if sold 1 week ahead, still can get #1 too.. dunno why Avex chose 21 mar..

This is basically how I feel now.
Who cares if people buy it or not, it only matters if you enjoy it.
The album is actually quite good.

On another note, I personally believe that Party Queen will be remembered as the underrated gem among Ayu's albums.

thats what I was thinking...but I thought it was at the end of april so I thought maybe she still had time...guess not lol

yeah someone mentioned about that before regarding the financial year end since in Japan , Japanese companies's financial year end is in March & not in Dec

I know that cos my mum's working in a Japanese bank so xD

you mean Party Queen should have gotten released on 28th March ?

even if so , it doesn't stand a chance in getting #1 due to Kis-My-Ft2's debut album Kis-My-Ft . Their 1st day sales outsold Party Queen's 1st week sales X.X by close to 1.5 times of the sales Party Queen obtained D:

if Party Queen were to be released in March , somewhere in the beginning of March would have been feasible . I don't mind for it to get released in the same week as Akanishi Jin's JAPONICANA . Heck ayumi can kick Akanishi's butt for all I care :laugh & why not since JAPONICANA failed to get #1

For an album without any lead physical singles, I have to say she did pretty damn well. Even the West likes to promote at least one song from a new album before it's released, but for her to go basically blind (I don't think HBYA's tie-up helped that much) and still land at least #2 with that big a gap between #2 and #3 is fine with me.

Of course as a fan I'm disappointed she debuted with a #2 when she normally has #1 secured within the first few days, but I'm still confident in her ability. She's still producing magical songs (such as Return Road), so not all is lost. :)

woah? really? can you give a link or the name of the interview because i can't imagine ayu saying that. Kinda shocked and sad for her.

It means that she does really care about results.

3rd Day
Position: #5
Sales: 2,881
Total Sales: 107,282

4th Day
Position: #7

Man, I hope next album will have at least one physical single. I mean physical singles still do sell pretty decent. I'm sure Ayu can still sell more than 50k. I wonder if we r not getting 51th single 'cause avex/Ayu is afraid of breaking her singles streak.
-both have her with short blond hair on the cover.

^honestly all they need to do is get Ayu some decent promotion and her getting another number 1 single is not that hard... T___T just get her to do lives and radio shows and performances and places.

I actually just read some horrible comments made about PoM and her voice by some Japanese, they said things like, "not deteriorated enough to be told" (I'm pretty sure they referred to her voice :()

So at this point of time, I don't know if TV lives will actually benefit her or play against her :shrug

I'd love her to promote her album with TV lives, but they should be re-recorded so they can be edited or done again if she doesn't like them or something.

honestly, I didn't care that much for her vocals in PoM either...but...I didn't think they were THAT bad...

btw...did we have an opinion thread for it yet? I was gonna post my crazy ramblings...and I wanted to see what everyone else thought. I didn't bother watching the USTREAM, so this was my first time seeing it...

and wow at the setlist~~


Anyways...I think if she's going to do TV lives, she should do them the way like, Namie does them. With the loud backing tracks so she can dance or something at the same time.

er...maybe...idk. Maybe she should just stick to the interviews and stuff and not go on any of those music shows...

150k becomes a far away dream..

im still glad at what this album did with no singles and no lives or anything...
pretty darn good!

I don't blame (japanese people) for hating PoM vocals, she sounds SO different, and some songs I don't find pleasant to listen either. In some songs she's more like shouting than singing , and when she tries to sing with that soft voice she once had it doesn't sound the same. (comparison: Secret and HBYA)

I would say with these album sales, releasing a single doesn't seem like such a bad idea. I know it was sort of a special case with the 50th single and all, but the singles leading up to Love Songs combines sold about as much as the album itself. I really want singles again as well. =)

I think that in her next single she should make a pv for one song in Party Queen chosen by the fans :P I'd love a pv for reminds me or Tell me why *o*

She kinda deserved it... I don't think it was as great as some of her other albums have been, but that's just my personal opinion TBH :\

Party Queen stays put at #7

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2012-03-30/more/2/

Thank you Karen :)

saaaad it is :thud