[Charts & Rankings] Rule/Sparkle - ORICON STYLE

[Lanz16]

Just what I expected: ARASHI kicked Ayu out of the Top 3 after getting #1. ">>,

STILL, R/S did a great job!

[jbrat2219]

^ Well it was a good run in #1 while it lasted!

[sanzo2011]

Ah ! Arashi's sales 're really crazy ! i just love one song from them : beautiful days , but i always adore them , sometimes u have to take a long time to achieve success and they did , late success 's always amazing ! good for them Ah! i hope Ayu 'll back to top 1 tomorrow .

[jbrat2219]

Omg I just saw Arashi's index............ 214,618!

For a single!?.... I've heard all kinds of things about their selling power... but my gosh!

[ka♡ri.]

Originally Posted by KarenPang

It'll be interesting to see whether my KAT-TUN boys can thrash their butts when RESCUE's out next week even though techincally I love both artistes equally even though recently KT's getting a bit more love from me (no thanks to me currently fangirling over the DoS aka my fave sadist Ueda / Tat-chan/ Uepo Princess )

TBH, KAT-TUN will probably get number one next week, but their sales have been sucking so much that they probably won't outsell Arashi in the long run. So it won't be too interesting really...

Originally Posted by SolarAngel

I agree Johnny completely owns single sales. It's astonishing, i also thought the figure ought to be multiplied by 1.75 but now that i know it's the actual figure itself, no it's still mind blowing.

But if you look at arashi's album sales history even the the one released in April 2008, the sales are platinum standard at best. I don't geddit...

their album sales have really picked up recently. they're getting steadily better. they caught a tough snag for a couple years, but now they're coming out of that slump and in a big way. i think their next album might be able to sell 300-500k maybe? by the way things are going with their singles and their album sale trends, its possible.

but yay ayu. i hope she can sell at least 150k w/ this single

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by SolarAngel

I agree Johnny completely owns single sales. It's astonishing, i also thought the figure ought to be multiplied by 1.75 but now that i know it's the actual figure itself, no it's still mind blowing.

But if you look at arashi's album sales history even the the one released in April 2008, the sales are platinum standard at best. I don't geddit...

Think someone mentioned Rule surpassing t2m. It should happen this week.

Johnny's albums historically have always been that way. Mainly for 2 reasons - 1: they don't promote the albums and 2: typically the album tracks aren't that great (they seem to be getting better though imo). Sometimes Johnny's best of albums do well though. I have a feeling if they were to release an Arashi best this year it would sell great considering that a lot of people did not buy their earlier singles.

[TITANIC]

atm, R/s in top 10 best singles 2009

10 *,*95,309 *95,309 Rule/Sparkle / 浜崎あゆみ 09/02/25

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by riozz

atm, R/s in top 10 best singles 2009

10 *,*95,309 *95,309 Rule/Sparkle / 浜崎あゆみ 09/02/25

Which means by the end of the year I think it would be lucky to be in the top 50.

[aqua_crystal]

Haha! That's funny!! She got pushed from #1 to #11!!! Well... it was expected since there were a number of releases coming out on the 4th.

[rakeru]

Johnny's is brainwashing the masses! it's disturbing... @_@

[SolarAngel]

Originally Posted by Lanz16

Just what I expected: ARASHI kicked Ayu out of the Top 3 after getting #1. ">>,

STILL, R/S did a great job!

More like 10 artistes kicked ayu out of top 10 (not even mentioning top 3). But I believe if ayu averages around 2k daily this week, she should make it back up. Maybe.

[KarenPang]

Originally Posted by SolarAngel

But if you look at arashi's album sales history even the the one released in April 2008, the sales are platinum standard at best. I don't geddit...

that's simple really . When comes to promo of Johnny's albums , it's not as extensive/crazy when comes to singles

somemore fangirls are poor & they can't really afford an album unlike multiple versions of single that a Johnny band dished out

Originally Posted by Lanz16

Just what I expected: ARASHI kicked Ayu out of the Top 3 after getting #1. ">>,

STILL, R/S did a great job!

That's true , the bottomline's at least R/S got #1 in the 1st week

Originally Posted by ka♡ri.

TBH, KAT-TUN will probably get number one next week, but their sales have been sucking so much that they probably won't outsell Arashi in the long run. So it won't be too interesting really...

their album sales have really picked up recently. they're getting steadily better. they caught a tough snag for a couple years, but now they're coming out of that slump and in a big way. i think their next album might be able to sell 300-500k maybe? by the way things are going with their singles and their album sale trends, its possible.

I'm very sure RESCUE will nail #1 next week , both 1st press CD only & CD + DVD are completely outta print & they never restock both unlike for ONE DROP

but as to whether can they get another yearly #1 just like what they did to Real Face , it's a different thing altogether

it's great that ARASHI has already nailed it for the 1st day , I'm so proud

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

Johnny's albums historically have always been that way. Mainly for 2 reasons - 1: they don't promote the albums and 2: typically the album tracks aren't that great (they seem to be getting better though imo). Sometimes Johnny's best of albums do well though. I have a feeling if they were to release an Arashi best this year it would sell great considering that a lot of people did not buy their earlier singles.

