[hanabinokisetsu]

Well, I like the idea of A Complete, but somehow I feel that it's too soon for a new compilation, especially it's only 1 year plus after A Best 2, with only 1 album in between them.

But personally, I think A Complete would sell, maybe not as good as Best Fiction by Amuro Namie but definately better than Otsuka Ai's Ai am Best...
(Well, if you have roughly notice the trend, why compilations sell in this way is because of the following factor...

- People in Japan normally by the idea of commemeration...
(eg. the idea of closing of a chapter in their career: A Best, Nakashima Mika's Best, Ken Hirai's Best, Koda Kumi's Best ~First Things~...)

- (This is the more important reason) A hot new single was released and is only captured in the compilation album (especially for female artistes)!
(eg. M for A Best, 60 70 80's for Best Fiction <Namie>, Glamourous Sky for Best <Nakashima Mika>, Promise & Hot Stuff & Butterfly & ... for Best ~First Things~ <Kumi>

[Okie, for this part, GRACE pointed out something that I didn't make it very clear...
I didn't mean something like... "Oh, looking back from now, M was on I Am... and A Ballads also"

I mean, let's say an artiste release a single, (let's call the song "C") on 2008.10.10 and the single sells one million copies...
Then the artiste says "Oh I am going to put C into this compilation which is release on 2008.11.10!"
(and nobody's gonna know if C is going to be recorded in any albums or not...)

Yah... so the criterea of the single is that it was release before the compilation.]

and failure to do so include...
A Best 2 (do you think that ayumi compilation can only sell 700000 per version with a new single included? part of Me isn't excatly a new single but only a new song), Ai am Best (Ai missed out so many singles!!! just for LOVE PiECE... what a waste)

So... if we analyze the sales of A Complete using the trend...
- 10 years in the industry and still flying high is such a great accomplishment for any singer, hence this is really something to be commemrated!

- Well, but relying Mirrorcle World as the only new single to be featured on A Complete would be a real risky step. Firstly, it is some sort of a re-cut single and it doesn't sell as well as/it doesn't create as much commotion as Namie's 60 70 80's...

so I am afraid to have to come up with this conclusion that A Complete might not sell as well as Best Fiction... (I am already ignoring the materials included, which many of that in A Complete is repeated with A Best and A Best 2, while Best Fiction has almost no repeat...)

But after all... I AM STILL A DIE HARD AYU FAN!!!
(I will definately get A Complete!!!)