[Charts & Rankings] The Official Oricon Thread ~A ONE~

[melissalove]

Originally Posted by orbitalaspect

Nope.

FINISH HER.

Ayumi sells two more copies of A ONE

FATALITY.

Edit: It's still cool that this is the first year since 2006 that Ayu has managed to outsell a Koda record. That is worth applauding because it is a very, very rare occurrence in the industry. The only other person logging better sales in this genre is Namie, but she had to do a complete career make-over. It's a bit competitive, sure, but for all the crap Ayu gets from every direction for making stale music, it says something about Ayu's talent when she can outsell another diva's record in half the time, even if by a margin of 2 copies.

Did I understand correctly or I need glasses. Did you just say that this is the first year since 2006 that ayu has outsold kuu. WAIT, WHAT!!

[KuuXAyu-fan]

Originally Posted by melissalove

Did I understand correctly or I need glasses. Did you just say that this is the first year since 2006 that ayu has outsold kuu. WAIT, WHAT!!

Not true. Love Songs released in December 2010 (counted for Oricon 2011) outsold Kuu's Dejavu. So it's since 2011. Not sure where the "in half the time" part comes from since WOML has been charting for 10 weeks on Oricon while A One has 7. In the end the gap will probably be between 1000-2000 copies. Don't think it says anything about either of their talent. However in my eyes what it does say is that despite being in the business for 15 years (17 for Ayu) the fact that they can still sell/ship 50k of their records and place Top 5 is awesome to me. Especially considering Ai Otsuka's last album sold 4k and BoA's sold around 13k and both were big competition for Ayu/Kuu just a few years ago.

[njanjayrp]

Originally Posted by KuuXAyu-fan

Not true. Love Songs released in December 2010 (counted for Oricon 2011) outsold Kuu's Dejavu. So it's since 2011. Not sure where the "in half the time" part comes from since WOML has been charting for 10 weeks on Oricon while A One has 7. In the end the gap will probably be between 1000-2000 copies. Don't think it says anything about either of their talent. However in my eyes what it does say is that despite being in the business for 15 years (17 for Ayu) the fact that they can still sell/ship 50k of their records and place Top 5 is awesome to me. Especially considering Ai Otsuka's last album sold 4k and BoA's sold around 13k and both were big competition for Ayu/Kuu just a few years ago.

BoA and especially Otsuka were relevant way shorter than the other two. TBH back in 2003 I would've thought Ku would end up like BoA, I was wrong though as it seems she still has a relatively strong following which, in Japan, seems to be pretty hard.

[luna7996]

Originally Posted by KuuXAyu-fan

despite being in the business for 15 years (17 for Ayu) the fact that they can still sell/ship 50k of their records and place Top 5 is awesome to me.

17 years!