the STEP you/is this LOVE first day sale
 

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　昨日20日（水）の全国約1,300のショップの売上枚数をもとに算出したプラネットチャー ト デイリーランキングのトップ3を速報！

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1位　浜崎あゆみ『STEP you/is this LOVE?(CD+DVD)』　48,800ポイント
2位　浜崎あゆみ『STEP you/is this LOVE?(CD)』　20,400ポイント


total:69200(yeah j-pop sale)

What do you think about it(69200)?

EDIT: from my experience, the first week in oricon will be about 15/6,XXX, and the total sale will be around 31X,XXX( I am afraiding this single won't break 300,000, but everything depend on the oricon)

IMO, the sale is very reasonable considering the poor advertising(almost no CM about this single<== :eviltongu avex), poor tie-up, almost no one in Japan knew about(expect for those crazy fans) this single. Moreover ,ayu only appear at CDTV(broadcast at midnight) and a new( :eviltongu bad program==>)program(not many people watch/know), the bad sale is expectational (actually, it is not bad ,but still not good)

other singles' first day sale:
Moments 87，200　
INSPIRE 92，800　
CAROLS 83，800　

I dunno? Which one is higher, INSPIRE's first day or this one?
ThaNks for the info

Pretty good!! =D Sounds like a good number. THanks for the info!

INSPIRE first day is about 9XXXX

i dunno how good it is!! but yay for Ayu!! hope the sales will go higher!!

not bad not bad! it's okay i guess. ayu can do better tho!

Well- now that the single is out we should expect a lot of promo performances and stuff so the sales will definetly keep going up.

aren't these numbers awfully low?

69200? i think it's nice number for a first-day sale...

I don't know the first day of other singles...what I know is every week of her last 5 singles while they r on oricon. hope she sells a lot! I think this single I really nice

It's very good, I think!!
thank you!!

hmmm, I hope the sales will go up from now on. I wonder why there isn't a cm for this single :no

..it's quite low, bcoz this single is supposed to be similar to INSPIRE (since it has 2 songs and 2 instrumentals with PVs), this single even got 1 bonus PV!!! Hope that there'll be more promotions!

Go AYU!!! I'll receive mine in about 2 weeks -_-

there IS a cm for the single BUT no one had seen it or only a few people had seen it( the cm is being broadcasted for a few time and in some unpopular time)

Hopefully word of mouth can make up for the lack-lustre sales. Why didn't Avex promote this one as much?? It's even a double A-side and usually there's always so much hype.

not too bad, keep it going AYU!!

Thanks for news.

Those numbers aren't that good when compared to even her recent singles. There should have been better promotion.

Not too shabby! Congrats Ayu. :]

....-_- that's awful. I hope the PVs are being aired though from time to time.

The multiple a-side only singles are probably turning less attractive to japanese as you will actually get the songs in the next upcoming album. That added to the fact that the songs weren't really anything exceptional this time though I love them very much.

Why did it take until the day before her single was to be released for the PVs to air?

Namie's Want Me, Want Me was floating around weeks before it was released. The same goes for many other artists.

The single is a horrible flop release. Maybe that's why the sales are so low.

Maybe the sales will get a boost after the upcoming live performances :shrug

Well, thanks for the info. Hopefully Ayu's sales go up!

i believe the sales will definitely go up! *prays hard* GO AYU! :D

Kinda low... The promotion did seem kinda bad, I wouldn't know since I don't live in Japan but she's only performed on 2 shows, and the is this LOVE? PV didn't even air yet.. I think it could definitely be because of the songs as well.. Record sales as a whole seem to be low in Japan

that is really a low sales comare to her previous releases...
hope it'll go back up with the perf coming up and CM maybe?

well you cant blame everything on poor marketing tactics, you have to look at the songs themselves, lol. they..wern't the greatest.

Well, it's not that bad.

I still love the single though.

i can't believe my eyes when i see that there are people saying that the songs weren't that good. c'mon, this is on of her best singles !! this gotta be a lack of promotion. geez, can't believe this numbers...

The numbers are not that bad ... pretty good considering the market. And it's the first day only ... si I'm not worried at all.

that sounds good :P

thanks for the info ;)

I think people think "i dont need to buy the single though.. I can have all the pvs n songs in album".... so it doesnt sell as good as previous single.... she shall try the format of her previous single (with remixes + pvs).... maybe it works

The thing I'm wondering though is since mnW is a recut, if the PV will be in her next album/DVD collection. Then again you never know.

For Ayu, yes, the numbers are relatively low. But for Japan in general these numbers are pretty good. I think, regardless of promotion or not, we'll see a steady climb for at least a week or two.

