We already updated it on the last page haha =D

It's also official by oricon!
Great sales!

the drop is a lot...but i hope it will steady from now on until the rest of the week

bahaha sorry I didn't see the first page..
great sales..i hope it could go over 80K?
haha XD

Hopefully the drop won't be much tomorrow.

Wohooo!Go Ayu!Crossroad sells better than M/b!What will be further..

Are you ever satisfied? Your posts always have such a negative tone >_<

This is great! It's doing better than MOON and it's already 20k ahead of Kuu. We always doubt her so much and she always pull through. We should have a bit more faith : P

very satisfy, tbh I love MOON much moreeeee than crossroad so my prediction, crossroad would sell less than MOON but the fact is inverted so yah. :innocent

I think ayu will exclude s/s first :innocent. and probly talkin' 2 myself... MOON's sales ain't that bad so it will be on the tracklist :P.

great sales! I hope the drop won't be too much tomorrow..

Should have bought more copies of MOON/blossom then. :P

No way in hell is Ayu excluding Sunrise from any best album, regradless of how the physical single sold. It was a digital hit and one of her best summer songs (in my opinion). talkin' 2 myself was already on a compilation so that "might" not make it.

The best solution for A BEST 3: include everything :P.

keeps gettin' better~~

go ayu go!! :D :D

LOL I agree with the first part XD


And about A BEST 3, I think she is going to add everything that's "best" from Secret until who knows where :P





Either way! Lets hope tomorrow's sales don't drop as much!! *o*

haah.. true. hopefully all singles are included but Im still not sure. just MOON has to be there. I dont care about Blossom

A Best 3 will take from (miss)understood album tracks on... *hopes for Ladies Night* xD

^(m)u album songs was already on A Best 2. So I would say Secret album and forward. Btw, did she say that she's planning a A Best 3 album or are we just dreaming away?

^ah~ about to ask the same thing XD

it's nice to see that this single isn't selling less than the previous one. the drop was pretty huge, but she's still #1. i think that she is way too far ahead of kumi now for her to catch up.

There should be three options:

1. A BEST 3 starts from Bold & Delicious/Pride, think about it as the starting of the new ayu since she never had such songs in these styles or PVs so it's like her 3d era started with these.

2. A BEST 3 starts with Startin'/Born To Be... the 3rd era of ayu starts.

3. A BEST 3 stars with Days/GREEN since The first A-sides of the singles Bold & Delicious~Mirrocle World were all on A COMPLETE ~ALL SINGLES~.

So it's really hard to know. XD

She has to add tracks from Secret and GUILTY I'm pretty sure. So the last option is a bit... not too possible? xD

i'm still hoping that she won't release best album next year...
i think 2012 will be perfect to do that...

I hope she won't add B&D/pride ! imo, they're both her worst songs ! hate them a lot , i bought (miss)understood and always skip them !

I understand if you don't like the style, but the Bold & Delicious message is pretty cute afterall, she just wants you to shout and have fun with it.
(After reading the lyrics xD).

Pride is a nice gospel ballad, I prefer some other ballads too, it still tops Two of us and from your letter and the likes. =P

I'm not certain B&D or Pride will make it on the next best. I honestly hope she starts from GREEN/Days.

Pride is totally awesome.it has such a magic magnet. I am pretty sure A BEST 3 starts from Secret era.

what about epic Secret and awesome GUILTY?? :cry

she's doing amazing omg~!

i hope she releases another original album before doing another compilation album.

i think this is a good sales start for Ayu ^-^

Those singles were in A COMPLETE. I want a compilation of recent songs. And maybe even new ones! :D

She should still wait for a best album

But JEWEL, 1 LOVE, momentum, Marionette etc weren't singles! she will surely add those in a next best of :P she doesnt only add singles xD



and i agree that she should wait more for a next A BEST :yes

A Best 2 covers evolution single to Bold & delicious/Pride... It doesn't cover (miss)understood album tracks on the same way A Best covered Poker Face to M without covering I am...
=) This was part of the A Best 2 announcements...

A Complete was a single collection, A Best is a "best of", it has album tracks and such... The next A Best will have for sure tracks that already were released on A Complete...

definitly #1... go ayu!!!

Technically A BEST 2 covers evolution~HEAVEN xDD

(That's one of the reasons for the 1st option I suggested earlier)

If I'm not wrong, she announced it would cover Bold & Delicious too, but the songs didn't make it into the album...

