Ayu is doing really well.
A lot of people seemed to think that each would be million sellers but *not to sound big headed or anything* I knew they wouldn't.
After Secret was a 'flop' as far as anything else she has released, I think her BEST albums have been amazing, especially since she released 2 at the same time.
I mean, look at ZARD. Her albums didn't even reach 100k after the first week when her last album has experienced a major boost in sales after her unfortunate death.
And ORANGE RANGE too, no where near as good as Ayu with their dual album release, and they were top of the game like, 2 years ago.
So Ayu has done IMO perfectly well, and I look forward to her next album :D

Exactually.

I wonder if there're already the 25th's week stats!

well said :) this makes me wonder how much orange range's best albums are doing? anybody know?

RANGE - ~357k
ORANGE - ~342k

Maybe it would have been a bit higher if Sony added a +DVD version to each instead of just CD-only versions.

I thought Orange Range's BEST albums would do better as well; I really did. It makes me feel better at the way A BEST 2 is selling, which is very good considering how other BEST albums are selling as of late. I think a lot of people are hoping that lightning will strike for them like it did with Kumizon's two BEST albums.

Oh well. Ayu is in the Top 10 albums of this year (not once, but twice!) with these two albums so I'm not complaining.

thanks for the orange range numbers. :) I think the numbers are pretty good...its not that bad.

*4 *,711,117 **1,262 A BEST 2-WHITE- / 浜崎あゆみ 07/02/28
*6 *,692,776 **1,044 A BEST 2-BLACK- / 浜崎あゆみ 07/02/28

Total copies sold: 1,403,893

The two albums will be next to each other next week. :D

Because we're broke! :laugh Haha just kidding. If I hadn't bought any of her other original albums, I definetly would've bought both. :)


I'm actually surprised, but glad, that WHITE received more sales than black. :yatta

OMG thank you criminal!!

BLACK selling over 1000 again !!

Wow it has a longer chart run than we ever thought X_X

go ayu!!!

Wow A Best 2 is doing well what does *6 and *4 mean XD

thx lol I was wondering how A BEst 2 was still on the weekly charts

what's the list of all the albums so far? (top ten I mean)

I'm very happy black is getting close to selling 700k. Hopefully it will reach it.

Really? I was hoping that they'd stay in the top 50 for 25 weeks or something and both sell 700k in the first week.

*1 1,157,131 **2,318 HOME / Mr.Children 07/03/14
*2 1,009,433 **1,472 Black Cherry / Koda Kumi 06/12/20
*3 *,779,047 *15,909 The Best Damn Thing / Avril Lavigne 07/04/18
*4 *,711,117 **1,262 A BEST 2 -WHITE- / Hamasaki Ayumi 07/02/28
*5 *,710,888 *17,344 ALL SINGLES BEST / Kobukuro 06/09/27 Total: 2,459,570
*6 *,692,776 **1,044 A BEST 2 -BLACK- / Hamasaki Ayumi 07/02/28
*7 *,679,087 **2,685 Ai am BEST / Otsuka Ai 07/03/28
*8 *,618,709 **2,088 CAN'T BUY MY LOVE / YUI 07/04/04
*9 *,566,668 **2,006 EXILE EVOLUTION / EXILE 07/03/07
10 *,513,178 ***,950 HEART / Ito Yuna 07/01/24

So WHITE pwns BLACK.

Knew it.

Seriously anyone see only now that WHITE sold around 19,000 copies more than BLACK so um... what were the 3 first A BEST 2 sales threads for ? xD lol

SUGOIIIIII!!!! GO AYU!!!

Secret'd be in it if she wasn't screwed over Oricon-year-wise. >>