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saleswise it might be better to put MW on NEXT LEVEL if you look at her recent albums sales' patterns
GUILTY has 2 physical singles, total single sales: 166K + 110K = 276K, the album stopped charting at 568K
Secret also has 2 physical singles, total singles sales: 188.5K + 258.5K = 447K, the album sold 675K
(miss)understood has 4 physical singles, total single sales: 345K + 316.6K + 326.6K + 133K = 1121.6K, the album sold 877K but now sold over a million copies by the end of 2007 as reported by Avex
so my take is that the more singles you have on an album, the more it will sell, but also depend on the sales of the singles itself
what we have so far on NEXT LEVEL:
(if MW is to be included on the album)
MW sales: 193K
D/G sales: still charting but let's say 190K
R/S sales: also still charting but since the album will be out in a month, i'm gonna say it's gonna sell at least 100K just 'cause her singles sales never go under 100k ever since Depend on You
so the total single sales with MW included: at least 483K
total single sales without MW included: at least 290K
in conclusion, if they do include MW, the album sales will be around Secret's (or less, since sales are declining), otherwise it's just gonna sell a little bit more than GUILTY's (since NEXT LEVEL single sales are better than GUILTY single sales). Hitting a million mark is quite impossible for Ayu in this era but let's hope she'll do well on this album
so yes, w/out MW we will get more new songs but w/out it can this album survive in term of sales against "some" competitions this March?
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