A ONE increase digitally as well... I think the tour help a little bit

#70 this week selling 715 copies! Total 50,353.
It passed 50k! :D yeay

Yaaaaaaaaaaaas!!!

That's awesome! Both crossed 50,000 and sold better than last week!

Finally...hoping for 55k

Yay! Let's hope it'll chart some more weeks so it outsells colours (I really like colours but it would be really cool)

can't believe it's passed 50k! Smallest drop between two albums ever

Story could easily replace Secret and The GIFT could replace forgiveness, but I think it would just be boring.

If she takes Secret out I'll be effing mad at her )): I do want Story to be included tho

:love:love

This could be the proof that the general public is starting to be interested in her again

I just hope so.

Yeeeeeeeeees! 50K, so happy!

Yay congrats ayu. :love

Now outsell Colours !!! Maybe she isn't gaining new fans, but at least she isn't losing them.

Althought I prefer Colours than A ONE, XD.

YAY :heart :heart :heart

Congrats! whats colours sales??

So it've been passed 50k, congratulation Ayu

50k! \o/

~53k if I'm not mistaken

Suddenly [A] entered digital album chart position 34 on today chart..haha...

A ONE back to weekly chart at position 43

WOOT! :D maybe we will see a little mini boost in ayu's popularity <3
a boy can hope right xD

So happy that ayu finally didn't drop a lot and outsold Koda ;)

That's quite impressive! :yes :luv2

Go ayu!! Very happy.

Sleigh a bit A.

YES! I bought a copy while I was in Japan! XD

Has A ONE charted this week?

^We'll know tomorrow

Oricon ranked A ONE as the 49th best selling album for the 1st 1/2 of 2015

The mid-year chart counts releases from 22nd Dec 2014 to 15th June 2015



http://www.oricon.co.jp/special/48036/4/
http://www.oricon.co.jp/special/48036/5/

Seeing how Kana and miwa have only sold ~70k, I'd say Ayu is still going strong. Really happy ONE OK ROCK is slaying!!

I do think we are over reacted with her sales...Yes she is no Namie...but she is stable right now...I think her truft card willl be A BEST 3

do we have the weekly sales for A ONE ? i would be very interested in them ;P

Kana has sold a total of 250k with that album. Those (70k) are the sales for 2015 (the album was released in november 2014). Still, ayu is going good. : )

Don't know who said that WALK OF MY LIFE crossed 50k cause it's still stuck at 49,771

A ONE this week is at 50,746

#134 this week, 393 copies sold, total 50,746.

oh XD I stopped following her like around the start of 2014 XD

Thank you! So it might chart for 1 or 2 more weeks and that's it.
51,000 is cool too.

The upcoming tour will make it return to the chart again

Not bad! She'll cross 51k soon and maybe on the long run it can get really close to Colours :D

I remember her fans in this forum saying that she was the new queen of jpop and that ayu was finished, I bet they are not even fans of her now lol

Can't deny how hot Kanayan is these days, but She isn't the queen, (Diva is OK). Her music is good but I haven't watched her whole tour yet. Just finish some parts

how much more before it beats Colours??

gosh..50k is like the 1million mark now LOL
such sales in the new age

I think The FINAL will help if she will us more songs from album

Oricon Ranking for the first half of 2015 : Album
#49 浜崎あゆみ A ONE ：50353

As mentioned before the album sold 70k in 2015 alone the total sales are at over 250k and her new single sold almost 200k on itunes alone digitally (32k physically)
Not saying she's "the new queen" or smth but she's been the top digital seller for quite some time now and her albums sell a LOT so...

Sorry for getting defensive I just like kanayan a lot

How come we don't have iTunes numbers for A ONE album/songs?

Hmmm, true. I find this weird.

Rather than Queen, I think Kana more like a princess to me, I don't really like what she release lately...with sweet do be do be do ala country beat...

But still she is one of the most famous female singer in Japan right now. Along with Namie I think. Nobody come close to their sales right now.

Well, firstly, I am super thrilled that Ayu passed the 50k mark. Considering I expected it to sell almost 10k less. So, that's a big deal. This is a very low drop in sales for her, so she did something right this time, and it reflects.

Onto the rest of it: I like Kana, and I think she's talented, but I think she is really becoming a one-trick pony. Most of her songs are about love, and it's already hurting her sales to be singing about it so much. It was a huge selling point due to her style for her first two albums, but I think the super sharp fall in sales for Thank you, Love and Love Place were not coincidental. She's a great artist, but I think she is still finding her niche outside of this subject. She hasn't had much grand interest in songs like GO FOR IT!! or We Don't Stop. I hope she finds an upbeat, non-love-theme style that propels her. I think, out of all the artists, music fans will be most receptive to Kana transiting to a different style of music. People love her and she really is the new Ayu while being quite different from Ayu.

