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Another My STORY album, will be great! In that album it was like ayu made up a whole new genre... I wonder why her sales keep on decreasing. She has the promoion and everything. MAybe it's because she keeps on releasing new things in such a close time, there isn't as much as a demand for her...
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Utada's english debut album sold approximately 500,000 units on it's first week in Japan.
This is the One debuted with 77,000. Next level is selling at least double, so that probably means NL is much better than this is the one, according to Corikaru standards Anyway, i'm happy with the album. I really like Next Level . i cannot say the same thing with This is the one. Quote:
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#5 today... I honestly wonder if the USB were counted... there were, what, 7000 copies for the first press batch? *confused*
Ah, the reason to why MY STORY is so great is because almost every song is filled with good emotions, lyrics and melodies. I like MY STORY a lot, and it's honestly my favorite album from Ayu. I hope NEXT LEVEL will do well eventually, and also make miracle when the USB copies finally start getting counted in... I suppose they needed a few days to process the numbers or something. Or maybe even the USB copies would be tabulated in the weekly sale, and not the daily sales.
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Yeah it got 8-9 different magazines articles and in stores billboards promotion.
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promotion does help a lot but I really wonder why Avex is doing so little for NL promotion? Could it be that ayu chose to concentrate on her concert instead? Because wad i heard was the revenue earned from concert can easily surpass album sales. Moreover ayu always have soldout concerts
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Well obviously not anymore. Her popularity seems to be declining and that can be due to a number of things including the music. After her Rock venture on GUILTY that many didn't like, some may have been trepidacious to return this time around.
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Plus, I think it's silly to think that the quality of music on a product has NO bearing on how it sells. That's the whole point of music. Again, sounds like excuses to me. I say it's no good to try and change someone's mind. This is my view on it all. Nothing will change. Nothing wrong with that.
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For me, it's one of, if not the best put together album, mostly because it's consistent, without being boring. It also doesn't really fall under any genre, it's not exactly Rock, but it's not really pop either, which kind of goes hand in hand with Ayu's releases...or well...the good ones anyway. Quote:
@CoriKaru: you're probably right...however, the thing that scares me is, if Ayu were to have actually put out a good album...I'm not so sure her sales would have been that much higher. Of course, the album she put out combined with all the feelings about her = these kinds of sales. You are right though about the quality of music, however, I think sometimes we need to take into consideration that there are other factors for people liking certain music, like boybands lol if someone needs an example, other than just the music. Not everyone is a musician or a music connoisseur. Most people are just average arent they. Go listen to the album damnmit
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Yep, MY STORY was such an amazing album. Even if the tracks scored separately might not be absolutely amazing, it just seems like they flowed so perfect in the album and the style that went along with it was grand. It will always be my favorite album and pretty much where I put the bar at for Ayu releases, like "Hm, is this better than MY STORY? Where does it fall in comparison?" Lol.
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And those of us that are comparing have actually LISTENED to these albums and our opinions are based on the albums' contents. We all know that Ayu and Utada are big names and thus we assume they should have been able to sell well with minimal promotion. This is clearly not the case anymore. Things like the quality of music on an album is very subjective. Several top selling albums, which I will leave unnamed, made my ears bleed yet they were received very well by the public. While this was a response to someone else, I'm not sure what you're trying to say about listeners. Yes, normally your average Joe will be the one buying an album, but that doesnt mean that musically uneducated people can't have good, or different taste. What I might find ingenious you might think is garbage and vice versa. |
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^ she's saying that music isn't the only thing thats going to get us to buy an album. We're going to judge artists/bands on other things too like looks and such. At least thats what i got from her post.
I personally feel that her album sales are decent at this point but definitely lower than expected D: but yeah at least she got platinum no matter what lmao. I think thats good enough. TBH her album wasn't that great IMO. Its a decent album. I like a few tracks on it, but I didnt feel like they were good enough for me to buy the album and I didn't even keep the songs. I deleted them all after my first run( except for the songs on GREEN/days single because I actually bought that). OF coruse its different in people's opinion but I mean we can definitely say NL wasn't anything too new or special compared to like My Story or even (Miss)understood >< ~! At least the album seems to be selling very stabiliy. So maybe in the end it'll reach 400k or more ! @emiko I was about to say the same thign about utada's promotion lol XD ~!!! but then I expected this since she released this album more for the US than japan. At least the album seems to have stability to it even with that kind of promotion lol ~!
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Haha. Don't worry. I'll be getting on that very soon. I don't believe I'm comparing and forming opinions on any the content of the Album being that I said I first need to hurry and listen to it so that I may possibly obtain an idea as why you guys opinions are what they actually are and why the sales and concert tickets are in the unfortunate predicament that they find themselves to be in. That's all.
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You're not the only one! I also don't think it's that great of an album. Too many of the tracks sounded the same to me. In my opinion it is a bit over rated. Though I do like it, I certainly don't love it. However it's different for everyone I guess
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294,884 is a pretty good number
I hope she will sell more than 8 hundreds copies! |
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anyway i hope she will eventually reach 400k. |
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It's more articles than NEXT LEVEL got and ayu's album is only aimed for japanese audience. Quote:
NEXT LEVEL had really major electronica influenced songs using pop and rock and synthed beats and that's why the album is getting mixed feelings and also from the japanese audience, unlike (m)u that a lot of people liked and it was less experimental. For hikki's promotion, it was the same with EXODUS that wasn't aimed for the japanese audience and sold a million. No one expected it to be popular in japan like that, but I saw many and a lot expecting way more out of it, at least half a million specially considering a lot of people liked it more than EXODUS. Let's stop the TITO discussion though. This thread is dark and gloomy enough with people's dissapointment with NL's sales (which generally the number isn't bad but for ayu's standards it's a bit dissapointing). Btw oricon might actually count the USBs at the end of the oricon week. Remember that the first week sales were +13,000ed more than the estimated number? We will know though only at the end of the week (if there won't a be big drop) probably. If there will though then yeah we can say the encore press officially didn't help much. Last edited by ayumisrael; 11th April 2009 at 03:50 AM. |
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wow, i had no idea that Exodus sold so much! it was a total flop in the US, as is TITO.
m(u) wasn't experimental, it was just a jumble of different very definite styles that didn't flow together when mashed onto the same album. but i think the sales are doing fine. Avex nor Ayu can complain, considering how rushed NL was. |
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