Wow, very good Ayu! :-D It's already beating out the previous single's sales. Hope it's the same story for L next week. ^^

Agreed. I don't even want to think about the next A BEST right now. Hopefully the gap between it and the last A BEST is as big as the one between the first two. XD

I guess it's because I didn't have most of the songs on A BEST or A COMPLETE so I felt they were worth the money... I got almost everything RAINBOW onward so A BEST 3 might not appeal to me unless she's going to do something special with it.

Why is a talk about a third A Best album being discussed under the 49th and 50th single news thread?

^Someone mentioned that they didn't want crossroad to outsell M/b because then the latter probably wouldn't appear on the next A BEST album... and... it just went from there. XD

yeap... and now people think that she's gonna release A BEST 3 soon because of that lol.

Yeap, when A BEST 2 was announced, the web did say the songs would be covered from evolution till Bold & Delicious (the last single of (m)u). I was a bit shocked when neither of B&D/Pride went into A BEST 2. I hope they will be in A BEST 3 (if she's gonna release it a few years later), but I dun think they will include those two songs. Besides, B&D was already in A COMPLETE.

Great sales for Ayu! :3
im sure crossroad will experience more steady second week sales
due to the concert and due to L coming out.
Gooo Crossroad! :)

....or it may experience a huge dropout since everyone would rather buy the huge 50th single. Anyway, I have a good hope that crossroad will reach 75k at the end of this week.

I have the same belief in the single, besides, I hope it won't pass much time until it reach 100k!

Yep, 100k is very possible!!!

Where did people get the idea she's gonna release A BEST 3 soon?
I don't see the need for her to release another best well at least not this year.
I'll totally be happy is she release it on her 15th anniversary?

lol, im not ready yet for A BEST 3 XD
^^ awesome chart for ayu as usual~ i think L single will be more high than crossroad :)

^ I agree, there hasn't even been that much time between now and AB2. Maybe in 3 years or something, but before then, no.

I'm so glad crossroad is selling better than moon/blossom~!!! :thud

If you want to talk about BEST 3, please do it in the appropriate thread...
(and for the record, BEST 2 went up to B & D/Pride, so there is no reason that it would be on the the next best. It won't even be taken into consideration.)

i'm sure avex will want ab3 out sooner then later.... while ayu is still able to sell 100k+

according to the natsu blog this single could sell 75-80k on its first week!!

2nd day 54000 it seems going on well

^

I believe that too.. =)

I read earlier in the thread that people buying Crossroad might affect L's sales when its released (next week). I ordered all three singles together, and I'm having them shipped together... will that affect the sales next week? Or would the Crossroad sale be counted in this week? (Since I bought it this week)

Someone said that she might destroy her own record with Crossroad taking #1, and that scared me a little! XD;

^I dun think that will be the case. Just compare her recent sales and you will see that most of crossroad orders have been shipped already. Let's say if many crossroad being shipped next week, this week sales should be MUCH lower (like.. less than 40K for 2 days?). Also, most hardcore fans in Japan are TA member, so usually they will order cds via mumo (if they're ordering cds online). I heard that mumo separates crossroad and L shipments.

^It also scares me a bit. But still I believe L will gonna make it.*Crossing fingers*

Nonetheless, I'm glad crossroad is doing good so far.

This week's sales will be like 70-80k... L will probably also sell that much in it's first week... and since crossroad is not going to sell 70-80k in its 2nd week, L will definitely win.

LOL I think it's impossible crossroad will get number 1 next week.
You guys are worrying and thinking too much.

Yay!! That's better than I thought it'd do:D

Blah!

Now since there are few people who posted different stuff on 2ch we need to wait for the official numbers from oricon. -_-

Koda Kumi might get a #1 daily soon...BUT, she can definitely not get the #1-weekly from Ayu :)... And whoah, this single is doing slightly better than you'd expect..

3rd Day
Position:　#1
Sales: 6,454
Total Sales: 60,657

This is probably the real one. xD

kuu's sukidex2.../anata dake ga 3rd day: 4,475
total: 38,496

It's still higher than S/S & MOON's 3 days total (though S/S 3rd day was higher)

Aw, I hope the other one is real.

Nah I'm convinced that the 2nd one I posted is real.
99%.

Damn xD. Oh well, still not bad.

