wow.i haven't receive my coupon yet(i guess i will?since i ordered exactly the same cds with you XD)
and i finally able to track my fedex parcel.apparently ,its still with fedex office right now.estimate will ship to me on today and will receive it on tomorrow

There was a special promotional period for free shipping a few months back. :)

I might get overseas version (hoping it's deluxe version with package and same gifts)..

Can't wait to see how the actual product looks like... really interesting :)

lol @ everyone freaking out.

This is how it goes. AND she had no promotion whatsoever lol

I dont see why her "million" sales wouldnt be affected like everyone elses.

If she really wants to pick her sales up, her and her label need to get off their butts.

But she so does not care lol In any case, the sales from the preorder should raise the number considerably I think.

But hoping for like over 500k...is...really optimistic to me...but, here's to hoping I guess.

I would say it was attainable, if those first day sales were over 200k-300k...as theyre not even half that...I wouldnt expect it.

She might have one of those "everyone finds out she released something so they all go get it a month later" type of things happen though.

^Did you go through the last 2 pages without reading a word? I wonder....

Why?

Guess I missed something.

Hikki's Youtube channel is currently the #3 most subscribed channel of any Japanese musician, behind Ayu(2) and AKB48(1)! (Korean companies, beatboxers, and British dancers aren't really considered Japanese musicians in my book).

Are Tuesday's sales up yet? I bet they'll be slightly better but probably still ******. Then Wednesday and Thursday will have awesome sales. I'm betting on anywhere between 400-800k for first week sales.

300-400k sounds reasonable enough for first week. I guess she'll be more like Ikimonogakari....holding steady sales instead of having a crazy debut like AKB48.

When is the Oricon cut off? What's the last week that sales count towards 2010?

Not sure but I remember someone saying she has like 5 weeks to chart within 2010 or something. She's safe for the top 5 yearly....but not sure if she could beat the competition for #3 or 2. Seems tough.

Who's #2 and #3 and what're their sales? Arashi is number one, right? And they're just passed 1 million, I believe. If she can manage to pull 1.1 mil then she's got the #1 spot!

^^I wish she'd get it. I really do love this album.

Ok....maybe she can pass Kana but not sure about Ikimonogakari. They're still charting.

(Hey, Arashi and Ikimono-gakari, the top two in popularity, are top two in this year's album charts!)

I hope Utada can do well in the charts overall...

The FedEx lady asked me to pay the amount after I opened the door for her. haha, what happens if you didn't pay them after you received their mail? I actually find it strange that they didn't ask you to pay when you received the package.

My order was $65. I thought I could get away with labeling it as a gift.. but w/e sighhh... so not worth it. Next time, I'll just stick with EMS.

your order ($65) excluding shipping fee rite? Anywayz, you should only need to pay on the amount over the $60 exemption (in your case, 5 dollars over). I dun believe that little amount will cost over $20 on tax (link from the Canada border service agency). I dun really know what will happen if people ignore the letter. I can't really remember if I ignored it, but I did pay for that stupid tax and fee 15 days after.

Yeah just stick with EMS later on. The most I gotta pay was $6, and I think it was from (miss)understand.. :P.

This is completely unrelated and completely random, but Traveling has just been certified Gold for Chaku Uta Full downloads XD

ehh how many downloads for gold?

100.000. Considering it's a song released in 2001, before the download era, it's quite a lot XD