Utada's sales not as good as ayu ? - Page 2

sora-kara · #21 4th October 2005, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

Dareka only had 1 track and the instrumental and sold better. So I don't think the 1 track thing is the major factor here.

The only reason I would have bought the Be My Last single would have been for an instrumental track.
Seeing as it doesn't have that , why bother? The song will probably end up on an album of hers later on. I know a lot of people feel the same.

(if, for some reason, the track doesn't end up on an album, I'm sure a lot of people will go out and buy it.

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Ayumi^_^ · #22 4th October 2005, 02:52 PM

yeah i am pretty suprised too taht Utada's single is has sold below 80k but for a single which only has one track is not worth it at all and i think that is the reason for hikki's poor sales and the introduction of itunes in japan will hurt the sales of the cd even more.

Coelacanth · #23 4th October 2005, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by sora-kara

(if, for some reason, the track doesn't end up on an album, I'm sure a lot of people will go out and buy it.

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Yes, and isn't the song for a movie? I know that Drama songs released as singles sometimes never make it onto the artists' album. Couldn't it be the same for movie themes too?

yufu425 · #24 4th October 2005, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

Exactly. Dareka only had 1 track and the instrumental and sold better. So I don't think the 1 track thing is the major factor here.

I think it's a combination of the 1 track single + iTunes Japan (iTunes wasn't available when "Dareka..." came out last year). Like I said before, if one were given the option between paying 660 yen for a CD single with one song or paying 200 yen for that same one song on iTunes, I'd bet they'd go with iTunes... I'm assuming most of the 80K CD sales this past week came from the CD+DVD combo, seeing as that at least gave some incentive for people to purchase the physical thing...

I really wish there was a place where we could get iTunes/digital download figures... Someone mentioned "Be My Last" selling 250K, which would explain a lot...

marty518 · #25 4th October 2005, 05:41 PM

I bought the "Be My Last" CD because I can't buy from iTunes Japan

If I could, I'd also buy Beni Arashiro's new single that's only on iTunes!!

SunshineSlayer · #26 4th October 2005, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by chocosaki

the music video for Easy Breazy...and YMMWBAM...but that was it.

Yeah, I never saw those music videos actually getting played anywhere though.

ohsixthirty · #27 4th October 2005, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

Yeah, I never saw those music videos actually getting played anywhere though.

same here...never saw easy breezy anywhere at all...i thought it was even hard to find on the net.

elepop · #28 4th October 2005, 10:37 PM

You can't determine who sales more than another by only one single...

greggerz189 · #29 5th October 2005, 02:16 AM

yay! sry, but I really wanted ayu's single to do better. HEAVEN was a better song. IS a better song. XD

emi♡ · #30 5th October 2005, 05:53 AM

i'm glad ayu is doing better...and i think we can all agree that her single held a lot more value...not to be mean.

i have never seen any promotion for Hikki's English album, all i know is that she is releasing it with def jam (right?)

LEOyumi · #31 5th October 2005, 05:01 PM

Wow, what a strange thing, seeing Utada not selling so well o.o But I've seen people saying she lost her place as the J-Pop Queen, it's too early to say that, don't you guy think?

extepan · #32 6th October 2005, 08:00 AM

having just 1 track is surely gonna hurt the sales. i wonder why they do that

Mad_Cactuar · #33 6th October 2005, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by extepan

having just 1 track is surely gonna hurt the sales. i wonder why they do that

yeah, curious.. maybe that had some sort of strategy that we dont know..

No one is THAT stupid to release 1 track singles and expect it to sell a million, unless that song is SAKURA DROPS and it was featured as the theme song for the next Final fantasy!!!

tinyppl · #34 6th October 2005, 11:13 AM

1 track only and it sold 80 000-90 000 o.O hmmm.. is that considered good or bad? Maybe we gotta see in few more weeks time, how it goes.

Mad_Cactuar · #35 6th October 2005, 11:51 AM

^CD singles sell the same amount even if there are instrumentals.. You cant say BML sold well because its a miserable first week number, AI BEAT IT.. If she added extra remixes, then it would have sold more.. Toshiba-EMI was just overconfident, just like AVEX was with Daybreak..

andre2907 · #36 7th October 2005, 04:07 AM

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Originally Posted by yufu425

If I'm not mistaken, the majority of sales went to digital downloads since there was only one track... Which makes sense, cuz who'd pay 660 yen when you could get the one song for 200 yen off iTunes? Didn't someone post a figure of like 250,000 downloads so far for "Be My Last"?

Ditto. 'Be My Last' is the most legally downloaded song in Japan ever and most of the people bought it from iTunes, because it's cheaper. I mean, the Be My Last single was just released so Hikki and Toshiba-EMI could get so money, don't think they were expecting too much from a one track single that you can buy cheaper on the internet. The single was kind of succeful, I mean, 250,000 downloads and japanese people are not even USED to download songs legally because iTunes were released for, like, two weeks..