^Yep.

It really depends on who is releasing this year. 600k might not be enough this year.

They're more popular with the males.

I think Kobukuro's fan base leans more towards the uncles & aunties who has more spending power as compared to teenagers .

With EXILE, Kobukuro, DCT and BOC already ahead of Ayumi and with Kumi and Hikki coming... D: Who knows what ayaka might pull off and if aiko releases a BEST album for her 10th anniversary... We'll just have to wait and see.

I think the 3rd week total will be around 70k, so GUILTY will pass 500k this week. By comparison Secret sold 50k in its third week for a 544k total. Get that smash consistency girl!

2008.01.13

GUILTY -- #3 ---- 6,740

From Oricon Daily :

13/1

1) Kobukuro - 15,446 Copies
2) EXILE - 7,369 Copies
3) ayumi - 6,740 Copies

guilty get #2 for this week..
T___T very sad

nah I don't think everyone should be sad in that GUILTY's probably gonna stay put for the week .

At least this week's sales for GUILTY doesn't plumment so much from the 1st-2nd week sales for GUILTY which's something normally happens to ayumi's sales for her previous albums .

Can see that GUILTY's still putting out a rather strong fight against 5296 .

Very good! Ayu's sales went up! She'll definitely be #2.

Yay.
I think ayu didn't remain in the same spot on the top 3 for a long time and 2 weeks on #2
it's definitly better than 1 and then 8 or something.

The weekly top 3 are:

#1 kobukuro
#2 ayu
#3 MISIA
#4 EXILE

hope this week guilty sell more than 80K...

looks like this album has more longevity than secret...hopefully it can sell 700k in the end...

I'm so glad Ayu manage to get in e top 3 spots again today.. weekend sales are definitely better..=) Hopefully GUILTY will stay consistent on e chart and hopefully sell over 700,000copies in e end..

i would be elated if 700k can be achieved..as GUILTY had surpassed Secret in terms of total sales (Reported by Oricon).

Hopefully GUILTY can sell over 750,000.

Yayyy! Mink beat Exile! :laugh I just hope boybands don't beat the females this year...again. Ugh, they are toooo overrated! :rolleyes

It's a cycle. Right now boybands sell like crazy. A few years later everything will be shifted again.

How many years exactly? >_> The Japanese need to make up their minds as to who they want to be on top. XD Solo female artists or boybands?!

I think Guilty will be just below the Top 10 spots. Album sells are really looking good this year....but she didn't debut higher than what I would have liked her to debut.

well, our expectations can't always be met.

I really liked this album. It actually flowed...

I know you were joking but I'm pretty sure that's against the law. Manipulate the charts is against the law.