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Oricon Year of 2013 Overall Sales

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12th Week

Out of the top 50

12th Week
Position: #171
Official Sales: 595
Official Total Sales: 87,604

hehe that's great! go ayu! fighting! ^__^ thanks for the thread :)

well pretty much save to say 2nd #1 for 2013.... Congratz Ayu....

Wow quite good ^^ but it seem that Love again is sold out in many store :/ I saw it on Twitter !

Yeeeeeees!!!:banana1:banana1:banana1

so cool! Thank you for your updates

YAY! That's pretty good :)

yay thanks for the info.
congrats ayu for being number 1!

Wow, slightly higher first day sales than Party Queen. Way to go!!!

it sold a bit higher than PQ's first day and ASB... I wonder if it will ever reach the 150k mark?

NO 1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great news!I was really anxious to find out the number sales! NO.1!

Yay! :)

coolness.
If its anything like again, 2nd day will be higher!!

Happy with the sales. Hope it can outsell PQ and ASB

Wooo! :D

Great!! *O*

Happy to hear that

If it will sell the same or a bit higher tomorrow it could get to PQ/ASB sales but for now I just hope it won't drop a lot. We can't know if it will be like again's 2nd day yet :)

yaaay so happy about it!! I'll buy my copy only on Monday though >.<' hope she'll be weekly #1!!

omg im so anxious about the weekly numbers!! it has got to be number 1!!

OMG she can do it!

bravo!!!!!!!! it deserves well sales :)

Slightly higher than Party Queen! My theory of PQ's covers scared away some fans is valid. Hope it will surpass 10k the first week.

150K please...

Congrats for number one weekly

Very pleasing numbers :) Go Ayu! It'd be nice if this outsold Party Queen~ (even though that's prolly my fave album by her haha)

That's what we're talking about! Now if it can sell more than them on the next day...and why is SCANDAL even in contention??? LOL :D

when I saw the list of artistes releasing albums this week , I already knew that LOVE again was able to snag #1 quite easily despite being released 2 days short , although I was a bit worried over Hotei Tomoyasu given his legendary status in the business

luckily that's not the case & SCANDAL never really been a strong album seller although for ENCORE SHOW , it's doing better than expected since it's only a B-side compilation album

very happy to see that the album's at #1! :)

I'm so happy for Ayuuu! :) I really hope the album takes number one on the weekly charts.

great^-^

ANOTHER NUMBER ONE YES!

Great news!

happy for this as it is really a pleasant album! hope it reaches 150k

Great for her 15th anniversary ^_^

I was waiting for a #3 or so, but #1 is great, haha, hope she can pass the 100k mark for the 1st week. \o\

I think the "singles" help a lot with promoting the album; happy that she's getting another number 1 (even though I care about sales more, lol).

A good start. Now, if tomorrow she stays at 1, I will start to believe she can get that number 1 weekly! <3 I hope she manages, cause the album's superb!

Ayuuu Ganbatttte~ huhuuuuu

Awesome!! Now it needs to keep on selling lol

This album is more "friendly" for japanese people, i really hope better sales with this album

^

yeah, with a lot of mid-tempos and ballads and it has less foreign music influences unlike Party Queen... =)

Awesome! I love this album. I think it's a major comeback for Ayu after the disaster of PQ. This is more relaxed, not so serious Ayu, and I just like almost every song. I'm glad I didn't say, "Oh no..." when it was announced and instead said, "I think this may be a really good album." It definitely turned out that way.

Um... the point is inaccurate. Regardless of PQ charting, it still SO FAR beats the sales of the first day. Let's not overestimate it. But the sales went faster than PQ, A Summer Best and the two maxi singles

2nd Day
Position: #1
Sales: 11,010
Total Sales: 39,026

Most chances it will be #1. Sonar Pocket are almost 10,000 behind selling less than 4,000.

I was expecting better numbers for the 2nd day.. but her 1# position is safe

yeah didn't expect it to drop under 14k :( So far it sold a few copies more than LOVE did in two days.

I can't describe how happy I am that she's number 1 again. She deserves this. Come on, sell, LOVE again, sell I say!

I hope for at least 50k this week

Ouch !! quite big drop : didn't expect that...but what can we expect ? I don't see Ayu sales improve anymore :/

That's a drop i did not expect

yeah.... i got used to it...

Somehow I feel that it may not be able to sell more than PQ..
But still hoping!!!
Go Ayu

get used to it guys
it isnt 2001 it is 2013

if it cross the 100k mark (I'm sure about it), i'll be satisfied :yes
Oh and first time in a loooooooooong time one Ayumi album outsells its predecessor(s) (though LOVE and again were minis, but FIVE was it aswell and it outsold Party queen :lech)

man, thats lame.
I was hoping it would pull an again and jump up in sales...
ayumi is just not appreciated in japan anymore.

LOL You guys are a trip! I loved Party Queen regardless. It was about exploring new venues in music generes. It's like saying pop is all queen. Let me pray for something like Party Queen next time!

So what if it's not 2001? It's not like she didn't sell well in 2008 ^^

yay!!!

