[Charts & Rankings] Official Oricon Thread ~Rock'n'Roll Circus & ARENA TOUR 2009 NEXT LEVEL~

[dreamland2.0]

I'm pretty sure online sales count for first day sales....
I thought that's how it always was??? 0_o

[ayuinh.k?]

i thought online sales counted for the total estimate of the first week sales or when oricon is still processing the actual sales of the 1st week..=____=

[brener]

hopping for a BOOM tomorrow to sell over 200k in the first week :L

[CHE.R.RY]

Ouch I hope this album makes it past 200k...it doesn't look too good at this point .

[Zeke.]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

But didn't you do this for the Rock'n'Roll Circus album as a whole... and it backfired? -blinks-

Actually I saw the pictures of the PV shoots in the Deji Deji, her blog, and other magazine scans that came about. I also heard the clip for Microphone in the CM and Don't look back prior. I caved and listened to the chaku-uta of Sexy little things for about 30 seconds as well.

See the problem with this album that did it in for me was that my expectations were really different for the songs due to seeing the PV shots. Plus the title "Rock'n'Roll Circus" and how rock Microphone was, the comparisons to MY STORY (which I tried to ignore because I knew if I expected something MY STORY-like I'd be totally disappointed since I always am hoping for another MY STORY), the long production time of the album, the anticipation for the announcement, and so on. If I can stay away from sneak peaks or anything that will cause me to form an expectation/fantasy view of the next album before it's released, then I'm bound to like that much more!

[love in music]

Originally Posted by CHE.R.RY

Ouch I hope this album makes it past 200k...it doesn't look too good at this point .

? Passing 200k will be easy.

[truehappiness]

Ouch I hope this album makes it past 200k...it doesn't look too good at this point .

It seems like you're acting like the first week will be Ayu's overall sales, haha.

Take a look at her single sales:
Sunrise / Sunset - 75,352 first week - 110,169 by the 11th week
You were... / BALLAD - 103,351 first+second week - 118,249 by the 13th week

She will sell more, but the question is how much will she sell?

[sugarbasil]

I'm actually a bit surprised with the sales. I've very realistic generally when it comes to how much she's going to sell, but I honestly thought RnRC would sell more than NEXT LEVEL. I don't usually think the most recent album will surpass the one prior, but this just seemed like a more "Japanese-friendly" CD to me, if that makes any sense. I mean that I think the Japanese would like this CD more than NEXT LEVEL. It had more ballad, more super-pop songs, and wasn't a big leap in style for Ayu. Plus, it had superb PVs (better than NEXT LEVELs), was right before a tour, and had a very Lady Gaga-esk song/video to it (and we know how "in" she is right now).

Well, whatevs. I stopped caring about artists' sales years ago.

[TeddyGrahams]

^ I totally agree with you. I also thought this album blow NEXT LEVEL out of the water.

Just to show, without decent promotion, even artists like AYU will not sell as some others. I'm used to ayu performing songs from the album at least 10 times like Jewel and go on billions of magazines, cms, talkshows... bleh

And for some ppl who thinks ayu doesnt need promotion, that's definitely true. But THIS ALBUM needs promotion to sell well.

I don't really care for sells either. lol! but if ayu keeps selling less and less, avex might make her do something stupid.

[jbrat2219]

Originally Posted by sugarbasil

I'm actually a bit surprised with the sales. I've very realistic generally when it comes to how much she's going to sell, but I honestly thought RnRC would sell more than NEXT LEVEL. I don't usually think the most recent album will surpass the one prior, but this just seemed like a more "Japanese-friendly" CD to me, if that makes any sense. I mean that I think the Japanese would like this CD more than NEXT LEVEL. It had more ballad, more super-pop songs, and wasn't a big leap in style for Ayu. Plus, it had superb PVs (better than NEXT LEVELs), was right before a tour, and had a very Lady Gaga-esk song/video to it (and we know how "in" she is right now).

Well, whatevs. I stopped caring about artists' sales years ago.

I felt the same way! But hopefully, prayerfully, word of mouth will help decrease the depth of the drops. I mean from what I hear the tour looks spectacular, maybe that will also get people to feel, "hey, this album is actually good" and they'll buy it?

[Crystal_Ageha]

Oh, c'mon! Some of you are worried about 200k.. Lol! She only has 20k to get there, so she'll either be extremely close at the end of the week, two more days, or she may even pass it by a few. 200k is no problem. 250k probably isn't even a problem, it doesn't seem. Though, I am worried about 300k........ It all depends on how well the chart life is. >_<


And yay! Slight increase!! Wasn't completely expecting that, but of course, it is very welcomed, hah. And I hope they haven't tallied all online sales yet. I didn't think they did, but now I'm confused, hah.... If they didn't, I'm sure she definitely passed 200k for first week.

[Abby]

I also hope they haven't counted the online sales yet...I really, really want AYU to do as great as possible with this album...
She's doing awesome so far... so... yuppy! LOL
Still #1 ^0^

[joshohhhhh]

she's only like 29k away from next level. this really is not a big deal at all, it's not even a large decline in sales.

[Damita]

Sales for the album are really good I think. She's still clearly really popular and liked and that's all that matters

[truehappiness]

She'll probably get a 10-20k increase after the first 6 days are over, haha.

[~*Mabushii*~]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

She'll probably get a 10-20k increase after the first 6 days are over, haha.

that would be nice.

Still it's still at #1, so she's got #1 for the week in the bag. Which is fabulous. Really? I kind of expected it to sell worse, only because the usual decline year after year. It's not TOO far from NEXT LEVEL. Which is great! and I think that fact says something..

Though I too wish there had been more promotion..

[adantatu2]

I hope she can break the 300k, but that is so hard in this year

[CHE.R.RY]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

It seems like you're acting like the first week will be Ayu's overall sales, haha.

Take a look at her single sales:
Sunrise / Sunset - 75,352 first week - 110,169 by the 11th week
You were... / BALLAD - 103,351 first+second week - 118,249 by the 13th week

She will sell more, but the question is how much will she sell?

LOL I guess that was a little extreme huh? *sweatdrop*

Well it just seems the sales are dropping a bit faster than I thought they would...It's like sugarbasil said, I was kind of expecting this album to do much better than NEXT LEVEL. But I guess it's just the opposite, sales seem to keep falling with each album. Oh well though, it's to be expected..

[Ayu_Ready]

Nl finished near 400k it seems hard to do the same chart life but why not ^^

[truehappiness]

　　ﾈｸﾚﾍﾞ　ﾛｸﾛｰｻｶｽ
月
火 *99,200 *85,142
水 *48,318 *42,288
木 *24,935 *19,693
金 *17,208 *15,297
土 *18,089 *16,737
日 *20,167 *14,841
━━━━━━━━━━━━
計 227,917　 193,998
週 240,810　
累 379,989

If the numbers are real, Rock'n'Roll Circus' weekly total so far is about 34k less than NEXT LEVEL, which imo is really great considering that a lot of artists would kill for drop-offs as small as that.