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Originally Posted by Ayumi no Yume
Exactly. Ayu has so many fans, that even if a single was badly promototed, they'd buy it anyway. I think it's just the fact that the single wasn't good to begin with.
I've been wondering that too. Compare her to some of our American Artist-- Who the hell is showing more booty? Look beyond the way she dresses, people. She shoots like 2 sexual-ish videos and everyone hates her. I bet more than half of the people that accuse her of being a **** have NOT seen pvs like WIND, Koi no Tsubomi, or anything. Only thing they ever say was Ima sugu hoshii or something. I think it's just stereotypes. They see one thing and block everything else out of their mind and only think that one thing.
I would appriciate it if any more talk about kuu this way would banish from this thread, or any other threads. kthx. 
And also, Lumix's post.
People who have just downloaded the songs can be to blame, too.
And I'm sure a handful of people who are reading my post right now are guilty. |
You have no idea how wrong you are on so many of these.. statements.
Bad promotion = bad sales. If you placed your single head to head with some 'omgwowpopularima****' person's album who'd sell more? Obviously the album. I mean, look at BoA's DO THE MOTION sales [one of her most well marketed singles with a lot of songs and etc] and some of her more recent sales.. >>
170,000 vs. 55,000 / 60k / 70k
It's not just 'omg woah this single is good.' cause a single doesn't have to be 'good' to even sell a lot. Hell, some good singles sell like crap! Look at the NANA tie-ups. Both tieup-songs sold WAY above their normal range, in the 400k+ range. Just look at their sales now!
Yuna Ito: [2005.09.07] ENDLESS STORY - #2; 460,000 copies sold
[2006.03.01] Faith / Pureyes - #6; 53,000 copies sold
[2006.05.03] Precious - #3; 39,000 copies sold (still charting)
Mika Nakashima: 23,606 CRY NO MORE / Mika Nakashima
Can you really say 'marketing and promotion don't help a singles sales?' now? It really does matter. And imho, Startin' had crappy promotion. And can we say Koda's stuff was really good before Avex marketed her to the point of boobageness? No, cause in the way you say it.. 'they weren't good enough' >> Only during/after the 12singles thing which was an uber marketing-scheme did Koda actually.. 'succeed.'
Blah. And why the hell wouldn't this single sell 100k+? It's like 4 new songs, with a DVD with PVs.. wtf? Her only competition is MoMusu and TOKIO anyway. >>
And about the whole stereotyping her.. uh. Yeah. It's not like we're all assuming. >> I've watched all of those PVs and they don't really say much when she's got PVs like SHAKE IT, feel, Lies.. and more. x.x Her and being all naked in the shower with some random Latinojapanese guy.. o-o..
/cough
I don't think it's stereotyping. :3