[Koda Kumi] 140th Thread :: 51st Single「愛を止めないで」

[krauterol]

wow... surprisingly bad sales! but at least we know she's the queen of digital charts! AWT spent so much days at #1 position, and it seems like will be on the charts for a long time. I think it's time to unify digital sales with physical since the way people gets music is changing.

[Gustavopc]

^ This. Or at least start publishing the number of downloads that the songs get, not just the ranking and certificates :|

[setsuka]

*lurker*
but does avex have something against her, if you see this weeks ninki she could have gotten a really really easy number one

[Maemi]

Not impressed with the new single. 愛を止めないで sounds like something I've already heard, like a recycled version of her old ballads. The B-side is terrible IMO, but that's not surprising. Such a waste.

[ExodusUK]

Originally Posted by krauterol

wow... surprisingly bad sales! but at least we know she's the queen of digital charts! AWT spent so much days at #1 position, and it seems like will be on the charts for a long time. I think it's time to unify digital sales with physical since the way people gets music is changing.

kana nishino is the queen of the digital charts. period.

[kaled kalil]

2nd day:

43943 平成
9919 ABC
9142 氷川
7351 ポルノ
5942 倖田來未

The sales are worse than alive lol

[ExodusUK]

It might rise, it's still only the second day. I am hopeful for top 3 weekly

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

Well the song -is- kind of boring :/ While the lyrics are pretty good, it's just... not very strong compared to her other winter ballads/ballads in general. And I even love Stay with me, which I feel got so much hate when it was released D:

But considering it's doing well on digital charts, people are definitely liking it haha.

There was also absolutely no hype in Japan surrounding it. Like, I completely forgot it was being released this week.

[ExodusUK]

Is kuu going to release an album at Christmas? I need to save up so much money, i'm dropping nearly $1000 on the ayu trenchcoat

[Minttulatte]

Second day sales are even worse than yesterday O.O How in hell did that happen? D:

[kaled kalil]

I forgot to post, here it is the back of the single. We already saw both photos since they are the postcard bonus of the fanclub.

Spoiler:

Credits; baidu

I don't like the red OBI (Movie Version).
They could at least put other photo there. And inside have a random photo, like the inside photo of Black Cherry's album (http://jpopcdcovers.files.wordpress...._123_105lo.jpg), something that seems like a flower with something that I don't know what it is.

[AyuHamasaki01]

^Gorgeous

[Beauty4123]

wow, the back covers are just beautiful!

[Minttulatte]

I like those back covers very much.

[Ayu_Love]

I agree with krauterol and Gustavopc. It's quite suprising to see Kuu doing not as well on physical sales recently since she usually get's at least #3-#1 (She hasn't had #5 in years), and her physical sales aren't doing so well (I also think CD sales in Japan are going down for everyone due to many CD stores being shut down)...but like they said I think digital sales are becoming the new CD sales. Especially for artist's like kuu, who has a younger generation of fans who perfer to buy digital. So I think I'm not going to try not to worry about physical sales and concentrate more on digital where kuu's fanbase and real buyers seems to be (she probably makes more money from digital sales now). And I agree with Gustavopc, maybe now that digital sales are becoming more popular, they should start to release the amount of downloads like they do sales. That would be really interesting to see considering how well AWT has done on digital charts, I am so proud of her for her chart success, she deserves it. <3

And I'm also wondering if she'll release something else for Christmas...although we'll probably get Dejavu Tour next. But I'll be really happy if she released another cover album (maybe R 'n' B or rock songs). Because I really loved 'ETERNITY ~Love And Songs~', I thought she did an amazing job with it and became a fav of mine. I might go listen to it now.

[omgpeachsnapple]

Originally Posted by kaled kalil

I forgot to post, here it is the back of the single. We already saw both photos since they are the postcard bonus of the fanclub.

Spoiler:

Credits; baidu

I don't like the red OBI (Movie Version).
They could at least put other photo there. And inside have a random photo, like the inside photo of Black Cherry's album (http://jpopcdcovers.files.wordpress...._123_105lo.jpg), something that seems like a flower with something that I don't know what it is.

So. Freaking. Gorgeous.

[Gustavopc]

Originally Posted by Ayu_Love

And I'm also wondering if she'll release something else for Christmas...although we'll probably get Dejavu Tour next. But I'll be really happy if she released another cover album (maybe R 'n' B or rock songs). Because I really loved 'ETERNITY ~Love And Songs~', I thought she did an amazing job with it and became a fav of mine. I might go listen to it now.

I was talking with Kaled these days and we both agreed that Kuu could handle an awesome CDL this year <3 And a CDL was on that quiz that Kuu's staff made in the middle of the year, so who knows?

[emi♡]

tbh, I don't know how she was ever a big seller. Other people in the R&B and hip hop area are crap sellers...

And sorry, I don't really count the kana.

I just gave it up to the fact that she's with avex, and she has a lot of ballad and pop songs.

Her ballads still seem to be the most popular thing Look at how much better this single is doing on the digital charts than the summer single.

And like people said, she JUST had the other single, and this one doesn't really have anything to hype it up...I bet only her hardcore fans really know about this single, and they're the ones who bought it.

And everyone else just goes straight to download cause they like the song lol

[Corvina]

Physical salea are low, but I actually doesn't care.
It just shows Avex they shouldn't release physical singles for Kuu that closely together anymore. And I'm not even sure that's the reason for those sales, LOL.
Before her peak most singles sold about 40k-60k. Nothing really changed, on contrary, today it's more difficult to get those sale numbers, cause pyhsical sales are going down in general.
And the physical release has something to offer, at least there is a first press item and the movie edition has 2 different Anata dake ga versions.
Just sad they put the You are not alone live version down, cause so CD only and CD+DVD have the same tracklist.
Other releases are worse with that, even with other artists.
With Alive/Physical thing it's not the first single doing like that recently, so it's not that of a big deal. At least for me.

Edit:
I'm stupid sometimes, 12 single project singles were limited except 3, sorry. XD
My statement stays the same though, cause before she was selling about the same.

Pop Sister scans:



Just got it yesterday. A little delay, cause it's the last issue of this magazine. *sniff*

Ai wo tomenaide at Happy Music, 09/23:
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/kKpHEHu6emo/

Sales update:
*,*71,911 **1,356 4 TIMES(Poppin' love cooktail feat.TEEDA) / 倖田來未 11/08/17

[ExodusUK]

I don't think Kuu would do a CDL...Kuu and Ayu have an overlap in fanbase..there would be too many people that would want to go to both Kuu and Ayu's show.