It officially charted longer than talkn' 2 myself and the same as glitter/fated although I am sure we can expect it to sell at least another thousand during the next 2 weeks. And I just realized it's only 4000 more to outsell FREAKY, which charted for 15 weeks. (I am hoping that the goodies AVEX is giving out on the last 2 dates will boost the sales a bit)

Woot! It's still charting! Freaky had 3 b-sides so it's incredible, the sales compared to MW. Anyway, Kumi's 2008 singles r not charting so hot. If it's really due to her tactless comment, then that's really a pity. (Hope ayu knows better than to make tactless comments!)

^ I think Ayu's been around for too long and knows too much to make comments like these. She's done it before, after all, in one of her concerts around 2003-ish I think.

The sales are so awesome for MW. :D

u're not talking about the handicap rumor thing right? coz it was proven false.

LOL she actually didn't.
The whole thing was proven false, like my friend here was saying.
And no one really cared about it like kumi's one (because it didn't really happen and kumi's one did).

What was it about the handicap rumour? Kumi really ought to have known better but this reaction is totally overblown. I mean what's it compared to what sharon stone said? And I think MW will continue charting since there're 2 concerts coming up in tokyo =)

Well it's seems MOON will sell somewhere around Ai no uta in the end, so I really doubt that it has something to do with the comment, just that she is losing her popularity which is quite natural for the kind of music she does.
Anyhow I am really happy to see that MW is doing great, considering everything, and I am hoping the next single will at least sell as much.

Yeah what does it take for female singers to keep their popularity these days... JE have been churning out songs that sound the same year after year and their singers are still popular. I want ayu to hang in there for many more years to come. MW looks like a great start to her 10th anni and beyond!

I agree, it seems that female and solo artists in general have a harder time keeping their fans.

14 *,193,098 **1,822 BURN-フメツノフェイス- / B'z 08/04/16
15 *,191,223 ***,605 Mirrorcle World / 浜崎あゆみ 08/04/08

sighhh.. B'z Ultra pleasure very helpful for BURN..

OMG...its so close to 200k..hopefully last day of AT will help the sales

^hope so...
ayu's next single might be announce and release anytime soon, if that happen then MW might stop charting and 200k is impossible to reach -_-

B'z seem to be like the eagles version of japan. ^The way i see it, this is sort of the last week for MW to pull off a surprise. And i can't wait for a new single!

This is funny. I always thought that Ayu's #1 streak will end now after this release, but it didn't and now it's selling even more than talkin' 2 myself did. :D I'm so gonna laugh at myself now. <3

But it's good that Mirrorcle World is being sold, because it's awesome single anyway. And I hope that MW will reach 200k. <3 But I'm hoping for the summer single already, because Ayu's summer songs are so wonderful~ :3

Well, it would take a huge "mirrorcle" to hit 200k.

I want a New Single !! :(

what is the position actually? still in top 150 or not?

The MW single should be given for free to the fans on the last shows of the tour... Or at least the ones with beat seats, so we can say it finally reached the 200k mark!

Hmmm, what is MW's current week?

Im confused between 12th and 13th.
BTW, this single really rocks out t2m and glitter/fated!

Update on the position for the 11th week:

115　115　***,605　*,191,223　11　浜崎あゆみ 「Mirrorcle World」

That means MW was #115 for 2 weeks ^^

Wow!! Same position for 2 weeks under the 100 XD
Thank you ^_^

waiit... 11 weeks already on chart??
that's great

^Yes I think it will chart this week as well!

^ oohh i thought MW just entered 9th week

Nope ^__^ it's 12th week is about to end.

I love Ayu to death but I must admit I was quite cynical about this single when it was first released....even though it was her 10th anniversary single I didn't think it would break the 150k mark, but I'm glad it did. I think it can push 200k by the end of the year :D

^Lol that's not cynical, that's being realistic. I think most of us wish ayu well but are not expecting strong sales for the future. But the music industry is so fickle, perhaps really anything can happen. I hope that her albums will soon regain the million selling aura it once had.

