[Sept. 6 - ORICON] BB 11th Week + Current Yearly TOP 30 ranks

[ayu_fan929]

BLUE BIRD Week 11
Weekly Sales: 928 / Total Sales: 258,010

(miss) understood out of the Weekly TOP 300
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After all the AUGUST releases, here's the current yearly TOP 30 rankings: (I'll be adding the year-on-year in/decreases in TOP 50 sales later in the day)

Current Overall Yearly Chart
TOP 30 SINGLES
01 1,032,206 'Real Face' - KAT-TUN
02 *,754,061 'Konayuki' - Remioromen (Total: 847,545)
03 *,669,153 'Seishun Amigo' - Shuuji to Akura (Total: 1,614,467) *63rd best selling Japanese single*
04 *,593,192 'Daite Senorita' - Yamashita Tomohisa
05 *,562,196 'Tada...Aitakute' - EXILE
06 *,555,606 'SIGNAL' - KAT-TUN
07 *,504,273 'Junrenka' - Shounan Nokaze
08 *,483,860 'supernova/karma' - BUMP OF CHICKEN
09 *,410,442 'Dear WOMAN' - SMAP
10 *,400,907 'Houkiboshi' - Mr. Children
11 *,369,123 '4 hot wave' - Koda Kumi
12 *,355,512 'milk tea/Utsukushiki Hana' - Fukuyama Masaharu
13 *,342,696 'Tabibito' - Ketsumeishi
14 *,340,768 'Triangle' - SMAP
15 *,337,740 'SPLASH!' - B'z
16 *,317,397 'SNOW! SNOW! SNOW!' - KinKi Kids
17 *,307,273 'Natsumoyo' - KinKi Kids
18 *,304,370 'Shodo' - B'z
19 *,301,192 'Venus' - Tackey & Tsubasa
20 *,270,300 'to U' - Bank Band
21 *,270,073 'Koi no Tsubomi' - Koda Kumi
22 *,259,235 'Sakura' - Kobukuro (Total: 420,266)
23 *,259,178 'Deep in your heart/+ MILLION but - LOVE' - Domoto Koichi
24 *,258,010 'BLUE BIRD' - Hamasaki Ayumi
25 *,233,375 'Yuruginaimono Hitotsu' - B'z
26 *,226,459 'Fever to Future' - GYM
27 *,224,221 'I believe' - ayaka
28 *,222,848 'Sayaendou/Hadashi no Cinderella Boy' - NEWS
29 *,219,776 'Champione' - ORANGE RANGE
30 *,213,860 'Good-bye days' - YUI
...
41 *,188,551 'Startin'/Born To Be...' - Hamasaki Ayumi

TOP 30 ALBUMS
01 2,054,358 'Single Collection '95-'05 "UTABAKA" ' - Hirai Ken *69th best selling Japanese album*
02 1,746,775 'BEST ~second session~' - Koda Kumi *96th best selling Japanese album*
03 1,200,704 'Catch The Wave' - Def Tech
04 1,191,725 'B'z The Best "Pleasure II" ' - B'z
05 1,092,695 'BEST' - Nakashima Mika
06 *,877,433 '(miss) understood' - Hamasaki Ayumi
07 *,863,025 'ULTRA BLUE' - Utada Hikaru
08 *,857,599 'NAMELESS WORLD' - Kobukuro
09 *,821,777 'LOVE COOK' - Otsuka Ai
10 *,733,920 'Best of KAT-TUN' - KAT-TUN
11 *,667,360 'CYCLE HIT '91-'97 Single Collection' - Spitz
12 *,632,856 'Sora Ippai ni Kanaderu Inori' - Aqua Timez (Total: 636,071)
13 *,624,858 'HORIZON' - Remioromen
14 *,612,023 'BEST ~first things~' - Koda Kumi (Total: 1,819,816) *89th best selling Japanese album*
15 *,531,905 'MONSTER' - B'z
16 *,530,779 'CYCLE HIT '97-'05 Single Collection' - Spitz
17 *,502,060 'Daniel Powter' - Daniel Powter (Total: 402,299)
18 *,501,277 'Beautiful Songs ~Kokoro de kiku Uta~' - Various Artists
19 *,499,377 'ASIA' - EXILE
20 *,464,545 'THE LOVE ROCKS' - DREAMS COME TRUE
21 *,453,027 'Confidence' - HY
22 *,441,268 'Every Single Day -Complete BONNIE PINK (1995-2006)- - BONNIE PINK
23 *,427,037 'OUTGROW' - BoA
24 *,425,938 'Curtain Call: The Hits" - EMINEM
25 *,425,676 'Pop Up! SMAP' - SMAP
26 *,411,166 'Home' - Angela Aki
27 *,390,407 'AMARANTINE' - Enya
28 *,354,212 'Stadium Arcadium' - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
29 *,349,159 'Confessions on a Dancefloor' - Madonna (Total: 402,222)
30 *,333,935 'Kanojo' - aiko
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2006 Current Breakdown of Singles (vs. Same Time 2005)
1 million+ = 1 single (vs. 0 single)
500k+ = 7 singles (vs. 5 singles)
250k+ = 24 singles (vs. 28 singles)

