Very steady sales! This album deserves it.

5th Week:
#33 with 1,219 copies sold
Total: 47,314

6th Week, 1st Day: #31

go 50K!

Lets hope it keeps steady this week too! Good sales ayu!

Yes! Go for 50k!

50k is just around the corner !

Keep it ayu!! ;)

This anyone? I'm really curious if the "ALone" thing is true or not.

There's isn't a "secret message", there's just the interpretation you make about the title out of the album's content.

recochoku weekly album chart 5/6～5/12

A BEST - BACK TO POSITION 1 (again...this is so cool)
A ONE - Out of top 50

hmm... I don't believe the recochoku chart :headache:headache:headache

If it outsells Colours it will be the first time that happens in over,... Ten years?

I'm still pessimistic of it to outsell Colours... unless it keeps selling 1k for the next 6 weeks?

A ONE is out of top 50 today :(

I'm SO proud of the sales! This album deserves a modest success, yes! :yes

How disappointing... This was a bit hyped by Ayu's team (right?) prior to release and I was hoping there was some deal about it.

In other news, A ONE is officially my favorite record of the year so far. Its just nice to be able to turn to a decent album when I'm surrounded by so much trash on the radio here.

Nah, it wasn't hyped by the Ayu team... She just said people would understand the title once they listened to the album. The fandom did the hype part themselves...

This happens from times to times... Someone asks her something that she can't really answer (like explaining the whole concept of a release, as it limit the way people can understand it themselves, making the overall release less relatable and less powerful) she gives a vague, diplomatic answer, people let imagination go wild, some theory get more popular than the others, everyone starts acting like that was official and when things go on a different way the meltdown starts.

I couldn't remember if it was Ayu's team that hyped it or us here on the forum. I still didn't really get the idea of it. It's not like you can hear influences from the very early part of her career, or that she wrote a bunch of songs about us all being united, or that she wrote nothing but songs about loneliness. It's not a very typical Ayu record either. So, I'm a little clueless as to what A ONE means, other than to say that this may be her settling into a specific sound again for awhile.

Still surprised at the sales for A ONE. This must be a very well received album to have done so well market-wise.

And STILL with A BEST... I wonder if Ayu is happy about it or if she's still silently cringing because she didn't want A BEST to be released the way it was... Silly. DAE know if A BEST 2 is selling as well?

recochoku must LOVE ayu lol.
Well even though it succeeds digitally there more than all of the albums on recocohku it's still probably just a few 10s a day, in total it already should be high, I wish they would publish numbers lol. recochoku is not the only digital outlet for music in Japan though.
There are at least iTunes, LISMO, dwango.jp and Music.jp, (mu-mo for avex) that I know about. Must be more.

But it's not millions of people downloading A BEST on recochoku, unfortunately, sure wish there would be.
It's still amazing that it slays all other existing albums there.

I don't think A ONE has an exceptional success or anything, it sells decently for ayu's status, it's just more consistent than usual.

It's cool that fans buy it when they know there is an upcoming mini album to buy as well haha.

A ONE is back to #48 today!

Thank you! Nice!

Don't forget tsmgo promo with the bags!! I'm sure that's helping a bit as well. :P.

Back to #37 today!

OMG I'M SO HAPPY this is doing so so so well. what if it outsells colour. this'd mean she's gaining popularity again.

It's back on top 50 digital chart as well...

Unortunately there's no chance it will outsell Colours, and even if it would I don't think it would mean an entire popularity increase, just a few more people interested.

It is quite good that it's consistent.

yeah i agree, i'd think about it like this is that kinda type ayu-album fans would buy over Colours more than she has gained more fans but if she did, i wouldn't complain at all :yes

I don't think it can outsell Colours, but 50k now is more than likely, just a couple of weeks more :D

I have been listening to WARNING a lot lately. Man that song is good, it really has grown on me! Do you think that if this album were released during ayu's peak, or shortly after, it would have sold really well? Like say if this was her 10th anniversary album instead of GUILTY?

To me, I prefer Warning to other songs of 'A ONE', but sometimes, it is so annoying.
I think instead of releasing A ONE+Colours + Love Again, if she picks best songs of theme and releases in one album, it will be a great album :D

Wow A ONE went up to #28 today.

It's also entering digital chart again as well...Looks like her tour give help a little bit

Wow, it could really sell over 1k this week!!

Wow 28!! Well done ayu

It stays at #28 today! But don't expect higher sales since the #3 only managed to sell 992 copies. :o

I'm still happy with the position, because my sister who's traveling in Japan now helped me to get a copy yesterday! LOL :DT

EDIT: The weekly chart is out!

6th Week
Position: #48
Official Sales: 1,014
Official Total Sales: 48,328

Awesome! So it managed to sell another 1,000+ copies!

I also think that it officially outsold kuu's WALK OF MY LIFE, but they are both around the same place status-wise so it doesn't matter that much.

I'm just glad that ayu holds that long since her debut and her peak back in 2001. She is not a legend for nothing.

Comon' A ONE, try to be 50k.
The Tour helps the sold very much as I believe.

It will be great if for once A ONE can outsell Colours as I feel this time round , A ONE is more balanced and put together

If not , at least the sales difference Colours & A ONE will not be that significant

Either way , go Ayu go !

Just a little more! Go 50k! So so close.

By last week, Kuu had 48,383 copies sold (408 copies sold in that week), and she was out of Top 200 already. ayu will probably manage to outsell it, but not by more than 5k copies... Another year in which they have technically tied-up in album sales

SO awesome! We can definitely reach 50k!!

Gosh I'm so happy!!

recochoku digital weekly album chart 5/13～5/19

After the discount period end, A BEST drop quiet a lot but still it's fight for the place on top 50...which is very good for 14 years old album. A ONE back to top 50.

A BEST - 32
A ONE - 34

A BEST is relentless!!

A ONE is back to #41 today.

The sales dropped a lot this week :(
#80 with 648 copies sold. Total 48,976 copies sold.

50k is possible!!

^Yay !!! In two-three weeks :)

Amen, preach it.

Back to #41 after #81 is really good! :) I'm confident she'll achieve the 50,000 mark :yes

A ONE outsold WOML by just 2 copies (so far). LOL

A ONE 48,976
WOML 48,974

Nope.

FINISH HER.

Ayumi sells two more copies of A ONE

FATALITY.

Edit: It's still cool that this is the first year since 2006 that Ayu has managed to outsell a Koda record. That is worth applauding because it is a very, very rare occurrence in the industry. The only other person logging better sales in this genre is Namie, but she had to do a complete career make-over. It's a bit competitive, sure, but for all the crap Ayu gets from every direction for making stale music, it says something about Ayu's talent when she can outsell another diva's record in half the time, even if by a margin of 2 copies.

Did I understand correctly or I need glasses. Did you just say that this is the first year since 2006 that ayu has outsold kuu. WAIT, WHAT!! :tipsy :tired

Not true. Love Songs released in December 2010 (counted for Oricon 2011) outsold Kuu's Dejavu. So it's since 2011. Not sure where the "in half the time" part comes from since WOML has been charting for 10 weeks on Oricon while A One has 7. In the end the gap will probably be between 1000-2000 copies. Don't think it says anything about either of their talent. However in my eyes what it does say is that despite being in the business for 15 years (17 for Ayu) the fact that they can still sell/ship 50k of their records and place Top 5 is awesome to me. Especially considering Ai Otsuka's last album sold 4k and BoA's sold around 13k and both were big competition for Ayu/Kuu just a few years ago. :)

BoA and especially Otsuka were relevant way shorter than the other two. TBH back in 2003 I would've thought Ku would end up like BoA, I was wrong though as it seems she still has a relatively strong following which, in Japan, seems to be pretty hard.

Tomomi Itano DEFEATED, Koda Kumi DEFEATED, next:

ayumi hamasaki v/s Kana Nishino

all the basic bitches bow down to the queen :luv2

This forum is "ayumi hamasaki sekai"... I GUESS IS OK TO CELEBRATE HER A TRIUMPH ABOVE OTHER JPOP ARTIST with this release, nobody is talking shit about nobody here, stop being such drama queen, because an Ayu fan celebrate if she sell 1 or 3k more copies.

