She's already in the top 15 yearly..

Wow 400.000 first press, I hope someone who got the lyrics sheet is a fan and not some random guy who's trying to find some random music :thud

I might get an extra copy later on to some of my friends that cannot afford it OR don't know how to purchase/don't know how to use paypal, etc etc.

Depends if I have enough money xD


EDIT: I really want ayu to sell like or more than kuu's latest release :P

Somehow I want Tohoshinki fangirls to buy Ayu's RnRC just because Ayu called JJ :laugh
I know it's stupid *hides*
Anyway did the online purchase already added to the sales ?

5th Day
Position: #1
Sales: 16,737
Total Sales: 179,157

Thanks truehappiness. ^^

Here's some more female first week sales, which I think are relatively strong contenders as well :

Mika Nakashima - Voice : 155,502 (342,988 total)
Superfly - Box Emotions : 213,956 (506,555 total)
Nishino Kana - Love ONE : 34,218 (178,579 total)
ayaka - Sing to the Sky (I'm not counting best-ofs) : 315,373 (614,872 total)
MISIA - Just Ballade : 57,469 (139,764 total)
Ringo Shiina - Sanmon Gossip : 120,44 (201,742 total)

What I personally think is very interesting, is how some artists sell more than half of their total sales in their first weeks, while others end up selling more than twice that amount. (Sanmon Gossip - Box Emotions)

I hope Rock 'n Roll Circus has a Mika Nakashima - Voice like chart run. She sold only 150k in her first week, 100k less than Next Level but the album ended up selling only 40k less.

Yes I am a chart addict. I won't deny it!

I feel that the less they buy her albums/singles in Japan, the more we the outsiders buy her releases XD

They should give more stock to all online stores :P AND also more credit because thanks to them Japanese music gets outside Japan. Even that they are more expensive than buying in Japan, we all still buy!

Well, I dunno about the others, but Mika's VOICE was released in Nov 2008, so I dun think that can be a good comparison. We should compare sales within a year (or 6 months for better results).

Well she's still number one, cool thing

increase 1k!! yea man~~~
im hoping for a 350k total.

The daily sales increased by a little; I'm certainly happy by that occurance :)

Does anyone know if the online/overseas copies have finally been added? That was supposed to happen/happened on Friday, correct?

c'mon ayu ^^

In that case, yes, Mika Nakashima and ayaka do not count. But still, some artists have sales drop in these 1.5 years and others have had them rise.

I guess in the end, first week sales mean nothing XD

@AngelSenshi : I asked that too but I think no one saw it :laugh

hence i said OVER 11 years, sheesh. :rolleyes

:laugh has it been long since you asked? It's funny, sometimes people don't notice until a page or two later. After all that I stop and think "I asked that, right?"

It's hard to keep up I guess; posts come up really fast :P

@Angelsenshi , i dun think so right? if they added the on9 sales it should be more? since more people buy digitally nowadays...

@AngelSenshi : Well no, my question is on this page too :laugh
Ok I feel so curious now :laugh

Maybe the slight increase in daily sales was from the online sales?

I wouldn't know though...

I'm so happy for keeping the #1 postition. Go Ayu!:)

Nice! I hope AT effect last still tmr too :)