The real CDs sales according to Avex

[mizuki-7]

Sorry to open a new thread for that but yesterday i looked at the avex website and i have found differents files who contains the sales of the main contributors of fiscale year and i don't know if you have allready seen that but i let this numbers lol (it's the sales not the total shipping )

"I am …” album sold 3.14 million Cds" according to Oricon 2 308 111 copies O_o

"“Dearest” sold 870,000 Cds" according to Oricon 750 420 copies

"Endless sorrow”sold 840,000 Cds" according to Oricon 768 510 copies

"700,000 copies of her single “UNITE!”" --> 571 110 Cds

A best 4,510,000 Cds -->4 301 000 Cds

rainbow 2,020,000 CDs --> 1 857 870 Cds

"A BALLADS” (album) 1,710,000--> 1 040 000 copies

Ayumi Hamasaki “Memorial address” (album) 1,220,000 -->1 062 297 Cds

No way to say” sold 460,000--> 371 200 Cds

Ayumi Hamasaki “INSPIRE” 420,000-->329 145 Cds

Ayumi Hamasaki “CAROLS” 380,000-->309 128 Cds

my story 1,220,000-->1 132 444 Cds

“STEP you / is this LOVE?　403,000 copies-->345 340 Cds

“fairyland” 388,000 copies -->316 663 Cds

“(miss)understood” 1,030,000 copies -->877 433 Cds

Glitter/Fated” by Ayumi Hamasaki 244,000 copies-->166 203 Cds

Ayumi Hamasaki, “Secret” 804,000 copies-->675 400 Cds

Ayumi Hamasaki, “A BEST 2 –BLACK-” 918,000 copies-->721 850 Cds
Ayumi Hamasaki, “A BEST 2 –WHITE-” 915,000 copies-->702 900 Cds

“BLUE BIRD” by Ayumi Hamasaki 322,000 copies-->258 566 Cds

GUILTY” by Ayumi Hamasaki 678,000 copies-->568 288 Cds

Mirrorcle World by Ayumi hamasaki 256,000 copies-->193 016 Copies

A COMPLETE ~ALL SINGLES~ by Ayumi hamasaki 973,000copies--> 852 000 Cds

Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus (AL) by ayumi hamasaki (368,000 copies)--> 320 300 Cds

Love Songs by ayumi hamasaki (315,000 copies)-->272 653 Cds

ayumi hamasaki FIVE 250,000 copies-->214 182 Cds

[relmy]

Copies sold in Asia, copies sold after the album drops off the Oricon etc...

[Andrenekoi]

I don't think this counts Asia sales... I remember reading some article about A Best (and Distance, it focused on the Ayu vs Hikki thing) and the A Best Asia sales reported was a lot more than the official Oricon sales...

[relmy]

Hmm true, some of the differences are too low.

[RayJason]

The differences in all of them are so fricking big! WTF

[chocopockymaster]

avex's figures are based on copies of the album that were shipped, IIRC...not necessarily copies sold, which is what Oricon keeps track of.

[unhidragtor]

and what about NEXT LEVEL?

[mizuki-7]

No on the website it's well said that it's the copies sold lol nothing about next level though ...

Looking at sales of music CDs by title, our representative artist, “Ayumi Hamasaki”, sold 840,000
copies of her single “Endless sorrow”, 720,000 copies of her single “Dearest”、and 700,000 copies of
her single “UNITE!”. Her continued popularity contributed greatly to sales. Though released near
the end of last fiscal year, her “ BEST” album sold 610,000 copies in the interim period, reaching
total sales of 4,510,000 copies. This success should enable “Ayumi Hamasaki” to mature as an artist
eventually capable of leading the Japanese music industry.

[isthisLOL?]

Avex sold them, but to stores, not to individuals. What Oricon tracks are sales by stores to individuals. Some of those are in stores but were never sold from there, meaning they are in avex's numbers but not "real" sales.

[mizuki-7]

But avex count the sales after top 300 and also envents not Oricon (just 30%)

[toniayu]

damn oricon >_<
Thanks for the info

[brener]

thanks! thats interesting

Oricon counts international sales, right?

[ayumisrael]

Oricon count most of Japan's stores/sites orders as long as it's in Japan.

avex's numbers are shipped copies sales though it's wierd that FIVE isn't certified platinum.

[ayuuk]

NEXT LEVEL disappears LOL

[njanjayrp]

Those are most likely the numbers of copies shipped.

[Ayumi_lover]

avex also counts concert venues sales? right?

[Neil]

Record labels are notorious for inflating record sales so take with a pinch of salt.

Of course ORICON is extremely flawed for a variety of reasons. Does not take into account digital sales, does not take into account sales if it's not in the chart etc...

[zellyx]

daaang look at the A Ballads difference.
"A BALLADS” (album) 1,710,000--> 1 040 000 copies

[Tony G]

^ clearly stores expected it to sell better than it did. For that time those sales for a best album are very very low.