[Koda Kumi] Walk of Kuu's Life in her 173rd thread!

[sora-kara]

tenso finally accepted that i am who i am. hahaa
but i still cant get mu-mo to accept my 'number' in the address section on the order page.
im using firefox. can anyone help me?

EDIT: i got it to work using a combination of copying+pasting the address from my tenso account, and typing in other parts of it.

so now, i've made my first order through the fan club!

[Dream]

Music Cards are basically useless now that Oricon doesn't count them as sales anymore.

[ALfromHELLSING]

Originally Posted by Corvina

Some news:

- Kuu will be at J-Wave Radio on Tuesday and they will play one new song of the album in full.
- They added 2 Music Cards as editions for the new album, but for FC members only:


http://rhythmzone.net/koda/news/detail.php?id=1019276

Why would they make music card exclusive to a fan club only? Not like it's highly collectible item or anything. So silly. I was thinking of buying it, but instead of buying music card through tenso I'll just album on iTunes since I decided to go fully digital with music. I hope album will be available earlier on iTunes, like some releases before.

[happiholic★]

I don't know what a music card is so I ain't even trippin'.

[Dream]

A music card is a card that allows you to download the album but counts as a physical sale (for Oricon). But since it's much cheaper than the actual album, Oricon has stopped counting them for their reports, which is the reason it's being released to the fanclub only (they assume every member will buy the album anyways).

[ALfromHELLSING]

I just read on fb that it will include only 8 track, which makes music card even more useless. Why would you pay half of the price for half of the album when on iTunes you can do the same and pick your own tracks. Whatever. lol Avex stopped making sense long time ago.

and tenshi no hane thanks for the lyrics translation, beautiful and great message too.

[melissalove]

Originally Posted by Dream

A music card is a card that allows you to download the album but counts as a physical sale (for Oricon). But since it's much cheaper than the actual album, Oricon has stopped counting them for their reports, which is the reason it's being released to the fanclub only (they assume every member will buy the album anyways).

Wait.. so you can download a cheaper version of the album, but it wont be counted towards oricon ( which is important) and they're giving those to her FC which is most of her fan-base. So in other words, most of her fanbase can download cheap uncounted albums. This is bound to hurt overall oricon counted sales. Please tell me i completely misunderstood.

[inthezone]

Who cares about Oricon and their outdated system. Unless they start counting digital sales, they'll remein irrelevant.

[melissalove]

Originally Posted by inthezone

Who cares about Oricon and their outdated system. Unless they start counting digital sales, they'll remein irrelevant.

I guess your right. But whether we like it or not Oricon has a lot of influence in japan.

[Tom Punks]

Originally Posted by inthezone

Who cares about Oricon and their outdated system. Unless they start counting digital sales, they'll remein irrelevant.

How can it be irrelevant when it's the only chart in Japan that's actually relevant lmao

[Dream]

Originally Posted by melissalove

Wait.. so you can download a cheaper version of the album, but it wont be counted towards oricon ( which is important) and they're giving those to her FC which is most of her fan-base. So in other words, most of her fanbase can download cheap uncounted albums. This is bound to hurt overall oricon counted sales. Please tell me i completely misunderstood.

The thing is, nobody really buys music cards for the music itself, they usually just buy it as a collectible or to boost their faves sales (which doesn't work anymore). So I'm pretty sure anyone from the fc who's interested in the album will buy a normal copy.

[happiholic★]

Meh, as long as Kuu keeps making music I'm not too concerned about Oricon and their outdated chart.

[kaled kalil]

I just can't understand why Japan's charts are so outdated. They should have a more simple chart mixing all the sales (physical sales and digital)...

[Bigtop]

Originally Posted by kaled kalil

I just can't understand why Japan's charts are so outdated. They should have a more simple chart mixing all the sales (physical sales and digital)...

Do I have to really say this again? Why is Oricon not really a fan of digital downloads? Do they think there's another organization who tracks digital downloads? Problem is...the digital music download market is fragmented! Recochoku, music.jp, dwango, iTunes, etc...is there such thing as a "unified digital download chart" for Japan???

[Minttulatte]

If there isn't, they should create a chart for digital sales. And that's all. :')

[happiholic★]

The physical CD music market us just as fragmented. One could buy the same CD from a number of different sources. I can't imagine that somehow its harder to report the sales of digital music than it is to report that of a physical CD.

[Fernando]

I just preordered my copy of Walk of My Life so I'm happy!

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

I think I'll pick this up in Japan in June instead of ordering online for once!

[Gustavopc]

Kuu's featuring on Vivi is nothing more than a half page interview with a promo pic of the album, it's not even another shooting or an outtake She's getting so lazy with magazines lately, I used to love all her shoots...

And that pic with a blue dress, with the Dream5 guys, is from a kind of Awards held by Mercedes-Benz, saw it on FB at French Fans Page. So, it's not a TV live :/

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

She's getting lazy with magazines? Did she become editor in chief of vivi and I didn't hear about it? Lol