[Charts & Rankings] The Official Oricon Thread ~Feel the love / Merry-go-round Single~

[Trinu]

Well, I do lol

First week sales of the solo singles in 2013...

Itano Tomomi - 44,630
Maeda Atsuko - 60,687
Kasai Tomomi - 18,550
Takahashi Minami - 85,493
Watanabe Mayu - 67,329
Kashiwagi Yuki - 65,736
Iwasa Misaki - 18,929
Kuramochi Asuka - 31,424

So yeah, AKB solo acts do well in general (Iwasa Misaki does enka, so low sales are expected, and Kasai does crappy music, so... yeah). They don't have the stellar sales AKB has, but their singles aren't usually tied to gimmicks, so that's reasonable.

To be honest, I was hoping Ayu would do better. She's Ayumi Freaking Hamasaki, the Empress of Pop, and this is what she gets?
I guess the lack of promotion really pays. Morning Musume learnt that the hard way, after years in the dark, they realized they needed to go out and do everything they could if they wanted to be noticed.

Ayu doesn't even look interested in this release, tbh. I don't why she wouldn't sing it at Kouhaku, that would have been some great promo and she gives us INSPIRE... oh, well.