[Official Message] 『ayumi hamasaki Rock'n'Roll Circus Tour FINAL ～7days Special～』DVD/Blu-ray！

[Misa-chan]

Originally Posted by TeamAyu2004

^ just the dvd? What group is this??

PLUS! last day in February!! less then a month to go!!

Quite a hot boyband style group from Johnny's Inc.

Originally Posted by Bigtop

They're in Ayu's rights of way! Ayu will NEVER make it #1 with a Johnny's artist releasing on the same day... (And they're releasing a Blu-ray version on the SAME DAY while Ayu's later on in April! Grr you...)

So........... are they releasing on the same day or before ayu? And so what if ayu doesn't make it to the No.1 spot on the DVD list? She doesn't have that record to keep.

Besides, rankings is the LAST thing I worry about when it comes to ayu. I love her music, style and personality, she can drop totally out of the charts and I'll still love her music.

Maybe it's just me, but I honestly don't get what all the hype about rankings everytime something new comes out. Is it that important, people???

[TeamAyu2004]

Originally Posted by Misa-chan

Quite a hot boyband style group from Johnny's Inc.



So........... are they releasing on the same day or before ayu? And so what if ayu doesn't make it to the No.1 spot on the DVD list? She doesn't have that record to keep.

Besides, rankings is the LAST thing I worry about when it comes to ayu. I love her music, style and personality, she can drop totally out of the charts and I'll still love her music.

Maybe it's just me, but I honestly don't get what all the hype about rankings everytime something new comes out. Is it that important, people???

Yes, it is.. if you don't make money for the company then they don't want to keep you, which means less music for her fans. The more number one albums a musician has the more likely they have for staying power and what not.

Which i think ayumi will beat them at the charts... just fyi

[njanjayrp]

Originally Posted by TeamAyu2004

Yes, it is.. if you don't make money for the company then they don't want to keep you, which means less music for her fans. The more number one albums a musician has the more likely they have for staying power and what not.

Which i think ayumi will beat them at the charts... just fyi

1. Ayu has little chances of beating Kanjani8, they are after all a JE boyband, their DVDs and singles rarely sell less than hers, if it was an album, she'd beat them, but singles/DVDs are their territory
2. The position rarely reflects the amount of money someone earns, so while the sales are important, the position is not.
3. Kanjani8 will in no way affect the amount that RnRC dvd will sell.

[sanzo2011]

Originally Posted by njanjayrp

2. The position rarely reflects the amount of money someone earns, so while the sales are important, the position is not.

Totally agree! to me , sales're way more important than her position on chart !

[Misa-chan]

Originally Posted by TeamAyu2004

Yes, it is.. if you don't make money for the company then they don't want to keep you, which means less music for her fans. The more number one albums a musician has the more likely they have for staying power and what not.

I seriously disagree. This is ayu we're talking about. The girl personally selected by avex CEO Max Matsuura, and who still has a close friendship with him after all these years. The woman who has been Queen of Jpop for a decade, and still going strong. The artiste who has sold too many amazing releases with crazy sales to count. The first person who more or less everyone thinks about when we say "Japanese music industry".

Selling well is not an issue anymore. Not making money is not an issue either. ayu is one person who will never be dropped.

Let's not even talk about ayu here. I listen to many other artistes, some of whom have been releasing music for years and years, with number of singles/albums in the Top 5 less than 10 times. But they are still around, releasing wonderful music. An extreme example, look at Perfume. They have been around a decade, and only started selling really well a couple of years ago. And look where they are now, one of the strongest girl groups in Japan. If your theory of "drop an artiste if they don't sell" is true, then Perfume would have been gone long long ago, and we would have lost an awesome group.

The Japanese music industry is about people who have talent and the passion to work hard, not about some silly numbers and charts. That's my honest opinion, and I do hope people would stop thinking that money means everything.