It's been almost 3 months?! Wow time really flies! I still remember when u guys were discussing how doy version cover looks better than you version! And the special edition long slipcase =D

Mirrorcle World's 12th Week:

*,191,764 ***,541 Mirrorcle World / 浜崎あゆみ 08/04/08

A drop of 64 copies ^^ The position of the 12th Week will be probably known on Saturday/Sunday.

^Thank you!!
Then it charted like glitter/fated ^_^ (and maybe another week).

I thought glitter/fated only charted for 11 weeks.

I thought this week sales would be higher that last week coz CDl 07-08 has realesed

You're right sorry, than Mirrorcle World charted more than glitter/fated!
Mirrorcle World has really done well.

16 *,193,805 ***,707 BURN-フメツノフェイス- / B'z 08/04/16
17 *,191,764 ***,541 Mirrorcle World / 浜崎あゆみ 08/04/08

eww.... T______________T

^ Tough cookie to beat the B'z off. :(

I hope it will hit 200k!

I estimate another 8 weeks on the chart if MW is to hit 200k. Go 20 weeks charting!!!

i dont think it will hit 200k. lets be objective. now it got like 500pc sold this week and next week it probably wont have more. lets be happy its her highest selling single thany any other from guilty era.

And even more than one of the singles in Secret era XD

Lol i was mostly kidding. But underneath that 'jokeful' spirit there lies a shimmer of hope... Even though it's evanescent...

haha.. it would be awesome if it can outsell FREAKY coz they're very close

How close are they? O.o

so its currently her best single since HEAVEN! whooots

not counting BLUE BIRD, yes.

Has anyone heard Right Mirrorcle?
It's so great! I know it's offtopic, but as it's related to MW, I'm putting it here:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QXGxFu7_UvQ

Wow that is soooo amazing.I wonder what progams he use to do that video.

less than 4K only...

FREAKY sold 195,322

And it had 4 A-sides, don't forget. I hope her summer single can regain platinum status like blue bird.

Mirrorcle World already officially gained platinum certification =)

Update on the positions:

163　115　***,541　*,191,764　12　浜崎あゆみ 「Mirrorcle World」

I guess, the 13th Week will be the last week for MW.

ahh.. nonono... I hope 13th is not the last week

Really? So they took the avex quote instead of oricon's? A little like m(u). Thanks.

No, RIAJ certificate all releases by shipped copies not by copies sold in stores.
(m)u was certified a million since it shipped over a million.
MW is certified platinum because it shipped over 250,000 copies.

(for others example, kumi's Kingdom sold 606,000 and was certified triple platinum for shipping over 750,000 copies, kumi's BEST ~second session~ was certified 2 million for shipping over 2 million copies though it sold around 1,820,000 in stores and not 2 million).

That's how certifications work.

MW existed on charts for 13 weeks?!?!

Its performance much MUCH better than GUILTY's 2 singles and "Startin'/BTB..." single!

yeah i think so. The sales will leak soon.. ahh.. i hope it sell higher than 541 copies

I'm really impressed that it has done as well as this. I mean my goodness, some US artists barely see those sales figures for a studio album. But yeah, since it's her 10th anniversary single it makes sense - plus MW is a damn good song.

Yah, I want to see MW sell at least 600 less for the "suppose-TO-BE" last week of it.
After all of the chart weeks, im happy for its performance. :)

Thanks for the explanation! But I feel that this method of certification can be manipulated quite easily. That explains why secret is triple platinum. Doesn't this mean that there are 50k unsold copies of MW?

On the other hand, a friend said that not all japanese stores submit figures to oricon since you have to pay oricon a fee to state that your store is submitting figures (fans will buy from those stores to contribute) so maybe that's one good thing about counting copies shipped instead of oricon figures. And seeing that MW is quite difficult to find in Japan right now, there may be more unreported figures than we think.

it's a manipulative system, but which label wants to lose money by producing obscene amounts of unnecessary copies. on the other hand, it is necessary to have more copies to be left over, so that stores still can hold a copy or that people who discover an artist years after the release still can grab a copy, 'cause they surely don't start their monstrous cd-pressing equipment for a single copy. :P

and oricon is an estimated sales figure. oricon never got numbers from all stores in japan (that's not even technically feasible), but from quite a lot. the numbers they get are then multiplied with a certain factor to take uncounted stores into account.

