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

[freedreamer]

ok wait...so (m)u 's sales of 6_ _ k was the total of 2 weeks? yes yes?

does sales really means so much to you guys?
did u all listen to ayu bcos she's famous and all?
pls don't insult ayu's music, bcos of low sales she shd retire.

i dont listen to AYu coz she is famous...coz she is gd! her music and her is gd...despite low sales, if she enjoy singing i think she should pursue it..not quit coz of other competition and low sales...

[ohsixthirty]

38.6 million...hahahaha! i wish.

oh well, 386,000 is ok if its true. i did hope for a little bit more too, but whatever.

[yamogi]

That news is now removed, maybe there're something wrong with the data. at least that's what I hope...

voice in mind:
(please be wrong!!!!!! I beg....)

L O L at everyone who is 'crying' because of it.


Sales are important. Maybe not to you all, but for the artist they are. Even if it was your favorite artist a record company isn't going to keep them around with weak sales. They need to make money.

boohoo.

[ohsixthirty]

Originally Posted by //hikari

L O L at everyone who is 'crying' because of it.


Sales are important. Maybe not to you all, but for the artist they are. Even if it was your favorite artist a record company isn't going to keep them around with weak sales. They need to make money.

boohoo.

yep, that is true. sales are very important...afterall, a record company isn't going to release albums that no one is buying, just look at what happened to her remix albums afterall.

[ayu1m]

lol

So there's nothing to worry.. yet at least.

Great (:

[AyUmIXx]

one week for 300++ K? that's quite good, or not?

[freedreamer]

well (m)u was a new year album so two weeks of sales was revealed at a go..so i tot it was first week with 654k sales...my bad...

i guess this is the first time im seeing the first week actual sales (sry) so im shocked and disappointed...i hope the sales go up a bit more for the second week...and beat (m)u's 654k and continue progressing like MY STORY's sales did...MS's two weak sales aint as gd as (m)u's but still managed to get 1 mill...

ganbatte Secret! (i have the urge now to go to japan to get some copies for my friend lol)

[AyUmIXx]

one week for 300++ K? that's quite good, or not?

[immel]

Originally Posted by AyUmIXx

one week for 300++ K? that's quite good, or not?

Depends on what you make it in your head.

If you want you can cry because it's bad.

If you want you can be happy because it's good.

If you want you can also do like me and not care less about if it's good or bad, it's a number and Ayumi will keep on singing and making music.

[Dgirl]

ohooooooooooooo...................
unbelievable! "secret" is an amazing~and much better than (m)u.........
why did it get so low,actually extremely low, sales! It couldn't be!! (cry+ ing)

[Psychotic_X]

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I was very disappointed... this album is quite good and it was anticipated by many esp. after the lack of singles this year...
It seems Japan's sales are just plummeting.. I wonder if anyone can get sales like the old days...

[elepop]

Originally Posted by Psychotic_X

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I was very disappointed... this album is quite good and it was anticipated by many esp. after the lack of singles this year...
It seems Japan's sales are just plummeting.. I wonder if anyone can get sales like the old days...

In my opinion, unless it's a best-of album, not very likely...

[immel]

Originally Posted by Psychotic_X

I wonder if anyone can get sales like the old days...

The two persons who ever had that high sales was Utada and Ayumi, if both of them has dropped this low and the rest of the market is as low as them, we have yet to see how Black Cherry does, it seems that no, no one can.

The only possibility would be if there appears another new artist who has a even huger breakthrough than Ayumi or Utada had back then, but it's hard because CDs is a aged media to release music on. People are much less interested in buying CDs. Back then CDs was the thing to have, it isn't anymore.

[Akutenshi]

Okay, I don't post on this site too often, but I felt like i had to today after reading this thread.

Some of you fans are way too spoiled and need to seriously calm down. Crying and overreacting about these sales is ignorant. Sure, she may not sell like she used to, but come on, nobody does. Accept the fact that after 8 years, she can STILL sell. If she's still around, she's popular, stop taking things for granted.

Sales are important, yes, but she's selling well. And stop accusing people of not supporting her. 386,000 people did. That's quite a lot.

[KyahRyorin]

Originally Posted by Akutenshi

Okay, I don't post on this site too often, but I felt like i had to today after reading this thread.

Some of you fans are way too spoiled and need to seriously calm down. Crying and overreacting about these sales is ignorant. Sure, she may not sell like she used to, but come on, nobody does. Accept the fact that after 8 years, she can STILL sell. If she's still around, she's popular, stop taking things for granted.

Sales are important, yes, but she's selling well. And stop accusing people of not supporting her. 386,000 people did. That's quite a lot.

I agree with your first statement. She can still sell, even after 8 years, which is longer than the Backstreet Boys. XD It's very good that she can still sell and have loyal fans. ^^

Um, may I just ask who accused who of not supporting her? From what I read, there was no "OMGYOUREAHORRIBLEPERSONCUZYOUHATEAYUANDDONTSUPPOR THER!!!!!!!!!1!!!3!!!" so I fail to see where the accusing started. That could just be me though.

[s1012h]

aww a bit disappointing since we all expect ayu to at least sell 500,000 copies first week
but whatever, Secret's an amazing album, and soon fans who did not buy the CD will realize

[greggerz189]

386k sounds about right.

[immel]

My predicted sales, based on how BLUE BIRD's weekly drops looked:

2nd week: 116k
3: 46k
4: 23k
5: 13k
6: 9k

Final: not too much above 600k

I'm hoping for somewhere near 800k, but that'd need a way higher 2nd week.

[KyahRyorin]

It's a shame, really, I was hoping for better sales, but you have to think... Martin has a huge point here.

I don't know how many of you attend college, but almost EVERY kid at my college here has an iPod. They don't buy CDs anymore, they just purchase the CD from the iTunes store and listen to it from there. Martin is right, people have just stopped wanting to buy CDs now that mp3 players are out. CDs over time wear out, and then you either have to consistenly clean them or throw them out and buy a new CD, which will just repeat the process. mp3s, since they are saved on a hardrive and are very little in memory, can be saved and have high quality for a LONG time. Which is the better deal here? I think all of you know.

Now I'm not saying that we should all stop buying Ayu's CDs and just buy her album from online for our mp3 players, but you sometimes have to think beyond what media is being promoted. XD If that made any sense.

Oh, and please don't flame me for my statement. I support Ayu 1500% with her love of music and her spirit, and I've already bought 3 albums and a single from her. So there.