EDIT: Official number is 386,280.
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Originally Posted by ruixiong89
5. General decline in sales. I know ORICON would always have a totalled number to display the total number of singles and albums sold in an ORICON year. If my memory doesn't serve me wrong, all I've seen is a percentage DECLINE in overall sales. Hence, it's just part of the bigger trend that is occurring in Japan.
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We can look at it that way or we can look at it this way: Sales haven't changed significantly since 2003/2004, they've been more or less the same. Sure there might have been small declines within these 2-3 years, but nothing too too significant.
TOP 50 Single Sales
2000 43,329,250
2001 32,463,340
2002 20,765,120
2003 19,174,236
2004 16,299,111
2005 17,623,441
2006 16,568,365 (as of last week)
TOP 50 Album Sales
2000 49,923,000
2001 56,368,710
2002 38,316,120
2003 29,732,880
2004 29,259,465
2005 32,320,732
2006 29,107,440 (as of last week)
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Originally Posted by kinix
did u guys saw mika's new single for NANA? that's more shocking for me O.O"""
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THE END is coming out in a week.
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Originally Posted by Mad_Cactuar
Oh ayu_fan929, I meant flop as in less than 80k in first week sales.  Yeah, I know that's still a huge success, but B&D got that and look what happened to her fanbase. |
80k for that single would be really really successful imo. This single is coming out 2 weeks before the album, whereas B&D was 6. I think if it manages to sell as much as Promise/Star (62k), it would be successful.
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Originally Posted by yamogi
This sale figure is almost the best first-week sale among all female singers this year except koda kumi.
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You forgot about Hikki.
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Originally Posted by truehappiness
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In 2005, the only albums to get higher than 380k first week were best albums, some Southern All Stars album, and ORANGE RANGE. :p
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You forgot about Hirai Ken and Ketsumeishi.
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Originally Posted by ayuflareup!
I think the main reason for the low sales is due to the weak promotions, wrong announcement (people thought it was a mini-album at first) and the inappropiate date (Most albums usually sell better in late December or New Year, just like MY STORY, RAINBOW)........
Avex is ruining the whole thing up
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Funny because some people said because (m)u was released during New Year's, sales were lower because of that.