[Koda Kumi] Continues walking in her 174th thread!

[Diva_br]

my copies have already been sent from Japan

[Delicious n Bold]

My copy arrives tomorrow!
This will be the first time Kumi Kehova has ever been sent to me in the form of a preorder :O

I hope the Blu Ray is good quality though

[Miichan]

Second day sales are under 3100 copies, she's at #4 now, I think her first day sales came from pre-orders and cheap sales boosters like music cards.

She may be able to keep the weekly #1 if everyone else has very poor sales this week.
I'm not very pleased with the promotion for this album, it's too quiet for 15th anniversary promotions.

[oaristos]

Oh my, that's a big drop...

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

music cards are no longer counted i thought? has that not come into effect yet?

[Gustavopc]

Ouch.

And yeah, music cards do not count for Oricon anymore

[Miichan]

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan

music cards are no longer counted i thought? has that not come into effect yet?

They still count, they stop counting them the first monday next month.

[Corvina]

Yup, she's at 4 today with less than 3100 sold.
But the difference between BV and WOML is just around 4k after two days.
So I guess it will sell as much as Bon Voyage in the end.

WOML is at #3 for its first day on recochoku.
Though some of her old albums are charting as well.

recochoku album daily 03/18
#3 WALK OF MY LIFE
#12 Best ~third universe~ and UNIVERSE
#30 Black Cherry
#39 feel my mind

http://recochoku.jp/ranking/album/daily/

[ayu_ready?]

Originally Posted by Miichan

Second day sales are under 3100 copies, she's at #4 now, I think her first day sales came from pre-orders and cheap sales boosters like music cards.

She may be able to keep the weekly #1 if everyone else has very poor sales this week.
I'm not very pleased with the promotion for this album, it's too quiet for 15th anniversary promotions.

I expected that cause there is no promotion in effect

[KuuXAyu-fan]

I'm not surprised this happened as there was no promotion at all. I know some people will say she's doing a lot of radio and online promotion but it is useless. No one in Japan listens to radio and articles/interviews online won't make anyone buy an album. Absolutely useless promotion. The LINE performance was a nice idea but it won't provide any boost.

Also people will say that she has posters everywhere but the pictures that have been posted are from one store only. I haven't seen any displays in any of the Tower record twitters that post online. However because it's very likely that she will get the #1 with this album I'm not too mad. I just hope that once the tour is over she will promote on all the summer specials which provide a good amount of exposure. 100 radio interviews will not do a single thing for her if no one is listening.

[ayumisrael]

I'm not sure how much avex can give them budgets. ayu has pretty much the same if no less promotion for her new albums (and ayu has no tie-ins this time as well at all.) I'm not sure if it's because the artists themselves don't want to promote or if it's avex's budget and hardships to find them good deals.

[KuuXAyu-fan]

Originally Posted by ayumisrael

I'm not sure how much avex can give them budgets. ayu has pretty much the same if no less promotion for her new albums (and ayu has no tie-ins this time as well at all.) I'm not sure if it's because the artists themselves don't want to promote or if it's avex's budget and hardships to find them good deals.

Ayu performed at the Music Station Super Live recently and Colours also got a lot more promotion in streets and stores compared to Bon Voyage. But even just ignoring that part of it, performing on TV doesn't need a budget so I don't know what Kuu's/her team's thinking is. Some people will say that TV doesn't have an effect on sales but it helps to at least keep the artist exposed. The way Kuu has promoted for the past year has only been geared toward her fan club. At least Ayu is trying to get the attention of the general public by performing on TV with gp friendly songs like Zutto, Last Minute and now The Gift is good exposure as well. WALK OF MY LIFE (the song) really could've helped Kuu carry this project well if it had some TV lives (especially Music Station) but they didn't bother with it at all.

[thinkingoutloud89]

^ your theories and comments are guesses out of the blue. are you living in Japan? do you now how big the promotion is? there are indeed shops, stores, posters and even trucks which we can see on official pictures. Moreover, it has nothing to do with the exposure but rather the opposite. i think she was overexposed to a certain limit so that she lost a lot of popularity and there is no way that she gets her fans back buy just doing what she does, but I dont even think that she is aiming for that atm.

we all now that TV exposure isn't needed (Namie) and that ayus one or two performances were mostly not even in her promotion span so you can't compare that.

