FIVE is really unbelievable..
i really wonder what made many ppl love this album..where in AHS, we all know that this is not the fave album haha :P

I gotta say... sure the sales are stable, but they are stably low. I'll be surprised when FIVE starts to equal Love songs. 174k is not that much at all...

Why a 5 track album should equal to a full length album?

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coz FIVE is just mini album so i guess that's quite stable?

most of the mini albums sold worse than full length album but in Ayu's case is different. her Memorial Address also quite stable stayed in chart for 53 weeks, 3rd longest after ASFXX and LOVEppears

It might have charted really well but there's still a big difference from RAINBOW to Memorial address. xD

#4 with less than 2.7k

i just cant wait any longer to see today numbers!!!

3k wish!!

I think October magazine issues with her photos and interviews can help sales too a bit :ysmile

I don't remember whether I have been asked this question or not. But are all the sales are a total for only Japan version or for all versions including TW ver, HK ver and OS ver?

starting to believe it will reach 200k..go five!

Oricon chart just counts the sales in Japan!( or the Japanese versions on CD japan, yesasia,HMV...)

yep, that was because its first week sales 50% of RAINBOW's first week. huge drop
luckily FIVE's first week sold about 70% of LS's 1st week

we need more 26k!! lets hope for the next three weeks!!! #200K

You do realize that EPs sell much less than albums usually? And FIVE is even shorter than most EPs are, it's almost single lenght. Her last EP sold around 50% of the album before and FIVE sold more than 50% of Love Songs now already and almost twice as much as her latest singles(and it is pretty much a long single, but one that is marketed towards casual fans and people new to Ayumi, not longtime fans)
And the overall sales won't reach those of Love Songs but the weekly sales of week #3 will probably equal the weekly sales Love Songs had that week(might even be higher) and the weeks after may be able to achieve the same thing.
Most people expected this to sell around 100k copies, it sold those in 4 days and will probably reach 200k in the end.

so far FIVE is the best selling mini-album in japan this year... correct me if im wrong

Her album after her last EP sold 10% more than the EP.

Will be interesting to see if her next album (assuming it will be full length) will outsell FIVE.

^it better! Lol... I can't see Ayumi falling and falling lower in the sales charts... :*( lol.
But I would like to now how many legal downloads FIVE has... apparently Japan is the country with the most legal downloads in the world...

So I can see Oricon incorporating that into there charts soon... or they might become irrelevant?

Looking at the ringtone charts FIVE seems to be doing really good digitally. 2 of the songs went to #1, one went to #2 and the others were top10 and top20. Remember she only performed on TV once!
That is very understandable, too, as FIVE seems to target casual fans and new fans and those are more likely to download the tracks they like than to buy the whole EP. Let's see how many songs go gold...progress probably will, with LOTS of luck and maybe another tv performance beloved or ANother song could go gold, too.

Who said that? I think that's only your opinion : P And I think FIVE isn't that kind of album which would particularly attract new fans. Ayu tries once again something new with this album [- progress and beloved]
And also, I love FIVE. I can see why it sells well. I don't think it's odd.