Go Ayu :] She seems to be rebounding well, I mean a lot of people love the new single. And BLUE BIRD appears to be really popular in Japan.

I think it's funny how everyone keeps going "Yes! Another day at at #1~~~!!"

I remember last year when nobody cared because it'd always top the chart no matter what :P

I'm hoping that I'll be able to buy this single on Friday...help support her.

Not really. People were exactly like that last year, too.

I wonder does that mean that we'll see the sales figures on wednsday since that would make it a whole week WOWO I can't wait to see them I hope there good.l

^ The sales are 161,000, as posted in truehappiness' thread

^good to hear that :D

YAY! w00t!

I read somewhere that only "Japan version" of her works count towards her sales figure...:)

Just reminding if you all are aware... XD

yay! no1 for a whole week!

Ayu is gonna face some challenges over the next week because OLIVIA inspi' NANA @ A little pain and the other NANA theme track ROSE will be on sale this week~~
It seems that these 2 songs are extremely prevalent in Japan and you can hear it almost everywhere~
YUI's GOOD BYE DAYS also as well. If u walk around CD shops, malls, cafe' and you will hear them everywhere^^~~~~~~~~
I still wish AYu can still on the chart for another 2 weeks^^~ and accumulate her sales~

if you buy a Japan Version from yesasia, it still doesn't count... Only amazon and CDJapan-sales count for oricon.. and of course if you're actually IN japan and bought it from a regular shop.

I'd like to know if NANA is a movie or a drama or a cartoon or an anime? I can't believe there are still songs from it.. x__x

NANA is a manga turned anime-movie thing.

It's crazy. Like 10million people are in love with the series :3

They made songs for the manga in some tribute album and then the movie came then the anime.

Damn! Ayu should so sing a song for it too.

Well, if that is true I hope it does really well because Olivia finally deserves some recognition.

yay.. congrats to Ayu..

Olivia entered at #8. Ayu is holding up really well, now at #5!

I think that dropping to number 5 already on the 8th day is quite a drop?

drip drop drip drop.

she'll climb back up tomorrow or the day after that... These CDs are all very new..

I know for sure that she won't be in the top 2, #3 is the highest I think it can go.

Didn't Startin' climb back up to #2?

^Don't know, but I don't think BB can beat PG's single

160,572 copies sold for the first week is really good! How much did her past few singles did on the first week? Certainly better than "Startin'/Born to be..." that's for sure.

I'm a little suprised that ANNA did better than OLIVIA.

Hoping that Ayu climbs back up! :D

After some intense research and digging through threads/wikipedia pages!

Startin' was #8 on it's 8th day..
30, 176 units for second week.

Bold & Delicious was #9 on it's 8th day..
23, 555 units for second week.

Heaven was #3 on it's 8th day..
63, 260 units for second week.

Fairyland was #3 on it's 8th day..
62, 223 units for second week.

Step You was #3 on it's 8th day.
68, 992 units for second week.

So from these figures, I don't think we can expect over 300 000 copies sold, but sales of over 250 000 units is more possible. Although 300 000 might just be true, who knows. I just want this to beat Koi No Tsubomi.

ASFXX: I wasn't though, seeing how ANNA does have that bit more popularity compared to OLIVIA, and also how GLAMOROUS SKY outsold ENDLESS STORY last year.

And I think BB might probably climb up to #2 or #3. The Rainbow Star is probably going to hold on to top spot for at least a few days, and PG might also just hold BB off #1 too.

Ok, a complete chart analysis for first/second week sales on first page, check on it. It seems like BB's first week is almost similar to STEP you's. STEP YOU was only 2500 copies more. However STEP YOU was #3 on it's 8th day, so...

This is kinda fun.

Don't worry, it will in 3-4 weeks.

Creds: Haruki @ JPM

Thanks for the information and charts!

thanks for the info :P

Oh I hope Ayu can stay in top 5 this week as well! Hopefully her second week sales will be steady XD

oh well!... at least its number 1 for a whole week!!!

go go go AYU!!!

