talkin' 2 myself NINKI ranking up!

[truehappiness]

Singles
127.9 talkin 2 myself / ayumi hamasaki
56.80 SHINE/Ride on / Tohoshinki
35.40 Bokura Barairo no Hibi / Onitsuka Chihiro
26.80 Tsunaide Te / Hitoto Yo

Hopefully this thing isn't telling lies!

[Partino]

are those the estimated first day sales???? that would be awesome 127.9k at the first day ... yippey

[Kashoku]

Holy Crap! That would be AMAZING if it were true!!!!

[njanjayrp]

A bit way too much for the 1st day sales, ne?Sure if those were weekly it would be reasonable, or well maybe japs. really love the song XD.

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

hm, this would indicate that its really popular in Japan right now, right?..haha, thats a huge first day sales xD would be awesome!!

[Partino]

my bad .. NINKI are the first week sales predictions ... nha ... they are actually lower than glitter/fated

[*Petit*]

NINKI doesen't equal sales at all, only interest as shown by about 400 people.

[Raleigh]

Yeah true. Let's hope the sales will be high for the first week though.

[BoBo]

Originally Posted by Demure_Dusk

Yeah true. Let's hope the sales will be high for the first week though.

i second your hopes

[tourniquet]

koda had nearly the same indicator for her ai no uta single. probably you can be assured that she'll get her number one, but I don't think it'll surpass 200k overall by any means.

[Amuro_Ray]

at least, it is much more than Tohoshinki.
I think it is over 80% can get #1 again.
Besides, the rate is same as Koda last week :p

[Partino]

because you don't like the single or because you like it and don't have enough trust in the japaneses taste?? which one is it?

[ayumisrael]

it says that out of 400 people that were asked about it 128 were interested.
kumi's interest in FREAKY was a lower number and it sold 195,000 until now...

talkin' 2 myself has a chance to sell over 200,000 or even more, or less, we'll see xD
By any means it has to chance to sell over 200,000
as kumi's FREAKY was a lower number and it sold 195,000 until now.

[tourniquet]

well, if her freaky summer single can't even reach last year's Blue Bird sales (or even FREAKY's) I don't think any rock single of her has the power to surpass the magical spot.

at this point we should already know that japan is not going for taste either. it's just a fact that hikki sits on her flavor of life-throne this year and no female artist is going anywhere near there.
I mean glitter was practically a triple A-side and had one summer song, a slow rock song and a ballad - much more variety + a short movie (something which she hasn't done before). now it's two rock songs, one arranged version and the typical stuff either no one cares for or which will find the way onto the album anyway.

well, I'm very interested in how this single fares, but I personally just don't see anything which could kick this thing over 200k.

[ayumisrael]

FoL got its sales because it the Drama tie-in, not just because it was a suddenly original good huge song from hikki.
If ayu had the same tie in with the crappiest song on earth then it would sell 650,000.
That's for first.

Singles that will sell good are singles with good tie-ins/really good promoted, outragous things, or really really catchy pop songs.
The crappiest song on earth with a huge tie-in will sell good, the best song on earth someone could release with not so good tie-ins can sell nothing.
That's how sales in Japan go.
t2m has a chance to sell over 200,000, it's not 100% it will happen, but still it has a chance.

[tourniquet]

Originally Posted by ayumisrael

FoL got its sales because it the Drama tie-in, not just because it was a suddenly original good huge song from hikki.

never claimed another thing. but right now it seems there won't be another phenomenon like this anytime soon.

and look at ayu's tie-ins... also nothing out of the ordinary.

[Partino]

well heaven had a huge tie-in and sold pretty well ... but glitter fated had secret on it which was a tie-in for a movie but did'nt sold as much as heaven did

[ayumisrael]

Originally Posted by tourniquet

never claimed another thing. but right now it seems there won't be another phenomenon like this anytime soon.

and look at ayu's tie-ins... also nothing out of the ordinary.

Yeah though usually when it's a panasonic tie-in, it ends up sellong decent to good.
STEP you had the panasonic tie-in and it was the best selling single of ayu in 2005.
BLUE BIRD had BF that even wasn't the main song a panasonic tie-in and was the best selling single of ayu in 2006 with around 260,000 (after Startin' that sold 188,000).
So now glitter/fated had no panasonic tie-in and now t2m has, so maybe it has a good chance to get up the sales, like it did with BLUE BIRD, and STEP you.

[bluegie]

I dun think Panasonic has a huge impact in terms of sales. BLUE BIRD got better sales than startin' because it has a bigger (and better) promotion tactic (better covers, three versions of single, different making of, posters as bonus, selling on the street, etc). I won't even say HEAVEN sold pretty well (in terms of cd sales in 2004). It's normal to see ayu selling over 300K before she showed us BnD/Pride (and BnD has, well, Panasonic tie-in). and since BnD her sales kinda fluctuates a bit.. from Bnd first week 70K --> Startin'/BTB ~110K --> BLUE BIRD ~160K --> glitter ~110K.

[elepop]

#1, obviously. I hope it can sale well.