:yes something happened after 2008 and that's drastic since then :/ She was in decline since years ago but between 2008 & 2009 It's like she had lost her light !

i blame secret-guilty... not enough change between albums and people were turned off by the blahness of guilty... lol

if only guilty wasn't orange

first, nothing could really save that cover (lol) and the music just wasn't there. We got some really good stuff off both of them, but just looking at the albums going from 1 to another I dont think there was enough change to please fans and they are both so different from My story and missunderstood which were completely different from I am, rainbow, memorial address.

I... love you.

*Ahem*

You guys are really blaming Guilty? That's kind of a laugh... the album sold very well compared to Secret. If anything, between (m)u and Secret is when this started.

I think it was A BEST 2. There was high expectations for that album and 1 million copies were shipped each...but it only sold around 700k leaving 300k unsold (equivalent of a platinum certification) That is baaaaaaad

^^ i was blaming guilty for the drops in 2008 since that was the album that was released then. But if you want to blame an album for drop in sales, it REALLY started with I am and Rainbow... lol
I am had slightly less sales then Duty, but rainbow had almost a million sales less then I am... thats where her decline really started, lol.

Weeell yeah xD Though I don't blame that as the point where it really started since the next albums all sold around the 1 million mark. Singles wise... it was during &, right?

I think & was her last single to sell 500K.
Im not saying her sales were bad during I am - miss, they were just steadily declining.
But a drop from missunderstood - secret - guilty is pretty big. the bigger drop was between missunderstood and secret, but another pretty big drop was from guilty to next level. I was saying that guilty was just not a big enough change from secret to keep some people interested.
It was a lot like the I am to rainbow albums... there wasn't a big enough change and she lost almost a million album sales.

Ayu's sales were pretty nice up until 2011 honestly with Love Songs (counts for 2011) and FIVE. I think if she had just continued to do proper eras with singles and some TV lives as usual the sales would've been better now. Also that whole Timmy/Maro thing recently probably hurt her a bit as well.

A Best 2 sold very well. A Best 2 sold a combined 1.5 million units.

In Japan, amongst Ayu fans there's something called Bold & Delicious shock　（ボルデリショック = boruderishock). Bold & Delicious was the turning point when many fans thought she lost her marbles, and many people started hating her. If you google the japanese, you can find many people talking about it LOL

So in fact, this hasn't been going on for just 1 or 2 years, but ever since 2005. With the advent of itunes and other ways of getting music, people just dont want to buy her things.

A few more fans preordered the album this time it seems, but the general audience ain't buying her albums as much anymore. Expected, but sad. I can't see ayu going kpop generic, she'll stick to her music styles and her words for ever, which makes me happy but it isn't gonna improve her sales anytime soon.

Bold and Delicious was the first single where I really said WTF?
lol... I can the JPN fans inventing a word for it.. lol

why what was wrong with Bold and Delicious single

the song is just ridiculous... lol.
It was nothing like she had done before or since (thank goodness).
When it first came out I couldnt listen to it at all... Not like listen to it when its on my itunes, but its not in my top 100 or anything.

lol ... i see. Also lots of people also hate humming 7/4 however i like it, i thought it was a good song

Tbh it's always been the same, just that older fans have complained for many years more lol :shrug

This game's over already. #1 studio album is BACK!!!

Yeah I'm happy about it but let's be honest. Ayu got lucky this time because love agains sales are pretty mediocre. I just don't understand what happened to ayu. She was so popular and now..... :(

^ All stars lose their shine eventually.

But not many artists can last 15 years and still crank out a #1 album.

at this point of her career, I'm satisfied that she is still making new music each year. with new tour ^^ n LOVE again is awesome in every way.

i dont think at this point she really cares with general audiences, otherwise she would have done massive tv promotion, i reckon she's more concern with her fanbase; TeamAyu. all the promotions are more toward teamAyu members. thats i what i think

I heard about that back when it happened. Bold & Delicious wasn't really Ayu's style at all and the single sales reflect all that as well. If they went with another single back at the time, (miss)understood might've sold a million.

I definitely agree with you. The singles before B&D/P all sold on par to the level of MY STORY's singles, so I think Ayu's marketing team should've not released that single, or chose better songs for it (I think a Ladies night/Pride would've been amazing).

Bold & Delicious is awesome and I for one am glad she released it as a single. I like when she does things that shows she isn't afraid of not always appealing to the public.

I think rainy day/Ladies night would've made a better single over-all even though I love Pride so much.

I don't mind her releasing it, but back at the time I was shocked as well.

3rd Day
Position: #1
Sales: 6,070
Total Sales: 45,096

Party Queen sold more than that on it's fifth day...I wonder how long will it take for LOVE again to reach 100k.

Uh, bad Sunday...

T__T;
Let it be let it be~ let it be let it be~~~

It was her decision!!!! Not ours. She was TIRED of releasing the same genre so came up with something new. Most artists around the worlds switch to another genre.

It's not like she was only releasing similar songs. Imo her 2005 singles were really diverse.

A great album with disappointing sales. What is new? xD

hope this one will pass 200k

OMG!!!! love the sales so far and I really hope it will get the number one! Congrats Ayu. If only I can buy this album...

Can't wait for my copy! Go Ayu!

LOL... totally

You must be from different reality.

At least she's selling something...

Oh well, bye-bye 100k in one week. x-x but if it still manage to pass the 100k mark, I'll be satisfied. :D

:spew

she probably will get just a bit more or less than 100k in the long run