a good friend of mine in japan told me just then that she was in a music store in downtown tokyo the other day and GUILTY was sold out. hope that's a good sign for a weekly number one.

it's quite scary to see Kobukuro & Ayumi's sales figures being so close together , it's like a neck to neck fight against each other .

I think everyone's scared of Kobukuro & if I'm correct they didn't really hit it big until 3 years ago with Koko ni Shika Sakanai Hana which was used as the theme song to the dorama Ruri no Shima .

With that said , I really do hope that Ayumi can climb back to the top with GUILTY . It's a great album & even though I have to admit Kobukuro produces great music , I would hate to see Ayumi kicking off her 10th year anniversary in the music business in a bad way but then again , not being no.1's not the end of the world , you can't forever be on top .

the PV "(don't) Leave me alone" is charted no.1:love
all the GUILTY PVs are in the chart
GREAT!

nooooooooooo it should've be #1...

but no one in top 5 at rechokoku chart

#1 and #2 are kobukuro again T__T

In november, "Together When" don't exceeded the 500k (Chaku-Uta).
May be 100~200k for december (Chaku-Uta Full).

x1.7 seems too high, may be 1.68.
I think Misia will beat Ayu.

No, 5296 is a studio album.

Well, A BEST 2 -WHITE- sold, like, 17% of A BEST. While I don't think if Ayumi would release A BALLADS 2 in February/March 2009, it would sell 160k, it still wouldn't be a massive success.

a ballads 2? lol no plz...

I don't think Ayu will release A BALLADS II since A BEST 2 -BLACK- already contains ballads.

i just finished download music station super live 2007...
and kobukuro get a lot of applause when they appear, many people shouted and yell, they really popular...looks like they are really in the top of their career...while ayu is going nowhere...still in her position...
yeah..just wait and see

Well, techincally A BALLADS was a remix album that contain songs that were already featured on A BEST. I think we Ayumi retires or whatever, AVEX can make an A BALLADS II and lot more stuff that will still make Ayumi profittable after her singing days.

@AyuGAME: You have the FULL clip of the Super Live?!? Can you upload on here. I wanna see it! T_T

^ Actually, I agree. I think A BEST 2 would've sold more if some of the tracks were re-recorded instead of just digitally remastered.

I had some japanese friends that only didn't like the fact that ayu didn't make a full PV for NEVER EVER =P

I find that weird as well actually. I believe there should be enough footage to make a full NEVER EVER pv (.. unless they just filmed that portion of the song). NEVER EVER is quite unique in ayu's discography (using high pitch voice throughout the whole rockish song :P). I adore this song a lot back then.

Yeah, i love NEVER EVER. The short promotional was pretty cool too.

well yeah consider camouflage clothing was really popular back then :P. She was on her top form of fashion back then... short blond hair, fox tail, camouflage clothing, etc...

Yeah! I would love to see GUILTY make it number one! Those guys need to DROP! >.<

wow this album is definitely gonna sell over 600k. I was expecting 350-450k tbh so this is really great.

SoundScan (12/31~06/01)
1. Kobu 228,359 (165,975+62,384)
2. Ayu 186,731 (141,987+44,744)
3. Exile 170,542 (116,898+53,644)

^ What's SoundScan?