[Charts & Rankings] Official Oricon Thread ~Rock'n'Roll Circus & ARENA TOUR 2009 NEXT LEVEL~

[bluegie]

85K is a good number. Remember there are practically 2 versions of R'n'RC (the box set will be sold out really fast and will not affect future sales figures), while NL had 3 covers, and a unlimited USB version.

My guess is that R'n'RC will hit over 200K on the first week.. hopefully.. .

[truehappiness]

To put things into perspective: Ayu's first day sales place her in the top 36 of the yearly 2010 Oricon album sales chart.

Spoiler:

*1 *,557,374 **1,500 PAST<FUTURE / 安室奈美恵 09/12/16
*2 *,516,787 **5,706 BEST SELECTION 2010 / 東方神起 10/02/17
*3 *,502,952 **5,954 ハジマリノウタ / いきものがかり 09/12/23
*4 *,456,112 *13,315 ファンキーモンキーベイビーズBEST / FUNKY MONKEY BABYS 10/02/10
*5 *,423,096 **5,429 5years / 木村カエラ 10/02/03
*6 *,367,306 **1,762 愛すべき未来へ / EXILE 09/12/02 累計1,264,401
*7 *,352,847 **2,792 BEST～third universe～ & 8th AL "UNIVERSE" / 倖田來未 10/02/03
*8 *,284,113 ***,700 あの･･･こんなんできましたケド。 / 遊助 09/12/16
*9 *,221,078 **4,989 All the BEST！ 1999-2009 / 嵐 09/08/19 累計1,653,859
10 *,180,461 **2,189 リサイタル / ヒルクライム 10/01/13
11 *,168,262 **1,251 Every Best Singles ～COMPLETE～ / Every Little Thing 09/12/23
12 *,165,849 **2,877 スポーツ / 東京事変 10/02/24
13 *,158,511 ***,599 What's flumpool！？ / flumpool 09/12/23
14 *,153,961 **2,627 いままでのA面、B面ですと！？ / GReeeeN 09/11/25 累計530,385
15 *,153,562 *31,901 ONE PIECE MEMORIAL BEST / Various Artists 10/03/17
16 *,152,889 **7,239 うれしくって抱きあうよ / YUKI 10/03/10
17 *,142,745 ***,*** Olympos / LANDS 10/01/13
18 *,142,739 **7,505 The Fame Monster / Lady Gaga 09/11/18 累計201,169
19 *,140,517 ***,753 JUST BALLADE / MISIA 09/12/16
20 *,138,033 ***,987 Whistle / HY 10/01/27
21 *,135,541 135,541 BABY / aiko 10/03/31
22 *,124,097 **1,754 Michael Jackson's THIS IS IT / Michael Jackson 09/10/28 累計428,746
23 *,120,618 **2,699 夢やぶれて(I Dreamed A Dream) / Susan Boyle 09/11/25 累計208,417
24 *,114,971 **1,793 ayaka's History 2006-2009 / 絢香 09/09/23 累計901,628
25 *,109,911 **3,944 QUADRINITY～MEMBER'S BEST SELECTIONS～ / L'Arc～en～Ciel 10/03/10
26 *,104,289 **4,057 Journey / 清水翔太 10/03/03
27 *,103,565 *20,289 ∠TRIGGER / ポルノグラフィティ 10/03/24
28 *,102,201 ***,879 The Element Of Freedom / Alicia Keys 09/12/16
29 *,*97,898 **2,507 BELIEVE / Orianthi 10/01/27(輸09/10/30) 累計102,329
30 *,*94,437 **2,129 KING OF POP -JAPAN EDITION / Michael Jackson 08/09/24 累計571,683
31 *,*93,610 ***,607 Noriyuki Makihara 20th Anniversary Best LIFE / 槇原敬之 10/01/01
32 *,*91,138 ***,*** NEXT FUTURE / GIRL NEXT DOOR 10/01/20
33 *,*87,639 ***,452 Noriyuki Makihara 20th Anniversary Best LOVE / 槇原敬之 10/01/01
34 *,*85,800 *12,976 JUJU / JUJU 10/03/17
35 *,*82,324 **3,022 花鳥風月 / レミオロメン 10/03/03

From Mr_Children.

This does not include AKB's latest best.

[bluegie]

wow.... PAST < FUTURE is so far the yearly no. 1? Kinda shock to see that..

[y_nathz]

P<F omg
Wait, the final result of today is 85K ?

[AngelSenshi]

Originally Posted by SURREAL__RAINBOW

good job! i mean the album only had 2 versions, and NEXT LEVEL had 4 xD


thank u for the info

Having 4 versions certainly helped the initial sales of NL. People eat up limited editions, special versions, different covers and all that...