Yep. =D

MOON/blossom sold 13,985 in its first week last 3 days so if it can sell it or above it the first week of crossroad might be 75,000 or even 78,000!

Hope that Kuu won't take #1 daily from Ayu ! i just want to see Ayu #1 for the whole week ^^!

nice job ayu! :)

Not too bad, still has over 6000 copies on the 3rd day :).

Well ayu is still first on jbook's real time chart.
kuu is #3 after EXILE's single.

#1 crossroad CD+DVD
#2 EXILE
#3 kuu's sukidex3.../anata dake ga CD+DVD
#11 EXILE
#17 crossroad CD B
#18 kuu's sukidex3.../anata dake ga CD
#19 crossroad CD C

EXILE might snatch the #2 daily from kuu but nothing is certain of course!

Wow cool! their gap is so near its starting to get scary haha..but i guess the sales will come to plateau eventually. Ayu still has 7days FINAL to promote

^^Is EXILE overtaking kuu today?

Well for today EXILE is #3 daily with around 3,000s and on the real time chart so far they are #2 and their cd only does better than kuu's cd only so they might snatch it.

I don't know if jbook covers all the stores that oricon does.
(I don't know much about jbook's). =P

hmmn ok.. Well as long as ayu getting no. 1 I'm fine with exile or kuu battling for daily no. 2 :P

3rd Day
Position:　#1
Sales: 6,454
Total Sales: 60,657

This is probably the real one. xD

kuu's sukidex2.../anata dake ga 3rd day: 4,475
total: 38,496

Official by oricon~

As I love Ayu and Kuu, I wish Kuu can take over #1 daily at least 1 day

Isn't Kuu releasing a special charm edition of 好きで、好きで、好きで。?

oh my, such a pretty big drop today...

but still #1!!

keep up the good work ayu!!!

break Seiko's record! :D :D

That was the fan club press, already released as far as I know.

so you think crossroad is going to get #1 weekly for sure now??


I just don't want it to sell TOO GOOD so then L can have its moment to shine too :inlove

We're still keeping steady, but don't get too excited...

I want it to sell too good and then L to sell even better :laugh

Ayu's doing good lol I'm happy for Kuu too~
Yeah she still have 7 days final to promote, how can I forgot that XD
Her sales will be ok :D

That's a good way to go too xD :luv2

No, it's not, everyone can buy it from mu-mo.
It was shipped yesterday.

Ouch, I was expecting the halving theory to apply to yesterday's sales, so I thought it would be about 8k. But 6?

Ayu is doing okay. It's not mindblowing, but so is neither the single itself. I don't really bother too much about the sales though. As long as she get's #1 I'm a happy bunny for her sake.

now i just hope it can stay steady for the last few days! i'm really happy with these sales. they of course could be better but the fact that it's selling more than her last single and we're not just watching her single sales drop and drop with each release anymore is great.

Yay ayu! Hoping 80K first week, but I think 75K tops is more realistic... Just have to wait'n'see. =)

Oh, right. Sorry ^_^

Does she still has a chance to get #1 weekly? Anyway, I'm happy that she's the best over all again =)

^The gap between her and Kuu who's in 2nd place is almost 30k, with sales for both dropping even if Kuu gets the remaining #1 daily's I'm pretty sure the weekly is hers at this point. But you never know.

LOL this. I have no idea why people are hanging on to the idea that crossroad will overtake L next week. L would have to absolutely TANK in order for that to happen. Has she ever had 2nd week sales that beat out 1st week in recent years?

She`s currently like 22,000 copies ahead of Kuu who is No. 2, so I'd say YES! =D

Is kuu a really threat???Ayu has been one all days...

I reeeally like these sales for ayu. She's doing quite fine. I'm just surprised this has more than Sunrise as of now. But I guess I shouldn't be.
Hopefully L will do better just as crossroad did better than M/b :D

The sales are great, I expected 8k for today, but I think that tomorrow the sales can increase or at least remain stable. 1# weekly is sure, she must go to the 80k for this week

This single deserves at least 90k (or maybe 100) for its first week? :shrug

Looks like suki de is well received to a certain extent..

That's cool! I think it would be great, if L get #1 and crossroad #2 XD. Like it was with ABest 2!!

By the way, I got into a mess: from which single began the strike? If I'm not mistaken, T2M got #2?

^Nope, the album GUILTY got #2 and ended her #1 album streak but her current #1 single streak started with Free and Easy.