My package was shipped a couple days ago and left San Francisco almost 12 hours ago, but what with this crazy-ass weather in Seattle I have no idea when I'll actually have it in my hot little hands. :/ I've listened to Goodbye Happiness over and over and over again, but haven't even heard clips of the others...augh, I'm so excited! Must...resist...temptation...

yeah that's interesting.

JPM forum posted the new oricon number. I hope it's not fake.. 189K.

I think 189k's quite reasonable ^^!

That sounds about right. so like 211k counting the sales for the 0th day?

Hopefully... Hikki sales usually have a longer leg, so if this is really her first day sales, she might be able to pass 400K on the first week.. again, there's a day off this week so who knows?

Wow great sales (if this is true)
Hope it's real because she deserves higher

Free shipping, so $65 is the total. Thanks for the link bluegie. I'm going to call them tomorrow to ask about it. It doesn't make sense why I would need to pay the HST of the entire total, since this is a gift. This is annoying...

189k for Tuesday is what that means? And that's still without pre-orders and stuff because those will be added Wednesday? Or will there be absolutely no sales Wednesday and pre-orders and stuff will be on Thursday? I need clarity! :laugh

But 211k before the album is actually released is a good number! :) I'm confident now she can definitely reach 400k this week and she can probably at least reach 600k if not 800k the following week! I'm confident Utada can win this!!!

JPM just posted another set of (depressing) number... 57K. :no
and people say this should be the real number instead..

=____=; UGH.

Well, I'd like the first number to be true... but even if the 2nd number really is, I'll stay optimistic because I initially thought Tuesday's sales would be bad and Wednesday/Thursday's would get good after the marking of the official release date... *trying to stay positive*

I KNOW HIKKI CAN DO THIS.

Has Utada The Best also been released early or did Universal not realize this holiday thingy? I haven't seen any numbers for it yet and on the NINKI it was projected to follow SCV2.


(If the albums sales remain this ****** in the long run, I'll petition the US Congress to wage war on Japan for blasphemy. :P)

Yes UTB was on the chart yesterday at no. 19. Yeah, I shouldn't be happy for such rank, but it made me smile that Universal could not get much profit from SC2 :).

Then again, SC2 may not be not doing what we're expecting. Oh well I guess we should focus on her music instead of sales... be positive :).

o_o The second number should be true. If it maintains around that number, she should still be hitting around 300k for the first week, where it should be really.

How can she get 300K on the first week if the 2nd number is true? It's not likely that she will get 50K everyday. Most likely I believe she will get... probly around 200K or so for the first week.

I'm still not worried in the slightest. I'll wait for the sales we get on the 26, which are the sales for 25, the first NON-HOLIDAY INFECTED DAY.

What do Japanese people do on Thanksgiving Labor Day (LOL at them for taking 2 of our holidays and rolling it into one :P). On a very unrelated note, I am always at school now and its getting dull. If I had that day off I'd probably hang out at home....or go out somewhere with my family :( SOON though! TOMORROW! Yay. Ok back on topic....so yeah. I probably wouldn't think: "let's run to the CD store and get this new album" LOL.

To be realistic, I kinda doubt the holiday will infect that much. If people really wanna buy the album, they will just pop into any cd store and grab it asap. Just like cds released before new year (a big holiday in Japan), I dun see the sales are affected much by the before Jan 01.

Edit: Oh poly we posted around the same time, with opposite opinion.. lol

Those are the official numbers. The album is supposed to be out on the 24th so maybe people didn't know about it yet? or for some weird reason the Preorders are still not shipped.

What do you mean by preorders are still not shipped? Mine is on the way...

This is from JPM again.. and the person reposted what the Japanese think SC2 will sell (2ch):

I gotta say, even tho NINKI is not accurate, I never expect a cd with index over 500 will sell like that..

If it does end up selling like that, it'd weird, Ninki isn't accurate to the decimal, but they do give a general impression. Ninki below 20? No succes. Ninki around 100? Succes. Over 500? HOLY CRAP WTF HUGE SUCCESS. Sales like that would make Ninki even less reliable as an indication of sorts D :

I know. actually, the prediction above was by a member from JPM. He wrote that the Japanese in 2ch predicted that the first week sales would be 150K.

Well, we still have one more hope. Yesterday (Nov. 23) was the national holiday in Japan rite? People said many cd stores closed on that day... so it could be a reason for such horrible low sales. So Nov 24 sales (which will be posted on oricon tomorrow) will tell whether we're lying to ourselves or not. Personally I dun wanna too unrealistic, even tho I keep hoping these two days' sales are just our nightmares.

This reminds me of the UB era. The time when I thought the first week sales would be at least 700K, and it ended up barely over 500K (remember back then we didn't know the daily sales until the end of the week?). I was so melancholic for a few days since it was a huge drop from SC1 to UB. Now it seems like we may encounter another huge drop from HS to SC2... :no..

2nd day (real 1st day) - 57600

hmm...it's really low for hikki...it's best album...weird...