Low A BALLADS sales -- Why?

[Chibi_Venus]

I'm sure this has been asked, discussed, and/or even explained before, but I missed it.

Why was A BALLADS such a drag in sales?

[Piccolo]

The songs did not offer anything incredibly new, though some were redone, and the addition of RAINBOW helped a bit. That's my guess.

Other than the pretty covers and Rainbow, it wasn't anything great I think it was more of a "collector's item"

[Tasked]

it's the best selling remix-album EVER! it's a remix-album... although it's titled a best-album, it is not.. besides; it's certified a million-seller. what's bad about that? :p

[Diana]

I liked it better than A BEST! Cuz you could hear diferent instrumentation, and she sang again A song for xx - she has better voice there

[slowmoth]

These are my points

1) There were only 2 years from the last best album
2) Mostly of the songs were taken from RAINBOW
3) Ayumi used to release remix albums at that time

[truehappiness]

IMO, it really should have gotten a million..

If only more people purchased it in its second week.
Probably because most consumers were sort of "eeh" at purchasing something like that [with two "girls" being touchy..] at the time..

It had 570k+ first week sales, so I place the blame on funky buying habits..

[ayu_fan929]

Probably because there wasn't that much new material in the album, and also the songs were remixes.

[slowmoth]

I bought it only because I love RAINBOW

[norain]

Seems like it's because it was just a remix album as mentioned. Plus, only one new songs, RAINBOW, it's pretty much a RAINBOW+ album. Sorta like the 2nd disc to LovEppears. Except an album.

Every album except Secret has been certified as a million by RIAA.

[slowmoth]

^ (miss)understood didn't reach 1 million :S it solds about 850,000

[~X2RADialbomber~]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

IMO, it really should have gotten a million..

If only more people purchased it in its second week.
Probably because most consumers were sort of "eeh" at purchasing something like that [with two "girls" being touchy..] at the time..

It had 570k+ first week sales, so I place the blame on funky buying habits..

I doubt the covers had anything to do with it :\

[slowmoth]

I mostly have to coexist with people's comments of A BALLADS cover in my room. If people don't say that Ayu is disgustin for being lesbian, they says that she is hot.

[..:Hot:Like:Wow:..]

It was so over lookable.

[truehappiness]

Well, there had to have been some interest for it to have sold 570k first week.. :|

[ayu_fan929]

Originally Posted by slowmoth

^ (miss)understood didn't reach 1 million :S it solds about 850,000

norain said that it was certified 1 million (meaning that it doesn't necessarily have to sell 1 million)

[slowmoth]

^ I don't understand do you mean copies in stores?

[*Petit*]

I think A BALLADS sales were great considering:

- it was supposed to be a single with RAINBOW and probably some remixes.

- Considering how much her remix albums sold at the time

- Contained UNedited tracks from her most recent albums O.o

A BALLADS is basically a single release at an increased price = more profit.

[norain]

Originally Posted by slowmoth

^ I don't understand do you mean copies in stores?

Yes, Oricon may not consider the album a million seller, but there were 1 million (miss)understood albums shipped. Compared to Secret which didn't. While Secret may eventually become a RIAJ (I mean RIAJ not RIAA) million seller, right now it doesn't seem likely.

Secret is Ayumi's first album to not be a million anything.

[Chibi_Venus]

Wow, I didn't expect so many replies! Thanks everyone!!

Originally Posted by slowmoth

I bought it only because I love RAINBOW

Sorry, that just made me laugh.

H-okay. This is what I found on Endlessoul's thread:

Originally Posted by Endlessoul

A BALLADS

Total sales: 924,242

So even though sales didn't techinally reach one million, it still counted?