2006 Current Breakdown of Albums (vs. Same Time 2005)
1 million+ = 5 albums (vs. 7 albums)
500k+ = 18 albums (vs. 16 albums)
250k+ = 36 albums (vs. 43 albums)

[immel]

ULTRA BLUE will pass (m)u for sure I think.

The decrese in sales was very small for this week, for BB, I think it'll make it to at least 270k copies, unless it has a sudden drop.

Time to start estimating the sales of JEWEL/1LOVE?

I say 147,789 copies the first week.

[ayu_fan929]

Originally Posted by immel

The decrese in sales was very small for this week, for BB, I think it'll make it to at least 270k copies, unless it has a sudden drop.

I would say slightly around 260-265k

[ayu1m]

yeah, go ayu =)

thx for posting!

^ 120,000

[Qt Mashi]

oh thanks for the news~, blue bird did so much better than startin' single

[immel]

I think that, as a contest, AHS should have a bet about how many copies we think it will sell. The one who guess the closest will win the ever-famed Ayu-CD-of-choice-from-YesAsia!

@ayu1m - If it sells exactly 120,000 I'll buy you an Ayu CD of choice. Promise.

[ayu1m]

Great, I'll keep that in mind

*runs and preorders exactly 120,000 copies of Ayu's next single*

[immel]

*runs and preorders exactly 1 copy*

HAH!

[immel]

If it drops to 500- copies soon, yeah, but if it stays with the 1k sales for a while I think it might make it higher. There's no new big releases coming in the closest weeks? I think it might stay around 1k.

I wonder if the sales of BB will rise or sink when it gets closer to the release of JEWEL/1LOVE, because of all the advertisement. I wonder how much it'll sell during the week JEWEL released.

[Dustie]

Oh... I didn't even know Koda Kumi's singles sold so well... 4 Hot Wave is already past 350k mark, while it's been out like a month?... It was released later than BLUE BIRD, which can't even pass the 300k border...

And yeah, ULTRABLUE might surpass MissUnderstood, although I've heard MU is already certified 1 million seller [copies shipped].

[AyuGAME]

i would say that jewel and one love can do better...
and Ultra blue cant pass M(U)

[immel]

Originally Posted by AyuGAME

and Ultra blue cant pass M(U)

Why not? (m)u isn't even charting and ULTRA BLUE is still going strong.

[ayu_fan929]

Originally Posted by AyuGAME

and Ultra blue cant pass M(U)

I'll say by the end of September it will pass. As for NAMELESS WORLD, I would say by the end of the Oricon year.

Originally Posted by terrorvixen

she should be #1! I forgot when the last time she had a number one album. It`s probably because she releases albums so much. haha.

She's never had a yearly #1 album. The highest she's ever gotten was #2 for 4 years straight. (Beaten by Mai K; Hikki x2 and CHEMISTRY)

Originally Posted by Calico

Is it just me be bad with group names, or are most of the people in those charts male, with the exception of Kuu, Ayu, and YUI? =P

Female solos usually tend to better in albums anyway. And you forgot about ayaka.

[sexysaucestar]

Ah, interesting to see the top 30 singles/albums of this year so far. Hard to believe 2006 will be over soon o_o

[freedreamer]

Lets just say..for now

Ayu is second woman in singles like last year
Ayu is first woman for original album

I think 1LOVE/JEWEL will sell 185k+ in first week..considering BB sold aorund 160k...im sure the coming single will do much better...
i hope her new album can make a 1mill sales...

[perfectdeath]

wow, thanks for the figures. i always love looking at the charts. goodbye days did pretty well, i just wish her album would've made it onto the chart as well.

[truehappiness]

Uwa :< Top 25 T_____T~~

[immel]

^And it looks like it'll climb a few positions the coming weeks .

[DA1SUK1DAY01691]

it's hard to estimate 1LOVE/JEWEL because you don't know if Avex will pull another gimmick out of their butt. and we haven't heard the full version yet. or seen the cover.

so i'll wait until two of three things are done. lol.

[truehappiness]

Eh. Avex always has some hot add-on to stick into Ayu CDs~ ;3

We got shiny glossy paper with Startin', a poster / extra cover with BLUE BIRD.. and.. what next?! d: