[Namie Amuro] The 96th Thread ♛ Queen's Farewell 〜Compilation, Tour & Retirement〜

[DevilsClap]

Originally Posted by snowo

she kind of uses that hairstyle very often

I personally love this mohawk hairstyle on her

[Chibi-Chan]

Does anyone else feel as if the album title actually says "FINALLY I can quit this shit"?

[prussian blue]

Originally Posted by Chibi-Chan

Does anyone else feel as if the album title actually says "FINALLY I can quit this shit"?

Can you celebrate ~that I retire~ version

[thinkingoutloud89]

Originally Posted by Chibi-Chan

Does anyone else feel as if the album title actually says "FINALLY I can quit this shit"?

that joke is as old as the title...
It does not relate to the Finally lyrics...so no

[Corvina]

Originally Posted by thinkingoutloud89

that joke is as old as the title...
It does not relate to the Finally lyrics...so no

We already had that.
You can read it like that.

I love the sales!
I'm just sad she needed a big retirement annoucement to achieve them.

[Maemi]

Originally Posted by Corvina

We already had that.
I'm just sad she needed a big retirement annoucement to achieve them.

Well, nobody is able to achieve those sales nowadays except perhaps AKB48 but they also use various tricks so...

[Chibi-Chan]

Originally Posted by thinkingoutloud89

that joke is as old as the title...
It does not relate to the Finally lyrics...so no

If this one was old, I'm sorry, but why don't just ignore it? I don't think I have to go through an entire thread to search for a simple joke so that people won't have to see the same joke twice. I just downloaded the album, had to laugh because of the title like I had to since I first saw it and made an old joke in a forum I used to laugh by myself and I didn't knew was old in said forum.

[thinkingoutloud89]

^you never know. There is no normal best of released by her. It could have been huge. Not as huge obviously but i kinda think BEST FICTION already showed what she could be capable of. That vogue article on the page before illustrates that very well.

[Maemi]

Yeah but Best Fiction was like... what, almost 10 years ago? Artists were selling better then obviously. I don't think it's sad that she managed these numbers because of her retirement. It means that people care.
I wonder if Ayu would manage the same hype though.

[Cahz-]

I think an All Time Best album by Ayu would sell like 30k in the first day. Namie has had 1 monster hit this decade (Love story) and many other hits like Hero, Mint, TSUKI, and so on; while Ayu's biggest hit this decade is progress, which was certified platinum.
By the way, people were telling this album price was cheap for containing 50+tracks? I think that was a very smart move.

[Maemi]

Yeah, Love Story was her last single that sold 100k+

[Cahz-]

Originally Posted by Maemi

Yeah, Love Story was her last single that sell 100k+

Was it? I was referring to its digital performance, it spent like two years in Recochoku top ten

[Maemi]

Oh, ok xD

btw, the only new songs that I like are Showtime and Finally. The others are really meh. But I'm really enjoying the new recordings of her old songs, especially Disc 1 and Dr!

[thinkingoutloud89]

^hu? I actually don't see whats your problem here exactly. Its quite natural for someone to sell so much because there are so many factors coming together in such an album. The market shifts...but Japanese physical sales still work quite well compared to the Korean physical sales. I guess everything is alright.

[Gustavopc]

I think she ment it's sad you have to announce you're retiring to get people to buy your stuff once again and while you were constantly putting out new things people just didn't bother. It's not sad the retiring bests sold well, but only them.

[Corvina]

Originally Posted by Gustavopc

I think she ment it's sad you have to announce you're retiring to get people to buy your stuff once again and while you were constantly putting out new things people just didn't bother. It's not sad the retiring bests sold well, but only them.

That's exactly what I meant.

[melissalove]

Originally Posted by Gustavopc

[B]I think she ment it's sad you have to announce you're retiring to get people to buy your stuff once again and while you were constantly putting out new things people just didn't bother. It's not sad the retiring bests sold well, but only them.

I’m sorry what?? Hero, mint and fighter did ok. How did people not buy her stuff, I don’t get it. I could get it if this were kumi or ayu but namie Nah.

[oaristos]

Originally Posted by melissalove

I’m sorry what?? Hero, mint and fighter did ok. How did people not buy her stuff, I don’t get it. I could get it if this were kumi or ayu but namie Nah.

Exactly, they did "ok" and that's all. I think what people here are trying to say is that there needs to be an extraordinary event for an album to sell 600,000+ in two days, which is true. Namie is a very popular artist and her compilation would have sold pretty well regardless (see Ballada, for example), but it wouldn't have sold that much if it wasn't for her retirement.

Please, don't understand that as a way of diminishing Namie's achievement. She deserves all the success and sales in the world, but what we're trying to say is that it's sad these extraordinary sales only happen under extraordinary circumstances. Namie deserves to sell one million copies always.

[KarenPang]

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[thinkingoutloud89]

^yeah, I got that and it is just not true. Namie was amongst the best selling female solo acts these last few years. Not only physically but also digitally.

That this album was going to have sales beyond the usual level was quite clear. If it was an original album it would probably be around 200 - 300 k and that would have been awesome.