^Agree...It's confuse me as well...That we can't celebrate something that we call God in this forum. Sometime it feels wrong to praise her or like something from her. It's weird...this is Ayumi forum, right? This is her sekai...her world...she is the ruler in this forum...not the other artist.

Ok..you can say...that we are blindly following or liking her...but well...if we like someone then we will like everything about that person. (Although I believe I'm not blindly like what she release, I have a WIDEEEEEE variety of Jpop artist even Kpop artist...but still she is my forever Goddess)

Yep

TRUE! MA QUEEN SLAYED OTHER BITCHES! BOW DOWN TO DA QUEEN BITCHES!! LOL

:yes 17 years!

How many copies did ayu has selled ? And koda ?

https://33.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m...5yr7o1_500.gif

Rise up A ONE rise this is the beginning.

Out of top 100 this week :raincloud

8th Week

Position: #105
Copies: 662
Total: 49,638

Great. So the sales increased a bit :D

and for Aykumi freaks...

WALK OF MY LIFE

11th Week

Position: 180
Sales: 395
Total: 49,369

662. nice :D

WOML and A ONE are so close LOL

Both had a slight increase since last week.

Yay! It is definitely going to reach the 50k mark! :)

I'll be so happy if both reach the 50k mark! I love both albums, it'd be so sad if they end up almost there lol

^ me too!

keep wishing the best for both queens :heart

Amen, Fingers crossed.

Kuu need 2 weeks more to reach 50k mark while Ayu will get next week (likely)
I don't know if WOML will chart 2 weeks more.
Ah, those days when first day's sales were 6 numbers long...

ayu needs like 3 more weeks if she is going to drop, kuu needs 4-5.

Considering 2/3 of the sales from the tour venue aren't counted by Oricon and that this year's your is longer than PSC, A ONE either oversold or will end overselling Colours on absolute numbers...

^Not counted?!?!

^ Yes, not counted. International sales and mumo not counted too.

Two weeks ago while buying A ONE in Yesasia I read this:
It was the first time that I had notice this and I was really dissapointed. I thought I was contributing to get Ayu a good ranking. What a silly rule from Oricon. :eviltongu

Now your telling me that even sales from the arena are not properly counted. What is up with Oricon?

^ In the past it counted. I don't know when it stopped to count.

Venue sales are not properly counted cause AVEX can fake them. I think it's the reason.

From Oricon best-selling albums of 2015

#49 ayumi hamasaki - A ONE (49,638 copies sold)
#50 Koda Kumi - WALK OF MY LIFE (49,369 copies sold)

Oversea sales aren't counted because they don't help mapping the japanese market, as they aren't made by japanese people. It's like Billboard giving Rihanna a good ranking because her song sold well in France, even if the song flopped on the USA. Venue sales aren't fully counted because labels were inflating those...

I wonder if their Japanese fans care about it, I mean, it's so easy to gather a movement of 300 fans and change this positions...

They don't care, if they care Ami Suzuki's debut single would have sold 100,000 and not 99,999 :P And evolution would have made it to the million too...

And you know the japanese are not very good at moving masses

When you put it like that it makes all the sense in the world. Still,I wish the support of the international fans could count for something! :(

^avex and ayu are getting cash for our support, don't forget it. And they track our copies too. It's just that they don't report it to oricon.

A ONE went back to #28 yesterday

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2015-06-07/p/3/

wow, A ONE is doing nicely
Can.t believe its been 2 months since the release X____X
Time sure flies

Thank you! Wow! Just out of the blue after it was below 50 all that time?

Wow awesome! I hope it can outsell Colours!

Wow! Go Ayu!

I think A ONE will increase more in the weeks of the tour final when she will sing more songs from A ONE

Who said these additional songs will be from this album? :-P
I personally expect new songs from mini-album.

just like Tour 2010, she sang almost the new songs from the latest album/single.
I still wait for her "The GIFT", "Story",... performances

Story would be perfect for encore.

I do think so :D
However, I hope "The GIFT" can replace forgiveness.

+1. Her mini-albums are always good. Hope next mini-album will not be an exception and this tour is same as POM :D

That's amazing, it's been two months and it's back to #28!

awesome! this album is surprising everyone =)) and I hope it can outsell Colours too!!

omg *___* it just might outsell colours