Thus the x1.75? I thought it was because some stores don't release figures until the end of the week so everyone in this forum speculates with this factor. Anyways, i understand the RIAJ certification method now thanks lol...

If you guys look at the oricon charts recently, it's starting to make me really wonder at the no.1 for MW. Shuchishin's new single's 1st week release is better than MW's combined sales and their previous single is back in the top 10. Be thankful for small mercies.

MW's #1 isn't surprising at all since the sudden promotion and gifting (in ayu's tour too) avex gave this single in the middle of the first week was huge and the sales got higher almost like the first day sales.

If it wouldn't happen then it would be surprising.

^^Plus, the cover is extremly attractive too :D

I'm glad she got the no.1 and i think she deserves it more than SCS and i agree, the cover is sooo pretty. It's just that the selling power of boybands like arashi and SCS makes me a little jealous for our ayu. My friend said it's because boyband fans are mostly young girls who don't have enough money to buy albums which are very expensive in japan so they buy the singles but still, i wish ayu's singles sold better.

1 A-side + 3 B-sides, just like Mirrorcle World. Mirrorcle World also has a total of 6 versions, while FREAKY has 3.

FREAKY did very well by its own merit. Just saying that A-sides, B-sides, couplings whichever it's called, it had 4 new songs whereas MW has 1 semi-new song, 1 new song and 1 remixed song albeit a different one for 2 versions. If MW had 4 new songs i would expect it to chart at least 250k copies. Speaking of which, has it stopped charting?

Mirrorcle World's 13th Week

Sales: 646
Total Sales: 192,410

Charted another week and sold better than last week!

Well Mirrorcle World is more successful than FREAKY if comparing profits I suppose.. I'm sure avex gained more profit (because of price the and multiple vers. and mainly getting outside promotion).
FREAKY and RFYL had a PV, kumi sang 3 off the 4 songs on TV and some magazines appearances while ayu got 2 TV performances for MW and 4 magazine appearances. kumi got way better promotion.
There difference between the singles now is less than 3000.

FREAKY got 4 versions btw, CD, CD first press, CD+DVD, CD+DVD first press.
Mirrorcle World just got 2 more.

plus we all know that MW did great in Asia ^^

Haha thanks! That's good news! Actually i've been wondering about the first-press thing for a long while now. At first, i thought it's avex that's not catching on to it but if freaky had it, why doesn't ayu's releases? E.g. kinki dome dvd had a limited edition and normal edition but ayu's never had something like that. And i don't think a long slipcase really counts because the cover and content is the same.

Because they are very generous people (:innocent) I would HAAAAAAAAAAAAATE if Ayu DVDs were released "limited" and that one had great content that wasn't available on the "standard" edition. I dunno I just don't think that's fair. It's bad enough some people don't get to see her live at all, but then excluding people further content-wise? :o Lame.

Though they'll probably do something like that with AT08 since it's her anniversary and all :\

Thanks for the update, Ayumisrael.. hoho...
keep going on Mirrorcle world. i'm so happy this is the first time MW sold higher than last week

If these sales last, MW can beat Daybreak in terms of sales!! =D

^ ooww yah.. even we've forgotten about daybreak...

My first target for MW was Outsell FREAKY

Yay, steady sales! ^_^

Lol! You got a really good point. The way i see it, people are doing it with 3 different methods. Yoshiki method: Release the normal ones first then come up with extra special limited edition. JE method: Add one more song in the normal edition so fans are compelled to buy both. Conventional method: Just use different covers.

Since the first two methods may bother you (it bothers me ALOT), Ayu could do the third one. Then hardcore fans would be rushing to buy the first cover edition and they would buy an extra normal edition whereas casual fans will just buy whichever edition they can get. Boost sales!!

Update info for the 13th week:

127　163　***,646　*,192,410　13　浜崎あゆみ 「Mirrorcle World」

MW's postion for the 13th week was #127.

