lol luvvy you know I bought that single :cool

ack, BoA is just sinking ;_;

SINGLES
x->1->1-> - Arashi - 107,689 + 39,384 + 14,402 (x1.75) = 285,581
x->2->2->3 - Utada Hikaru - 8,504 + 6,898+3550 (x1.75) = 33,166


ALBUMS
x->1->1->2 - Acid Black Cherry - 20,332 + 12,346 + 5547 (x1.7) = 64,982
x->2->2->1 - The Brilliant Green - 15,638 + 11,333 +6431 (x1.7) = 56,783
x->4->3->3 - yuna ito - xxx + 6167 + 3889=17,095 (without 1st day sales)

sheesh. ARASHI are just leaving Hikki in the dirt, with her small 33k sales ._.

Kingdom went up to #12 :P

i love this thread

its weird that yuna ito new album sell so bad!!!
and hikki single is sell so bad too...

after looking on those singer sales, looks like ayu still stay strong as a jpop queen...

is that why she could barely shift 500k of GUILTY? :P

^Ouch! :roflmao

It's true though, AyuGame! By next week or so, Kuu is gonna own Ayumi. lol [No offense] Like many others have said, prolly the reason why people haven't brought HS/SG as much is because they are probably waiting on the album. Hikki really didn't give people an incentive to buy the single other than 2 freakin' karaokes and adding karaokes to a single is an atuomatic thing these days. It shouldn't be no surprised that Thelma is ahead of Hikki. That song is the most popular female song of the year right now. [yea, i was surprised though but still.... lol] I just hope Thelma isn't one of those artists who's gonna become a One-hit-wonder. If so, i'll be highly pissed since she surpassed Hikki. :grumpy

Ack, like I say, Thelma is definately the next big thing for Japan, I think. And ... Toshiba gave us stickers with the single. :D

I don't think that 550,000 is a low number :o I would change it to barely 600,000 though XD

She is a singer 10 years, compared to other artists, and her peak past in 2001 and now it's 2008 but she still sell more than half a million for a studio album and one/or of the best selling female artists in Japan since her debut!
She's pretty strong XD
It's pretty amazing fit for a female singer that is around 10 years and her peak past couple (7) years ago, don't you think? That's really not fair to say she isn't =\

And 550,000 is just with CD+DVD and CD only without any limitations (except for the hot photobook :P), it's still charting though on the top 100 so it's not ending at 560,000 ^-^

kumi for example had her peak on 2005/2006! 2/3 years ago and she's a singer 7 years but her Kingdom sales won't be so far from GUILTY or Secret/A BEST 2 BLACK & WHITE... with a CD only CD+DVD, CD+2DVD limited edition+first press with a concert, PVs for all songs etc. Now laugh at ayu's "small" sales and success XD
Point is that ayu's sales/state aren't that far from kumi's and ayu been around longer and her peak was past 7 years ago ^-^.

It's bound to sell at least 800k. The Flavor Of Life single will assure it a spot in the Top 10 albums of the year, that's for sure.

ayu, you didn't have to get all fanboy on me... I was just saying, don't make out like Ayu is some hot ass seller, when she can barely sell as much as anyone else. X_X

But still ayu sell more than most of the other female artists and she's around more than them. Isn't that true? Doesn't it make her successful?
She had 2 albums last year on the top 10 after 9 years being a singer, there were just 5 albums that sold more and only 2 of them were females (and 1 of them was Avril :P)
The thing I'm talking about is not that ayu's album sells the best or anything, the thing is that ayu is still one of the best selling females, after 10 years she's around.

And I didn't went fanboy on you, you know me better than that XDD

Hardly! Everyone sells like the same in this day and age (except for ARASHI :P)

and THIS doesn't sound fanboy to you?

Kuu hasn't "peaked" at all. Some Kuu fan you are ¬¬; And I wasn't laughing at Ayu's "small success". What kind of fan do you take me for... :faint

>_< I took kumi for example lol it's pretty obvious that kumi's albums sell more now.

Well BEST ~first things~ is her best selling album (like her sales went up until this album) and afterwards went just down between every album so this is the peak XD and saying it doesn't make me a bad fan, I buy kumi's albums and DVDs and support her and I wish I could see her concerts live too but I'm not rich yet :P but as I said I used kumi for example, I didn't say she is less successful or anything at all!

I only try to be fair between my favorite artists T_T

Arashi is full of fan girls T_T hikki won't get #1 because of them! well annoying.

I love you too :luv2 *hugs*

^O-kay! While you two decide on whether Ayu and Kuu are sucking in popularity now, I'll post the NINKI results for next week's releases: (credits to xaoj @ JPM!)

Singles

01 233.00 NEWS
02 98.40 EXILE
03 93.20 YUI
04 89.90 DREAMS COME TRUE
05 48.20 Tohoshinki
06 46.50 C-ute
07 35.30 AKB48
08 28.80 Miliyah Kato
09 27.90 Chatmonchy
10 19.60 An Cafe

Albums

01 183.40 BoA
02 70.70 Celine Dion
03 50.70 MEGARYU
04 37.00 Janet Jackson
05 34.10 Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra
06 34.00 Sarah Brightman
07 29.20 10-FEET
08 27.70 Akina Nakamori
09 26.30 Nightmare
10 25.20 Yukari Tamura

lmao we finished it ages ago love XDD

Cool! BoA #1!!!! YUI just 3? no way!!

LUL @ JANET.

MEGARYU still releases? I thought he was finished long time ago x_x

ack, NEWS is first with 233?!? Sheesh, Japan love their boybands ¬¬;

^ I hate the japanese fangirls! Warai! It's like they are ORDERED to buy J-boybands singles and stuff. Ugh! I am soooo happy for BoA! Looks like THE FACE will sale more than Made in Twenty. I hope so, THE FACE is better than Made in Twenty but..not buy a lot.

well, you can't be so sure. I remember one album got a really high NINKI rating, and didn't sell so good. I think it was a Kuu single? DX

^Well, it still safe to say that BoA's getting #1. LOOK AT THE RELEASES NEXT WEEK! DO you really think BoA is going to lose to them?!