BEcause ANNA's track ROSE is the theme song of NANA which everyone listen to it at first at the beginning, what's more is that Japanese are more into ROCK, metal music in particular watching to punk animated series like NANA, and this is why OLIVIA's a little pain, which is the ending track (slow) is not doing as good as ANNA's track. You can see such a ubiquitous phenonmenon in NANA ~the movie, where GLAMOROUS sky reaches No.1, while ENDLESS STORY didn't^^~~

woooh, this is pretty good news

theres a good chance that blue bird might sell near or even over the 300K mark

Yay~~!!

could I get the link to the oricon page cause I'm looking at it right now and it still says Ayu is #1 so can some one give me the link

IYFreak: http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/d/
I think you're on the Weekly section, that's why it still says that Ayu is #1

I hope Ayu can still be #1 this week :D Well, at least top 3. GO AYU!

Damn it all, it's down to #5? Meh, I'm not very familiar with how it usually goes...

#5? Nah, it isn;t that bad.. She will be able to climb up later...

hang in there Ayu!!

Well, BONNIE PINK doesn't seem to sell too well in her weeks.. I dunno though..

Her real competition for the week is Anna / OLIVIA / ENDLICHERIx2.. :O

...so.. Ayu can either get #3 or #4 this week; since the people ahead of her seem to be strong sellers..

Porno Graffiti.. some Johnny's band... Anna.. BONNIE... I hope she can get higher though :]

2nd week i don't really think it matters what position rather the # of sales are more important, hopefully she'll pass Startin Sales this week with BB.

Uhh... ENDLESS STORY outsold GLAMOROUS SKY, not the other way around. That's why ENDLESS STORY is still charting on the top 200 while GLAMOROUS SKY isn't. So that basically disproves your whole point.

To be exact, a Johnny's solo ;)

Even so, GLAMOUROUS sky ranked no. 1 for 2 weeks... but ENDLESS sTORY didn't~ i am not talking about the overall sales.. i mean the weekly ranks~~ so ?~

How many singles/albums did Mika release before GS? at least 3 full albums and maybe about 15 singles...
How many singles/albums did Yuna Ito release before ES? none.

And GS getting 2 weeks @ #1 isn't really the point. Def Diva got #1 while selling 27,000. Bottom line is ENDLESS STORY was more popular than GLAMOROUS SKY and disproves your "Japanese are more into ROCK, metal music in particular watching to punk animated series like NANA" point.

^^ to be honest
i dont like GS .. its weird .. i like Endless Story better << that is nicer than GS
Mika's voice is too high pitch !

still #5... oh my, sales to drop from 160,000 to 30,000 next week? o__O :(

I think it would be about 50-60k

Well, if you look at it from a sales pov, the other people ahead of her might be selling like 100k and Ayu's could be high as well.. just not as high as their debut sales. ;o

You can tell if she's not selling too well when like YUI gets ahead of her..

i onestly think sales r gonna drop this week..:-/ Hvae u guys seen Utada's sales? it went from like 500k to 150 k..eek

Well, I think that's cause of high debut sales probably.

Ayu's single should last for a while, maybe even get past 250k;;

i'd be over the top with sales past 250k. oh well, i know i'm awful but i'm obsessed with sales figures! :p

BLUE BIRD clawed it's way up to #3 already! I think it might just get to #1 by Tuesday.

Plus I think we can find out total sales figures from first week sales through a geometric progression formula, a/(1-r) that's used to find infinite progressions. I should try it one day.. :D
You aren't the only one. *guilty*

Worse than STEP you, fairyland and HEAVEN. Maybe the second week sales will be 50+k, oh well...

But better than Forgiveness, BOLD & DELICIOUS, Startin' and showing that Ayu is having a sales rebound! :D

Maybe it'd bounce up to like no.2 and get #2 weekly.. LOL OMG.

I wonder how did fairyland do on its 10th day when BLUE BIRD is #3?

It feels so good to see BB climbing up the chart :D

Researches...

