Keep going Ayu!

You're right it's not. If Avex wanted to, they could promote the pants off this release and create hype around it. It's basic investment, you've gotta spend money to get money. If that's all the half-hearted effort Avex is going to put in in her future releases, they'll just reap the sales they sow.

way to go ayu!
a number 2... lol
hope she stays in the top 10 for a few weeks.

I can't believe she's doing this well with so little promotion; it's good to know her name is still enough to sell.

im so happy about the numbers!! i was pessimist about this sales before the releasement.. lets hope for another week on top 5!!

ASB daily is #12 :(
It's because the new relaeses..

I hope Avex saves the promotion budget of ASB for A BEST III. hahah

co-sign

ASB went up from #12 to #7

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2012-08-22/more/2/

That's great if it's another top 10 weekly :)

go ayumi!
Hope she gets another top 10 week!

I missed those time when i see ayu's advertisement on Singapore's tv.. ha.. guess tat was in 2003..

great!!

I miss that too!!!
I think (miss)understood is the last 1?
Those cm keep announcing "million selling album!!!" those were the days~~

Maybe ASB CAN outsell PQ.

That would be pretty epic considering not many people thought that this would do too well to begin with.

I don't think it will outsell PQ, maybe it stop on 130-140k..
But with better promo, it could be..

ASB went down from #7 to #8

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2012-08-23/more/2/

still in the top 10!
keep going ASB!

I saw ASB truck while I was walking down the Tenjin street in Fukuoka before recent concerts there, and got so excited, realizing that my dream to see Ayu live will soon come true :-)))

I think this best will end up doing OK.

Now that I have it, I have been really enjoying it. It's a nice collection of some of her best songs :)

ASB stayed at #8

hope the sales will stay in top 10 for a few more weeks..

up hope another top m10 week...
I wish this would of blown up the charts, but oh well.

Maybe next.
A Best 3 or something like that.

ASB still in #8 position..

coolness. hope it stays there for years. lol

ASB went down from #8 to #9

At least it's still in the top 10, not bad.

here's for another top 10!

Whoa... They're still steady...

I hope it can stay this way for a few more weeks, but i feel that this is the last week for a top 10.
:*(

ASB went up again to #8.

3rd Week
Position: #9
Official Sales: 13,436
Official Total Sales: 119,508

4th Week

1st Day
Position: #8

i'd be happy if she can sell 10k this week!

I wish we could get another top 10, but it doesnt look like it.
I wonder what the others got.
::rushes off to website to look at weekly numbers!::

second & third weeks are better than party queen !

Thanks for updating this guys.

Horrible sales for a BEST album if you ask me.

This best of is really optional it's not like A BEST ! if the next A BEST 3 is as bad as A SUMMER BEST yes this will be horrible :(

me too!!

Keep on selling, A SUMMER BEST~!

ASB 4th week
2nd day position #14
(Not so bad, because new releases)

Not bad!
Way to go ASB :)

Lets see how it holds up for the rest of the week...
I see it staying in the top 15... maybe later this week climbing back to the top 10

3rd day
ASB went up to #12

IM so cool! lol...
Hope its enters the top ten soon!

4th day
ASB went up to #11 from #12

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2012-08-30/more/3/

It barely drops between the weeks so it's really good.

5th Day
Position: #12

lets hope she stays pretty constant... !

I'm so proud of ASB! :)

me too!!

Clearly it will hit 120k :)

The sales are a big surprise for me

i really wish this had done better...
but over all I was happy with it.

6th Day
Position: #12

ASB is really stable in this week!

Nice ABS!!
I'm hoping its stable in the long wrong...
like Bennie's(spell?) COVERS was

pretty good sales considering that the only track promoting this album is you & me

^ I wonder if it was singled if it would of helped or promoted the album more...

Today at #10
http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2012-09-02/more/2/

^ that's cool!

Back in the top 10?! YAY!

coolness... it reaches a high right before the new stuff comes out.
I hope it stays in the upper teens this coming week.

wow, cool!

score!!

That's great that she came back to 10!

