It's funny at some of your reactions. (pretends to have not been shocked) ;P

Good thing the title has been changed now.

woah..luckily i just came in and the title has already been changed..or else i will suffer from a state of shock too XD

Right now on Jbook, it's really close between Kobukuro and Ayu for the #1 spot since they've been trading places.

So they should stop using that 1.1. crap because it's all a fib.... IMHO.

I dunno, am I the only one who doesn't get the point of saying it comes out one day, releasing it a week early, and then treating two weeks' worth of sales as the first week of it? It's just so needlessly competitive.

When are the sales being updated?

It's probably a Japanese thing for releasing like a day early. Holidays for releasing a week early because of the new year. Treating 2 weeks' worth of sales as the first week is an Oricon thing because they take a break.

Official Oricon sales by Monday although we'll probably get non-Oricon numbers by the weekend.

OWw I read through the thread and saw all the people have heart-attacks. I'm glad I logged on when the topic title changed!

http://www.jbook.co.jp/p/p.aspx/bun_realrank_10/

Is this the first time it has slipped to #2?

Yes this "preview" really shocked me out. I was like, "OMG it's only the 2nd of Jan and it's no. 2 already?"
Reading thru the post I assume we'll get either of the below if the album is no. 2 this week:

a) heart attack for a minute
b) watery eye syndrome for a few hours
c) post-no. 2 depression for a few days (well I think I will get this for sure)
d) incompleteness feeling for the rest of our life (nah... probly I won't get this, cuz i believe that ayu will get no. 2 eventually if she keeps on releasing albums anywayz.. no one will be at the top forever)

Wooooo!!! You go Ayu! I hope her sales will keep blowing. Then she'll have some indie cred and she'll finally please all you fickle hipsters.

I just pictured New York saying that. I think I am in love.... LOL

owhh very fast.. 2nd thread already...

once again. i dun care about how much the sales but i care about the rank..she must get rank 1 weekly..

support her with ur pray

It's #3 now... and the CD version is still #6...

now CD+DVD #
cd only #6

kobukuro
cd+dvd #1
cd only #4

not good

maybe this is her first ever non #1 album ~ !!!

Is that website update every 1 hour?

well if it makes some of you feel better, its #1 on cdjapan today.

I know Oricon is going to glue the last week of 2007 with the first week of 2008 (or smth like it), but is that why they're not putting up daily rankings since the 27th?... It's the 3rd today, so they're skipping like, a whole week of daily rankings... I don't get it...

the ranking of Ayu in Amazon & HMV is better than that of kobukuro