[Charts & Rankings] A COMPLETE ~ALL SINGLES~ - Oricon Style

[♥ you!]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Basically, for the people who said that it was gonna flop, anything that is under a 600k-700k first week = a flop and total sales of under a million = a flop.

NO WIGGLE ROOM AT ALL.

Everyone is comparing it to BEST FICTION for some reason D: I personally don't think Namie and Ayu should be compared..for anything. Both of them are very different artists/are at very different phases of their career..but that's a whole other discussion.

I had very low expectations for this anyway..so as long as it passes like 500k I'm fine with the sales

[ll moments ll]

it's not doing that bad. honestly, it was expecting numbers around this area for Ayu.

[DA1SUK1DAY01691]

Hopefully it'll rise again. There's no way this album should sell less than 400,000 its first week. It'll probably be strong second next week, which is honestly good enough, considering it's just an "A side" single collection. IF, and this is an IF, she threw in all her single songs, this could have been a pretty dangerous collection. Throw in an online code preview of GREEN (like RAINBOW), she would have been even more deadly.

But overall, it's satisfying sales for a collection after a year.

[Jwiz]

^ Hmm..yea, i agree with you...this is an invomplete AC and these sales figures are already good enough, i guess =/

[jbrat2219]

The higher the standard, the greater the disappointment. Ayu set the standard with her million-selling records, now that they're not breaking a million, some people is disappointed =/. In my opinion, I don't think Ayu is all about selling as much as possible (her record company is) I mean if you think she really gave a damn about sales, she would be not be promoting the hell out of this compilation? I'm sure we could all think of a thousand ways she could promote A COMPLETE to help raise sales, but the fact is she's not. And if what people were saying in previous forums are true, Ayu doesn't even get a lot of money for these sales, so I think the only ones who are hurting is Avex. Ayu is just enjoying her 10th anniversary =/

Even if Ayu doesn't get 500K or however much would be acceptable, I know I bought one, I enjoy it, and that's all that matters to me personally.

[SolarAngel]

Originally Posted by jbrat2219

I'm sure we could all think of a thousand ways she could promote A COMPLETE to help raise sales, but the fact is she's not. And if what people were saying in previous forums are true, Ayu doesn't even get a lot of money for these sales, so I think the only ones who are hurting is Avex. Ayu is just enjoying her 10th anniversary =/

I was wondering about that. Truehappiness posted that she was supposed to perform on music station and fighter and in the end she didn't, not even on those conventional promotion platforms. If i were her, i would perform on 10 different shows and sing 10 single songs, 1 from each album lol...

Are you sure ayu doesn't get a lot of money for her sales RIAA practice is 16.7% of gross sales and then there is contractual cut of net profit and upfront payment on contract. Let's say RIAJ is 10% as a conservative estimate, if ayu sells only 500k of CD+DVD, she's gonna get 0.1 x 4571 x 500k and that's excluding CD only, net profits blah blah. Believe me, she's rich. And she doesn't have to share it like KATTUN, arashi and l'arc en ciel. Why do you think ayu and koda kumi are sort of always listed as the highest earning singers... And yeah, let's enjoy the 10th anniversary with her!

[jbrat2219]

Originally Posted by SolarAngel

I was wondering about that. Truehappiness posted that she was supposed to perform on music station and fighter and in the end she didn't, not even on those conventional promotion platforms. If i were her, i would perform on 10 different shows and sing 10 single songs, 1 from each album lol...

Are you sure ayu doesn't get a lot of money for her sales RIAA practice is 16.7% of gross sales and then there is contractual cut of net profit and upfront payment on contract. Let's say RIAJ is 10% as a conservative estimate, if ayu sells only 500k of CD+DVD, she's gonna get 0.1 x 4571 x 500k and that's excluding CD only, net profits blah blah. Believe me, she's rich. And she doesn't have to share it like KATTUN, arashi and l'arc en ciel. Why do you think ayu and koda kumi are sort of always listed as the highest earning singers... And yeah, let's enjoy the 10th anniversary with her!

I thought I saw people explain that Avex gets most of the profits and Ayu get's a fixed sum based on a contract. Maybe I'm mistaken. But I didn't mean to say she isn't rich.

Glad to see the drop wasn't as tremendeous this time lol Although this seems to be her usual pattern so I'm not worried

[andrepaul]

~510k
compared to others albums, she drop more rapidly.

