New single! 「Mirrorcle World」! 4/8/08 release!

[truehappiness]

Some of you guys are overreacting.

First off:
GUILTY's sales weren't that low. If she was selling in the 300k/400k total range that'd still be good.. I mean, look at how many acts are hitting a million nowadays... like 3 at the most. o_o

And second:
4/8 and 4/9 is the best day to release this single as there is no competition that day/week. The week before there is L'arc en Ciel and after that there's a bunch of JE people releasing.

She will be getting an extra day on the Oricon charts, just like how GUILTY was released on 12/25 and got a few extra days.


I think that some of the general reaction for this single not being "big" enough for her 10th anniversary is very... dumb. Seeing as how she has so much going on in this month, I think that she's doing this and EVEN MORE for her 10th anniversary, which is saying a lot. She's been working to celebrate this anniversary since November of last year, which makes it for a total of 4+ months on this 10th anniversary [and more to come with the extensive ASIA TOUR 2008 that has an enormous Japanese leg and a to be announced Asian leg of the tour PLUS a-nation this year D:!!!]..

She's the busiest she's been since around 2002/2003. She's got so many releases coming out in such a short amount of time, it's crazy. To recap:
3/12: AT07
3/26: ayu-mi-x 6 GOLD and SILVER
4/8: Mirrorcle World
4/9: Remix analogs times 10

All in the span of less than a month. INSANE~

[GRACE]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

She will be getting an extra day on the Oricon charts, just like how GUILTY was released on 12/25 and got a few extra days.

But didn't Guilty hit #2 because it was released early like that?

I'm wondering if this will be #1 on the weekly, but I'm sure it'll be at least on the daily chart at #1. Guilty fell to #2, first studio album not to hit #1 in her avex career. Is it a sign against the success of this single?

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by GRACE

But didn't Guilty hit #2 because it was released early like that?

I'm wondering if this will be #1 on the weekly, but I'm sure it'll be at least on the daily chart at #1. Guilty fell to #2, first studio album not to hit #1 in her avex career. Is it a sign against the success of this single?

GUILTY hit #2 because of the 2 week long New Year's Oricon week.

She was #1 in the first week if you were informed [by a small margin]~

And Kobukuro's incredible consistency led them to be no.1 for many weeks to come [and stay in the top 5 for weeks afterward]~

I don't blame Ayu for this, as I blame Kobukuro's insane fans. It's definitely NOT Ayu's fault for "selling so low" or "losing the #1". It seems that some of you don't know what happened in the first two weeks of January and just kinda fill in the story with "Oh, Ayu failed because she wasn't good enough" :|

GUILTY not hitting the #1 was bad predicting on avex's part. If GUILTY was released on 1/9 or something, it'd have been just fine. But they underestimated KOBUKURO's strength. :|

[GRACE]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

GUILTY hit #2 because of the 2 week long New Year's Oricon week.

She was #1 in the first week if you were informed [by a small margin]~

And Kobukuro's incredible consistency led them to be no.1 for many weeks to come [and stay in the top 5 for weeks afterward]~

I don't blame Ayu for this, as I blame Kobukuro's insane fans. It's definitely NOT Ayu's fault for "selling so low" or "losing the #1". It seems that some of you don't know what happened in the first two weeks of January and just kinda fill in the story with "Oh, Ayu failed because she wasn't good enough" :|

GUILTY not hitting the #1 was bad predicting on avex's part. If GUILTY was released on 1/9 or something, it'd have been just fine. But they underestimated KOBUKURO's strength. :|

That's not what I was saying... ^^;; I'm saying, Guilty was released and had more time to chart, it hit number #2 when it counted, Mirrorcle World is releasing early(even by a day), which could help or hurt the single.

Either way, I'm looking forward to a good single, and the news of a Depend on you remake will brighten the day of someone who needs it~ ^^

[ayu_fan929]

Originally Posted by GRACE

That's not what I was saying... ^^;; I'm saying, Guilty was released and had more time to chart, it hit number #2 when it counted, Mirrorcle World is releasing early(even by a day), which could help or hurt the single.

The only way GUILTY could've gone #1 was releasing 1 week later. If stores stuck to the 1/1 release, it would've made no difference since it would still be #2.