[12/4] ORICON "Secret" 1st Week Sales [See P.7 post 130]

[ayu_fan929]

Originally Posted by immel

At least she'll have a chart position with the album. Can't imagine avex decided to release it the date they did. Maybe the charts doesn't matter too much.

Did ORICON end up extending the year?

I always thought it mattered to them, that's why their "big name albums" come out in December/Janaury = the beginning of the year. But then again, both LOVEppears and Secret came out 2 weeks before the end of the year.

Yep. Oricon 2006 is extended to 55 weeks.

Originally Posted by Terri

How horrible. An artist of her status and talent should at least go over 300k. Those sales can be implied to amature artists, which Ayu obviously is not.

Can't people just go out and buy the record? Her popularity in Japan alone is still outrageous, so I doubt she's loosing thousands of fans.

By the way, does anybody know which album (from Ayu) had the most sales? Although sales are basically irrelevant, I am curious...

Not that many artists can sell over 300k 1st week you know. The last female to do it was ayaka, which is even more amazing since it was her debut album.

A BEST (4.23m)
Duty (2.9m)
LOVEppears (2.56m)
I am... (2.32m)
RAINBOW (1.856m)
MY STORY (1.132m)
Memorial address (1.062m)
(miss) understood (0.87m)
Secret (0.386m)

[immel]

Originally Posted by Terri

How horrible. An artist of her status and talent should at least go over 300k. Those sales can be implied to amature artists, which Ayu obviously is not.

It did sell over 300k copies, almost 400k.

Originally Posted by Cyria

Hopefully these sales will send the message that Ayu is a profitable artist for Avex, even if she's not as big as before, and she'll continue to get quality PVs/singles/treatment.

An artist doesn't need to sell very much in order to be profitable, Ayu's sales are out of this world even when they are "low", they could most likely still provide quality PV/material with even lower sales than this. The promotion is what costs the most money and is what would most likely be tampered by lower sales, especially since everyone already knows her name.

avex literally bought the entire Shibuya for this album, like for (miss)understood, I doubt that's needed.