Wow, seems like people are downloading the chaku-movies instead, haha.

And the chaku-uta should pick up when promo starts.

Yeah the PVs totally captured the #1 and #2 places like people want the songs along with the PVs rather than just the songs!
Hopefully though they will go up. =D

qooq.. incoming clips debut at #1.. yiiha.. hopefully another #1 weekly for ayu

I'm surprised at the popularity of NEXT LEVEL, Rule & Days!

Sunset had an okay-debut imo... hopefully it climbs up tomorrow or something!

^It seems like people wanted the PVs with the songs rather than just the songs.

Probably because they are really good PVs? XD

Since Sunrise and Sunset totally hogged the #1 and #2 in the movie (PVs) chart!

honestly i do prefer to listen to the songs when th PV is already came out..it gives me a more complete sense of what i'm hearing

^yes i agree. Now if i were to listen to SUnset, I'll be reminded of that beautiful scenery

Sunrise went up to 4, Sunset to 6 and their PVs are still #1 and #2. ^__^

2nd Week Third Day - July 30th

chaku-uta: #4 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
chaku-uta: #6 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
RBT: #6 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
Incoming Movie Clips: #1 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ PV
Incoming Movie Clips:: #2 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ PV

Added Charters

Video Clips
#98 Days PV ↓

Incoming Movie Clips
(着信ムービー)

#49 Days PV ↑

Excellent job, Ayu~

Good even B'z left #1 ^_^ and Ayu is slowly going back. AAA are still holding pretty good!

Cool... Sunset is gaining popularity fast lol!

Ehh...it's doing okay I think. They seem to prefer Sunrise though.

Sunrise is the main A-side, so it's probably being promoted more. In most [if not all] cases, the ~main~ track ends up doing better, like with fairyland, glitter, STEP you, Days, etc... it's kind of sad, but I guess that's how things usually work, haha.

2nd Week 4th Day - July 31th
Chaku uta Ringtone: #3 Sunrise, #6 Sunset
Incoming Movie: #1 Sunrise, #3 Sunset
RBT: #5 Sunrise

I didn't check the rest~

hmm. I just hope that when the single actually releases, the popularity didn't fall too much

^ Well it ranked #1 for the previous week and it's still going strong, so yeah, hopefully it will manage to stay in top 5 at least.

Thank you njanjayrp!!

Here's the full thing ^^

2nd Week Fourth Day - July 31st

chaku-uta: #3 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
chaku uta: #6 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~
RBT: #5 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
Incoming Movie Clips: #1 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
Incoming Movie Clips: #3 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ ↓

Added Charters

Video Clips

#72 Days PV ↑

Incoming Movie Clips
(着信ムービー)

#27 Days PV ↑
#44 Rule PV ↑
#84 BLUE BIRD PV ↑
#91 NEXT LEVEL PV ↑

Yeah lol I realise this... :P

Wow..BLUE BIRD is back! haha

lol besides Sunrise & Sunset, the rest of her stuff are so erratic!

2nd Week Fifth Day - August 1st

chaku-uta: #3 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
chaku uta: #11 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ ↓
RBT: #4 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
Incoming Movie Clips: #1 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
Incoming Movie Clips: #3 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~

Added Charters

Video Clips

#85 Days PV ↓

Incoming Movie Clips
(着信ムービー)

#71 Days PV ↓



The PVs and Sunrise's ringtone are still going strong :D

I would why BLUE BIRD randomly decided to pop up. XD

Yay for Sunrise. <3

^ BLUE BIRD? :shakehead

^ it was on the charts for yesterday i think...

and lol Sunset is dropping fast... it seems like Sunrise is the more popular one, but again it's so happy and energetic I rather have that as my ringtone haha

^ Yeah. I wonder why they seem to not like Sunset as much. I guess that this year summer ballads aren't in. :P

2nd Week Sixth Day - August 2nd

chaku-uta: #2 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
chaku uta: #14 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ ↓
RBT: #4 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
Incoming Movie Clips: #1 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
Incoming Movie Clips: #3 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~

Added Charters

Video Clips

#67 Days PV ↑

The PV of Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ will get #1 weekly most likely and Sunset #3 :D
That's really good!
Sunrise's ringtone is back to #2!

good ^^ slowly going back to #1 ^_^

We'll probably never see Sunset until....the single releases haizz...
i hope not of coz...she shouldnt pull off another "decision"

I feel like Sunset is getting shafted. STOP WITH IT, AYU~

Let Sunset have some fun toooo~

well this isn't the first time it's happening :P

Wow. Down to 14. Sunset ain't popular is it? LOL

nothing new, GREEN, Sparkle, Beautiful Fighters and fated had a similar fate.

