Now I'm sure their reached to it already, we just don't know this week's numbers yet XD.

What are we trying to prove here?

Well are there 24th week numbers? xD soz for double...

*4 *,709,855 **1,148 A BEST 2-WHITE- / 浜崎あゆみ 07/02/28
*6 *,691,732 ***,926 A BEST 2-BLACK- / 浜崎あゆみ 07/02/28

Total sales: 1,401,587

i may be wrong but my thoughts on the whole ayu and hikki difference is that it seems to me that hikki attracts a much broader, more loyal fanbase which will continue to buy her material...however, ayu, and especially her lyrics appeal to a younger age group who relate to the lyrics of her songs...this said, you can't really say that hikki or ayu are a better artist based on sales, they both appeal to differnt audiences and many of each of the artists' fans probably listen to both of them.

^on the 3 million awards thingy though on that survey it showed that mainly poeple between the ages 20~40 are listening to ayu the most (in Japan anyway) xD.

A BEST 2 sold over 1,400,000, like I didn't know it would.

thank you criminal!

I think that it's fair to say BOTH Hikki and Ayu are attracting new audiences. I mean, "Boku wa Kuma" surely wasn't directed to the 20~40 demographic, right? I think that Ayu is more of a Japanese Pop Culture Icon than Hikaru, so in that regard, I think that Ayu's got quite a large fanbase, but I think that more people in general want to buy Hikki's music.

Wow I think that by far ayu sold in 2007 around 1,846,135 albums/singles/DVDs copies...wow (if I'm not wrong and Secret's 2nd week was already oricon's 2007).

yipee ao has past 1,4milion copies..

woow 1,8milion..
maybe this year ayu will get 2milion more because there is single talkin' 2 myself

^She will get to sell more than 2,000,000 overall copies on 2007, don't worry.

NICE!!

Secret's first two weeks were counted towards 2006.

A BEST 2's sales are quite good, and it looks like both will reach the 700K mark. It's done very well, yay. :D

than ayu sold by far in 2007 around 1,720,000 albums/singles/DVDs copies.
I still believe she can sell over 2,000,000 until The november date which it changes to 2008 or is it December? On what date exactly the oricon year's changing?

nice sales =\ .... a bit low for a best album, I have to say, but still good ^_~

I was going to say...Don't forget about Utada! She has just as much a chance as Ayu and Koda Kumi...

December 5th will be the last Wednesday before Oricon 2008 starts.

thanks for the sales info :)

^zomg december 5th is my birthday! :D i have no birthday releases from any of my favorite jpop singers...i hope this year i can get one haha :P

That makes no sense! Two CDs doesn't mean you have to promote twice as much. What AVEX could have done besides billboards, a billion TV appearences, booths, trucks, magazine covers, crazy marketing, etc? Nothing.

^And still the price of them is high up in the sky.

And I believe they could get more attension to both seperately but mainly it was A BEST 2 promotion and not for which of them...
For example take the CM of the album... they didn't do a CM for which, just one for both.

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