Taiwan singles ranking BLUE BIRD No.1
 

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Congratulation ayu!! :):):)

Congratulations Ayu!

Ooo!...Hurray!

and destiny and koi mizu is doing well

Isn't that Utada at #3? Awesome job for Ayu anyway! ^^

That's a really high percentage thing.. 20-something.. XD

Yeah, looks like Utada...

It is. If you look at the characters, you see the same chinese character for "BLUE" in the two titles. :3

truehappiness, isn't this supposed to be a singles chart o_O

o__o But why is ULTRA BLUE on the singles chart? And why are there 3 GOOD DAY's by V6 in the charts? I knew that was Utada because of the name, it was the same writing on my Distance album as well.. :D

I knew it was Ayu and BLUE BIRD through the second letter which meant bird, I think. Or chicken.

Perhaps all CDs are lumped together?

B'z MONSTER album is here as well..

Probably... Hmm. The thread title is sure confusing since there aren't any links to the source for us to verify the chart's validity.

wow ayu percentage is high

thansk for the info

^ that percentage stands for how much in total sales(%)
and about the wore "blue" for both of the songs
the first character doesn't mean blue, it means green actually

That's a scary lostintranslation thing. XD

"GREEN CHICKEN" -- bin qi bu XD

Ooh, green.. I knew that. xD

LOL, GREEN CHICKEN.

^Lol it means bird anyway. :laugh

And I don't think it's a single chart. It seems much more like a separated ranking for Japanese records including both singles and albums.

Anyway yay for Ayu.

i love the percentage :D GO AYU!!!!!!!!!!

weehee!! good job ayu!! :D:D:D:D

Is this from Taiwan? It's in simplified chinese and TW uses traditional....

Great for Ayu! I wonder why they wrote "blue bird" in chinese...

Well she does do remarkably well in Taiwan. Didn't (miss)understood sold like crazy there?

Go Ayu!! :D

(miss)understood seemed to be a surpising mega-hit in Taiwan... lately, her japanese popularity is slightly decreasing, while internationally, she gets better and better.

i don't know why but i can't see the pics
congratulation though

Congrats :D

YAY Hitomi Shi!

The titles are usually converted into Chinese for Taiwan [and maybe even HK?] release. When I saw Ayu's (m)u PVs on TV, all the titles went from like HEAVEN => tian guo ... or something. XDD

That's really nice to hear. I wish there was more info about international sales.

jpop is really popular in taiwan. i should know. my aunt is gonna bring me my very special dvd/cds from taiwan today >w<

yay! i can read ayu's name in chinese!!! >D

Incase anyone wondered to pronounce ayu's name in chinese its bin chi bu. It sounds like pinchy poo

Congrats to Ayu. ^_^

Fantastic, nice to see she's #1

O.o how do YOU know that?? did you hear someone read it out lod or something?

Ayu is called "bin chi bu" in alot of chinese TV-commercials and TV-shows..

^ oh...okie ^.^;;;

T.T and i wanted to have my moment of specialness...

Well done Ayu..

well, the second character pronounced in chinese is homonym with how "chicken" is also pronounced (qi).

Actually, if judging by homonyms, then it's Hamasaki=ice chicken.

XD

congrats!

it is interesting that the translation of "blue bird" is "green bird"

truehappiness: japanese, korean or western cd releases in hong kong are NEVER translated to chinese. hong kong people can handle foreign languages :)

Kikaru: the second character 'qi' is NOT the same as chicken. chicken is 'ji' which is different from 'qi'. and in addition, the tones of the two characters are different too.

the first character is 'bin', and it is not the same as 'ice' either. 'ice' is 'bing', but the tones are the same.

Wow. Ayu is continuing to top charts with BLUE BIRD. Good Job Ayu.

