Various Ayu sales facts

[immel]

I spent some time reading on avex official english page today, this is some sale numbers that I dug up.

I'm really surprised by the (extremely) high online download sales of INSPIRE, that sort of makes the single a million seller. I'd love to know the online sales of her more recent singles.

-All those numbers are the amount of copies that avex shipped out to stores, for example A BALLADS is rumored to have sold around 1,100,000 copies while avex shipped 1,700,000 copies, thus meaning there's still 600,000 copies in various retail store storages. avex (and Ayu) will profit from all those 1,7mil copies sold while the retail stores sit on a ton of unsold copies.

Why can't those numbers be entirely trusted?
-Most of those reports are from a certain year, if an album or single is released
towards the end of the year that means it will keep on selling the next year, those
extra sales might not be mentioned in the document covering the coming year.
-I tried including only numbers from as late dates as possible

CATEGORY, NAME

SHIPPED COPIES, OTHER FACTS:

ALBUMS
RAINBOW

2,020,000

A BALLADS

1,710,000

LOVEppears

2,740,000

MY STORY

1,117,000

Memorial address

1,220,000

SINGLES
H

The fastest ever million selling single - according to avex

INSPIRE

420,000 660,000 Download Sales - avex praised the success of online download sales in the document and said they wanted to expand the business.

DVDS
COMPLETE LIVE BOX A

105,000

ARENA TOUR 2003-2004 A

98,000

A museum

102,000

Complete Clip Box A

64,000

Concert Tickets Sold
DOME TOUR 2001 & Stadium Tour (together)

330,000

Source:
www.avex.co.jp

Originally Posted by ayu_fan929

avex just released their 1st quarter report (Apr-Jun).

Some of avex reported sales:
TOP 3 Singles
Koi no Tsubomi - 381,000
BLUE BIRD - 322,000
Frienger - 254,000

The Apr-Jun run of Ayu's (m)u tour had an attendence of 130,000 at 18 shows in 10 cities. Otsuka Ai's tour had 60,000 people attending for 12 shows in 10 cities.

Chaku Uta Downloads - Ringtones
Koi no Tsubomi - 2,160,000 DLs
Frienger - 940,000 DLs
BLUE BIRD - 730,000 DLs
Nanairo no Ashita ~brand new beat~ - 620,000 DLs

Full Songs
Koi no Tsubomi - 280,000 DLs
Frienger - 220,000 DLs
Nanairo no Ashita ~brand new beat~ - 120,000 DLs

PVs
Koi no Tsubomi - 60,000 DLs
Frienger - 50,000 DLs

link: http://www.avex.co.jp/j_site/tansin/pop_0701q.html (go to the 2nd link; pages 13-14 of the report [NOT of the PDF file]