If ARASHI's going to be release a best of compliation this year in which I'm sure that will happen to celebrate their 10th anniversary , I will buy it

[jbrat2219]

Awww... I hope she doesn't get pushed down too far on the yearly charts!

[ownsarai]

I'm glad Ayu made the #1 spot in the first week, it's too bad others pushed her out of it already, though.

[Tony G]

Well if it does her any good, she's still the highest charting release that didn't come out on Wednesday.

[njanjayrp]

Originally Posted by Tony G

Well if it does her any good, she's still the highest charting release that didn't come out on Wednesday.

Yeah, I think it's pretty dumb to even compare Ayu's 2nd week with others who have just released (she would be #2 if this was her 1st week ^^).

And it's really silly how some people think that Arashi have been big for such a long time and that they are still popular, as they started getting more popularity from the end of 2006. (their highest selling album sold around 300k (2008), and their best ofs never sold more than 200k, sure that's normal for Johnny's bands.) The point is, I don't get all the arashi talk in this thread (YES! their singles sales are amazing atm and mysteriously all of their singles seem to have strong drama tie-ins), as pretty much everything's been said, no need to further compare them and keep in mind that even Ayu sold way better during her peak (and unlike them she was able to sell a couple of millions of her albums as well and not just the singles). Let's see if 7 years from now they'll keep what they have now. Until than I really think that all the arashi talk isn't needed here, as they still haven't done something that Ayumi Hamasaki didn't.

[a_kingdom21]

Originally Posted by njanjayrp

Yeah, I think it's pretty dumb to even compare Ayu's 2nd week with others who have just released (she would be #2 if this was her 1st week ^^).

And it's really silly how some people think that Arashi have been big for such a long time and that they are still popular, as they started getting more popularity from the end of 2006. (their highest selling album sold around 300k (2008), and their best ofs never sold more than 200k, sure that's normal for Johnny's bands.) The point is, I don't get all the arashi talk in this thread, as pretty much everything's been said, no need to further compare them and keep in mind that even Ayu sold way better during her peak (and unlike them she was able to sell a couple of millions of her albums as well and not just the singles). Let's see if 7 years from now they'll keep what they have now. Until than I really think that all the arashi talk isn't needed here, as they still haven't done something that Ayumi Hamasaki didn't.

yeahhh ur right........

ayu sold way better than them during her peak.....

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by njanjayrp

Yeah, I think it's pretty dumb to even compare Ayu's 2nd week with others who have just released (she would be #2 if this was her 1st week ^^).

And it's really silly how some people think that Arashi have been big for such a long time and that they are still popular, as they started getting more popularity from the end of 2006. (their highest selling album sold around 300k (2008), and their best ofs never sold more than 200k, sure that's normal for Johnny's bands.) The point is, I don't get all the arashi talk in this thread (YES! their singles sales are amazing atm and mysteriously all of their singles seem to have strong drama tie-ins), as pretty much everything's been said, no need to further compare them and keep in mind that even Ayu sold way better during her peak (and unlike them she was able to sell a couple of millions of her albums as well and not just the singles). Let's see if 7 years from now they'll keep what they have now. Until than I really think that all the arashi talk isn't needed here, as they still haven't done something that Ayumi Hamasaki didn't.

^ The talk is because they are the biggest thing in Japan right now. The fact that they are hitting their height of popularity in their 10th year IS whats impressive right now, not that they are STILL popular. Even if I weren't a Johnny's fan, I would still think that is uber impressive as that rarely happens to anyone, let alone boybands. (Makes you think hmmm, maybe there's something there actually worth checking out...) And even if comparatively their single sales/album sales were lower a few years ago, they were famous then too. And the only reason that Ayu sold more during her peak is because cds in general just sold more then. These sales for Arashi today are comparable to the sales for Ayu in her peak and then some. (because even Ayu at her peak did not get number 1 yearly let alone number 1 and 2 yearly.)

And some people here that are Ayu fans are simply Arashi fans too. It's an exciting time these couple of weeks, so of course people will want to discuss.

Anyways, Ayu held at #11 today. Arashi on their second day still sold a very impressive 135k+

[njanjayrp]

^I actually do love some of arashi's latest singles (not this one though). They aren't the only ones who got more popular after years of being on the scene (Koda Kumi, Namie Amuro (though this is her 2nd peak, I guess)). I am not saying their single sales aren't impressive (as they really are) just that I think their album sales actually show what people think of their music (not saying it's bad).

And no I don't think the sales are comparable mostly because Ayu's sales were strong when it comes to both singles and albums, while Arashi's aren't.

Namie Amuro, EXILE and Mr.Children showed us that you can still sell a million with your album (and Hikaru of course) plus Kumi almost managed to hit 2 millions in 2006 which wasn't that long ago.

And correct me if I am wrong, but "H" was #1 on yearly charts and it was the only single which sold over a million that year.

[Lanz16]

^ Yup! You're correct about it.

]-[ is the only single of Ayu that has straight #1 ranking: from daily to yearly.

BTW, what's the latest R/S ranking?