[News] Days -Full Song- is certified Platinum on Legal Downloads Rule -Full Song- is Gold

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by ayumisrael

Days (chaku-uta full) full song got finally over 250,000 legal downloads and is certified platinum.
Rule (chaku-uta full) full song got over 100,000 legal downloads and is certified gold.

Source: RIAJ

ayu's doing really good on legal downloads too!

That is a very strange list because there are tons of songs missing and some of the songs in there are randomly listed from 2004, 2006 etc etc.

[ayu_fan929]

^Probably took them this long to get to a particular certification...

Well since RIAJ counts mu-mo, music.jp, mora.jp, dwango and reco-choku into their weeklies, they probably count them in the certifications as well... Chaku-Uta isn't just one particular company...

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by ayu_fan929

^Probably took them this long to get to a particular certification...

That would help explain. It seems that obviously this isn't an inclusive list for all songs that have reached that status, but just those who in March qualified. It still seems to be missing some things though. There's also some weirdness for example that Remioromens 3/9 is listed as having come out on 2/14/2009 - even though that song has been out for download for years.

Ahh nevermind, I see all the ones that I was thinking should have qualified, already did so back in Jan. and Feb.

[a_kingdom21]

is it a low or high download?????

becuzz.....as far as i know.....kuu n utada get million download when i see it on wikipedia.....

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by a_kingdom21

is it a low or high download?????

becuzz.....as far as i know.....kuu n utada get million download when i see it on wikipedia.....

Well, its hard to say. You can look here and see the full monthly rankings for February: http://www.riaj.or.jp/data/others/chart/w090320_1.html

Rule was only #10 overall. The March list isn't out yet or at least I couldn't find it.

[ayu_fan929]

imo, there's a certain level of hardness to getting Platinum for Chaku-Uta full

[KarenPang]

that's really nice , it's good that she's doing well in terms of legal downloads

[waterballoon]

Why am I not surprised that Days got such a good record in downloads?

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by waterballoon

Why am I not surprised that Days got such a good record in downloads?

Yeah, Days has done pretty well (and deservedly so). It's at least more than she usually sells digitally. Still though, I'm glad that they don't combine the digital and physical charts because there are lots of artists that sell so high digitally, but not that well physically and if they were combined a lot of peoples favorites would be getting pushed even further down the charts. I don't want to have to see Juju or Yuusuke near the top of the yearly charts.

Originally Posted by ayumisrael

Some popular songs don't even get gold in full songs.
But ayu's Days managed to get platinum there and Rule 100,000, that's really good!

I don't know, I see several full songs that are gold, platinum, double/triple platinum, and multiple million sellers. But yes, it is more common to see the high digital sellers, not sell as high as you would think in physical sales.

[TeeMo]

Congrats! Ayu!!!^^ I love Days!!^^

[ayumisrael]

Usually most of the songs that sell well digitally are the chaku-uta ringtones (the 30-50 seconds parts), the hundred thousans/millions are mainly there.
For full songs it's usually hard to get platinum+ since most people are interested in ringtones and not the full songs (are cost more). Some popular songs don't even get gold in full songs.
But ayu's Days managed to get platinum there and Rule 100,000, that's really good!

Originally Posted by ayu_fan929

^Probably took them this long to get to a particular certification...

Well since RIAJ counts mu-mo, music.jp, mora.jp, dwango and reco-choku into their weeklies, they probably count them in the certifications as well... Chaku-Uta isn't just one particular company...

But above the certifications on RIAJ's pages they write

chaku-uta (着うた（R）) and chaku-uta full (着うたフル（R）), if they would count the others too why would they write specifically chaku-uta and chaku-uta full?

[ayu_fan929]

^Yusuke is probably going to be on top of physical charts anyway...

Originally Posted by ayumisrael

But above the certifications on RIAJ's pages they write

chaku-uta (着うた（R）) and chaku-uta full (着うたフル（R）), if they would count the others too why would they write specifically chaku-uta and chaku-uta full?

Think about it this way: Chaku-Uta is like a mp3 format for cellphones.

I searched Ayu's site: http://avexnet.or.jp/ayu/jp/news/090220a.html
There's a bunch of different companies that sells Chaku-Utas i.e. mu-mo, Recochoku, dwango, music.jp etc.

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by ayu_fan929

^Yusuke is probably going to be on top of physical charts anyway...

It still has quite a ways to go for that. However, if they were to combine physical and digital sales he would be. Shuchushin (Yuusuke), Green, and Juju would be like dominating half the chart if they combined the physical and digital sales.

[ayu_fan929]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

It still has quite a ways to go for that. However, if they were to combine physical and digital sales he would be. Shuchushin (Yuusuke), Green, and Juju would be like dominating half the chart if they combined the physical and digital sales.

Whoops. I meant to say near the top

[ayumisrael]

Originally Posted by ayu_fan929

^Yusuke is probably going to be on top of physical charts anyway...


Think about it this way: Chaku-Uta is like a mp3 format for cellphones.

I searched Ayu's site: http://avexnet.or.jp/ayu/jp/news/090220a.html
There's a bunch of different companies that sells Chaku-Utas i.e. mu-mo, Recochoku, dwango, music.jp etc.

And I was sure that chaku-uta was a company name the whole time and not a format
I wonder how didn't I ask about it until now!

[Lady_Eowyn]

Originally Posted by ayumisrael

Usually most of the songs that sell well digitally are the chaku-uta ringtones (the 30-50 seconds parts), the hundred thousans/millions are mainly there.
For full songs it's usually hard to get platinum+ since most people are interested in ringtones and not the full songs (are cost more). Some popular songs don't even get gold in full songs.
But ayu's Days managed to get platinum there and Rule 100,000, that's really good!


But above the certifications on RIAJ's pages they write

chaku-uta (着うた（R）) and chaku-uta full (着うたフル（R）), if they would count the others too why would they write specifically chaku-uta and chaku-uta full?

Thanks for writing this. I had no idea how that worked. That probably applies to Utada's flavor of life also.

Originally Posted by f1rz3n_0028

YAY!! I love both songs but I think Rule should be a platinum too!

i expect the same thing. i Rule

Hopefully it will get platinum someday in the next months


and Yay for Ayu!!!! i love both songs!!!!

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by Lady_Eowyn

Thanks for writing this. I had no idea how that worked. That probably applies to Utada's flavor of life also.

Flavor of life sold more than 10million ringtones if I'm not wrong... on her case, the 8million sales are of full songs (brazilian news ever cited her when talked about the best selling digital singles of 2007... citing Avril, Hikki and Rihana)

[Lady_Eowyn]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

Flavor of life sold more than 10million ringtones if I'm not wrong... on her case, the 8million sales are of full songs (brazilian news ever cited her when talked about the best selling digital singles of 2007... citing Avril, Hikki and Rihana)

wow, that's really good

thanks for writing it

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by Lady_Eowyn

wow, that's really good

thanks for writing it

I'm not very sure about the ringtones numbers, but the single numbers were HUGE! I wasn't thinkinh much about the other jpop singers digital sales and only looked for Utada ones, so, I don't really know what are "good" or "bad" sales, only "ridiculous huge" sales xD

[jbrat2219]

Glad to see she's doing well digitally! Japan really loves "Days."