[CoverPic]Ayu in Tokyo Headline 297- A BEST 2 reached 2 millions?

[Ayumiko]

Its good for avex

[summersnow]

Thanks for the info. Yup perhaps it's about the shipping figures.

[Eigakan]

lies, all lies!

[FeNgZhEnG]

woo.. great news.. hope it will break A BEST 1 record..

[haruki]

so now what? shipping or actual sales? can anyone clearify this??

Bah, who the hell cares, hooray.

[HiruNoKaze]

yea all it says is "sales broke 2 mil" without any specification of what kinda sales

[bluegie]

probly physical + digital sales = 2 million...?
but that's quite unlikely..

[alternarist]

haha 2 mil copies shipped overseas doesnt mean that 2 mil copies sold!! sales hasnt even reach a million yet.. oh well..

[bluegie]

it has... ~940K on the first week (both albums) then 190K this week.. so now it's about 1.13 million copies being sold

[Dustie]

Originally Posted by devilayu

Typo in the paper? The article is referencing Oricon numbers, which only reflect sales in Japan.

Lol, nice typo then! "2 million... no wait! It's 1 million... ah, whatevaa."

[criminal]

Originally Posted by Kingofpop

hmm if it's asia wide, then thats believable since the biggest asian artists sell around 3 million asia wide.

Do they sell 3 million in two weeks?

[sakamoko]

Uhm... is hard to belive but I know 3 fans of my city that bought both versions (B&W), and my city is a little island. If in every city of Europe and America 3 people buy both versions...

[Maiku]

then again oricon miss out on many online stores and not just stores and there the oversea fans in asian and some in other parts of the world, if i'm not wrong ayu still one of the most popular if not the most popular japanese singer in asia. i think around 870k sold outside japan is possible and stores that orico didnt count.

like bluegie said it has already sold 1.13 million counted by oricon. for both version

[andre2907]

Originally Posted by Dark_hated

why not?? she's really famous on Asia, it could be possible...

No way. Two or three artists sell over 1 million copies in the whole Asia territory (excluding Japan) and Ayu isn't one of them. I mean, she is really popular, but she's nowhere near as big and promoted as, say, Jay Chou or even Rain and not even them sell that much, so..

[LacusClyne]

so far what are the total sales numbers from ORICON?
if they mangae to sell a certain amount, then it is possible that the article is referring to the amount ahipped out and sales

[Ayumiko]

I know oricon dont count every cd stores in Japan...there is only a percentage of stores in Japan they count.

[ayu_fan929]

^They recover that 'loss' by giving each store a different weighting.

i.e. Let's say you bough 1 CD from Tower Records in Shibuya, that might translate to 5 CDs on Oricon to make up for the music stores not counted by Oricon.

I think it's a typo or it's the number of copies shipped.

[pbs1605]

Thanks for the news.