this means I should go to bed early & before doing so , take a shower xD

LMAO, it's nothing major. xD Just fixed hehe.
We love to be accurate Karen :yes

u're right ! it's really a good single ! i don't like B'z but i have to admit that :yes

Fourth Week 4th Day
Position: #19
Sales: 634
Total Sales: 102,665

I'm sorry I'm a really loyal AYU fan but I feel like I'm the least excited about this single. To be honest, it was a bit disappointing because I didn't feel it (whatever you take that as). But I guess a lot of people still like it. So now I'm looking forward to the tour DVD.

I feel the same way now. I was excited for it, and I liked it... but the feeling didn't last... :no

Announce a new release already Ayu lol.

I'm holding out for an album...but I also want a MAJOR Asia tour next year...Ach! I don't know. LOL
But the sales are okay I guess for the fourth week. <3

Yeah... this time i don't like the EP. I didn't really feel it, so i don't really mind how it goes this time...

i want a new singe LOL :P

lol as time goes by... this is like the only 2 Ayu songs I don't intensively listen to... usually I do that for her new songs, but this time... it must be because of the other singers I listen to lol.

yeap.. I think only Endless Sorrow did well but I dont think it's all because tie-in drama but its all because Ayu in her peak moment..
xixixi

poor Ayu in tie-in

Yeah I know what you mean! I feel like I haven't heard Ayu in AGES because I don't listen to this single that much at all...

so its 13th this week?

i really like Sunrise/Sunset!!!
It is the best ayu single recently~

#19 with 634 my god, the single sales are gradually dying...

Fourth Week 5th Day
Position: #17

I wonder how much the 200th single is selling. XD Like, 10 copies.

^ Probably. XD

You know, thinking back, I guess I was really only excited for this single for, like, a day or something, lol. :\ Then again, I'm never big on summer singles. So whatever. I want some new songs, too!! (We're so greedy, hah. :headache)

Well we should have a new single announcement until the middle of October tops.
Probably, we just need to wait some more. ^^

Yeah! I can't wait! I love her fall/winter stuff!

Hey, I REALLY want to know LOL

S/S is doing really well, hope it could sell 120k, it's difficult but i think it could.

Yeah, I think S/S is doing pretty well. I would like a happy winter song that is as far away from Days as you can get. :\

^ I don't want another Days... it stays unique and special in my heart forever. Maybe a rock single? Lol, that's the "in" thing in autumn. XD

really are you sure ? o_O

well regardless of which , I just want another new single . I frankly am open to any kind of music genres that she will be doing next for a new one :laugh

^ She can pull off any genre after all! XD

And yeah... I thought autumn's rock, and summer is all sugary pop, and then winter is the ballads... haha

^ I'm all for another rock song from Ayu!!! :love I'm more of a rock person in the first place, but I think Ayumi pulls it off surprisingly well. (Yes, I'm a huge fan of GUILTY, hah.)

i'd love another pop-rock song like STEP you! maybe even something like NEVER EVER.
her last rock song that i really liked besides Mirrorcle World (that should be in a genre of its own, it has so many elements) was talkin' 2 myself, i was disappointed by Rule.
marionette is a pretty good rock track, too.

Yay~ 2 positions up!!

Fourth Week 5th Day
Position: #17
Sales: 554
Total Sales: 103,219

It's holding its place relatively well...

For the next single, I'd not like a rock song or a ballad tbh. But idk. XD

I want a unique rock song like alterna and a dramatic sad ballad for ayu's next single.

I wonder how long it will be until we get a new single. S/S came out after NL pretty fast so I wonder if she'll wait a little while.

I want an EPIC song like Mirrorcle World or GREEN!

It was released almost half a year after NEXT LEVEL. XD
It's not ages but not so close. ^^

...NEXT LEVEL was released March 25th and S/S was released August 12th, only 4 1/2 months after which is not that much ( :P ).

She has had winter ballads in September...My guess is that her new single will only drop in November after her whole NL tour is done...and before CDL. (she really hasnt been updating us with new info abt the new song recordings huh?)

Actually, I see a ballad coming for this winter. I want something like No way to say! Rock ballad...

Wow. So surprised this single hit 100k.

i love No way to say so much!

since the single is only selling a few hundred copies a day, i wonder if it'll hit 110k.

Maybe in like...another fifty years. :\

it'll take like 2 weeks if it can hold a minimum of 500 copies daily. :(

Oh right it was released on March.
I'm used to ayu's December/January releases. lol
I hope there will be a new album in those months.

