Yeah the article is titled June 1st... which is well yesterday; the day she dropped to #7... so fingers crossed!

The article title says the HIATUS got their or his (IDK if it's a band or not) first #1 album. The article date is today June 2nd, and in the article they have the issue date of the new chart 6/8 and say the HIATUS is #1 with 80k copies sold.

Yuna got 7th place. At least she's still in the Top 10.

that's really disappointing then. i expected at least top 5 :(

Oh man like #7 weekly?... That's quite unexpected since she only got #6 and #7 on the last 2 days of the oricon week... :(

I was thinking Yuna would get #5 weekly.

look like she's got #7 instead :weep

Maybe the fact that her singles didn't do too well played a role in DREAM's sales. Anyway I'm happy for her. Hopefully she'll have better sales in the future.

She should pull a May J. and move to avex. She's doing better than she did when she was with Sony.

**1　*79,727　the HIATUS
**2　*64,570　平井堅
**3　*32,228　Green Day
**4　*26,662　May J.
**5　*23,645　Eminem
**6　*19,633　YOKO KANNO SEATBELTS
**7　*19,528　伊藤由奈
**8　*18,583　DJ KAORI
**9　*17,814　Linkin Park
*10　*11,440　MEG

what a massive flop if we compare it with HEART album

poor yuna

Everything since HEART is considered a flop then. HEART only did good because of ENDLESS STORY and Precious.

19k? Oh dear. I was expecting at least 25k :(

^Maybe if she didn't drop during those days she maybe would have sold close to that.

... agreed. She should have moved to avex... man doesn't avex KNOW that there's a POTENTIAL in her that NEEDS to be discovered... SO BADLY???

^ that or STUDIOSEVEN Recordings's spending their $/efforts on someone else like Sister Angela Kuroki Meisa & YUI since all of them are under the same record label

oh well poor Yuna :( , at least DREAM didn't debuted at like at the bottom 20 or something

I'm pretty sure every label out there Yuna has potential, but even if they wanted her they have to wait until Sony either drops her or her contract is up. A move to avex will probably be the best thing she ever did in her career.

She released ENDLESS STORY in 2005... usually such contracts are either by years (5 maybe? so next year will be her last), or by the number of albums the artiste has released.

:no :no on that Mishelle

it's notoriously known that avex artistes's material are being placed on quantity rather than quality to a certain extent

I don't want that to happen to Yuna at all

Oh poor Yuna -__-
Dream is even her best album....it's a pity :(

^ Agreed... I like DREAM the most of her albums!

@ Karen: Hmm... well but it's safe to say that avex at least ensures some sort of quality as well... I mean, Yuna has great songs now, but she lacks promotion. Like it's as if that's the only thing that's lacking for her in a celebrity... @_@ avex can provide that, defenitely.

It depends. I think they gave her like 5 album contract seeing how she was signed when she was popular so....

People in Japan don't seem to care about quality, I mean she puts out great singles and they don't really do well.