[Startin' / Born To Be... 1st in Oricon Nikki Chart

[truehappiness]

here is the chart for expectancy :
1 137.3 浜崎あゆみ fairyland
2 106.2 ポルノグラフィティ NaNaNa サマーガール
3 103.8 aiko キラキラ

sales
after 1 day: 78,457
after 1 week: 172,221
after 2 weeks: 234,444
after 3 weeks: 269.487
after 4 weeks: 288,146
after 5 weeks: 297，928
after 6 weeks: 303,960
after 7 weeks: 308,733


Okay. Here you all go~
PLEASE READ THIS! >>

Sales =/= expectancy >>

[hallelujah_united]

It's definitely not a sales/prediction chart anyway.

Let's hope B&D's low sales was just a one-off. These are rather bad times for Ayu and J-pop in general.

[truehappiness]

Not really. I think the Koda bug has infected j-pop! HAHAHA.

I'm joking, you know? :]

[ayu_fan929]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Born to Be..- HELLO OLYMPIC COVERAGE ON NTV. >> I think that's enough to attract a few thousand. And the promotion was sort of low due to lack of time. The woman has a huge tour coming up~

but then again, japan only won 1 medal at the olympics. but o well, maybe they played it alot cos it was a gold medal....

[Nu-NRG]

Like the couple of replies mention:

This is the MOST ANTICIPATED CHARTS!!!11!!!11!!11!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!

jeeze people...

[truehappiness]

>>

they don't play the THEMESONG OF THE OLYMPICS only when people win, jeez, It was probably on every time there was olympic coverage in the background + more.

[truehappiness]

Help please.



What are the translations for this? Startin' is low on it~ X3

Just wondering.

[minkAYuko]

I wonder why some ppl assume that everyone here speaks japanese? gosh -_-

sankyou for the info Truehappiness!

[*Petit*]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

They aren't predictions.

Just some indication of the 'WANT' for the single.

I guess you could say its sort of like, the demand based on a certain number of people.

but it's definitely not sales predictions. B&D got in the high high 100s.

And look at its sales.

And about Startin/Born to Be not getting promotion;;

Startin - the game it was for sold about 240k copies plus! and more [I only saw first week sales] and it was in CMs..


This single will probably either do exceptionally well, or average for Ayu.

Only reason B&D did so bad compared to the others is because (m)u was already to come out and it was like 'what's the point? x.x' Sort of like HAVING TO BUY A STUPID SINGLE EVERY WEEK WHEN YOU KNOW IT'LL BE ON AN ALBUM x.x
Well, not really. But it could be like that. [Hopefully, Ayu doesn't pull that yucky butt stunt. It's a one time thing.]

LOL! Like Kumi a lot now-a-days yes?

I think startin' may sell as much, or better than STEP you. The songs are nice, Startin' is very catchy and it has been getting a lot of promotion.

[cleftjuston]

i hope it sells 250k first week!

[ayu_fan929]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

>>

they don't play the THEMESONG OF THE OLYMPICS only when people win, jeez, It was probably on every time there was olympic coverage in the background + more.

ok, no need to have a spaz attack. wut i meant was were ppl even interested in the olympics seeing how japan performed badly at the olympics? thus not actually hearing the song?

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Help please.



What are the translations for this? Startin' is low on it~ X3

Just wondering.

they broke this down into age group. kinda surprised that she only appeared in 2 age groups yet she got #1. the 2 groups were:
age 10-19: #5 (0.57 rating)
age 40-49: #4 (0.63 rating)

[freedreamer]

The songs are gd...So why won't this single do well?...Even if the PVs are weak they can always buy the CD only version...

The songs are just Wow!...The composer is known for composing STEP you, criminal and for BoA...That's already some publicity even by looking at the composer..

Then u have the game...Which is another hit..

Then the Torin Olympics which is a big event and Born To Be... is the theme song for it in Japan...Thats big big publicity...

I think this single will do well....But judging on the sales of ALL female artistes now, if it hits a "STEP you" sales standard, i think its gd already

[Mad_Cactuar]

Originally Posted by hallelujah_united

Let's hope B&D's low sales was just a one-off. These are rather bad times for Ayu and J-pop in general.

I agree. If sales are low too I won't be surprised. However the pic Truehappiness posted gives me a bad feeling.. o___o

[ayu_fan929]

Originally Posted by freedreamer

Then the Torin Olympics which is a big event and Born To Be... is the theme song for it in Japan...Thats big big publicity...

actually its only for a TV network, not for the entire country...

[~Matt~]

Let's hope it will do well at the charts

[LacusClyne]

it will, this time all the songs on this single is great, it should do well! i can't wait to see the chart when it's out!

[darkswordz]

I think it should be able to perform well, considering the fact that Startin' is the theme song for the game DAWN OF DREAMS.
Is this game very popular in Japan?

[truehappiness]

Ooo most likely the song will be in the American version of Dawn of Dreams~ :p

Unless they cheapen themselves out >[

[Sweer]

Originally Posted by etheruraura

These numbers are not sales predictions. Oricon just randomly calls up about 400 people or so, and asks them which release they are looking forward to/most excited about for the upcoming week. They then somehow turn the results into numbers.

ah I see, so this is rather representative
hmm hope this turns out true

[[ Melinda ]]

I hope this will do better than any of the singles last year! ^__^ I think it has been promoted quite well, it really has a possibility to do that. But this single seems like have been seperated opinions, some people love it to death, some people hate it. I think it will be an amazing single, it could have been better, but still very good. Let's just hope that most of the people are on the love-side.