I dont think she can pull out an album on dec or january if she doesnt release next single on noverber at least

I would like a single with a rock song and a winter ballad and a cover.

我的秘密 / 私を愛していますか。(My Secret / Do You Love Me?)

1. 我的秘密 (My Secret)
2. 私を愛していますか。(Do You Love Me?)
3. 最後のクリスマス (Japanese Last Christmas Cover)*
4. 我的秘密儀器 (My Secret Instrumental)
5. 私を愛していますか。 インストルメンタル (Do You Love Me? Instrumental)
6. 最後のクリスマス インストルメンタル (Last Christmas Instrumental)*

DVD:
1. 我的秘密 (PV)
2. 私を愛していますか。 (PV)
3. 最後のクリスマス (PV)*
4. 我的秘密 (製作 PV)
5. 私を愛していますか。 (作りの PV)
6. 最後のクリスマス (作りの PV)*

*First Press Bonus

S/S could pass 120K :thud?

Fourth Week 6th Day
Position: #14

thank you :):)

Ayu doesn't need covers ^^ An epic ballad (something that doesn't sound like Days) paired with a melodic rock song would be great for November/December, but I am sure we'll get at least one single prior to the end of the year as usual.

^ I totally agree!

Fourth Week 6th Day
Position: #14
Sales: 651
Total Sales: 103,870

^ Thanks! I guess it will stop charting at like... 105k or something.

I don't think so...
It might be something like this:

4th Week: around 3900 (103,500)
5th Week: around 1600 (105,100)
6th Week: around 1100 (106,200)
7th Week: around 900 (107,100)
8th Week: around 750 (107,850)
9th Week: around 550 (108,500)

And then it will stop but it's just an estimation, nothing important. =P

Ah yes, I just thought the sales would drop to 0 after this week... well 108k is an ugly number! 110k please! :P

Why does people think she is going to drop from top 20 to out of the chart on one week? o_O Her sales drop fast, but not THIS fast

^ Because um... I suck at predicting sales X_X

Yay! for #14 position and for the 100 copies increase!!

saturday's sales... today's will be lower, hopefully not by much! same with monday.

I am happy that finally reached the 100K copies...but I think that will not outsell "talking to myself",in my opinion one of the best singles of Ayu but not the best seller that the single worth...

Thanks for all the info regarding sales updated!!!:)

her last album is amazing even if most of the single doesn't fit... I think she should take more risk and break her usual formula trying something less comercial and doing some unexpected things !

^ I can't help but agree, but then we'd have the Bold & Delicious problem on our hands. :P

I'm just glad it's rose to 14. :P

I loved Bold & Delicious! :p

So do I, but it wasn't really popular in general, was it? :\

^ I really liked Bold & Delicious, actually. Awesome vocals. :) Except the "break down" bridge in the middle of the song (where the chick starts screaming YEEAAAAHHH!!) really annoys me, lol. And the PV sucks butt. >_>' But it's actually one of the few samples Ayu did where I didn't like the sweetbox version better.

But yeah.. Yay for the slight raise in sales!! ^.^

Yay for the raise in sales to. I do not know about the expermentation though, because Next Level was different and the reviews were very mixed so maybe Ayu should take a break and not release anything for a while.

So it's like... "if the tries something new, she may sell bad, so, she should keep re-using safe stuff"? o_O

I think it's safe to say we shouldn't expect her to not release stuff, Japan doesn't really work that way, if she would stop making music, she'd loose the fans she has now, as the majority would move on to someone else. You get very mixed "reviews" and opinions for almost everything, the success of NEXT LEVEL had a lot to do with how popular she is atm and not with the fact that it was "experimental" (cuz I don't think it was that much as people are trying to make it seem).

well NEXT LEVEL is not "experimental" compared to what the music industry offers right now but I really didn't expect Ayu to give me an album like this... especially after the singles...

I mean she should try to work like overseas : doing a whole album in a good and strong concept and then pick up singles to sale it and not the contrary (makin singles for winter and summer and then try to find songs to link them in an album)

^
uhm I don't think she will doing it. Japanese music industry works like that (single -> album) D:

btw I think that she needs to work hard on her lyrics, they sounds.. all the sames? lol
Them are pretty important as the melody :yes it would help the sales, I guess.

