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Originally Posted by FuNsTyLe
Read my post once more... That is exactly what I wrote. It is not existing fans that are important in sales, it's capturing new audience, gather new listeners. And you can't really say Ayu and Namie don't have the same fans, how can you know? I bet there are alot of those 127 million people that like both Ayu and Namie.
Of course it plays a role whether your biggest competitor releases an album or single ther same time as you do, artits always try to avoid that, and it is for a reason. Namie's album has been out for some weeks, so I don't really see the competition with Ayu's single this time, just someone else mentioned it. Don't you think Ayu and her management are paying close attention to which other artists release music the same date she does? And I can assure you, they keep good count of Namie's sales.
Also, whether you purchase digitally or buy physical copies does not matter. The dough rolls in anyways.
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Reminding you that the company that release namie's CDs is avex trax.
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Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer
We will just have to wait and see. If it does release in stores on the 29th, that will be the first time that I remember that something at the end of December was actually in stores on its release date only. Even if thats the case though, it will still at least somewhat hurt her sales due to the fact that not all record stores will be open over New Years (which is the entire reason why the releases show up a few days before). Luckily for her though, if it does get released the 29th and she loses a couple days of sales because of store closures, she doesn't really have any competition that week.
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For how long will those stores be closed and how many of them?
I think
at the moment that avex put the release date on the 29th and not on 01.01 (like for example kuroki meisa's mini album) to maybe emphasis that it will be in shops already on Monday which is the first day of the oricon week (sales that are shown on Tuesday) means it will have 14 days of the double week (and not naturally 13). So the single would have 3 days before those stores will get closed.