ASB
4thWeek
Position: #12
Official Sales: 7,505
Official Total Sales: 127,013

ASB 5th week
1st day position #9

coolness...
I hate to see what happened tomorrow!!

im glad tho i wanted 10k for this week =x

^ hopefully when the tour kicks back up it will sell some more.

:munch
I hope it sells more than Party Queen.

^ I want this to be a top seller in the long run...
Let it stay between the 7 - 10 K range for weeks please!

2nd Day
Position: #26

I hope that it will at least break the 150,000 copies mark *finger crossed*

ouch... 26... that sucks...
hopefully it will bounce back into the teens later in the week.

3rd Day
Position - #23

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2012-09-05/more/4/

^ well, at least it came back somewhat...
Ayumi fails in the charts now... it's just something I have to accept in life. :cry

She still does better than 99% of artists and bands in the business.

It's not a 'death sentence' you know , at least she hasn't gotten to a point where she can nosedive a LOT from the 1st week to the 2nd week

If for example she nosedived from #5 to #49 (like BREAKERZ's very poor weak charting presence on Oricon) within the 1st 2 weeks , then that will be the time everyone should start to panic :dead2

^ that is true. Even if she sold something between 50k-70k she is still doing better then most of the people out there...
although I think for 2011, the lowest charting album for the top 100 was around 66k.
thats something.

She's not really failing, but she's not smashing the charts either. She's in a comfortable position right now, chart-wise. She doesn't have the pressure that she had before GUILTY, and she isn't releasing any singles yet so, charts positions aren't that important. As long as she can keep those numbers above 100k it's okay I think, especially with albums like Party Queen and A SUMMER BEST, which weren't that well promoted or important to purchase for different reasons :shrug

Party Queen had no singles or strong promotion, and A SUMMER BEST had too much repeated stuff.

I'm sure that someday she'll be selling less than 100k, unless we get another ayu-peak, something that I'm really looking forward to :D

1) Take a long break away from the showbiz
2) Take up some vocal lessons or composing lessons
3) Relax and get inspired by life. Not writing music to meet deadlines.
4) Take time to compose music as CREA or work with D.A.I
5) Get inspired to write beautiful and meaningful lyrics

Nope

I really don't think Ayu writes music to deadlines considering her output is slow as **** now

just take a frickin rest AYU!!! LOL!!

4th Day
Position - #19

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2012-09-06/more/3/

Great back to top 20 XD

One album per year is SLOW? How about those who release an album once every 2 ~ 3 years??

Ayu has been on the same schedule for years now. Her pace is currently way slower than it was 3-4 years ago.

ture... we havent had a single in 2 years.
We only had a mini last year... and in 2010 we had two full length albums...
this year and last could be considered slow.

ASB is still in the #19 position

thats awesome!
Now I just want it back in the top 10! lol

I don't think it's possible.. But dreaming is free:)

6th Day
Position - #18

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2012-09-08/more/3/

Thanks!

It is slow by Ayu's creative output standards. Besides it doesn't take 2 or 3 years to produce a pop album unless the record company has employed monkeys to produce it and considering the hard work is already done (the actual music) before Ayu records or writes any lyrics. Ayu's music was at it's best when she was releasing singles on a near monthly basis.

That's up for discussion. I would have never ever been a fan of 1999-2002 Ayu because of how generic her music was. Her output was frequent though, that's right.

Loveppears at that time was anything but generic ... This electronic sound was pretty novative in Japan !

Only half the album even had the electronic sound. And those were mainly generic melodies on - at that time - unique instrumentals.
I'll give you WHATEVER though, that was an unique and great song.

I kind of don't agree... while I like alot of the singles, I think the album tracks were really boring and suffered from burnout (see "I am...").

I honestly think 3/4 singles a year were fine. I just wished she released singles this year.

I would agree with that regarding Rainbow, Heartplace was brilliant but the rest were so, so...where as I Am... had I Am, Connected, Naturally, Still Alone and no more words which were a lot better than some of the singles like Never Ever and Dearest (prob going to get slaughtered for that comment but those songs are boring and banal).