Recochoku weekly album chart 4/15～4/21

A BEST stay on position 1 (CRAZY!)
A ONE down to position 14

40k in two weeks isn't bad at all :)

A BEST is really kicking Southern All Stars' ass - for such a 15-year-old best album! Also more than Ayaka's 'Rainbow Road'... :O

Koda Kumi sold just 700 copies this week and her total is 46k!!

Ayu is just 6k away from Koda!! OMG :heart it's possible

^i think it is!! The Tour will help it IMO but oh well, i
forgot Oricon doesn't count them all

I hope it sells around 3k this week

I hope it can pass 45k!

It seems 50k is possible

3k would be good :yes

It really annoys me that they only count it as 1/3rd of the sales. That's why the fall from guilty and NL was so high. It also annoys me that cdjapan and stuff doesn't count too, making all of my purchases felt somewhat invalidated. Yeah oh wells.

And that's a fact, oricon is not an objective source for numbers, it only gives general idea what's popular but just that. Unfortunately since it is throwing numbers people take it seriously.

Then they shouldn't be giving out awards out of their asses. Lol

How much do you guys think would have A ONE sold so far (i mean the figures) if Oricon counted all!! as in everything?

^I supposed more than 100k counting international sales too, but in a near future, not now.

^^ Damn i don't know, the playcount on the forum is only at 50+ or so copies :laugh

Oricon doesn't count sales for fun or because they are bored, it's a way to define who is hot and who os marketable, and for being a good source of who is and isn't marketable they can't count sales shipped overseas, as those people aren't part of the Japanese market (in other words, you can't consider oversea sales to hire a popstar for a japanese only tie-in) and the venue sales are reduced because they were frequently faked by the labels.

They don't make money from stan wars, they make money from the companies that need those numbers...

I sadly don't see the excitement.. Ayu and kuu are both getting low sales, one or two more copies aren't gonna make a difference between who's saleing more :no.

I kinda miss those days when we were talking of hundreds of thousands of sales LOL

I just looked at A Song for xx's trajectory... lol, charted almost 3 years and sold quite a lot in a lot of weeks, and that was only when she started getting popular. Looking at LOVEppears, Duty and A BEST would be just crying out tears. =P

(But in reality these things are not important anymore).

That's a bit too much, Colours didn't even sold more than 1,000 copies in Korea and Taiwan and both are jpop's biggest market after Japan

Yes, is possible she don't reach 100k, but 75-80k. A ONE have had better promotion overseas i think. In addition, there are a lot of occidental people who buy her cds but we don't know that they exist hahaha

If we count sales venues complete and rest of Asia, is it possible to reach 60k?

Just barely..

A ONE returned back to the Top 30 yesterday , at #26

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2015-04-23/p/3/

It was out of the top 30 the past 2 days

It was #44 and #33 for the past 2 days.
And it's #1 on Taiwan G-Music chart & 5music chart ;)

Can't believe she's only 7k away from outselling Koda... Do you guys think it will happen this year?

still think A ONE will reach only 42k mark

this is sad

TBH the only thing I care about is that this album has a couple of gems like Last minute, Out of control and NO FUTURE.

Thank you for these!
You can keep us updates (or share the source if where we can get these numbers) since I don't have a 30-50 source. =P

@ayumisrael
You're welcome! It's usually updated in ayu baidu bar and oricon baidu bar if you could read Chinese :D

Baidu bar thread for A ONE Oricon chart: http://tieba.baidu.com/p/3687948551

Oricon baidu bar: http://tieba.baidu.com/f?ie=utf-8&kw=oricon
(The daily ranking thread 【日榜单】 is always at the top)

^Thank you! Unfortunately I can't :P

3rd week , 5th day - #20

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2015-04-24/p/2/

3rd week , 6th day - #18

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2015-04-25/p/2/

Good good.

3rd week , 7th day - #17

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2015-04-26/p/2/

Why is it that it's always going up? :laugh

Because ayu and the oricon are bffs, they go way back and understand each other. Lately they've been fighting a lot but deep down they understand each other.

because of Arena tour, I guess... :D

Or because stuff went down to sell like 200 per day and A ONE sold 250.

Omg:roflmao

Because it goes down a lot on Tuesday because of new singles with strong 1st day sales, then the rest of the week it goes up

A ONE is #23 this week with 3,317 copies sold. Total 43,854 copies sold!
I predict it to sell around 48k...

surprised how much it managed to sell :yes yay!

3rd week, 3,317 copies :D not bad

Wow that's such good news!

Thanks! Now that's surprising. Colours sold 2,922 on its 3rd week so at least A ONE drops less faster.

At least A ONE outsold poker face :P

At this rage ayu can sell more than Kumi :O

Yes!! Go Ayu

Quoting myself, the gap is now 3k

:clapclap

recochoku weekly album chart 4/22～4/28

A BEST - Down to position 2
A ONE - Down to position 19

A ONE went up to #30 yesterday

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2015-04-29/p/3/

Thank you!

