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Originally Posted by CoriKaru
All very good points.
Haha. Don't worry. I'll be getting on that very soon.
I don't believe I'm comparing and forming opinions on any the content of the Album being that I said I first need to hurry and listen to it so that I may possibly obtain an idea as why you guys opinions are what they actually are and why the sales and concert tickets are in the unfortunate predicament that they find themselves to be in. That's all.
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For the concert - We should not own worries though since the tour is still her most demanded one to date and the number of tickets re-sale is still lower than minor compared to the number of the audience in those venues (even if we are subtracting their number from a total of 1 venue).
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Originally Posted by emiko
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Which isn't really anything.
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It's more articles than NEXT LEVEL got and ayu's album is only aimed for japanese audience.
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Originally Posted by ayumixfan
^ she's saying that music isn't the only thing thats going to get us to buy an album. We're going to judge artists/bands on other things too like looks and such. At least thats what i got from her post.
I personally feel that her album sales are decent at this point but definitely lower than expected D: but yeah at least she got platinum no matter what lmao. I think thats good enough. TBH her album wasn't that great IMO. Its a decent album. I like a few tracks on it, but I didnt feel like they were good enough for me to buy the album and I didn't even keep the songs. I deleted them all after my first run( except for the songs on GREEN/days single because I actually bought that). OF coruse its different in people's opinion but I mean we can definitely say NL wasn't anything too new or special compared to like My Story or even (Miss)understood >< ~! At least the album seems to be selling very stabiliy. So maybe in the end it'll reach 400k or more  !
@emiko I was about to say the same thign about utada's promotion lol XD ~!!! but then I expected this since she released this album more for the US than japan. At least the album seems to have stability to it even with that kind of promotion lol ~! |
I actually find (miss)understood being less experimental (the only new styled song there after all is Bold & Delicious and maybe Pride too).
NEXT LEVEL had really major electronica influenced songs using pop and rock and synthed beats and that's why the album is getting mixed feelings and also from the japanese audience, unlike (m)u that a lot of people liked and it was less experimental.
For hikki's promotion, it was the same with EXODUS that wasn't aimed for the japanese audience and sold a million. No one expected it to be popular in japan like that, but I saw many and a lot expecting way more out of it, at least half a million specially considering a lot of people liked it more than EXODUS. Let's stop the TITO discussion though.
This thread is dark and gloomy enough with people's dissapointment with NL's sales (which generally the number isn't bad but for ayu's standards it's a bit dissapointing).
Btw oricon might actually count the USBs at the end of the oricon week.
Remember that the first week sales were +13,000ed more than the estimated number?
We will know though only at the end of the week (if there won't a be big drop) probably.
If there will though then yeah we can say the encore press officially didn't help much.