3 /4 /3 /2 /2 /2 /1 <--HEAVEN
3 /3 /2 /2 /2 /2 /2 <--Fairyland
3 /4 /1 /1 /1 /1 /1 <--STEP you

^thanks so much :P

I think she'll get #3 on the weeklies and probably by the beginning of next week like Monday, she might get #2.

Yeah, #3 today! Also, YUI is doing well too. I still haven't heard her new single! XD

'a' standing for "ayumi's total income multiplied with her height" and 'r' being "weight of the entire japanese population substracted from the global birth rate"? :D :P just kidding!

good to know that i'm not the only obsessed.... so not EVERYONE hates me. :tipsy

"yeah" for blue bird... sale little bird, sale! *evil grin*

lol no xD

a/(1-r)
a = the first number in the progression (first week sales)
r = the second number in the progression divided by the first number (2nd week divided with first week)

Although r can be tricky, you can get a better shot at the formula with some analysis of the current music industry, NINKI ratings, and artist reputation.

:P complicated, ne?

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/7933/sales6ws.png

This means that BLUE BIRD's sales are 268,333 if it decreases by approximately 3/5 weekly.

Nice...#3!! hope it dosen't drop alot..

I had no idea stuff could go UP!! I always thought things could only go down on the charts...this is awesome!

MC Tatsujin: LOL! :D Imagine if it actually sold (close to that) amount!

I have a feeling it will xD

wow..she get number 3 this day
GO AYU GO!!!!

YUI's single just goes crazy....

hope it wont exeed ayu's

fingers crossed

WHO SAYS?!?!

im so happy she went up 2 places again!..

Yay for #3 :) Nice jump.

MC u nerd!! xD

hopefully blue bird sales can get to 300,000+

lol, you rock tatsujin! :yes

no one, hence the question mark. :P

IT WENT UP TO #3!! YAY!

Up up up! I hope this single sells really well! Like the usual 300K! Or even higher!

i'm optimistic :D

that number looks extremely close, if i was gonna guess i woulda guessed 260k, very nice.

OMG STEP you rocks! No wonder I love it so much.:D

Does anyone know why Oricon isnt updating their site? o__O

Isn't cause it's the weekend?

But they update daily, y'know.. o__o Every day of the week. Every week of the year, except the final month.

MC, the 1st should show "#2" now :)

I think you just got mixed up with the dates because one day you updated the 30/6 as being "*insert number here*" But when I went on Oricon that exact day, only up to the 29/6 had been updated... Maybe it was just me or something xD But Don't worry : D

OMG YAY #2 today! On July 1st BLUE BIRD got back to #2!

AMAZING.

Maybe it could..get to..#1?! O_O

^ Well lets hope so :D

It would be amazing if it got Number 1

Two days for BLUE BIRD to achieve it. Let's wait and see.

kool ^^ she got back to 2nd spot :D

GO AYU!!!!!
i don't know why, but i'm so optimistic about the sales :yes i say about
50-60K :D

2006 july 1st go to No.2,well done ayu,well done BLUE BIRD!

happy for her! :D don't care about the #1 spot (only in the first week :p) as long as she manages to stick around in the top 10 for a good while.

^agree
long chart life=huge sales :yes GO AYU!!!!!!!

i really hope this week sells beyond 60k

30th june - number 3
and NOW
1st JULY - NUMBER 2
SO COOL!!!
i hope it can sales at 60k too..so it can achieve more than 300k sales

how many copies did she sell this week?

its so cool that its going up again!...

Just a minor computer glitch I'm having which doesnt update webpages whenever I view them. All ok now though. :D

I dont know why Oricon put the display date on their charts one day back. If that was indeed the chart for July 1st, then BLUE BIRD was released on the 20th of June? But in reality BLUE BIRD was released on the 21st, right? o__o *confused*

EDIT: I think the date displayed on Oricon is the one at the Meridian Greenwich?

^I have no idea. Oricon has always been waay to weird for me to understand.