I would know; if there's limited edition of my favourite artist singles or albums, I'm one of the first to order -_-

[shizukanaotoko]

oh no! i HOPE this album sells a lot better than next level and reserves ayu's trend of declining sales because it's much better than the previous album (though i love that one too haha) so the first day sales include all of the pre-orders as well? hmmm... PROMOTE LIKE CRAZY AYUUU!!!

[truehappiness]

She's already promoting a lot more than NEXT LEVEL...

I hope to see a tiny boost after MUSIC STATION, haha.

[Tony G]

As I expected, lower than NEXT LEVEL. Her albums will just sell less and less over time. Its only chance of beating NEXT LEVEL is for consistent sales over the next few days. But selling higher than previous releases is always going to be hard.

Will a TV performance help? Maybe. So long as she chooses the right song. I think she needs to perform something that's a bit more original sounding than Microphone (don't look back or sexy little things). NEXT LEVEL and this album have similar promotion scales.. except Ayu's done a couple more TV performances. Dunno if its going to help much.

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

They are doing what they can and want afford just enough to give her 'ok/good' sales...


The promotion surely is better than having many different versions of the album, there should be many leftovers from NEXT LEVEL by now... many that people did not buy, so having just 2 versions is much better.


Is all about the tour I guess... as long as people keep feeling interested in going to see her



P<F is so overrated xD I love namie and all that, but if that album is topping the Japanese charts means that Japanese music in general is pretty meh nowadays, so meh that is not worth buying.


Seriously, Japanese music had much better times a few years ago, to me everything before 2007 was good/fresh, but since then everything seems repetitive, plain, boring, etc.


EDIT: Maybe the K-pop boom was all thanks to the downhill of J-pop, not that K-pop is good, but J-pop just got worse.




I really admire namie, and I'm really proud of her, as well as I'm proud of ayu that keeps on working really hard.


(I should kick myself and listen to Don't look back now )

Anyway I'm not sad or anything, I'm really happy for ayu

[Ayu_Ready]

I'm a bit disapointed with these sales, 85k is not bad but it deserves way better I hope it will stay steady !

[AyuWorld]

so its 80k for the first the day/mid day?

its good for me,really happy for Ayu! gogogo RnRC ^^

[rainydayumi]

ayumisrael can you add the 1st week daily figures for guilty and next level to the 1st post so we can compare easily? guilty 1st day was 66800 and next level was 99200.

[KarenPang]

1st day sales for the album - 85,142

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/

she already outsold UVERworld's LAST almost 2.5 : 1 on the 1st day

EDIT

for AT09 DVD , she's #1 on the 1st day

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/dg/d/

[Minttulatte]

Nice to see Namie so successful. <3 Good for her. She really deserves all this because PAST<FUTURE is a hell of a good album. >: D

Ayu's sales are decent to me. I'm okay with these and don't understand why so many people are sad about Ayu's sales these days. She has already outsold everyone else with her past sales. No female artist these days in Japan can beat her.

[nanakopy87]

wow.congratz ayu!!!

[ayumisrael]

Yes! Updated.
Thanks for everyone who brought numbers.

Rock'n'Roll Circus Album

First Week
1st Day
Position: #1
Sales: 85,142


ayumi hamasaki ARENA TOUR 2009 ~NEXT LEVEL~ A

1st Day
Position: #1

Originally Posted by drdolce

Nice to see Namie so successful. <3 Good for her. She really deserves all this because PAST<FUTURE is a hell of a good album. >: D

Ayu's sales are decent to me. I'm okay with these and don't understand why so many people are sad about Ayu's sales these days. She has already outsold everyone else with her past sales. No female artist these days in Japan can beat her.

I will agree with you that those sales are pretty good.
Everyone would like the new album to sell more than NEXT LEVEL because most (people who are fans of ayu and not fans at all) think that the new album is miles better than the past one. Just because she used to sell tones and more than everyone doesn't mean that she deserves crappy sales now, even though it already doesn't look like they will be crap.

Namie also had her huge sales in the past but you are still happy for her but you couldn't care less as long as it's everyone besides ayu. You always seem like you don't want ayu to succeed anymore (specially with your X is way better than ayu comments and your Xs are like everyone).

On another note, it's awesome that ayu might have #1 weekly on both albums and DVDs on the same week!

[AyUmIXx]

T___T
gosh i thought that 85K was not real..
but it's indeed real!!
i don't know, i thought that she could sell more than 100K for the first day T__T
oh well~~~
i hope it will go stable or go up~

[ayumisrael]

We can hope that it will be more consistent than NL but with sales nowadays I wouldn't expect anything.

My total estimation for that album was 280,000 if it can pass it then it's pretty great. =D

[roanmy]

I wonder if the 85K includes all the 25K box sets? Probably not, since some of them are sold online and a re still available, but still. Hope it wont drop much =/

[Meat Pao]

I'm very satisfied with the first day sales But I expected it to outsell NL's first day sales though I knew the chances were like 20% or so xD