Dareka is actually a double platinum seller (500,000 copies) accdg to RIAJ, though it means that they shipped 500,000 copies to record bars, or something. But in actuality, it only sold around 350,000 to the public (as counted by Oricon). This always happens, you know. Take, for example, BoA. Her latest single sold only around 50,000 copies or less according to oricon, yet if you look at the RIAJ website, it's already a gold seller (100,00 copies shipped to record bars). RIAJ also said that Ayumi's A Ballads and Evolution single and Utada Hikaru's Colors Single sold a million copies, though they actually failed to reach this mark by a little in actual sales number (A Ballads was said to have sold around 900,000+ as well as Evolution while Colors was at the high 800,000s) Hope this makes stuff clear :p Sorry for the long post. I'm quite an addict considering these kinds of numbers hehehe
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BTW I don't like what they did with Be My Last, though Hikki's fans would surely not mind since the song is pretty (though Dareka is better IMO) and it's cheap. I can't see why they didn't include the instrumental. It's just one additional song right? And it won't be hard to make it right? gaaahhh *scratches head in confusion
I'm just sooo happy that Ayu's doing well after 2 weeks amidst the competition. the top 4 girls in today's charts are all amazing, IMO, and for Ayu to stay at number 2 is really great
Good for Yuna Ito too
I like her song and i find her pretty :p