Namie just sounds tired at this point. It's either time for her to get off the EDM or time for her to fade out like everyone else. She has such a powerful image and presence though, so I'd like to hope that the next album will not follow in the same sound as PAST < FUTURE, Uncontrolled, FEEL, and _genic. I like when Namie does a hot dance track, as only she can seem to do. Uncontrolled was a HUGE stretch for me, especially when she put the bastardized versions of GO ROUND and YEAH-OH on there while the originals were of much better quality. FEEL came off as filled with filler songs, nothing magical apart from Alive, Contrail, and Hands On Me. But _genic, or _generic as I love-and-hatingly refer to it, is over-saturated... way over-saturated with really generic lyrics. I will give _genic two major props though: It has a couple of Namie's amazing sweat-drenching EDM tracks on it, and she manages to sing about a lot of different subjects. I also liked her experimental track with Hatsune Miku. It was a nice throwback to the off-beat production on tracks like Dr. I wish Namie did more experimental work like Dr. and B Who I Want 2 B. That style is very unique to her as an artist, and I think she could do some amazing things with it.

Overall, what still sells me about Ayu over anyone else is the variety on every album. I love A ONE for being EDM, piano ballad, rock, acoustic rock, dream pop, dream ballad, trance/techno, and ethereal all at different points. It makes Ayu records an adventure. I wasn't into WOML, with LOVE, or _genic because they feature maybe one or two variations on the same genre of music. And while Ayu has done some stuff that seems bland, her singles are usually never a good indication of what the whole album will sound like. That's not an attribution I can assign to Koda, Namie, or Kana.

^I know, I thought being optimistic that it will sell 20k :laugh so I'm more than satisfied

Selling 200k digitally is equal to selling 20k physically according to RIAA so there's no big deal

The only real fact is that she's going downhill faster than ayu

TBH BRIGHTER DAY sounds better than anything on _genic. I thought she was slowly finding a new direction, but _genic proved me wrong. It's a solid pop album though, but nothing is really outstanding. She kind of replaced Kumi for me, as I parted with her after the last studio album, listened to the new previews and they sound even worse xD I gave up on Kana a year ago.

Er... nope. 200k copies are 200k copies, 20k copies are 20k copies. Unless there are people buying 100 digital copies each, it still means the song sold 200k copies to (+-) different 200k people. It actually may be even more accurate because you need to buy several physical copies, but once you buy it once you can just download the track again and again.

The fact that there are more people buying physical copies than digital copies in Japan doesn't mean each digital copy is less worthy on a popularity measurement point of view. It may be on a money making point of view, but I don't know the difference between the production costs of both itens considering physical CDs are more expensive to sell, but they are also far more expensive to produce... Maybe if you count the price of the physical media, booklet printing, logistic issues, the label and the artist are making the same amount by a track sold physically and digitally, maybe it doesn't.

But as far as overall impact goes, 1 million copies sold are 1 million copies sold, and 10k copies are 10k copies.

lol Kana is not going anywhere
She's the queen of digital, she has like 25 double/triple/platinum certifications in different digital formats
darling will probably get a milion certification by the end of the year, it's still charting inside the top 30 in digital charts despite being released almost one year ago
Her latest album sold 250k and her next one probably won't fall short from that number as well because she already has another monster hit with Moshimo...
So don't hate on the girl just because she's doing way better than ur fave, that's not a cute look

^ I think when people say she's been declining its cuz her peak and her fall were relatively quick, she's still more popular than Ayu but her digital singles all used to reach the million certification at her peak, now everything is just platinum. Which is really GOOD! just not what she used to be, so its a sign of her going downhill. And even her album sales are going downhill 700,000+ vs her now 250,000 not that its bad just not what it was.

I´m happy about Kana, I´m not a big fan of her but I like some of her music. Selling well in Japan is not a matter of good music or good artist itself, it´s just popularity, let´s think about AKB48... I prefer keeping my opinion about all that.

Hello, I'm also a big fan of Kana, but something you said really caught my interest...how do you know how much she sold on iTunes? as far as I know there isn't a site that publishes that data.

and to add to your statement her single "Darling" that was released last year got certified 3x platinum by RIAJ as a full track. Kana is definitely the current it girl.

You know what they say
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There is this site called tnsori idk where they get the numbers from but they seem pretty legit lol You can check them out there ^^

^Had no idea about that...them and iTunes should somehow partner up and tally sales together because Oricon is freakin ridiculous.

^ They only seem to release the single chart though not sure if they don't have the album numbers or just don't release them.. I would be really curious to see iTunes album sales as well. Would certainly give more insight on how well an album is doing digitally

#202 this week, 305 copies sold. Total 51,051!

that's a nice number haha

Keep on going A ONE!

