yea... both albums were not that strong anyway, lets hope both ayu and koda will come up with better albums from now on!

The 17th week position was #153.
Drop of just 4 positions between the 16th and 17th weeks.
I wonder if it's the same between the 17th and 18th since the drop was small.
Not that the change is that significant.

Finally a good job for NL =D

I hate all this boysband -_-'

NEXT LEVEL is awesome.
It deserved to beat Guilty. Guilty felt, to me, like a really bad "best of ayu-rock" album because it was very piecemeal together. Next Level had an AMAZING intro instrumental (I ADORE Bridge to the Sky) and flowed very well, while guilty was much too sporadic.
I'm very glad for Ayu, and hope the album charts for at LEAST 20 weeks!
Ganbatte, NL!

does this means good?
its almost 5 months since the release of Next Level

charting life is good..but total sales is pretty bad, i don't think it can even surpass Secret's first week sales of 386,280 copies..but NEXT LEVEL came out during the worst time of the economic crisis and cd sales are still declining, that's a bad combo..T___T

selling very well.

excatly... I wish they will not sell more than NL but the fact will show they will beat ayu.. so sad..

yeah

ayumi has tried her best in creating NEXT LEVEL , it's all up to whether the public will like or don't like her record or not

that's not within her powers to control

19th Week
Position: Still Unknown
Sales: 825
Total Sales: 371,874

NEXT LEVEL officially has a better chart life than Secret and GUILTY.

OMG NL really have a very long chart life comparing older album
secret 18 weeks
GUILTY 16 weeks
RAINBOW 22 weeks
I am... 25 weeks
Duty 27 weeks

hopefully it can stay more than duty did

I'd be happy if it beats RAINBOW :p

TOP 50 ALBUMS 2009
*1 1,233,720 ***,852 SUPERMARKET FANTASY / Mr.Children 08/12/10
*2 *,911,379 *18,575 塩、コショウ / GReeeeN 09/06/10
*3 *,818,803 **1,434 EXILE BALLAD BEST / EXILE 08/12/03 累計1,762,704
*4 *,649,283 **2,062 DO YOU DREAMS COME TRUE？ / DREAMS COME TRUE 09/03/21
*5 *,480,353 **1,100 レミオベスト / レミオロメン 09/03/09
*6 *,414,915 **1,226 My song Your song / いきものがかり 08/12/24
*7 *,388,776 ***,611 TRICK / 倖田來未 09/01/28
*8 *,379,411 *11,556 残響 / 福山雅治 09/06/30
*9 *,371,874 ***,825 NEXT LEVEL / 浜崎あゆみ 09/03/25

as expected , NEXT LEVEL got pushed down a notch because of Fukuyama Masaharu's ace album Zankyou (which I haven't received it yet online ;____; )

Yeah T_T
In two weeks it will also take kuu's album down. It's like NL and TRICK want to be together on the charts :laugh

Well ayu's NEXT LEVEL first day was 99,000 but I'm sure kobukuro will have smaller drops and more longtivity. =\

Yeah ^, I mean, their greatest hits compilation is STILL charting, after like three years. I know this may sound defeatist...but Ayu is gonna have to kiss her top 10 spot goodbye. Unless she manages to chart for a VERY long time and push her sales up or something, but a new album era is beginning with the release of Sunrise/Sunset ~LOVE IS ALL~
So I'm beginning to lose hope.
Am I the only one who feels that way?

Well there might not be solo female artists on the top 10 yearly albums of oricon at all by the end of the year, which shows the general power female artists have at this period.
Even if kuu's album will end up on 9 or 10 (though I don't think it will manage it), just 1 female on the top 10 (actually on 10) and with such sales it still shows how female solo artists in Japan are recieved in this period.
If namie or hikki would release albums then they most likely would end up on top 10 but just 2 females would be still sad.
The Majority of the top 10 are bands (almost all of them male bands) or by males generally.
On the top 10 singles there's just 1 female artist at the moment and she's an enka singer which is good for her, but again it's just 1 and not any of the divas or other new commer female artists (or older).
ayaka will most likely be also in the top 10 but it's because she is releasing a best album, and will go on hiatus. Unless if there are special things going on the great sales aren't really going for solo female singers, at least this year.

Including this there are only 4 albums this year that sold over 500,000 by far and just 1 million seller (not by shipped copies).
There are going to be 2 more albums that sell over 500,000 but they are bests (ayaka's and arashi's) so bests will dominate the top 5. The things don't look good in general and things don't look good for female artists.

Also it seems like avex (or probably ayu herself doesn't want it) stopped shoving ayu to the public as it appears. Nothing like even 2 or 3 years ago.

I don't mind if she doesn't get top ten actually. NEXT LEVEL is still #1 on my top ten list ^-^b

As long as this gets #15 yearly or higher (Like GUILTY) its O-KAY.