[12/4] ORICON "Secret" 1st Week Sales [See P.7 post 130]

[Cyria]

I think this is a great album and that's what matters most, but because I like it so much I'd also really hoped that it would sell more than this and be on the MY STORY level.

[bluegie]

well i dun think i have anything to deny. I expected that this album either had a wow sale (over 650K) or a constant decline (around 400K) on the first week. Since (m)u sold around 450K on the first week (combined with 2nd week sales = 650K shown on oricon), so it's not surprised to see her next album selling around 400K.

[immel]

Originally Posted by namiie

Yeah, I think it's 386,000. It's not terrible but I think the album will definitely continue charting a lot, and maybe hit over 1,000,000....we can only hope!

Hahaha, seriously, people should have dropped the hopes about a million sales completely by now .

Originally Posted by //hikari

lol some of you should post in the 'comfort food' topic in the chat section.

your comfort food of choice : denial.

That just makes me smile.

[bluegie]

Originally Posted by immel

Hahaha, seriously, people should have dropped the hopes about a million sales completely by now .

yeah... and probly we can aim for 800K from now on LOL

[immel]

Originally Posted by bluegie

yeah... and probly we can aim for 800K from now on LOL

800k for this album would be a lot, though. I made my prediction a few pages earlier. I doubt she can keep the 2nd week sales so high so that it'll make it to 800k in total.

[bluegie]

hmmn... I dunno... if she can make it to a total of 550K next week, I would be happy..

[immel]

Considering she almost never had a 2nd week drop better than 70%, that's dreaming.

[*Petit*]

Honestly, I do believe this album has at least a little bit more staying power than (m)u had. COnsidering how fewer singles have been released and how perhaps if some word spread that the album is quite good (if the general opinion will be that way).

If not then the "Secrecy" promotion strategy has failed. =P

[immel]

True, the word-of-mouth might still have some power.

We'll see how the second week looks, the album tracks really is different as compared to what tracks has been promoted this year.

[criminal]

If Hikki's first week with ULTRA BLUE was just over 500k and the second week was over 150k, then I predict that the second week for Secret will be quite similar to the second week (after the combined week) of (miss)understood. Around 450k for two weeks is my prediction. (Of course, with that kind of prediction I'm practically begging to be positively surprised after the official second week sales are announced. )

[ayu_fan929]

iTunes has less than a 10% share of the digital music market in Japan.

I guess we'll just have to see how the individual tracks do (ie: JEWEL) on Chaku-Uta

[immel]

Originally Posted by ayu_fan929

I guess we'll just have to see how the individual tracks do (ie: JEWEL) on Chaku-Uta

Are the digital sales numbers released nowadays?

[ayu_fan929]

No. Just the certifications (ie: Gold, Platinum etc.) by the RIAJ. I'm starting to doubt that Oricon will even start recording those sales now.
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On the bright side, JEWEL is #1 in full song DLs on Chaku-Uta and 1 LOVE is #37.
http://recochoku.jp/recochoku_ranking/full.html

[My Rainbow]

I don't think this sales are true, but if they are, Secrets needs to be consistent on charts!

[immel]

@ayu_fan - momentum is also on there as number 24.

61. Secret

[ayu_fan929]

^Thanks. I just quickly skimmed through the list.

[immel]

ctrl-f "浜崎あゆみ" helps lots .

[*Auralie*]

have you ever considered that the sales might increase around christmas, I mean, there could be some who added it to their wishlist instead of buying it now (app. 3 weeks before christmas).
lets wait for the final results

[~X2RADialbomber~]

Hahahah this is utterly hilarious! I told you that you guys shouldn't expect million breakers

[immel]

*Auralie*, Japan isn't a Christian country, celebrating Christmas is not a big thing there. Not many families do by what I understand.

Celebrating Christmas is a Christian tradition.

They're trying to make it a tradition, though. The companies in Japan know how insanely much they'd earn of getting a tradition like that going, so they're working on it.