I think I like D8 more than AND - it is not really a remix album to me, but rather alternative versions.

Thanks for the links provided guys. You rock!

Here is a pic of Kuu and Kenji on KP's Witness tour
A pity they didn't have the opportunity to take a picture with Katy herself like they did back in 2013

https://i.imgur.com/bIe0RmW.png

And TeddyLoid played one of his new remixes from DH's 8 on a gig in the US:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg3A6QBB9ya/

Both of his remixes are my fav from the album lol overall it's a nice album but it doesn't top DH7 for me :P

I like DH8 a lot more than DH7 overall. Like, there are two or three songs on DH7 that I love, but overall its just okay. DH8 I like basically every song.

oh wow Driving Hit's 8 is amazing

Gonna need to give the DH8 samples a listen on iTunes!

Speaking of remixes, how come am I only noticing ''Wicked Girls" (Daddy's Groove Remix) now?! THAT REMIX IS FIRE.

WTF he was in fucking MILWAUKEE!? Leave it until I'm 28 and out of my homestate AND country before he makes his way over there... :shakehead

That's one of my fav remixes from DH7, alongside MONEY IN MY BAG and Bassline :heart

Decided to listen to DH8 and the PARTY remix is INSANE! I love it! Too bad the rest of the album is meh. Listening to DH8 made me go listen to AND again and it’s grown on me somewhat. Still can’t really digest her singing style though.

the whole DH7 is fire tbh. best remix album in the entire world! (and I am not even a fan of remixes)

Sad to see DH not doing well. Debuted at #27 first day on Oricon and then into the 40s second day. This will be her first DH album not to debut in the Top 20. I don't understand what happened to the fans this year. It's not like W FACE was a smash or anything but I was hoping for smaller yearly drops now since the majority of the general public has left her and its only the fans supporting...

Thank you

..... You do know the drop from W Face to AND won't be any different from Bon Voyage to WALK OF MY LIFE. AND will sell slightly under 21k. That is not a hard drop at all. A hard drop off is what happened with Kana and her 2017 album.

As for the remix album, you seriously weren't expecting a top 20 debut when DH7 barely made it. I say this in the nicest possible way. You're a bit spoiled. Spoiled in the sense that Koda during her starlet days (2005 to 2009) was a juggernaut. Koda hasn't been a starlet since TRICK and we are quickly approaching the 10th anniversary of that release. I'm not sure what you're expecting from a female J-Pop artist pushing 20 years in the business dominated by idol fever.

It's an overall phenomenon in the Japanese music market with some few exceptions (idols and male solos/bands mainly). Apart from Namie and Finally I don't know any female solo actually rising in sales.
People don't really spend money on music, more on going to concerts and buying merchandise, if at all.
I've even just read a comment on Kuu's fan corner on fb, that a fan wants to buy DH's 8, but doesn't have the money for that.

Plus remix albums never did too well. Kuu's first bunch was an exception, cause they were new for her probably (and Beach Mix cause there wasn't a single or album from her at that time).

The difference though is that back then sales declined from 60k to 50 which you're right isn't all that bad. Assuming AND finishes at 20k, a drop of 8k from 28k isn't very good considering its about a 30% or so drop. I just don't want to see her next album barely selling 10k total. However to be fair it should be noted W FACE had a very solid TV campaign. Nothing near her prime days but still respectable whereas AND had barely a peep outside Twitter.

I would say Kuu was a starlet from 2005 to 2012 as she was still appearing on Kouhaku, MSSL, and was very much in the public eye with the majority of sales still coming outside her main fanbase. It all sort of came crashing down in 2013 when she completely ditched (or was dumped, either side can be argued) her prime-time TV show slots at MS and the year-end shows.

All I would like to see is Kuu staying around the 20k (15k at the very least) mark for albums so we can still get decent MVs like LIT every now and then.

This. I can guarantee you that more than a few fans who got to a Koda concert skip buying the actual physical album.

As Corvina said, post-Kana I can't think of any female soloist to breakthrough in a major way. The industry no longer supports the soloist business model. Even an icon like Ken Hirai has had trouble breaking a certain sales level.

Real talk. After Koda's 20th anniversary, she is going to start missing the top 10 on the album chart consistently. In other words, enjoy these top 10 albums while they last.

Let's not get too carried away lol. If Seiko Matsuda can land all her studio albums since 2010 into the Top 10 (mostly Top 5) then I think Kuu can certainly continue to rank in the Top 10 for quite some time as well.