NEXT LEVEL - Oricon NINKI Chart

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Originally Posted by v3lun420

I'm surprised that Utada's index and Ayu's index are so close together. I mean, usually people say stuff that Utada is strong in Album, but it turns out the index were not so different, only around 7 points apart with Utada's still winning (as expected). But I thought with all the sayings that goes around, I think Utada's index should be much higher than Ayu's. Is Utada losing her popularity? But, anyway it IS a good thing that they are releasing in different weeks, so they both equally have chance to get #1.

I think NINKI's max index is 400 (kinda logical, they survey 400 people from ~69000 oricon members). So anything above 350 is very high indeed.

And dun forget, NINKI is just an indication of how much desire the people want to buy that particular album. It isn't necessarily equal to the sales. Also, they only randomly pick 100 people from each generation (10s, 20s, 30s, and 40s), and within each generation the ratio of male:female is 1:1. It's just a lucky draw to me. If it happens that 400 lucky winners are ALL ayu hardcore fans, then ayu may have a NINKI index 400 in the end.. (well btw the probability for that should be pretty low). But does that mean ayu will get over million sales because getting 400? I dun think so.. .