　　　　　　　  Ayu　　　Mr.Chil   Amuro　　Exile　　 B'z　　 Utada 
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**（水）　　*70,490　　110,574　*77,477　106,465　*79,455　*64,284
**（木）　　*32,420　　*51,261　*50,607　*55,484　*35,261　*50,958
**（金）　　*25,500　　*35,498　*46,343　*36,749　*27,368　*27,386
**（土）　　---,---　　*37.984　*47,011　*38,504　*36,358　*27,990
**（日）　　---,---　　*35,572　*59,929　*45,178　*33,509　*30,965
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指数合計    ---,--- 　409,897　390,654　402,994　328,533　269,281
オリ枚数　  ---,---　 693,038　681,187　680,162　560,857　480,081

[SolarAngel]

Originally Posted by jbrat2219

I thought I saw people explain that Avex gets most of the profits and Ayu get's a fixed sum based on a contract. Maybe I'm mistaken. But I didn't mean to say she isn't rich.

Glad to see the drop wasn't as tremendeous this time lol Although this seems to be her usual pattern so I'm not worried

Not at all probably. Most likely, she get's a fixed sum from the contract and subsequent royalties and she's a solo act so she doesn't share with anyone as the recording artiste. I'll be honest i was dismayed with friday's sales. Tuesday gave me a high but now, i'm kinda feeling deflated. I wasn't expecting this downward spiral and one more thing. Maybe i'm wrong but some people seem oddly satisfied that A Complete is not selling that well. Erm, aren't we all ayu fans here? Even if A Complete doesn't deserve it, wouldn't you be happier if it were selling well than if it wasn't?

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by SolarAngel

Maybe i'm wrong but some people seem oddly satisfied that A Complete is not selling that well. Erm, aren't we all ayu fans here? Even if A Complete doesn't deserve it, wouldn't you be happier if it were selling well than if it wasn't?

No, it's not that we are satisfied, it's that we knew it was going to be like this yet everyone else turned a blind eye and said things like she would beat Namie's first weak, it would sell over a million etc. etc. When anyone that has followed how Oricon goes over the last several years would have known that those things weren't going to happen. A million isn't even possible really at this point unless her sales stabilize at some point and then continue selling like that for several weeks, but that hasn't happened for Ayu in a long time, so don't count on it.

And as to your second question - actually no. And this goes for any artist, not just Ayu - things that deserve it should always sell more than things that don't. (in a perfect world)

She may just barely hit 500k for the first week.(certainly not bad sales, but not awesome either and many people would consider on the low side for a collection such as this.)

[Ayumiko]

Originally Posted by jbrat2219

The higher the standard, the greater the disappointment. Ayu set the standard with her million-selling records, now that they're not breaking a million, some people is disappointed =/. In my opinion, I don't think Ayu is all about selling as much as possible (her record company is) I mean if you think she really gave a damn about sales, she would be not be promoting the hell out of this compilation? I'm sure we could all think of a thousand ways she could promote A COMPLETE to help raise sales, but the fact is she's not. And if what people were saying in previous forums are true, Ayu doesn't even get a lot of money for these sales, so I think the only ones who are hurting is Avex. Ayu is just enjoying her 10th anniversary =/

Even if Ayu doesn't get 500K or however much would be acceptable, I know I bought one, I enjoy it, and that's all that matters to me personally.

yea...I totally agree. If its about the sales and money, she would be doing songs the general public would like rather than the rock influenced songs that she enjoys doing. She sticks with what she likes to do and I respect that...she have her own style...even though ppl complain about her recycling. I also think for those who didn't bought one, shouldn't complain about the sales. I can't believe I missed the mail today! I'll get my copies tomorrow~

[GRACE]

Sales will be sales, but sales don't make an artist.

I personally don't care whether she charts #1 or she doesn't chart at all, as long as she makes quality music, I'll be happy.

[aqua_crystal]

The numbers are going down fast..... O_o

[~X2RADialbomber~]

Why is this a surprise though? Ayu always drops fast on the charts. :\

[Ayumi_lover]

well we have a weekend now, so i hope it would grow up really high)))))

[pommy48]

A COMPLETE 3CD? in taiwan for j/kpop rankings is #7
it's the japan version though

http://www.g-music.com.tw/GMusicBillboard3.aspx

[Aga-chan]

"A (UN)COMPLETE" is actually doing much better than I thought. Considering that most of the songs have already been on a best collection - and some of them even three times already! - those sales are really good. If it weren't for "A BEST II" last year, it probably would have sold much better. Honestly: In what way is it attractive for non-fans anyway? The concert footage and unreleased covers might not be attractive for people, who aren't fans. It's basically for those people, who want an overview of ayu's 10 year career and, of course, her fans.
Also it's 3CD+DVD, meaning: It's not really cheap. So people might consider a second or third time until they are going to buy it.

[bokutachi]

i wish i can buy this but i don't have any money yet

[Foyuki]

Today
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浜崎あゆみ

I'm sure It'll rise up tommorow!!

[ayumisrael]

Until now!! 416,859 in 4 days.

Small drop from yesterday! Just 6000!

Tomorrow are the weekend's sales!

It has 2 more days ^__^.

Today's index btw is 25,500!