'Inspire' 1st week sales stats
 

While 1 week hasn't fully passed yet, there seem to be stats for the single as noted by MASAさん.

1位 浜崎あゆみ 『INSPIRE』(CD+DVD) 108，700ポイント
CDのみは約6万ポイントで4位

This was compared to the Moments sales figures:

ちなみに[Moments]の時は
1位 浜崎あゆみ『Moments』(CD+DVD) 108，000ポイント
3位 浜崎あゆみ『Moments』(CDのみ ) 58，200 ポイント

From Yeah!! Jpop!

Glad to see that her sales are improving.
Thanks for the info !

uhh. How is this for the week when there's three days left?

My guess is that these stats are from the first actual week of the sales (ending on Saturday), since I remember the same occured with Moments and other past releases.

hmmm ill just go by oricon.

Hmm is GAME an A-Side or B-side? I thought it was a B-side since it was a coupling song. Hmmm I don't want it on the album cause that would make the single pointless...

It stated that the CD-only version ended up somewhere close to 60,000 copies, so INSPIRE and Moments are not better than each other in terms of the first-few-day-sales.

the number are good ^_^

thanks....

Oricon's First week sales are counted at the end of the week anyways, they're just slower that's all. Unless she releases at the very start of the week, 1st week sales never mean the first 7 days' sales accumulated.

Well done Ayu, let's hope the sales keeps steady.

Nice ^^

is this sale very high ... compare to BoA's single sales ?

sure indeed ^^... the number is kewls

I doubt it.
I'm not sure how Oricon is running its weekly cycle, but there are alway major differences between the weekly sales provided by Oricon and Yeah!! J-Pop!.

Yeah! Jpop! always have high numbers than Oricon. Personally I think the Oricon ones are more reliable...but in any case, it looks like INSPIRE didn't do that much better than Moments, considering it had two songs. o.o

yes

:clap Nice thanks for the stats :thumbsup

i'm glad the sales are improving !

That is true, more often than not the Yeah! J-pop ones are abit inflated compared to Oricon's. I tend to prefer to stick with Oricon's stats.

yeah no doubt Oricon the icon for jpop music chart ^^ thanx for the infor, hope the number increase even more ^^

A bit random there mentioning BoA.
And you can't even compare their sales, Ayu sells way more.


I'm glad to see Ayu's sales improving a bit. Several thousand more than Moments is not bad.

Keep it going! Ayu! :D

OT:why is my computer scensing activeX stuff on this page..O_o?

aaanyway. the weeks not even DONE yet!. Theres gonna be a lot more by the ACTUAL end of the week.

yes i read somewhere also that game was a b-side.

well.. the number is not bad.. but still bit to low for me.. the number is bellow my prediction.. Oh well, Congrat to AYU!

Yay! Congrats, Ayu! :clapclap :yatta :shimmy

what?!

Well, GAME is a B-side in the sense that B-sides are songs not mentioned in the single's title (and are usually, but not always, excluded from the upcoming album).

However, I don't believe it because - how would a B-side be treated with a PV and, so far, more live performances than INSPIRE, the A-side itself?

game is too good of a song to be left out from the album..but then..so was theme of a-nation and ever free.

Think Namie's DID U? It was a B-Side, not on her latest album, and it had a vidoe and lives.

I think the sales will go up with the dramarama thats happening at avex.

wait I'm so confused... I see Inspire (CD+DVD) selling 108,700 and Moments 108,700. Inspire only sold 700 more...? Where do the thousands more come from?

Yes. :yes

I am just skeptic about GAME won't be included in ayu's next album, since ayu seldom produced B-side tracks.

Non-A-Sides songs gets PVs all the time nowadays anyways...

I don't really want GAME included in her upcoming though. Even though it's common for B-sides to be included nowdays, the whole idea of specifically labelling it as a c/w on the cover, you would think they're telling you to buy this because GAME wouldn't be on the album.

On the Japan Ayu BBS, the following was posted:

*1　181，325　INSPIRE　浜崎あゆみ
*2　*98，908　君にBUMP　ケツメイシ
*3　*93，749　君こそスターだ　サザンオールスターズ
*4　*51，548　虹～もうひとつの夏～　福山雅治
*5　*37，010　Web of Night　T.M.Revolution
*6　*35，094　栄光の架橋　ゆず
*7　*32，410　GO　SHAKALABBITS
*8　*27，043　トブヨウニ　YOSHII LOVINSON
*9　*21，554　僕が一番欲しかったもの　槇原敬之
10　*18，672　あふれそうな愛、抱いて　上戸彩

181，325 is good I think. SAS got 200,000ish first week.

SAS got 222,000...that's about one quarter more than Ayu. Good enough I guess.

The reason for explicitly stating "c/w GAME" is probably this time ayu didn't come up with a fancy single letter title as for her earlier multiple A-side singles.

If GAME really isn't to be in the next album, then I have my excuse for getting the single.

According to Yeah! J-Pop, SAS's latest single only sold 152,500 copies in the first week.

I'll wait until Oricon announces INSPIRE's first week sales.

Yea well...Oricon is really more official...

(wuts SAS)

and 180k..wow..nice!..she beat everyone else by..a lot..O_o

SAS= Southern All Stars

'GAME' has an -Instrumental- to the single, so it'll be included in the coming album

'a-nation 03'', 'ever free', 'Two of us' don't hv -Instrumental- tracks in their respective singles, so they weren't included in the albums

my observation is that whether a song from a single is included in the coming album depends on whether it's -Instrumental- is included in the single

I think GAME will be on her next CD as well.Just because t's a B-side track doesn't really mean anything.Friend was a B-side track on the poker face single and it was also released on A Song for XX.But I could always be wrong.