The way I look at hikki's latest single is that... Unless you're the people who wanna buy every single from hikki, or you really like the "there's a dvd-qua pv so I wanna buy it" concept, otherwise I dun see hikki can sell over 200K copies in the first week. If there's an instrumental it would be different story, but damn it doesn't. I dunno what's happening to this one track idea (but I will blame on Toshiba instead of hikki cuz I love her
). Of course I hope that she will sell over 200K but nobody will wanna waste money on a single with only 1 track. Sigh... her next single "Passion" seems like doing the same thing again... 1 track... AND toshiba even makes a weird strategy... They will release CD version in the first week of Dec, then CD+DVD version in the second week of Dec...
About the oricon expectation... Most of the time the expectancies are quite precise. BUT last week weekly albums sales make our eyeballs falling onto the ground. Mr. children was expected to sell like ~300K and it sold almost 700K... and Cutie Kumi's best album was expected to be sold under 200K... look what she did.. She made a miracle for herself... 550K!! It's like O..M..G.. but hey you've to consider 100 girls wearing the same dress walking with her down the street for promoting the album. I wonder why toshiba doesn't make 100 hikki balloons and let the cars hit the balloons this week... It may boost up the sales...
Oh well.. talking too much non-ayu stuff. Seems like HEAVEN's going strong even tho SHINOBI isn't. I think this single will last the longest than STEP you and fairyland...