lol yeah i'm sure LOVEppears is photoshopped but to say it's more photoshopped than the S/S covers is just...weird imo. but that's just my opinion and he can have his. i strongly disagree though LOL

Wow it's kinda depressing that she used to be able to sell over 1,700,000 albums in a week yet now 400,000 seems a struggle after 25 weeks!

Yeah, yeah, I know that she was in her prime back then and illegal downloading has increased a zillion-fold since 2002, but...yeah...i can't help but feel kinda bleak...

sad.
maybe its the recession now?
but boybands are selling like O.M.G x.x
maybe if it include sales worldwide ayu would be over a million..

edited : this thread is like 3 years ago? lol

@sakumadrops Yeah, it was me, but I must say my bump was really random xD While I did searching I saw this thread and I had to reply!

This thread should be seriously updated.

thanks!

shes surely the queen of j-pop//

Boybands are more popular than singular singers. I dunno why, maybe 'cause they're handsome? lol (ok ok someone have good vocals also :rolleyes)

I don't pay attention to sales nowadays. I must confessed, I'm really happy for high sales but isn't important at all.
Even with low sells she's still pretty popular among japanese people.

I'm sure that a day she will return to break the million, like Namie.
She need to make THE SONG. Like M, SEASONS, A Song for XX.. a masterpiece like them :yes

haha hell yea.
boybands = handsome + can sing ? = sell alot.
Ayu = Gorgeous + can sing ? = lesser?
maybe boybands got more handsome + can sing guys & Ayu only got Ayu. LOL

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LOVEppears is the best album exists imo.

I really LOVE the cover even though it's noy my favorite cover of ayu.

Btw Duty is ayu's best selling original album, LOVEppears is the 2nd and I am... the 3rd.

wow!! the sales for A BEST first week :tired can someone try to get the full weekly sales for (miss)understood, guilty, secret ad next level as well??

About the cover of LOVEppears LOL. I personally think it's the worst cover she's ever had. You can tell that her chest is photoshopped soooo unnaturally, because I for one have never seen a woman with a chest like that. LOL

I love this thread!! so interesting! thanks so much!

^.... no comment :laugh

There are always phases for music. In the 90s it was dance groups (mostly female, even), at the turn of the millennium it was female solo artists, and now it's boy-groups. This one has been going on quite a while but I wouldn't be surprised if trends shift in the near future as is.

let me guess... you're a dude?

<--- confirmed!

^ Well done, but I know what the chest looks like on both sexes. O_o

I think we should stop complaining about the boy bands... it's a fact they can sell better; so? There's nothing we can do... it really is the era where we have to lower the bar for female solo singers.

There will be no way; let me repeat, no way that Ayu or any female solo singer can sell millions in the first week or anything close to that feat.

100k is the new benchmark for an Ayu single; maybe 300-500k for an Ayu album.

It's okay if you disagree with me though. :P

LovePPEARS cover was considered very new and fresh because of the nudity right?? I thought it captured Japan's attention, its wrong to say its a bad cover. And I thought Duty was her best selling studio album.

Yes Duty is ayu's best selling original album.
It outsold LOVEppears in 300,000 and something. XD

Yeah but isn't it a matter of aesthetic taste? I think nudity can be done terrifically, but sadly I don't think it was done to its potential there, therefore I think it's a bad cover, whereas with Mirrorcle World the nudity there was much nicer, same with RAINBOW's cover, that was soooo pretty. But LOVEppears' is just bad imo.

And yeah, Duty is her best selling album...

^While I agree the nudity is best on Mirrorcle OWrld and Rainbow, I thought it was effectively done and fitting in Loveppears. it was fierce and fresh, and very mature (which was great with the expression of Ayu). it was very metropolitan feeling and it fit in with the club like sound of the album imo.

And most importantly, no "I'm lost" face or anything horrific like that. :yes