That's lame...especially when GREEN > Days.
Sparkle > Rule

...Okay well... BLUE BIRD > Beautiful Fighters
glitter > fated
Sunrise > Sunset. :P

hopefully #1 for monthly chart for Sunrise

2nd Week Seventh Day - August 3rd

chaku-uta: #2 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
chaku uta: #13 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
RBT: #5 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↓
Incoming Movie Clips: #1 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
Incoming Movie Clips: #3 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~

Added Charters

RBT

#93 Days ↑

oh! if sunset is already on the charts why hasnt it leaked yet? :(

Sunset went up! Yay! I hope that she at least does it once on a music program, haha.

this single does better in digital than others. I'm affraid the single sales will be like t2ms/decision

Why? I don't see a single reason to think that way. Especially considering Rule/Sparkle cleared t2m/decision sales easily.

Sunrise/Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ will definitely NOT have sales like talkin' 2 myself, because it is a summer single, with a GENKI! summer song, and a ballad, which all Japanese love.

That being said, Sunrise is doing so well on the charts! Sunset is climbing up again too!

Yeah. Japan doesn't like Ayu's rock music much. Plus this is a veeeeeeeery GENKI song as waterballoon said. :)

hmmm. I don't think I can make a guess as to which way the sales will go for this single. I could easily see it go either way. Happy summer songs tend to do well for her, but then also this is her first single in a while to have just two versions and not many people seem like they like the covers either. It's a toss up for me.

It seems that people really love Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ PV!
Or is it easy to get #1 on the full PVs chart? xD


2nd Week Positions

chaku uta: #3 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
chaku uta: #8 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~
RBT: #5 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
Incoming Movie Clips: #1 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
Incoming Movie Clips: #2 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~

Added Charters

Incoming Movie Clips
(着信ムービー)

#71 Days PV

3rd Week First Day - August 4th

chaku uta: #3 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↓
chaku uta: #10 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
RBT: #6 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
Incoming Movie Clips: #1 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
Incoming Movie Clips: #4 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ ↓

Added Charters

Video Clips

#87 Days PV ↑
#94 Rule PV ↑
#99 SEASONS PV ↑

Incoming Movie Clips
(着信ムービー)

#71 Days PV ↑
#87 Days Clip from ayumi hamasaki PREMIUM COUNTDOWN LIVE 2008-2009 ↑

I still think that Rule/Sparkle was a good indicator for where sales were since for being an album-promo single basically, it did really well [130k total!]~

SEASONS on the charts... O_o lol randomness overload for Recochoku.

No i'm just wondering about that... hopefully it doesnt like that

oh ^_^ oke~ Well, Soundscan posted the numbers for separate editions of Rule/Sparkle's first week sales and you can clearly see that ver. b & ver. c each sold 10k and 5k respectively while the CD+DVD ver. sold around 41k which clearly shows that people aren't buying all the versions, therefor I think that multiple versions don't really boost your sales as much as some people here claim they do. So I don't think the fact that the single has 2 versions will reflect significantly on it's sales.

After all No Way To Say only had one version, Moments had 2, her popularity was pretty much on the same level when the 2 were released. Moments sold less.

MW and Days sold as much as they did, because they had loads of gimmicks and were 10th Anniversary singles + no one can deny that Days was a popular song, even if MW wasn't. Plus even if there was no "AVEX magic" at work on weekend (MW) it would still sell around 170k.