Amazing!!

by the way

Last Minute youtube viewer almost reach 1m...let's help it to reach 1m...right now it's 959k

I hope her sales keep being good like these.

Natsu Style blog make ESTIMATIONS about iTunes and Oricon daily (because Oricon only put up the sales for top 3)

#291 this week, 277 copies sold, total 51,328 copies.

So it might be its last week.. So proud that A ONE did such great campaign! :D

It's probably its last week, yes. A ONE did pretty well, better than expected :)

This final tour days in this week is the last chance for A ONE to rise. Hope for the miracle :v

So close yet so far from 52k )))

Hey, where do you get these numbers? :) Can you give me the name of the site? I want to check some artists I follow who had recent releases.

^

http://tieba.baidu.com/p/3861711303

Considering venue sales, A One most likely already outsold Colours...

A ONE did unbelievably well, but it was also such a good record among a pool of generally bad prior releases. It reached 12 weeks on the charts compared to Colours' 9 weeks, and it sold maybe 2k less. I'm so proud of Ayu for this record. She really didn't let us down.

^ mhm!!!

so many months later and the album still feels fresh to me and I love the songs so much!
:)

I'm real pleased at the way A ONE has performed as I frankly like it a lot more than Colours & LOVE again

A ONE feels more likeable in terms of the way the songs were & also the whole image Ayu went for this time round , it's more laidback & less flamboyant

There is a super immature voice inside my head that still wishes this album had gotten a number 1 during that first week at least. But my more rational side thinks this album truly did great anyways! Go Ayu!

Wasn't Colours also sold at concert venue?

Also A ONE didn't even charted in Korea as Colours did

Thanks : )

Premium Showcase lasted for 8 days, Cirque de Minuit for 20... The public of the later that had the oportunity to buy the album was far longer.

I was going to ask exactly about weeks in charts hahahaha It's really awesome that A ONE managed to have a longer life :) Hope this build up for good sales for sixxxxxx as well, she seems to be in the right way

Finally Last Minute viewer on youtube reached 1M!!! congrats!!! Catching up pretty fast to The GIFT

i think the most positive thing of all this is that people dont have those exxagurated different opinions about ayus music. so much pressure for ayu and so much criticism for her in the last 2 3 years . i like it very much that the community feels pleasured about the a one era

^how the mighty have fallen is basically all ive heard over the recent years. Thank god things are turning around for the better.

YEEEEESSSS!!! totally . keep pushing ayu, as always:love

Such a tragedy it didn't sell 400 copies in South Korea...

^that is 0,8% of total sales!!

I think at the venues Colours sold less than A ONE
Premium showcase had 11 concerts, Cirque de minuit - 22

^^ Selling in Korea is not important... She doesn't promote here. Almost nobody knows her nowadays (speaking about young people). Korea is all about digital, and the sales are sad now. Usually, a comeback song had more than 1.000.000 downloands, now artists barely can reach it...
Korean artist go to Japan for make some money (they are poor haha jk), don't give importance to a simply market about digital and idols...

Girls' Generation released a korean album including Boys & Girls how it comes that nobody knows ayu then?

ayu in the Korean market does not make any sense rofl I don't even see how this could be discussed as a bad thing for A ONE

Ayu never got really big in Korea, to the point that her asian tours didn't even go there. Namie at her lowest point did tour Korea.

SNSD'S Boys & Girls is not ayu's song o.o I don't understand what you mean, but Ayu is not well known in Korea because they don't care about J-Pop. If possible that people who knows her is because she was the most famous soloist in Asia. Ayu's Asia Tour didn't include Korea too...

If they don't care about J-pop why SNSD themselves released the album "Sweet Memories with Girls' Generation" featuring Ayu's Boys & Girls personally picked by Yoona ;)

^ Seriously, what is the point you're trying to make? A ONE flopped in a shitty market? Oh well life goes on, and so will this thread hopefully

Cause Yoona like Ayu and her song Boys & Girls hahahaha It's all. Big Bang and TVXQ love Ayu too. Big Bang and 2NE1 is a big fan of Kuu. Don't compare 5/6 idols who have promoted in Japan with all koreans.

Please educate yourself before making false statements, Sweet Memories was released in 2008, SNSD debuted in Japan in 2010, so Yoona knew Ayu before debuting in Japan and that's because Jpop before 2005 was even bigger than Kpop in S.Korea :eviltongu

Dear don't let the word "flop" come out of your mouth when you're a fan of Koda Kumi

^ Why are you being so rude? I'm into Kpop since 2009, I knew that fact and I saw the video you are talking...

And you need to say bad things about Kuu? Please educate yourself. Learn first to be a good person and give your opinion without being rude...