And, like Kendelle says, there are a lot of stores unaccounted for by Oricon.

This is awsm!!! not it needs to sell more so that itrs status can at least tie with GUILTY....

What?! GUILTY got 3x Platinum! How weak! :cry

yeah & that goes for Secret too

(miss)understood was her last album to be certified Million by RIAJ unfortunately

^ You mean "last" right? Or maybe it was a first since the others were like 3x, 6x million sellers lol.

congrats to NEXT LEVEL!

oh yes last , sorry :dead2

I will change that now

Wow, that is awesome! :D GO AYU! XD

hope the actual sales reaches that number

In fact they shipped 650k copies.

すでに出荷枚数65万枚を超えたアルバム『NEXT LEVEL』（3月25日リリース）も好調の浜崎あゆみ。
http://topics.jp.msn.com/entertainme...rticleid=32994

keep goin'...

ah ok but too bad RIAJ will only certified albums/singles/dvds based on'

Platinum - 250K
Double Platinum - 500K
Triple Platinum - 750K
Million - 1,000,000

I don't think they will acknowledged the 650K amount in this context

I know there are some sales not recorded by oricon but i always thought it's a tiny residual amount. How can the unrecorded sales by so much? I think avex overestimated the demand for this album. Maybe only time will tell.

YAY! another double platinum for Ayu!!

thx for the message

But didn't Duty sell 2.9 million? That's pretty awesomely close to the shipped number. Where did you get the shipped number by the way?

wikipedia :P
shipped => sold
A Song for XX: 2million => 1,4million
LOVEppears: 3million => 2,5million
Duty: 3,5million => 2,9million
I am...: 3million => 2,3million
Rainbow: 2million => 1,8million
My Story: 1,3million => 1,1million
(Miss)undersood: 1million => 877,433
Secret: 1million => 877,433
Guilty: 678,000 => 568,288
Next Level (until now): 319,656 => 650,000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayumi_Hamasaki_discography

But I don't really know how right is this...
by the way, if they "overshipped" NL, what about I am...? xD

By the way... I'm pretty sure this not only a avex thing... each store buys the number of copies they want to... If the shipment number is high and oricon sales are low, that means the stores demanded more copies than people buy...

wow that's so great! Still hoping for higher sales!! Go Ayu!!

I'm basing it on A Complete which was certified triple platinum even though recorded sales was quite above 750k. Even Mirrorcle World which sold almost 200k on oricon was certified gold (for 100k copies) so it seems like they shipped too much this time. But good point about the other albums having much higher shipping figures than oricon figures. Maybe technology is better and they are compiling sales from more stores compared to years ago.

(m)u and Secret sold the same no of copies? ?_?

Looks like they've usually been overshipping a little. But I think we should give NL more time. Its sales are pretty steady, it might be out of the Top 10 soon but I think it will take a long time to drop from the charts completely