Yeah, its shipped copies.
Which i dont know why i was thinking it was 150K for gold...
it has hit gold. :thud

83,000... Hmm...

What about SMAP? How much did they sell? And how popular is it even to the younger people, compared to Ayu?

200k+ i think?

GIFT of SMAP sold 210,407 copies in the 1st week

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/w/2012-08-20/

This's their 20th album so it definitely is a big milestone for them . Let alone , the album includes Sakasama no Sora , the theme song for NHK drama Ume-chan Sensei , Angel Heart , an answer song to their previous hit single Lion Heart & MONSTERS which's a collaboration song between Katori Shingo & ex NEWS's leader Yamashita Tomohisa

I'm pretty sure they still have a lot of middle-aged women as fans they've kept since they debuted. As far as I know, SMAP aren't popular at all with the younger crowd.

Wait a minute...SMAP loses middle-aged women fans less than Ayu? How come SMAP isn't popular with the younger ones?

And 210,000!? That's quite a lot - 2.5x more than Ayu...

Second week 2nd day position: #4

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2012-08-14/

2nd Week

1st Day
Position: #4
Sales: 3,546
Total Sales: 86,909

2nd Day
Position: #4
Sales: 4,044
Total Sales: 90,953

They very rarely put sales index for #4 I suppose?

I'm glad it didn't drop.

hoping for steady sales to keep it going!

Yes! Maybe we'll have 100k by the end of the week?

wow, the sales went up.. coolness.

Second week 3rd day position: #4

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2012-08-15/

Seems possible for ASB to be at #4 in the 2nd week overall but looking good so far for her which's a good sign !

^

that would be great!

Second week 4th day position: #4

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2012-08-16/

Guess this means ASB looks set to be #4 overall in the 2nd week now , that's good to know so

ASB is doing good!

#4 *2,408 copy
all in this week *13,640

im glad about it

4th Day
Position: #4
Sales: 2,408
Total Sales: 97,003

2 more days to pass 100,000 :)

Thanks Cornie.

your welcome, i'm happy:)

they loses less because most of their fans are girls , most girls fan of idols stick around a long time

they aren't popular with the younger people because JE already debuted their replacements aka Arashi, now they are on SMAP level like they used to be back in the day