Why did it take until the day before her single was to be released for the PVs to air?

Namie's Want Me, Want Me was floating around weeks before it was released. The same goes for many other artists.

The single is a horrible flop release. Maybe that's why the sales are so low.

Maybe the sales will get a boost after the upcoming live performances :shrug

Well, thanks for the info. Hopefully Ayu's sales go up!

i believe the sales will definitely go up! *prays hard* GO AYU! :D

Kinda low... The promotion did seem kinda bad, I wouldn't know since I don't live in Japan but she's only performed on 2 shows, and the is this LOVE? PV didn't even air yet.. I think it could definitely be because of the songs as well.. Record sales as a whole seem to be low in Japan

that is really a low sales comare to her previous releases...
hope it'll go back up with the perf coming up and CM maybe?

well you cant blame everything on poor marketing tactics, you have to look at the songs themselves, lol. they..wern't the greatest.

Well, it's not that bad.

I still love the single though.

i can't believe my eyes when i see that there are people saying that the songs weren't that good. c'mon, this is on of her best singles !! this gotta be a lack of promotion. geez, can't believe this numbers...

The numbers are not that bad ... pretty good considering the market. And it's the first day only ... si I'm not worried at all.

that sounds good :P

thanks for the info ;)

I think people think "i dont need to buy the single though.. I can have all the pvs n songs in album".... so it doesnt sell as good as previous single.... she shall try the format of her previous single (with remixes + pvs).... maybe it works

The thing I'm wondering though is since mnW is a recut, if the PV will be in her next album/DVD collection. Then again you never know.

For Ayu, yes, the numbers are relatively low. But for Japan in general these numbers are pretty good. I think, regardless of promotion or not, we'll see a steady climb for at least a week or two.

She's on tour, isn't she? It's a little hard to promote travelling around Japan...

think it's not a really great first day sales..but it's not bad at least it has a same number with BoA first week so it's not that bad
but i'm really dissapointed with avex trax that not have any promotion about this single..i don't see a pics billboard, there is just one magz (popteen) that give review about this single, there is no CM, there is just two performance on tv and the other stuff to promote her new single. I don't know why it can be happen.i think this single is REALLY POWERFUL and i like the song VERY MUCH and the pv is REALLY GREAT. It's one of her BEST single..
but why avex do this? i don't understand at all and feel really upset after seeing the sales number
i hope the number will rise..being positive thinking is really hard right now but let's hope the best
(My head is full of question "WHY..WHY..WHY?")

I think may be the single sale will be higher after coming live preformance(music station...) , i think the songs(PVs) in the single is very good, it doesn't deserve that knid of sale

Avex is slacking. Seriously. Their falling way behind and they are barely having any Platinum sellers anymore. I can understand why they want to lower Ayu's power but still she's what makes Avex, well Avex.

most likely not. i think my names women was the "special" of the single. :shrug

Marketing sales, ha. It's the most important tool used to advertise just about anything. What's wrong with Avex anyway? Focusing on new artists so much they give little promotion time to Ayu? .. That's no excuse at all.

Ayu is touring though. "appears" is going to her concert today! I hope he will really enjoy iT!!!!