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Originally Posted by Baco__
yeah, I know that, but... let's say: now we're thinking they printed 400k for fantome for it's first press. how much did they used to print for the first press back then. I mean: the first DAY sold more than a bunch of other albums lol were those numbers predicted?
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It's not hard to predict. I think the first press for Distance was about 3.5 million copies or so. Back then, cds were still the dominant source, and people preordered copies in stores (as it wasn't that easy to order online). So they could use the number of preorders to determine how well the albums would sell. Ayu was at her prime time, and hikki's first album sold like a hot cake. Plus both companies (esp avex) have already prepared lots of advertisements everywhere like... a month before hand. You can see their promotions basically in every corner of Shibuya. And as you can see the cd stores made some stands outside the store to sell Fantτme, they did the same thing for Distance and A BEST (but 10x... They even put stands down the streets). That was really the golden era of female singers...