RIAJ certification for Love songs
 

RIAJ certified Love songs Platinum for shipment of 250K copies

http://www.riaj.or.jp/data/others/gold/201012.html

i was waiting so long for that!! *--* congrats ayu!!

woot!! Platinum!! :) congrats to ayu!

Congrats Ayu~~~

Congratulations Ayu!

Great news! I'm glad yet another album can claim that title.

yay congrats ayuuuu for Love songs!!!

Woot woot! Party time!!! :D Yay Ayu!!! :D

I'm glad that finally it is certified as platinum! Very good job, Ayu.

Yay!! congrats!! Soon it will sell above 250,000 too :D

Congrats^^

Congratz Ayu....

Finally!!! 250k congratz :)

Congratz

congrates!!!!

Good for her! :Db

Yaaaay, omedetou !! *danciiiing*

YAY!

Sweet! Hopefully the sales will reach that! But my question is, if they only ship 250k copies, it can only sell 250k copies... why not ship more? Or do they steadily ship more as weeks go by?

They shipped way more, but not 500k, and unless they ship it, it wont get the double platinum status :)

They prolly shipped the same (or at least similar) amount to what Rock'n'Roll Circus sold :yes

congraaaaats!

Oh... So that's how that works. Makes sense.

congratz again for anothr platinum

It's always a guessing game by the companies. Obviously they have to ship more than will be sold, or else there'll be a scarce, but they can also overestimate a release. Crystal Kay's Color Change! was certified Gold for 100,000 shipments, but only ended up selling 35,000 copies. Bye bye profit. On the other hand, AKB48's Beginner was already certified Million from the start, because they KNEW it'd reach and pass it.

Ayu's Next Level was her last to be certified Double Platinum, but sold like 120k short of that, so I'm guessing that they're shipping somewhere between Platinum and Double Platinum now...

Wait, does RIAJ include the shipment of all versions (Japan, Korea, HK Press) within Japan and the rest of the world?

Nope, just Japan press. After all, it stands for Recording Industry of Japan ; P

^ Thanks Nackar for the info :D

Yeah that way they'll minimize the losses, especially considering the trend of her releases. And if the shops request more albums they'll easily print some more.

Were the standards for platinum lowered since 2000?
Just wondering, with the overall declining of CD sales...

As far as I know they weren't. At least not in Japan.

^^So then what is it considered if a release sells a million?
quadruple platinum?

Nope. It's called Million.

Japan is the only country in the world with a "Million" certification XD. And to be honest, I think it's a bit silly. This way, you can't differentiate between an album that sells 1,000,000 copies and one that sells 1,850,000, just because the second one hasn't reached 2 Million yet. If they'd just keep Platinum, you'd see these differences.

It's what England has, with Platinum being the highest certification with 300,000 in sales. And England album sales aren't that different from those in Japan : /

WOW! Congrats Ayu *-*

really, a million ? LOL

Go Ayu~

I'm sure Ayu is very happy~ and so am I! Congrats Ayuuuuu!!