Here are the numbers Soundscan posted for Days/GREEN:

First week:
1 - * Days/GREEN（初回限定特殊パッケージA CD+DVD）/浜崎あゆみ08.12.17 37,013
2 - * GREEN/Days（初回限定特殊パッケージB CD+DVD）/浜崎あゆみ 08.12.17 31,777
6 - * Days/GREEN/浜崎あゆみ 08.12.17 10,455
11 - * GREEN/Days/浜崎あゆみ 08.12.17 8,250

Of course there is no way to prove that 31.777 people who both ver. B were the people who had already bought ver. A But it shows that CD only vers. are not that popular. Rule/Sparkle should indicate better how much are people actually interested in buying ALL the versions of the same release.

^ About the multiple editions things. I don't think it clearly shows anything other than that having multiple versions can only positively effect sales, not negatively. Otherwise, record companies wouldn't even bother doing it to begin with.

Also, I would say that her popularity was on different levels for NWTS and Moments. Of course she was still popular during both, but NWTS was her big winter ballad that year and she got the Japan Record Award for it - the song was all over the place. Very different situation from Moments. Plus NWTS had tons of remixes and stuff on it. Really doesn't surprise me that it sold more. If you are going to make that argument, then you have to say that all post NWTS singles had multiple versions and all have sold less than most of her prior singles which had only one version. :) As we know, there are several factors other than the versions that account for the sales decreases.

The most recent standard we have for her releasing a 2 version single is Talkin' 2 Myself and that was a major let down sales wise by Ayu standards.(and I wish it had done better since I love both songs) What I would really like to know is what her sales would be with only 1 version like back in the old days.

side note: It's interesting to me that her cd+dvd sales are so much higher than her cd only sales.

It all depends on if there are any other major PVs released the same week for download.

Well the PVs were kind of against EXILE's 優しい光 and miliyah's Aitai.

Sunset also did great! It would have get #1 weekly if Sunrise wasn't there :laugh

Of course the multiple versions aren't going to negatively affect the sales, however Rule/Sparkle sales show that people aren't really interested in CD only versions. Therefore I think that those alone don't (obviously) boost the sales that much.

As for her CD+DVD sales being higher, I think that people simply appreciate her PVs and the random popping of her older videos on Recochoku pretty much shows that they're generally liked. On the other hand fans might be the majority buying those. I guess we'll never know.

btw forgiveness sold less than all of her MY STORY and all of her (m)u singles prior to B&D/Pride. Even BLUE BIRD outsold it.

^ I had edited my post before you posted to say "most." :) Because of course even her earliest singles sold less than the ones today.

From what I can see, Exile got #1 and #2 in the ビデオクリップランキング and Ayu got the 着信ムービーランキング. I'm not sure what exactly the difference is between the two though - although I think the former is the full pv and the later just a clip. The chart that currently has Ayu and Exile on it together(incoming movie chart), is not Exile's first week of release so its difficult to say exactly where Ayu ranks in comparison. (in its first week of release it was #1 and #1 for the month) I actually don't like Exile at all though, so it would be fine if Ayu beats them. :)

I mean that's what I'm assuming. (the fans mainly buying cd+dvd) A few years ago I think it would be legitimate to say that people would buy it just for her PVs. But lets face it, most of her PVs lately aren't that great. And then especially considering that they always show up on the album cd+dvd later anyways.

Yeah that's what I'd say, but Japanese public did like BLUE BIRD PV and well I thought it was pretty dumb. So our tastes tend to differ from theirs, while I thought GREEN PV was better, Days PV is still charting on Recochoku, or at least it was during the last week. I guess they like videos that are more simple and down to earth.

^ I think its more that they prefer simple/down to earth sounding songs like Days and therefore it gives them more incentive to get the PV too. (although Days PV is not bad) But even in Japan, in my experience when it comes to talking about her PVs from artistic perspectives they favor many of her "classic" PVs.

^ might be that as well. Well some of her "classics" are amazing, but I think that 1LOVE, is this LOVE?, momentum, alterna and a couple of others are on pair if not better than the majority of her older PVs, still I'd like to see something like Endless sorrow or Daybreak in the future.

Well I don't know if it means anything though I found this http://oops-music.com/info/view_news.html?nid=46038

It says the perfume's "One Room Disco" PV "will be" aired on 25th March and the 着ムービー was released on 11th March (they didn't mention video clip which might be the short versions or parts).
I don't know if it says anything but maybe it means that the movie thing is the full PV? Or else they would write there "video clip". Not sure.

wow! sunrise and sunset always on the TOP *o*
thanks for the info ^^

About the discussion of PVs... PVs like Days are very relate-able. Who hasn't had a crush who didn't reciprocate your feelings? On the other hand, not everyone is a diva making weird facial expressions and gracing the streets of 1930's China... (GREEN).