Sunrise/Sunset went up to #10 today - http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/d/

going up...up...up!!!

wooow.. nice boost

i don't wanna see on Wednesday xD any big releases by then??

Ah I wonder if the sales went up a bit at least.

thats a horrible release shedule! I hate it, singles are nothing to look forward to that way and you can't release albums in cd+dvd with pvs directly, so there will be rereleases, the different japanese release pattern is one of the reason i like the japanese industry more

Thanks for the update. ^^
Back to the top 10 =D

I know that KinKi Kids's Domoto Tsuyoshi will be releasing his 3rd solo single under his real name called RAIN this coming Wed

It better be a good one :P

Sunrise did well while it lasted. :)

Fourth Week 7th Day
Position: #10
Sales: 823
Total Sales: 104,693

4th Week Estimation
Position: #14
Sales: 5,073
Total Sales: 104,693

If it will be like the last 2 weeks around 800-900 less from the estimation it means around 4,100-4,200 for the 4th week. ^^

so this single won't outsell talkin' 2 myself?

i'm surprised, even though t2m>s/s imo, but i thought that the japanese people would love this single.

hoping for a new rock song this fall/witner :yes

^ Well even 3 SPLASH couldn't break 100k... like omg what happened to the "standard" summer singles.

it's awesome if on 4th week S/S can sell 5K at least.usually her sales for next week always half of before.

It has a good chance to outsell talkin' 2 myself actually.
It just depends on the drops between the next weeks.

OH MY GOD. I read too fast, and I thought the weekly estimate was her total daily sales, and I was like OMFG YESYESYES!!!!!!!!!!!!! :tipsy ......And then I realised, lol. What a letdown. D': Sales ARE still up though, so yay for that. ^^'

I'm glad she came back in top 10 but I think around 900copies and she is 10th... it's not a lot what is doing the first ? =/

Yay for the #10 position but... really, its sales won't overpass t2m.

^ That's fine with me, actually. I like talkin' 2 myself much more than Sunrise and Sunset put together. ^_^' Considering both the quality of the single and the situation of music sales, I think this single did exactly how it should have. talkin' 2 myself, on the other hand.... ;_;

Weren't t2m's sales final sales like 108k or something like that? How will S/S not pass it? It's still selling at least 4k a week. Wouldn't it need like only one or two more weeks to pass it?

talkin' 2 myself sold 108,347 copies according to wiki. Sunrise/Sunset is at estimated 104,693 copies. I think S/S should outsell talkin' 2 myself...I don't see why not since its still in the top 20.

i thought talkin' 2 myself sold over 120k =o
lol.

it really deserved to sell more than 108k. i love that song.
in fact, i'm gonna listen to it right now

so maybe not 120k afterall.. i think it will make it over talkin' 2 myself though.
even though summer is almost over, i still love this single. with glitter/fated i got tired of glitter real quick, but both songs on here i still listen to daily and don't get tired of them :cool
it deserved better sales imo. but these aren't bad. i'm glad she's still making it over 100k with singles, some female artists have trouble even making it over that.

In my opinion, S/S deserves to outsell t2m and I don't see why it won't.

eek... i'm hoping that S/S is a fluke like t2m. after that, GUILTY sold decently and then MW did well. i'm hoping that the next single will go back to R/S levels. or maybe i'm naive.

^ Not naive, just hopeful. :P To be honest, though, I don't think this was too much of a fluke, considering NEXT LEVEL's sales... I think the next releases will have slightly higher sales though.

i hope it will reach 100.000 ...

Official 4th Week
Position: #16
Official Sales: 4,550
Official Total Sales: 103,811

Just 3 positions down since last week's position and the drop is less than 50%!

S/S's 4th week is higher both in sales and positions from Days/GREEN's and Rule/Sparkle's 4th weeks .^^

talkin' 2 myself sold in 4 weeks 101,702.

sounds cool ^ ^ thanks!

Thanks Tal, considering everything it shouldn't be hard to beat talkin' 2 myself's sales.

Yep hopefully. ^^ You're welcome!

5th Week First Day
Position: #8

^wow..thanks for the update
hopefully s/s has a longevity and can sell at least 125k in the end

125k I think it won't reach it but I hope whatever !

#8? Not bad. :)

125K seems like a long shot to me , I say I wait for Sunrise/Sunset to hit 105K 1st since it's more realistic

& with that , a 3rd thread's needed :laugh

It shouldn't sell more than 115k ^_^