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Old 19th May 2009, 04:50 PM
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Originally Posted by CoriKaru View Post
Yeah, it'll be a stretch. :/
Seems to be dropping consistently so sales are consistent in that manner anyway. Doesn't bode well though for steady sales in the end.
Interesting that her Single did how it did without much promotion yet her Album is like this. I'm still shocked the 4 different versions amounted to this. Unusual.
Actually Days/GREEN got more promotion than NEXT LEVEL specially when it was still counted a 10th anniversary single.

3 different editions + limited USB don't worth much with crappy promotion.
The promotion of this 3 + 1 limited versions album got is laughable.
What's so shocking and unusual with the poor promotion it got?
It's her least promoted release excluding some remix albums and Rule/Sparkle though it had the whole Dragon ball attension in japan before the crappy movie started and the whole toriyama painting with the Honda commerical tie-in that seemed to draw some attension.
Even the outdoors promotion was poor, shibuya used to be filled with posters (even with GUILTY) and the big billboard in the 109 building, but NEXT LEVEL got just a billboard near that and some in stores.
Casual listeners (that don't follow ayu) could barely notice she is releasing something this time.

I do remember you posted that you don't think it will sell over 350,000 2-3 weeks ago, don't think you think it's great it's going to pass 360,000 soon?

Last edited by ayumisrael; 19th May 2009 at 05:00 PM.