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I think she could get some new fans with this album, some songs sound like nothing else in her discography so people who don't like her other stuff might like it. I think they should take a chance and spend more money and promote it more.
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I know she's been focusing on her fans a lot... eh, maybe she was on TV more because her fans missed seeing her on TV. lol
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The thing about A BALLADS is that it was a "BALLADS BEST" aka "remix album" imo.
A lot of the songs on it were retailored and there were SEVERAL recuts from RAINBOW. I felt that the album was simply a single that had 10+ other tracks on it but cost as much as an album... or was a remix album with some new tracks on it, haha. Bolded are "remixes/rearranges" and italicized are new tracks. Quote:
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^ That's why I didn't buy A BALLADS lol. It's a big rip off for me
![]() ![]() @ identity: For an old artist (not his/her age btw) to attract new fan is a pretty difficult thing. It's easier to attract the long gone hardcore fans back to the fanworld (in ayu case, the ones who left after 2003..?).
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While now days physical sales can show you if a person/an artist is popular, the digital sales will show you if their actual songs are popular or not. When it comes to JE groups, I think their original studio album sales show what people really think about their music. |
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^I forgot to include JE studio albums
![]() So... does that mean microphone is pretty popular in Japan?? ![]() ![]()
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^ that remains to be seen
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![]() About the JE thing - I don't think their album sales are a good indicator of how popular they are or not. Johnny's has rarely if ever had high original album sales for any group, but there is no doubt that groups like SMAP, Kinki, Arashi etc are indeed extremely popular with the general public. The albums just have a very bad reputation of being filled with filler songs that are no where near as good as the single tracks. (which is usually true.) I wouldn't buy them and I'm a fan, haha. |
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Hmm about digital sales... I think for now, even though physical sales have been on a downward trend and Ayu isn't 'doing as well as she used to', but she's still among the top for physical sales, at least for female solo singers.
But, if we factor in digital sales, then honestly Ayu's gonna plummet down in her ranking because there are many other artistes out there who had much better digital sales than Ayu. Digital sales may be a good indicator for popularity, but it certainly wouldn't help Ayu. And lol about the million-sales thing... it's pretty rare already isn't it? It seems like the artistes who can pull off the million-sales are the bands who really appeal to Japan as a whole, and not a niche group. Mr. Children & GReeeeN appear to be such artistes/bands who have such an appeal, so... Just praying Rock 'n' Roll Circus surpasses the sales for NEXT LEVEL, although I don't think that's very possible.
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#450
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^ I hope that it does surpass Next Level because I feel this is a much better album overall. But I doubt it will happen considering the sales trends, which is unfortunate.
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#451
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She was on top last year for female soloists in both chaku uta and chaku uta full which was surprising imo. Trailed by Kana Nishino for regular chaku uta though. (top 5 placement, basically, under the juggernauts) Her massive discography helps, I suppose, with people buying from both the past and present works, giving her a higher total than someone who had one million selling chaku uta or whatever.
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Digital sales is a weird thing compared to normal physical sales.
A song with really high digital sales doesn't necessarily translate to the popular indicator for an artist. It general indicates how well that particular song is received by the general public. On the other hand, it does somehow estimate the popularity for artists with established fame. Whether the song is popular or not, there'll always be a portion of casual listeners who willing to pay for those artists to download the songs. Unlike unknown artists who may probly disappear once their one hit wonders are gone. You know, if a bunch of people rush to download a popular artist's digital, at least it means he or she is still quite popular rite?
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Yeah I'm still happy that she's doing good with the chaku-uta.. But physical sales are declining ? yes
![]() It's kinda normal in this time, I mean look at Tohoshinki's best album which only sales around 500K when artists as famous as them can easilly pass 1million on the past time Not saying bad things about the band, just trying to compare so please don't get me wrong |
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![]() I didn't say they are not popular, I said their songs aren't that popular, with arashi and SMAP obviously being an exception, I am pretty sure the last real hit NEWS had was weeek and I am pretty sure people don't like Yamapi for his amazing vocal skills ^^ Do you remember the yearly Recochoku rankings? Plummet you say? Regardless of what songs actually made her rank that high, the fact is, she is obviously doing very well digitally. I actually missed you btw~ it's nice to have an actual conversation again~ As Tal and th posted: Quote:
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I agree though that a song's success digitally is showing how much a cerain song is popular and not often the artist though an artist can have some digital hits in a row because he became a "popular digital selling artist" kind of like Kana and JUJU who do better digitally~
Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ overall had over 750,000 legal downloads and it's ayu's highest popular song since Together When... back in December 2007. It doesn't mean though that the next album for example (unfortunately) will sell like GUILTY did or that ayu's popularity increased (and that goes for everyone with digital hits). Another example is kuu's new best. Her best album (besides that it was released with an additional studio one) had many digital (and some were phyiscal) hits she had but it didn't really help though it might be because non of them were from the last year. So the point is that digital hits don't always help or show popularity of an artist. It does clearly show a popularity of a song. I'm glad to see though that people want to see Rock'n'Roll Circus to outsell NEXT LEVEL! It really does look like it's going to be a way better album with a greater effort and an overall of a high musical quality. I highly doubt it will outsell NEXT LEVEL unfortunately. |
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#457
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All I expect from this album is 250k-300k, haha.
Anything better will be amazing!
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![]() And yeah, I missed you too. ![]() But anyways, yeah she actually did quite a bit of promo for You Were and Sunrise/Sunset, however it didn't really seem to have a dramatic effect on her sales. So unfortunately Ayu does kind of seem to be at the place where promo no longer really helps her that much - it can't hurt though. Last edited by SunshineSlayer; 29th March 2010 at 10:37 AM. |
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Anyway, I'm hoping Rock 'n' Roll Circus at least breaks 300k... the sales for other female solo artistes have been shocking to say the least for this year and I'm kind of worried, but it's Ayu after all, so I have faith!
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