Sunrise is a fun PV, it's just cute and nice to see Ayu being jumpy and happy. I think that's why people like the PV.

Wow! People really do like PV! :thud
Single might be a Big hit in Japan. Hehe
That's good. ;)

I kind of wonder why Japan purchases so much more of the CD+DVD versions than the CD only versions, but I suppose you could chalk it up to Japanese listeners wanting the music videos in high quality NOW as opposed to 7 months down the road when she releases the album, haha.

very true....XD

Its weird, but it seems when they say video "clip", it actually means the whole PV. Even on music video channels I've seen them refer to full PVs as "clips." The 着ムービー seems to always be released first and then the "video clip" one a few weeks later - so I'm assuming 着ムービー is what we would consider a clip and the one that is actually called "video clip" is the full pv. lol. Someone with access to the service though would have to confirm.

In short though, last month Exile got #1 for the 着ムービー ranking and now so far this month they have #1 for the video clip ranking. So, we can't do a direct comparison to Ayu since they didn't come out the same week and they don't release the sales numbers. From what I can tell it seems that nothing that I would consider major was released at the same time as the Sunrise PV. So, without the actual sales numbers its hard to say how well its doing in comparison to other major artists, but we will at least be able to see how it does in the monthly rankings, although I'm not sure what else that is Ayumi level is being released this month.

Yes I checked it through the website, Video Clip is the whole PV (since it costs more to dowload it) and the Movie thing is a part of the PV probably a verse and a chorus or just chorus.

3rd Week Second Day - August 5th

chaku uta: #7 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↓
chaku uta: #20 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ ↓
chaku uta FULL: #1 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
Video Clips: #1 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
RBT: #4 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
RBT: #27 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
Incoming Movie Clips: #1 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
Incoming Movie Clips: #6 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ ↓

Added Charters

Video Clips

#51 Days PV ↑
#72 Rule PV ↑

Incoming Movie Clips
(着信ムービー)

#78 Days PV ↓



The Full song, full PV and PV parts of Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ are all #1 today. =DD

wooow.. I never saw her digital chart as well as sunrise now..lol

Aww, Sunset fell! Must have a lot of new entries today!

At least we can say that the general public LOVE Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ and its PV. XD

We will see how RIAJ certificate it and how much the single will sell as well. =D

^ Its their first day on the charts. It would only be surprising if they WEREN'T number 1. :)

Sunshine, don't rain on our parade~ haha.

I thought that most of the main A-sides do well on chaku-uta and chaku-movie but not generally on the full thing.
Probably Days did but I don't remember that a lot of recent others got even daily #1s on multiple charts.

Since everything is possible, Sunrise can flop from those tomorrow :)

The situation seems pretty similar to yesterday, Sunrise ringotone jumped back to #6. Still holding the three #1s. And well Days is #32 on Video Clips Charts.

hehe thank you =D
so ayu got #1 in chaku-uta full and full PV and PV parts for 2 days! Let's hope it continues that way. ^^

3rd Week Third Day - August 6th

chaku uta: #7 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
chaku uta: #22 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ ↓
chaku uta FULL: #1 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
RBT: #4 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
RBT: #22 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
Video Clips: #1 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
Incoming Movie Clips: #1 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
Incoming Movie Clips: #5 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑

Added Charters

Video Clips

#32 Days PV ↑

This single is really popular, that's all I can say.

I'm glad it's really popular. :D
I'm haaaaaaaaappy it's still dominating. :D

wooow.. Days PV jump to 32.. thats waw..hehehhe

3rd Week Fourth Day - August 7th

chaku uta: #6 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
chaku uta: #24 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ ↓
chaku uta FULL: #2 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↓
RBT: #5 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↓
RBT: #26 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ ↓
Video Clips: #1 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
Incoming Movie Clips: #1 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↓
Incoming Movie Clips: #7 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑

Added Charters

Video Clips

#71 Days PV ↓

Sunrise is doing great...and i hope it translates to acctual sales hahah..
(and im very touched just listneing to Sunset)

Days is SUPER STRONG omg..

