The Official Oricon Thread of ~You were.../BALLAD~ II
 

Sources: www.oricon.co.jp
& natsu style blog.

NINKI: 92.00
jbook highest position: #1

Note: Daily sales with the position that is under #3 are sales from natsu style since oricon doesn't post them.

New Achivements
-Artist with most top 10 singles in Japan (45) beating B'z, ZARD, SMAP and Southern All Stars, SMAP and B'z and all others.
-34 #1 Singles.
-22 Consecutive #1 Singles.
-The only female artist to have #1 single each year for 12 years.

ayumi hamasaki is the best selling female and solo Japanese artist of 2009, both in physical sales and digital downloads
#9 Overall - Best seller in yen.
#3 Overall - Digital Downloads

*1　14,461,000,000　嵐 - arashi
*2　12,932,000,000　EXILE
*3　*6,895,000,000　東方神起 - tohoshinki
*4　*5,374,000,000　B'z
*5　*5,200,000,000　The Beatles
*6　*5,182,000,000　GReeeeN
*7　*5,181,000,000　Mr.Children
*8　*4,694,000,000　Michael Jackson
*9　*3,436,000,000　浜崎あゆみ - ayumi hamasaki
10　*3,255,000,000　絢香 - ayaka


**　*1,887,000,000　安室奈美恵 - Namie Amuro
Source: Mr_Children@jpopmusic http://contents.oricon.co.jp/music/s...218_01_06.html & recochoku yearly charts.

Additional
NEXT LEVEL 29th Week

Position: #173
Sales: 1,675
Total Sales: 379,547

EXT LEVEL 30th Week

Position: #271
Sales: 442
Total Sales: 379,989

You were.../BALLAD Positions & Sales

You were.../BALLAD Monthly Position: #2 January 2010

1st + 2nd Double Weeks


3rd Week



4th Week



5th Week



6th Week


7th Week



8th Week



9th Week


10th Week


11th Week
Position: #162
Official Sales: 366
Official Total Sales: 117,658

12th Week
Position: #163
Official Sales: 315
Official Total Sales: 117,973

13th Week
Position: #194
Official Sales: 276
Official Total Sales: 118,249

Total Sales By Far: 118,249

Source for top five: http://contents.oricon.co.jp/music/s...218_01_06.html

Ayu did rather well for 2009 considering that these other acts were so much more wildly popular. As far as I can remember, 2009 had Days/GREEN, Rule/Sparkle, AT08, NEXT LEVEL, Sunrise/Sunset, and CDL08-09. It seems a little weird that Ayu made it to the top ten with just that...

Yet again she is the best selling female and solo artist of the year. :D
The same goes for digital downloads according to rekochoku.
Kudos for her.

Michael Jackson counts as a solo artist to me, so I guess solo J-Pop artist then?

Oh yeah I excluded him =P
So yeah the best selling female and Japanese solo artist. lol

Thank you for bringing that up here I will add it.

It's rather weird how Ayu's in such "decline" and yet she's still able to do well for a female soloist. Perhaps people are just overreacting to their dissatisfaction with what she's been putting out?

because most of them from singles sales which are more cheaper than album and DVD. Ayu sold almost 1 million and Ayaka sold 800K but 90% from Ayaka's sales is from her best album which is more expensive. its fair enough

Well NEXT LEVEL had the 2CD+DVD and USB versions (and the USB was hell expensive) so it might balance or almost balance the profits from both. XD

I think NL 2CD+DVD have same price like Ayaka's History 2006-2009 and NL only sold 378K and Ayaka sold 760K by the end of 2009 and USB is just very few,right?

I just wondered how the beatles could sell that much o.0

They reissued all of their albums.

I was in total awe to see You were.../BALLAD jump back to #5 and now I am completely stunned that NEXT LEVEL is charting again as well! And being #9 over all in 2009. #1 female and #1 solo artist? Eh, who says Ayu has lost her touch, she's still got it and is about to bring us some more this year! I can't wait :D

Thanks for sharing the numbers truehappiness. I'm positively surprised to see her ranking in 2009 ^ㅂ^ She did really well last year.

So does this mean that these numbers:
浜崎あゆみ　　NEXT LEVEL
This week　　　442 copies
Total sales　 379989 copies
Chart run　　 30th week　

Are from last week? SO. CLOSE. TO. 380k.

yes I can see that she is so unpopular :rolleyes She must have like what 50 fans or something?

Great numbers for her!! Thanks for sharing!!

Hahaha, awesome! It is today's most brilliant quote :banana1

ayumisrael, I think you should try to put the top ten 2009 yearly sales in the first post, since the top 5 is only mentioned in the source.

Did so. ^^ thanks.

ayuimisrael,i think you have to amend the data again :P
latest week
7th Week should be 3rd week
Position: #13
Estimated Sales: 5,017
Estimated Total Sales: 108,368
Official Sales: 5,269
Official Total Sales: 108,620

^Thank you! It must be the hour :P
After everything's fixed I'll be off to sleep. ^^

That's quite a lot of stuff actually. :) The other people in the top list released a lot too. So often times this list is more of a "who released the most products this year" top 10. Although occasionally you'll get people who just really had a humongous seller and that's enough to put them there. I think this year, Mr. Children was that only exception because I think they had just 2 releases counting. I think a better list to make would be one that shows the number of releases in proportion to the amount sold. It's still a nice achievement to be in the top 10, but Avex is definitely smart to have her release so much even if it might be to the detriment of her own health though unfortunately.

oh btw, I guess that bump in Next Level sales was from the double week? That would make more sense since it seems everyone's albums got bumped up and it would put it around the "controversy" articles time.