Do you think Secret will sell more than 1 millon copies?

[s1012h]

YAYAYAYAYA
FULL ALBUM NOW
sooooooo
i'm guessing the sales numbers will be higher now
but whatever, as long as it's a good album
and i would be absolutely SHOCKED if it manages to sell like RAINBOW in terms of first week sales

[freedreamer]

Yes it will!!!...PLZ!!!

So many new stuff coming along...but then again, if people buy her concert DVD, will there be money for the Album?...

Looking on the bright side, this album should beat MU in sales...no doubt...so many secrets within

[immel]

There's only going to be around 50k people buying the DVD at most anyway, and at least nearly a million buying the album, so it won't make much of a difference.

[*Petit*]

Originally Posted by Mad_Cactuar

Hoorible. :x The first Ayu original studio album that won't be in the top 10 of the yearly charts.

yearly 1999:

15 Ayumi Hamasaki LOVEppears
16 Ayumi Hamasaki A Song for XX



Of course , LOVEppears was in the top 20 in 2000 too, and ASFXX was her debut.

And immel, perhaps you would like to make another thread for that? ^_^

[Terri]

Now that it is a FULL album, I'm pretty sure she will sell more than the 'mini-album'.

As for a million, it just may be possible. A lot of people are expecting good material and missing Ayu

[~*Mabushii*~]

Immel:I say 321,469


As for the album??
I have this strong feeling it shall sell more than (m)u 877,433 .. so its likely to me that it will sell at least 100,000 MORE than (m)u... perhaps 977,433.. or a million if we are lucky!

Go ayu go! Go Ayu Go!!

[icy_iven]

i think it will reach millions provided there's a good COVER!
the COVER is the key!

[immel]

People can relax with their guessings as for now, I'll make a thread for it when it's closer to release .

You will need a certain amount of posts in order to guess, so that people can't create endless lumps of accounts to guess with.

[ayu_fan929]

Originally Posted by immel

It was recently said (by ayu_fan929?) that the oricon year will be extended a bit... that sort of leaves Secret hanging. The first two weeks of its sales will be in 2006, and the rest in 2007 ... which will be... not good, I think you can figure.

To be honest I'm not 100% sure myself. I'm still hoping that there was another announcement saying that they decided not to extend the year...

[immel]

I don't think avex would like the idea of releasing the album when there's 2 or 3 weeks left of the oricon year, so we'll probably notice from their moves ... or hopefully hear from oricon again. Thanks for the update.

immel: are you sure it isn't a sham? ¬__<

That's stupid. 2 or 3 weeks left after release? Can you say CLOSE-MINDED?

[immel]

I don't understand what you mean, sham?

Like, are you fooling us with the whole 'buying us the album if we get it right' idea?

[elepop]

Depending on the promotion, it might beat "(m)u" but it doubt it will sale 1,000,000 copies...

[immel]

@Winter - No, I'm very serious about it, but like I said, it's limited to one vote per user, the requirement to participate will probably be something like having 300+ posts.

I will make a thread closer to the release if I remember, I already have the 'thread' written.

Originally Posted by asongforXX

Depending on the promotion, it might beat "(m)u" but it doubt it will sale 1,000,000 copies...

I guess promotion DOES play a big part in it, right?

[pbs1605]

I hope that it does.

[..:Hot:Like:Wow:..]

some people would say i'm in denial or a dreamer but IT WILL sell over 1 000 000 copies. I'M SURE OF IT!!!!!!

Spoiler:

so long as there is no bold & delicious/pride like songs and no crap cover

[isaac hiew]

Ayu is the one of the few japanese artists who can get her albums to sell more than 1 million.... she got some good new songs that will get her somewhere.... so it's really up to us to puch the sales.... but I do not encourage you guys to buy more than one copy or lend them around your friends or even rip them and share them over P2P networks. Recommend it to your friends who wants to have a change from those mainstream western music.

[elvis810]

I truly hope it does