Sunrise's chaku-uta full got down to #2 because of miliyah's Aitai, it seems that she has got some tough digital competitors but she still manages eventually :)

Yes, the japanese people love Sunrise's PV!
The PV parts are still #1 for a week and a half and the full PV is still #1.
That's really good.

RIAJ doesn't certificate the PVs or counting them into the chaku-utas right?

Why did Milyah Kato jump from #6 to #1? T_T

^ maybe after live performance..

I'm speechless with days

^ I saw a CM on asashi yesterday, they had random street girls saying they love Miliyah. I hope she isn't going to become a next big thing. I don't like her.

3rd Week Fifth Day - August 8th

chaku uta: #9 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↓
chaku uta: #21 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
chaku uta FULL: #5 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↓
RBT: #5 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↓
RBT: #32 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ ↓
Video Clips: #1 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
Incoming Movie Clips: #1 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
Incoming Movie Clips: #6 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑

Added Charters

Video Clips

#62 Days PV ↑
#95 Rule PV ↑

Excellent, Sunset is rising up slowly~

Yeah XD

It also seems like people rather downloading the whole Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ PV rather than just the song!

Well there were new releases added so I guess that's why it dropped :(

I don't really understand how to "read" the chart :thud
according to the comments seems like it has a good starting

I hope Sunset will go #1.
I really2 like sunset rather than Sunrise.

It's great that Sunrise is still no 1 for some charts. XD

Sunrise >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sunset.

It's just good that both songs are doing well on the charts. :)

3rd Week Sixth Day - August 9th

chaku uta: #6 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
chaku uta: #17 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
chaku uta FULL: #4 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
RBT: #4 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
RBT: #29 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
Video Clips: #1 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
Incoming Movie Clips: #1 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
Incoming Movie Clips: #6 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~

Added Charters

Video Clips

#70 Days PV ↓
#93 Rule PV ↑

Incoming Movie Clips
(着信ムービー)

#89 Days PV ↑

Good, Sunrise is slowly going back to Chaku-uta Full top which is imo, the most important ^^ and it's really nice to see that people generally liked both Days and Rule PVs as they have been on charts for months.

lol wtf Days has been there for almost a year!

just this time Recochoku chart thread has many posts
hahahha

^Days is so awesome!
I'm so proud of Ayu and how she's still so influential!!

Everything went up today =D

3rd Week Seventh Day - August 10th

chaku uta: #5 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
chaku uta: #16 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
chaku uta FULL: #2 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
RBT: #3 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
RBT: #25 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
Video Clips: #1 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
Incoming Movie Clips: #1 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
Incoming Movie Clips: #6 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~

Added Charters

Video Clips

#58 Days PV ↑

Incoming Movie Clips
(着信ムービー)

#67 Rule PV ↑

Woots!

Good she is back at #2 on Chaku-uta Full!! I am glad the songs aren't only dropping!

yeah because the single release today so all digital chart went up

These charts are for yesterday though. If the single coming out makes them go up, we'll see it tomorrow night.. I think.

^ yup, besides B'z only went up on Chaku-uta ringtone charts when DIVE was released. They didn't get into top 5 of other categories as far as I recall.

Good news!!

3rd Week Positions

chaku uta: #7 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
chaku uta: #21 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~
chaku uta FULL: #1 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
RBT: #3 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
RBT: #25 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~
Video Clips: #1 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
Incoming Movie Clips: #1 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
Incoming Movie Clips: #5 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~

Added Charters

Video Clips

#57 Days PV



4th Week First Day - August 11th

chaku uta: #7 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↓
chaku uta: #19 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ ↓
chaku uta FULL: #4 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↓
RBT: #3 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
RBT: #22 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ ↑
Video Clips: #2 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ ↓
Incoming Movie Clips: #1 Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
Incoming Movie Clips: #7 Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~ ↓

Added Charters

Video Clips

#88 Days PV


ayu got #1 in all of the most important charts with Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~!
chaku uta, chaku uta FULL, video clips, incoming movies (PV parts) (for 2 weeks and it's still #1)!
That's great. ^__^