[mizuki-7]

All I can say is that Shibuya and around are not all Japan ... They can placarded the face of Kumi & Ayu everywhere but the effect is zero for the rest of Japan and further everyday there there is a constant parade of trucks and displays from a lot of different singers that the people of Tokyo must not even pay attention anymore ...

What they need is tie-ins but it is a vicious circle to get one ...
They just need to continue to work hard and wait for the nostalgia born among people ... When you have been popular like that one day or another there will be a demand maybe in 5 years or 10 years. I am convinced of it !

[Miichan]

Originally Posted by mizuki-7

They just need to continue to work hard and wait for the nostalgia born among people ... When you have been popular like that one day or another there will be a demand maybe in 5 years or 10 years. I am convinced of it !

Nostalgia will make people buy best albums and old albums, it won't make them interested in any new material.

[KuuXAyu-fan]

Originally Posted by Miichan

Nostalgia will make people buy best albums and old albums, it won't make them interested in any new material.

That isn't necessarily true. Akina Nakamori is a good example of this. After a period of lower sales starting from 1993 to 2009 she was able to return this year and get her first Top 10 single in over 21 years. Her best albums in 2014 sold over 160,000 copies and counting and her recently released cover album also went Top 5. What mizuki said is right.

[Gustavopc]

I guess Kuu just aint aimming for high sales and hit songs but rather please her fans this year, so she won't be bothering wasting tour rehearsals for TV promotion...

[mizuki-7]

Originally Posted by Miichan

Nostalgia will make people buy best albums and old albums, it won't make them interested in any new material.

That's true but the next releases can benefit from the great sales of a best album I have a lot of exemple ! Time will tell (lol utada)

[Miichan]

Originally Posted by KuuXAyu-fan

That isn't necessarily true. Akina Nakamori is a good example of this. After a period of lower sales starting from 1993 to 2009 she was able to return this year and get her first Top 10 single in over 21 years. Her best albums in 2014 sold over 160,000 copies and counting and her recently released cover album also went Top 5. What mizuki said is right.

I never said that she can't bounce back, I said that nostalgia alone will only make people buy best albums and old albums.
When I feel nostalgic I listen to old tracks, not brand new ones.

[ayumisrael]

Originally Posted by KuuXAyu-fan

Ayu performed at the Music Station Super Live recently and Colours also got a lot more promotion in streets and stores compared to Bon Voyage. But even just ignoring that part of it, performing on TV doesn't need a budget so I don't know what Kuu's/her team's thinking is. Some people will say that TV doesn't have an effect on sales but it helps to at least keep the artist exposed. The way Kuu has promoted for the past year has only been geared toward her fan club. At least Ayu is trying to get the attention of the general public by performing on TV with gp friendly songs like Zutto, Last Minute and now The Gift is good exposure as well. WALK OF MY LIFE (the song) really could've helped Kuu carry this project well if it had some TV lives (especially Music Station) but they didn't bother with it at all.

You don't know how many billboards are there for kuu's release and ayu's release because you are not there and everywhere in Tokyo every day. You can't say ayu had more billboards.
Besides ayu sang Last minute only on TV and its less promo friendly than Zutto (I think she just could choose between the two and she chose Last minute).
The fact that she sang it once on December on TV doesn't mean she has a better promotion for the album nor it made the single sell better than previous year. Since ayu has no TV performances for the album+ TV performances at least on the 5 last years never help (or helped ayu or kuu) sell better. It didn't translate to sales.

Also this was no for a competition for who has more promo, it was to empasize that both don't really promote much like in the past and they barely get tie-ins and endrosements (ayu even less since last year).
You can't say kuu has less promo than ayu since it's not true and it seems that they are at a point where they get the same promo and do mostly the same stuff.

And The Gift gives her exposure to ayu outside of Japan, not in Japan itself just for the record.

I'm sure that her sales in Japan won't increase because people will start to have interest in a singer that is popular in Taiwan or other chinese speaking countries.

They don't do things to increase sales/maybe they don't have much to do in order to do so, but they do stuff because they want to do music and perforn and to keep their fans up. They are no namie present state anymore (and yet they are more active than her).