[Charts & Rankings] The IV Oricon Thread of NEXT LEVEL ~Keeps rollin'~

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by lfebaggins

Maybe Karen, I guess we'll see in the long run

Waterballoon, it doesn't have to be that complicated either. Just simply put, Ayu isn't as popular as she used to be and physical album sales in general are on a decline. Less promotion, recession, they can all be excuses but even if those things didn't happen, she probably would have sold around the same amount.

That top 50 albums list kind of goes to show that physical album sales have been steadily declining. There are the few top artists like Mr. Children or EXILE that aren't affected by it but everyone else's have been going down. It makes sense, people would rather digitally download the albums for cheaper than pay for a physical album. The world going digital makes CD sales obsolete, and other things too.

Like streaming websites such as Hulu, where you can watch shows on your computer whenever you like rather than having to watch it on TV on its airing time (unless you have TiVo). You see a lot of TV shows now having less viewers but most of the time its because the networks don't count digital viewing on streaming websites. Why buy CDs or watch TV shows on a television when you can do everything through a computer now?

I think if NEXT LEVEL was released around the same time as GUILTY, it would have better sales because imo NEXT LEVEL is the better album. But as for now, it likely won't reach GUILTY sales, but its reached the standard for present day physical sales.

And considering it's rate at oricon, the single sales and all those tour dates, it seens to be a more popular album than guilty too... Totally agree with u here. People keep comparing Next Level sales with Guilty ones but forgets that everyone was selling better last year... This MEANS something, all the album sales are not declining just because people are not liking the music...

About the promotion... I don't really know if it's bad for ayu to promote less for some time... people already is tired of her, and putting her face everywhere everytime is just going to kill her image there IMO...

If you have a billboard on a place for 3 weeks, you will pay attention at it... if you have the same billboard on the same place for 3 years, it will become part of the landscape and people will not even notice it. This happens to pop artists too

[waterballoon]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

If you have a billboard on a place for 3 weeks, you will pay attention at it... if you have the same billboard on the same place for 3 years, it will become part of the landscape and people will not even notice it. This happens to pop artists too

Excellent point, mate. That's one problem with extensive promotion... I don't know; sometimes it's hard to say if Ayu is losing popularity because she has been *****d out by avex all these years, or some other reason...

And lfebaggins lol, yeah you summarized my post well, and that's the point I'm trying to make. She really isn't getting any popular anymore, and also the sales for physical CDs have been on the downfall, and it's more prevalent now.

But it's just that the promotions issue was brought up so I gave my 2 cents of it.