[News] LOVEppears / appears -20th Anniversary Edition-

[Minttulatte]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

Its not like a lot of people already don't have the album anyways lol

True that, but it would've been pretty epic if it had hit #1 though.

[visionfactory]

Originally Posted by attractive nausea

I hoped that the book and upcoming drama would have the general public buy this remastered version, but it seems that only fans bought it...

It's true, but we still have the drama to go on air, I hope that helps boost sales

[hidekirby]

I also think this product is aimed at fans. The general public don't give a f*ck about remixes and PVs...
I also think the general public don't give a f*ck about LOVEppears 20th anniversary too haha.

They just want some gossip.

[mellody]

Originally Posted by surrealA

https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2148494/full/
are they saying with this album she has the most top 10 album for female artist (52 total)?
is the 1st week sales already finished?

"ayumi hamasaki has reached 9th place in the weekly album chart with the re-issue of an album she first released 20 years ago. "LOVEppears / appears -20th Anniversary Edition-" sold around 6,000 copies last week. Ayumi has appeared in the top 10 album chart 52 times."

[mizuki-7]

Don’t forget that it charted only 2 or 3 days not the whole week !

[Sim']

The album is #6 today on Oricon.

Originally Posted by visionfactory

Not LOVEppears related but A COMPLETE charted in Oricon Top 300 last week

Rank: #288
Week sales: 188 copies sold
Total: 854,601 copies sold

Amazing!
No wonder A COMPLETE was #9 on Recochoku (downloads) in 2018, she's doing good there as well! Here's a little summary of what I found, if you can keep up data with other websites, please do!
https://recochoku.jp/

Spoiler:

Monthly (october)
AAC :
- #12 A COMPLETE
- #40 A BEST
FLAC :
- #7 LOVEppears
- #26 A BEST -15th anniversary-
Chaku-uta :
- #48 M
Video :
- #39 M

Weekly (11/6～11/12)
AAC :
- #22 A COMPLETE
- #39 LOVEppears
FLAC :
- #6 LOVEppears
Video :
- #36 M

Daily (11/12)
AAC :
- #24 A BEST
- #27 A COMPLETE
- #41 LOVEppears
FLAC :
- #2 LOVEppears

And yes, there is a huge discount on A COMPLETE and A BEST, but people are interested as well, which is awesome.
We can see the book's effect on M ranking last month... Very excited about the drama's effect when it'll start airing!

[Aderianu]

[EndOfTheWorld]

I was so happy when I saw a new video from Abottchen! I'm glad they did something for the anniversary.

[visionfactory]

1st week at Billboard

Rank: #8
Reported Sales: 5,739 copies sold

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This week A COMPLETE was out from Oricon Top 300 albums

[DogboyShugo]

5000 copies sold doesn't sound good

[Aderianu]

That is collectible item. Most people will just use itunes, spotify or awa

[truehappiness]

It's a rerelease of an old album. Not anything really different about it either other than the DVD maybe.

[Chibi-Chan]

I don't remember if this was discussed before, so forgive me if it has, but since I first saw the LOVEppears cover years ago, it always reminded me of Madonna's Like a Prayer album cover. I even had both albums on top of each other on display on my shelf for a long time. I always thought maybe LOVEppears was Ayu trying to contribute the "upper half" to make the picture "complete".

[visionfactory]

^I don't know really, it reminds me of Emma Bunton on Spice Girls' Generation Next


So I compared WHATEVER (Ferry 'System F' Corsten vocal extended mix) from Disc 3 to the original appears single version and it does sounds different a.k.a. remastered

I have a theory that Disc 3 is remastered and Disc 4 isn't (I don't have ayu's whole lossless discography to compare the rest so it's just a theory)
Cause I took appears (HAL's Progress) from Disc 4 and compared it to A BALLADS and sounds exactly the same
I also took appears (Junior's Club Mix) from Disc 4and compared it to Far away and sounds exactly the same even the same lenght

Can anyone confirm?

[Deep snow]

Originally Posted by visionfactory

So I compared WHATEVER (Ferry 'System F' Corsten vocal extended mix) from Disc 3 to the original appears single version and it does sounds different a.k.a. remastered

I have a theory that Disc 3 is remastered and Disc 4 isn't (I don't have ayu's whole lossless discography to compare the rest so it's just a theory)
Cause I took appears (HAL's Progress) from Disc 4 and compared it to A BALLADS and sounds exactly the same
I also took appears (Junior's Club Mix) from Disc 4and compared it to Far away and sounds exactly the same even the same lenght

Can anyone confirm?

to me, it seems either (1) the contents of DISC 4 were not remastered at all; or (2) the remaster of DISC 4 is not to the same extent as/much more subtle than that of DISCs 1–3.

on DISC 4, the HΛL's Progress version sounds identical (for my amateur ears) to the version in A BALLADS. same thing goes with the Acoustic Version—it sounds identical to the version we have in ayu-mi-x II.

[Mirrorcle Monster]

2nd week position is #42, with 2k copies sold

[visionfactory]

^Ouch! I was expecting it to sell 30k in the long term... probably Billboard will report 3k this week

Originally Posted by Deep snow

to me, it seems either (1) the contents of DISC 4 were not remastered at all; or (2) the remaster of DISC 4 is not to the same extent as/much more subtle than that of DISCs 1–3.

on DISC 4, the HΛL's Progress version sounds identical (for my amateur ears) to the version in A BALLADS. same thing goes with the Acoustic Version—it sounds identical to the version we have in ayu-mi-x II.

I think it's (1)

[visionfactory]

Billboard 2nd Week

Week sales: 2,057
Total sales: 7,796

[oaristos]

I'm surprised it sold that much in the second week, to be honest. I expected it to sell 15k overall, perhaps... It might continue selling a little bit here and there for a while, but now I find 10k a more reasonable number.

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by visionfactory

^Ouch! I was expecting it to sell 30k in the long term... probably Billboard will report 3k this week


I think it's (1)

Her new releases are selling around 30k... This is just a re-release