These are not bad sales O_o' The sales have been dropping from a long time, it would come a day that her single/album would stop selling =P

^these aren't good. but like i said in my previous post, there's a point where the fickle fans drop off and we reach her devoted fans, its just a matter of where that point is. if she can pull 700k+ w/out the fickle fans she'll be ok.

-Happy Mask Salesman Voice- Have faith. :) I hope she makes it. D:!!

top 20: 2006 albums

*1 2,018,474 Complete Single Collection '95-'05 ken hirai 2005/11/23

*2 1,651,054 BEST～second session～ koda kumi 2006/03/08

*3 1,185,908 B'z The Best "PleasureⅡ" B'z 2005/11/30　

*4 1,071,258 BEST mika nakashima 2005/12/07 　　

*5 *,867,457 (miss)understood ayumi hamasaki 2006/01/01

*6 *,817,114 NAMELESS WORLD コブクロ 2005/12/21

*7 *,800,366 LOVE COOK ai otsuka 2005/12/14

*8 *,792,896 Catch The Wave Def Tech 2006/04/26

*9 *,704,806 Best of KAT-TUN KAT-TUN 2006/03/22

10 *,591,753 CYCLE HIT 1991-1997 スピッツ 2006/03/25

11 *,591,131 空いっぱいに奏でる祈り Aqua Timez 2005/08/24 累計
594,346

12 *,536,723 BEST ～first things～ koda kumi 2005/09/21 累計
1,744,516

13 *,475,871 CYCLE HIT 1997-2005 スピッツ 2006/03/25

14 *,467,167 ASIA EXILE 2006/03/29

15 *,451,715 THE LOVE ROCKS DREAMS COME TRUE 2006/02/22

16 *,425,199 Curtain Call:The Hits EMINEM 2005/12/02

17 *,417,125 OUTGROW BoA 2006/02/15

18 *,389,510 Confidence HY 2006/04/12

19 *,381,370 Amarantine Enya 2005/11/23

20 *,326,822 Confessions On A Dance Floor Madonna 2005/11/16

Well I'm being realistic here. Def Tech's album in 3 weeks have already sold 792k. Last week they sold like 128k. They only need to sell 75k to pass (m)u. (m)u will still be the highest female selling orginal album though. She will only for sure have this title until we see how ULTRA BLUE does though.

>_< doesn't look like its gonna hit 900,000 either

How long can we see S/B break 200k?

may be 20 more weeks?

30?

could be this week if we band together and buy 14,898 copies this week. Who's with me?!

Oh,,
It was so bad,,
Umm,, was it only for the japanese version, or for the whole version around the world??
:(

^^ I think they only count the versions sold in Japan right? they dont count like Yesasia, or do they?

sales are low everywhere...it's to be expected. I think Def Tech might surpass her though. I think she might hit 900,000 though.

^Yes, Japan only. Only a few countries in the world actually have sale trackers like Oricon.

well then i guess sadly our members in japan must pick up the slack! :D

~_~ Yukitora~! I meant the people who came out around the same time as Ayu [female solo artists]..

are they even selling as well as Ayu right now?

lets go japan and buy (m)u until it reaches 1 mill...haha

I was just on iTunes, and today's top vids (Japan) are

1. Startin' original mix
3.Born To Be... original mix

Before I really didn't think that iTunes could be a factor in sales...but maybe it is. Everyone's downloading now, and iTunes is really more convenient...maybe a lot of people have turned to downloads. The video is only 400 yen...

So if you buy both songs at 200 yen each plus the two vids at 400 yen...that's 1200 yen.

Ayu's album is the highest non-best-of albums in that list, so that makes me happy! :)

I'd like to know that too!

Well, the RIAJ did state that of all digital downloads, downloads through the mobile/cell phone make up 96%. So I'd think that cellphone music services like Chaku-Uta are way more popular than iTunes.

Here's the TOP 100 for the 3 different types of downloads on Chaku-Uta (Full song, Ringtones, Vids)
http://recochoku.jp/recochoku_ranking/full.html (Full song; HEAVEN is at #86)
http://recochoku.jp/recochoku_ranking/movie.html (Vids; HEAVEN at #35, fairyland at #79)
http://recochoku.jp/recochoku_ranking/uta.html (Ringtones)
http://recochoku.jp/recochoku_ranking/all.html (Overall)

Oh god, 3 digits only..