Does anyone that use baidu can check if it was on top 50 yesterday?

It was #43 yesterday it seems!
http://tieba.baidu.com/p/3732045216

Why thank you!
It's great that it holds up on the top 50!

Yesterday - #25

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2015-04-30/p/3/

Hopefully it will be at Top 30 again this week! :D

Yesterday - #23

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2015-05-01/p/3/

it's doing nicely now isn't it!
go ayu!

So good it's still on top 30!! :D

6th Day: #25

Nice!! Keep going, A ONE~!

Yasssssssss! GO AYU!

By the way, Pieces, is that a photo of you? If so, you have the most ridiculously beautiful eyes! Super cute!

Monthly Recochoku Chart (April)

A BEST - Position 3
A ONE - Position 5

Notes : Daily Chart A BEST - #1

Sorry, what is the Recochoku chart?

omg, A BEST is crazy Q__Q

It's #26 this week with 2,241 copies sold!!
Total 46,095 copies sold!:love

And #31 on daily chart.

^WOW! 50k is really possible...

Digital chart...it has many categories like RBT, Uta, Video, album, etc...

And this is the chart for Album download digitally

She's gonna oursell kumi :O

Wow, I'm impressed at how well A ONE is hanging on.

And A BEST is just ridiculous at this point :laugh

think about us celebrating her selling 2 241 on her 4th week lol :D but it still sell better than expected so yay :love

Awesome!!

^Colours sold 1,486 on its 4th week =P

A ONE might end up selling about the same amount Colours did! [53,406 (10 weeks)]

wow i'm pretty happy about the steadiness =]

You know, if you play COLOURS right after A ONE it flows quite nicely. It helps make Moving On Without You as the last track make sense lol.

I'm glad she isn't dropping a lot, go ayuma !

it's doing great!! I hope it gets to 50k :)

recochoku weekly album chart 4/29～5/5

A BEST - Stay at position 2
A ONE - Down to position 26

I'm happy ayu's doing alright. but..not a fan of ayu barely hitting 50k. :yes

She will!!! just 1k left
Been waiting for this :love

Why the hell A BEST still continue to sell well?? 0__0 Just curious!

^Because it has been on discount price since last year

If ayu outsells Kuu it'll be for like 2k rofl It's nothing in the end, and they've been selling the same amounts for ages (I guess except Love songs and FIVE iirc), it's pratically a draw

That is one part but the other part is people still have to buy it. just being on discount doesn't really help.. I really wonder what drives so many people to buy an album that came out 14 years ago, not that I'm complaining I'm sure ayu doesn't complain about the extra cash either lol I'm waiting for it to get the gold certification

Yes and no, the discount helps a lot actually. There were a couple of weeks they removed the discount and immediately the album fell of the charts. I suppose that's why they put the discount back, better to sell a lot with the discount than to not sell well at all...

But you're right that there must be something else, there are other best albums with discount, but A BEST is the one slaying the charts for over a year now. Maybe people still remember it's extreme popularity back in the day and when they see it with the discount they think "why not? I remember it being awesome" and download it :D

I think this says a lot about Ayu's popularity among the general public. They may not pay attention to her new releases, but the public still love her old music.

Cheap price for a best album. Why not? :D

A ONE is #36 today.

That's such good news I mean it's the release day so it's the worst day for released stuff.. It could have dropped a lot but it's steady under top 50 ;)

I agree.
There's usually a turning point for a discount especially when it's been going on for a while. Maybe @pimenta 's point is right, people still remember ayu for he past works. If that's the case, they should have a double promo like combining A ONE with A BEST or sth.

But I've read somewhere that recochoku has sharply decline since the rise of internet downloads. so maybe even the sales of A BEST doesnt have that significant impact on ayu.

Anyway, thanks for updating the charts! so glad to see that A ONE is still on the top 50.

It might be a little to do with Japanese culture as in the whole selling cds and space issue some people have. Like with a game. You may love it, but get bored so you trade it in. A few years later you may want to play that game again so you go out and re buy it.

#33 today. ;)

A ONE went back up to #30 yesterday

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2015-05-07/p/3/

And even if Ayu end up selling few copies more, Kuu still got #1 on the chart. :')

As for A ONE's chart success, she's doing well. People may be annoyed that she doesn't sell more, but I come from a small country and selling 46,000+ here is considered a hit album so I don't see those sales bad. I see them being good.

And A BEST has returned to the digital charts? Wow. O.O

It just might be able to make it to 50k...!

Pretty happy about it!

5th Day: #36.

I'm amazed that it's been out for over a month and it's still charting in the top 50. :luv2

6th Day: #32

It's so steady!:)

oh my dear Ayu is selling what she deserves... she´s a legend.

7th Day: #33

i hope she managed to sell 1000+ this week