Ah! I was just wondering. XD

I guess I was seeing the Taiwan releases then. Thanks much! :3

GREAT!
I still haven't bought BLUE BIRD single...
this single is near to be out of stock in Hong Kong
and it is extremely expensive comparing with other artist singles

I suggest someone set up an organization to count international sales. Ayu's figures will be amazing! :D

Kikaru was only saying that they sort of sound alike...hence the word "homonym".. But man, I hate her name in Chinese. It's so ugly. Reminds me of butthole for some reason.

Anyways, my mom saw the translated title and she was like, "o_O".

Congrats to Ayumi though.

Bin Qi Bu(濱崎步) actually.

I'm quite confused about that too :confused.
LOL, I know :laugh "qing niao."

but the translation for UTADA's album ULTRA BLUE is abit hilarious^^~
ULTRA BLUE =青出于藍
i believe that the direct translation should be 超級青藍^^~just like BLUE BIRD
青鳥^^~

Um...three questions.

1. "BLUE BIRD" wasn't released in Taiwan until 6/29, according to Ayu's Avex Taiwan official website here.

2. If it's the Taiwan rankings, why is it in Simplified Chinese?

3. "BLUE BIRD" is nowhere to be seen in what I believe is Taiwan's official charts, g-music. Link here.

but the qi sound is only for cantonese..in mandarin, it's the chi in 'chicken' (pronounce in english) sound..so in mandarin, Hamasaki = Ice Cream XD

I'm impressed by your language skills guys... really!
And congrats to Ayu, whatever Blue Bird is written ;)

But "ice cream" is "bing chi ling" Or something. I'm really bad a pinyin.

unfortunately, i cannot read chinese..i know that ayu's name is there because i sorta memorized how it looked like...but yea, my mom and aunts always call her bing chi boo..and mika nakashima is jong dao may jia...i forgot what kuu is though XP (i'ma ask mom tomorrow)

good point, but i just took the first two syllables (bing chi)..i unno..her chinese name reminds me of ice cream (the sound, not ayu herself XD)

and i understand your pinyin problem..i dunno how to do transliteration either XP...welcome to the club! :D

I can't read Chinese either. I suck =( I can read some here and there and I've been trying to learn, but it's just so hard. I can only speak it/understand it. lol, my mom only knows about namie amuro and she talked about her sometimes because she watches this show where one of the guests often talks about her.

Yeah I know what you mean thougha bout the ice cream. It does remind me of it. I don't like her name though...in chinese, it sounds too 'rough'.

Yeah, pinyin is so stupid. Either that or they have accent marks, I mean who honestly understands that. God. Chinese sucks =P

^ hey! chinese is a good language!! other than japanese, i really wanna know more about chinese D<

her name in chinese is ok...japanese is better though...

^ Lol, yeah it is a good language. It just frustrates me that I wasn't able to read or write it. It's one thing to know a language fluently by speaking, but it's another thing to know how to read a language.

Like, there's so many connections between Japanese & Chinese (with news and music and stuff) and it's easy to find sites with information about say Ayumi in both chinese and japanese...and it's like, oh i know chinese, i can go to this site to read the same information translated, but then bam, I can't read it.

^ is that in cantonese or mandarin? cuz i'm not sure about singapore language ^.^;;

It's not... Blue and Green can use the same Kanji...

No, a "q" in the official Hanyu Pinyin system is, instead of having a hard sound, pronounced like a soft "ch." As for Cantonese, Ayu's name is pronounced as "bun kay bo."

^ that's what i mean...well, in terms of ayu's name. it's bun qi (or qay...something like that) bo. i know that ^.^;

Ha, AYU- [SBALASI]! Of course, she always does! I don't suprise, but happy.

Any chance we can see numbers for the sales anywhere? Anyone knows?

blue bird it's a beautiful

i am pretty sure this is not a taiwan ranking chart because taiwan never uses the simplified chinese text, they use the traditional chinese text instead... if my guess is correct, the source of this comes from china...

thanks for the info~~!!

Congratuations Ayumi!

go ayu! i am surprised summer madness is such a hit