oricon NINKI poll figures for BLUE BIRD
 

6.17 EDIT: 'BLUE BIRD Original Mix' is now at #1 on Chaku-Uta's ringtone downloads, up 2 spots.
http://recochoku.jp/recochoku_ranking/uta.html

6.17 #2 EDIT: 'BLUE BIRD Original Mix' is #2 on Chaku-Uta's overall downloads, up 3 spots. (This is good as overall downloads are supposed to include ringtones/full song/PVs; BLUE BIRD went #2 overall solely on ringtones)
http://recochoku.jp/recochoku_ranking/all.html

6.17 #3 EDIT:
Ringtones
'BLUE BIRD Harderground Remix' at #35
Startin' at #87

Overall
'BLUE BIRD Harderground Remix' at #45
'Startin' at #86


EDIT: anyone want to start guessing 1st week sales? Do so here!

NOTE: THESE ARE NOT SALES PREDICTIONS!

NINKI poll numbers for next week releases:
01 Hamasaki Ayumi - BLUE BIRD - 122.90
02 TOKIO - Get Your Dream - 89.20
03 Morning Musume - AMBITIOUS! Yashinteki de Iijan - 52.40
04 Kuraki Mai - Diamond Wave - 48.20
05 Hitomi Yaida - STARTLiNE - 42.80

Breakdown of Agegroups:
Teenagers: BLUE BIRD is 5th with rating of 0.67
20's: BLUE BIRD is 2nd with rating of 0.60
30's: BLUE BIRD is 3rd with rating of 0.65
40's: BLUE BIRD is 5th with rating of 0.65

Past NINKI numbers throughout this year:
Ayu's "Startin'/Born To Be..." - 105.90 (ended up with ~116k in 1st week sales)
B'z "Yuruginaimono Hitotsu" - 210.40 (ended up with ~161k in 1st week sales)
Ketsumeishi's "Tabibido" - 115.90 (ended up with ~166k in 1st week sales)
ORANGE RANGE's "Champione!" - 203.30 (ended up with ~122k in 1st week sales)
Koda Kumi's "Koi no Tsubomi" - 118.90 (ended up with ~140k in 1st week sales)
Fukuyama Masaharu's "milktea/Utsukushiki Hana" - 165.60 (ended up with ~186k in 1st week sales)

Cool, thanks for the information!
Well, 120k in the first weeks seems likely looking at her recent sales, I'm hoping for quite a lot more though :).

what's this?
what prediction?

go go ayumi!

^Prediction of sales numbers for the singles in the coming week. First week sales.

^I'm getting the wrong impression for your post then. LOL. :)

edit: re-read it, i get what you're saying now!

^Oh my, sorry, I skipped the word not...

*runs away to feel very stupid*

I never took it as predictions, but it's a sort of prediction based of the polls results.

thanks for the info
hope blue bird can sales well

Yes ^^ Well I think it will, because it's much better than Startin'/Born to be... in my opinion ^^

go Ayu~~

thanks for the info! :)

haha. if these are not sales predictions, then what are they? thanks for the figures though!!

She'll be #1, of course! =D

oricon just does a poll on how much the sample population anticipates for the cd releases.

thanks alot. i'm predicting a sales of 130k :D

I predict about 4 sales.

at least people are aniticipating this single more than S/BTB..which is a gd thing...so maybe around 140k...

And Ayu has fan of all ages...GREAT..teens most!..

its funny, u can tell that the 20 yearold and 30 yearolds seem to like the song more, which i think is becuz they are the ones who were really teenagers when ayu came out, so its like they still like her! haha thats cool

though, maybe im wrong..lol

gd point there...Still many teens who support Ayu thou...hehe

150k first week sales :) lol

If she pulls off the regular sales from last year not counting B&D wont she have the best selling female singel of the year so far? Untill 4 hot wave is realeased at least. I hope she'll get at least as good sales with this as fairyland.

^Selling 300k+ copies should give her the place as best selling female single of the year, if I don't remember wrong.