Yay! it went up 36 places!
And there was no tour or new stuff ^_^ good!

Maybe the cover is pretty enough to get casual fans to buy it if they walk past a copy.

CD-only first press? Where?

Reminding you
FREAKY CD+DVD first press - 4 songs & 4 remixes
FREAKY CD only first press - 4 songs & 4 instrumentals.
There just weren't 4 different covers, just 2 because there was 1 cd, 1 cd+dvd and each had a first press (cd & cd+dvd).

The CD-only had the instrumentals and that was it, there was just one version.

What do you mean by "Maybe"???

The 4 remixes were the CD+DVD first press, that and the instrumentals in the CD only first press.

Well it feels quite long for MW to hit FREAKY but, it would be awesome. Hard tough...

This single is pretty much done... Next please, Ayu.

Lol the maybe was in the casual fans part not the pretty enough part :P
She does have MANY casual fans who perhaps can't be bothered to buy MW all this time so having walked past it for maybe the 20th time, they may be like "what the heck" and just buy it.

Yaiiy.. nice and B'z sold less than ayu

127　163　***,646　*,192,410　13　浜崎あゆみ 「Mirrorcle World」
158　136　***,469　*,194,274　12　B'z 「BURN-フメツノフェイス-」

less than 2K ayu can outsell B'z

How can B'z have a lower spot but higher selling numbers? O.o (Really confuzed about this system now)

^ lower spot for that week
total sales B'z still higher than Ayu but on that week MW sold 646 copies and Burn sold 469 copies only so Ayu Got higher place

The difference is only about 150 copies. If the difference remains constant, MW needs to chart for about 12 more weeks lol...

^
Ugh, I hope she can make it nonethless, but with a new single hopefully coming soon, I doubt it.

^GOOO AYU!! AND MW...

Why not? With a new single, people may grab a copy of MW on the way if it is placed strategically right next to the new single :P Not particularly bothered though. I never really thought about ayu and b'z as arch rivals. B'z is sort of like in their own league. In time, hopefully ayu's status will be cemented as such as well.

Sales for the 14th week:

*,192,738 ***,328 Mirrorcle World / 浜崎あゆみ 08/04/08

Oucch.. I think 14th week is the last week for MW on chart

^

It depends. Actually, all the sales for singles last week were quite low. For example: last week Namie Amuro sold 866 copies and the week before twice as much.

What is sad however, is that Green's new album will outsell GUILTY next week and therefore GUILTY will be pushed to #10 of the best selling album of 2008 so far.

^I don't think it's sad since most of the top 10 are boy bands and this year's top 10 yearly albums won't look good (because of that and except for some boy bands I don't like the most that are in the top 10). I gave up on female artists popularities because the popular boy bands consume them.
Just last week B'z dropped both ayu and kumi one position down (and GreeeeN might drop kumi down as well).

Let alone singles which in the top 20 best selling singles of 2008 there are only 3 (one is ayu) female artists and 17 boy bands lol.

Sales-wise GUILTY did very well selling over half a million.
Mirrorcle World did extremely well charting and selling more than 3 of her two recent years singles and it even has the highest first week single sales by a female artist for this year.
Both got good weekly and monthly positioning.
Mirrorcle World got her some new records/achievements.

ayu's in the club.

^ haha.. I didnt notice that before you psoted that..

193K if next week still on chart

Sometimes, i feel that utada hikaru is left to champion album sales from the boys. Ayu's definitely in the club but it hurts a little that it's a pre-dominantly male club where many rank above her. I also feel that this could be the last week for MW on the charts but i'll await the next single with optimism =)

GUILTY will out of top 10 yearly for sure
when namie release her best album...
i dunno about other future release that can beat GUILTY
ayaka is a big threat too
and those jfdjafjdsajfdsjfjl boysband is a HUGE THREAD
especially silly dolly billy SHUCHISHIN, if they release an album, it will sell like a hot cake, while their music quality is like a jkfdakfjdksajfkdsjfksjak cake (>_<)

193k!! hundred +more hahaha