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Originally Posted by Connected
Avex is giving Koda the week in which "H" was released.
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That's the dumbest thing I've heard so far this month.
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Originally Posted by Endlessoul
I can't agree more. She has to leave the best releasing date for Koda, under the pressure of Avex and her recent sales.
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This too.
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Originally Posted by Connected
Something's up...
1. It's clear now that Ayu's rushing to meet the release date.
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Rushing her work to meet a release date? Or what....?
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Originally Posted by Connected
2. Ayu's releasing a single when she's still touring, especially weird since her summer singles always has lots of promotion.
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Her tour ends June 11th. I don't see how her single is being released while she's touring. And add to the fact that she's done that before (STEP you/is this LOVE?) I don't see how that's "strange".
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Originally Posted by Connected
3. Ayu hasn't released anything in June for five years.
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So? Then I can say that she hasn't released a single this early in the year (2006 - Startin'/Born To Be...) since Daybreak in 2002. Is something wrong with that then?
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Originally Posted by Connected
I think Ayu would have had that last-week-of-July spot if it weren't for Koda. She's had that for 2002 and 2004, and was a week later in 2005, possibly to avoid SMAP (proved to be a good move).
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Uhh.... No. That's because as I said above, her single was released super-early this year, the earliest in 4 years. Take a look between the time difference of the 2004, 2005 and 2006 singles.
2004: "Moments"->"INSPIRE" = 17 weeks
2005: "STEP you/is this LOVE?"->"fairyland" = 14 weeks
2006: "Startin'/Born To Be..."->"BLUE BIRD" = 15 weeks.
I don't see much difference between these 3 years, especially between 2005 and 2006.
Let's look at
your "scenario" (release July 26th), that would be a difference of 20 weeks. That's just way too long between releases.
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Originally Posted by Connected
So my first theory is, Ayu made way for Koda.
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You don't know how Ayu is still avex's #1 priority do you? Otsuka Ai "Planetarium" which had been announced 1st, had to switch release dates last minute with Ayu's "HEAVEN", which was announced later. To me, that shows that Ayu is still #1 in avex, regardless of whether this importance has declined or not.
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Originally Posted by Connected
Or, my second theory is, since the Jan. 1 release date didn't really work for "(miss)understood" or "I am...", for both albums had HUGE falls in second-week sales and never recovered, Avex is targeting the good old second-week-of-December release date again.
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That's not the fault of Ayu or the albums. It's because Orcion combines the last week of one year, and the first week of the following year. The figures for "I am..." and "(miss) understood" are for
over a week, while numbers for MY STORY, Memorial address etc. are for only
6 days.
That's why New Year's sales are always inflated. It doesn't happen to only Ayu, it happens to everyone.
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Originally Posted by Connected
And to have four singles (as for "(miss)understood") released before then, Ayu has a lot of time to make up.
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I have no clue what you are trying to say.
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Originally Posted by Connected
Add to that the fact that "Startin'/Born To Be..." was released earlier in the year than "Free & Easy", "Moments" and "STEP you/is this LOVE?".
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If you know that it was released earlier, then why would she still release a summer single in July then? It's pretty obvious that the summer single would also be pushed up as well.