[Startin' / Born To Be... 1st in Oricon Nikki Chart
 

Here you are:
1>期待度ポイント 105.90
アーティスト 浜崎あゆみ
タイトル Ｓｔａｒｔｉｎ’／Ｂｏｒｎ　Ｔｏ　Ｂｅ．．．

2>60.50 ＺＡＲＤ 悲しいほど　貴方が好き／カラッといこう！

3>37.10 元ちとせ 春のかたみ


Gambateh ayu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:yes

Resources: http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ns/

and what exactly oricon charts is this? i don't get it ._.

Isn't that the prediction?

OMG, I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!!

whats it mean?

yay~~ gogo!

I believe it's a sales prediction. Hopefully Ayu can hit 130,000 first week.

i believe this single can sales like her singe usually do
maybe about 160k in the first week and sales about 350k in the end
but i hope it can sales higher than that

I doubt this single will do well...

Poor PV. Average songs. Very little promotion...

It will probably do a little better than "B&D". Around 200,000 or 250,000 total?

Great single great PV. But I doubt it'll do well. Even Utada sold 70 000 and the previous week's number 1 hit 73 000.

I hope Ayu hits 120 000 or more and ends up with 300 000 at least, although it might be impossible.

These numbers are not sales predictions. Oricon just randomly calls up about 400 people or so, and asks them which release they are looking forward to/most excited about for the upcoming week. They then somehow turn the results into numbers.

hmmm... 105,900 sales to be expected. low for ayu, but it may happen since there's something about this season and the recent low sales by singles. But i do hope it follows the footsteps of Moments and Step You/Is this love, by being high sellers in this relatively weak season.

But I hope the promotion for the single will pick up. the single will be released in 4 days and we have yet to see a peformance of any of the songs and we dont ecen have the born to be PV yet :(

really? i want oricon to call me! :grumpy

you are right!!!!!

read this pls:
once again, THESE ARE NOT (PREDICTION) OF SALES NUMBERS FOR STARTIN'/BORN TO BE...

So if they aren't predictions, what are they?

I'm certain these aren't sales predictions. Take for example Mika Nakashima's "CRY NO MORE". It got around 90.23 on the Oricon Nikki Chart, and in reality, it ended up selling around 24,000 copies in the first week. So if they are predictions (which they aren't) they're pretty lousy.

I think it's just a poll pretty much. Hmmm....wonder who they randomly called up for this poll...

They aren't predictions.

Just some indication of the 'WANT' for the single.

I guess you could say its sort of like, the demand based on a certain number of people.

but it's definitely not sales predictions. B&D got in the high high 100s.

And look at its sales.

And about Startin/Born to Be not getting promotion;;

Startin - the game it was for sold about 240k copies plus! and more [I only saw first week sales] and it was in CMs..

Born to Be..- HELLO OLYMPIC COVERAGE ON NTV. >> I think that's enough to attract a few thousand. And the promotion was sort of low due to lack of time. The woman has a huge tour coming up~

Did STEP you get that much promotion? I don't think so :\

/dies

This single will probably either do exceptionally well, or average for Ayu.

Only reason B&D did so bad compared to the others is because (m)u was already to come out and it was like 'what's the point? x.x' Sort of like HAVING TO BUY A STUPID SINGLE EVERY WEEK WHEN YOU KNOW IT'LL BE ON AN ALBUM x.x

Well, not really. But it could be like that. [Hopefully, Ayu doesn't pull that yucky butt stunt. It's a one time thing.]

I believe that this single will follow the footstep of STEP you/is this LOVE? and get high sales :yes