8 consecutive days? Has that even been done before? I know Ayu only played there once right?

I believe she played it two days, both on the 2001 dome tour.

8 consecutive days is crazy and probably is a record. We'll have to see if they all sell out, but being that its Johnny's, I'm sure they will.

^ sure the tour might sell out, I doubt their album will sell more than 300k though. Even though it will prolly get #1 it will slide down the charts faster than NEXT LEVEL.

The position went up a position but we'll have to see how much it drops once the new releases come in the charts today :shrug

me too

no it hasn't been done before . Even SMAP , NEWS or ARASHI didn't performed at Tokyo Dome for 1 straight week , let alone 8 days so it's a new record that KAT-TUN have already break *points to album's title* :laugh

true but the very day when email updates were sent out to preorder Break the Records -by you �& for you- , the limited edition was sold out within a few hours

I don't know how was it like with regards to their other albums since I only came aboard their music last April/May but I think it depends on how many copies J-One/JStorm has printed on their end to be sold

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it has been almost a month since NEXT LEVEL was released , I hope this will keep up

Johnny's a tyrant. I don't know how JE works but i feel he works his artistes way too hard. At least there's many more seats available for foreign fans who are disqualified from the (retarded IMO) balloting system.

350k is a depressing amount, it's not even Secret's first week sales! What P&L? They are better off releasing 5 more bests for exile.

lol yeah but it's the way on how the idol business work sometimes in Japan

it's & depending on how nice/mean avex's , I hope they wouldn't force ayumi to put out another mini album just for the sake of doing so

5th Week Second Day

Position: #10

Still top 10 =D

@Karen - QUEEN OF PIRATES sold around 250k, and from what I've gathered their singles sales decreased a bit lately, so that's why I am not expecting them to sell more than 300k. We shouldn't really jump to conclusions cuz of the first press being sold out, cuz as you said we don't know how many first press albums did they print. Btw how much did NEWS's color sell in the end, the numbers on wiki seem a bit outdated?

still good :yes

true & also the fangirls are going poor by the min

when it was announced that KAT-TUN was going to perform at Tokyo Dome for 1 week straight in a row (eventually 8 days now) , the fangirls were dealt a finance blow because it's said that each day , they have different costumes & themes as they wanted to follow this '7 days planet' theme of sorts so you can imagine O_O

that & also when Break the Records was released for preorder 1-2 weeks after RESCUE was out , damnnnnnnn

but you're right , I really don't know how much J-One/JStorm printed at their end , copies wise

I'm not hoping that it can sell well but it will be great if it can overtake QoP's sales but something tells me no as KAT-TUN's selling power has been going on considerably since their debut 3 years ago

I'm not sure what're the total sales for colour but it's definitely lower than pacific & let alone touch

RIAJ certified colour Platinum so I guess sales might been around 250K or less

Dropping to #10 was expected. :) Honestly it MIGHT (most likely?) move up a few positions in the few days... that's sort of like the 'pattern' for her releases ever since A COMPLETE.

Its only 1 place lower than on the "new releases day" last week, thats really good

Top 10 for the first day of the new week! Hope it gets at least top 8 weekly.

Actually it's the 2nd day of the week hehe =D.
Too bad the 1st days don't have such impacts though...

is there a way to listen to music previews / samples on Oricon, or maybe another Japanese website?

I always see a lot of artists and albums I don't know when I check how Ayu's (or hikki's or kuu's or ai's etc) releases are doing, and it'd be nice to be able to preview them :)

a five position drop seems like a lot, but it IS the fifth week and this is better than i ever expected.

the position doesnt matter. the thing it should do is not sell less than half from last week

Come on, NL! It can definitely get back to no8 with the help of the tour.

What has been NLs total sales outside Japan? I'd imagine that sales from Taiwan, HK, greater Asia etc would look very nice

Yes, their work schedules are insane but at the same time I don't think people in Japan view them as being as hard as people outside Japan do simply because all Japanese working people work way too much. :) There are times when I think some of the group members do look too tired. But it all comes down to personality of each person - the Arashi members for example even though they probably have the most full schedule of all Johnny's members seem to be very healthy and happy; like they've found the perfect way to balance it all or something.

That's true. But then what about flipping the question around? Do you think Ayu currently could sell out 8 straight days at the Tokyo Dome?

She probably couldn't, but most normal artists probably couldn't anyway. JE fans seem to be pretty insane and probably would buy tickets to all 8 concerts if they could. As for ARASHI.. maybe they have some sort of special injections that help with with energy? Aha.

I hope this album continues to stay pretty stable! I thought it was going to just kind of stay pretty low in terms of sales, but it looks like she might sell a lot more than expected [at least, after the 2nd week anyway]~