She's on tour, isn't she? It's a little hard to promote travelling around Japan...

think it's not a really great first day sales..but it's not bad at least it has a same number with BoA first week so it's not that bad
but i'm really dissapointed with avex trax that not have any promotion about this single..i don't see a pics billboard, there is just one magz (popteen) that give review about this single, there is no CM, there is just two performance on tv and the other stuff to promote her new single. I don't know why it can be happen.i think this single is REALLY POWERFUL and i like the song VERY MUCH and the pv is REALLY GREAT. It's one of her BEST single..
but why avex do this? i don't understand at all and feel really upset after seeing the sales number
i hope the number will rise..being positive thinking is really hard right now but let's hope the best
(My head is full of question "WHY..WHY..WHY?")

I think may be the single sale will be higher after coming live preformance(music station...) , i think the songs(PVs) in the single is very good, it doesn't deserve that knid of sale

Avex is slacking. Seriously. Their falling way behind and they are barely having any Platinum sellers anymore. I can understand why they want to lower Ayu's power but still she's what makes Avex, well Avex.

most likely not. i think my names women was the "special" of the single. :shrug

Marketing sales, ha. It's the most important tool used to advertise just about anything. What's wrong with Avex anyway? Focusing on new artists so much they give little promotion time to Ayu? .. That's no excuse at all.

Ayu is touring though. "appears" is going to her concert today! I hope he will really enjoy iT!!!!

Crappy sales for a crappy single. What do you expect?

hehehe,, it's not that crappy, it's.... "sexy"??
My friend said that he watched is this LOVE? pv on mtv china yesterday. Was it aired already? Or he is delusional?

I dont' know .. I really really liked this single .. it has been a while since Ayu singles made me listen and watch the MV so much time without getting bored. I think the public need to see these MVs more on TV, especially Step You. The MV is just brilliant and very original, not to mention she looks hot in it!

There definitly is a CM because I just watched it. Plus, with the tie-ups the songs have, promotion is definitly there. Though I have no idea how frequently the CM's are showing and what kind of time slots they are in. She has the last 3 days of her concert schedule coming so after that finishes and her TV performances start the sales may pick up. I was surprised when I heard about this release, and that it came with 3 PV's. Either they filmed them earlier and put the release on hold, or she did it DURING her touring schedule.

thanks for the info!

hmm,, she will hot 130,000 copies in her forsy week, this number kinda low for me.. well gud luck ayu!

hmph! How can they do this to Ayumi!!

a bit on the low side, but i hope the sales will pick up

do what?

i also like this single very much
it has 3 pv
good

maybe she did it to herself =P STEP you isn't exactly a good song whatsoever.

Well it just comes down to the Japanese public. She IS in their country and releasing there. They are her main focus. If they don't want the single they aren't going to buy it.

Heck, I love Ayu still and I'll end up buying this single but it doesn't really matter because it'll be the Japanese public that determines her 'future'.

I thought this single will definitely make a huge sale or sumthing on it's first day but it's okie, ganbatte ayu~

How can Ayu do this to us?

HAHA.

hopefully the numbers will go up soon as more people know theres a new single out.
but hey, 69200 isn't that bad.... it would be worse

Haha, I heard that there were also a lot of other Japanese artistes releasing their singles on the same day, though I don't know who they are except LISA's Melody Circus. They could just be spoiled for choice?

Yar, I think it's the same mentality that I could just get the full package in the album, why bother with the singles. On top of that, there's music downloading so I kind of expect that her sales would get lower in time. But those are not the only reasons because I'm sure there wasn't a lot of promotion for this single despite the great songs in there and I think she needs to do more lives to make people know of this single!

it will take a turn for the better as all of the songs i like them more than inspire alone

She is doing a lot TV live performaces right now.

heh~~ seems like i dont care how much she sells now... im much more interested in her new songs~~ thanx for infor ^^ i believe it will turn out for the better.... give it some time... ;)

Inspire did good! All because of Game

thanx for the info.

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Are you the one that Translated Ayumi Hamsaki's interview into english? Great Job!!! I absolutely love all Ayumi's songs.

i agree with impactbreaker. miltiple a sides singles dont sell anymore. days of H or & are over. avex really should go back to the 10 track single days!!

If STEP YOU was promoted heavily instead of Fairyland, I'm sure first day sales could have hit over 100000.. That song was very original and the chorus was ADDICTIVE. The PV also appeals to the masses, like Fairyland! Unfortunately, its the other way round, so I'm not gonna complain.. (or maybe I just did..) :D

^^ haha! 100000? :rolleyes

^ logic, I think HEAVEN is gonna do just that..

Hey, that's good news. Glad to hear it. Thanks for info!

I actually agree wit Mad Cactuar on this one. STEP you sold better because the songs were better.... and Both songs were promoted. Fairyland is nothing compared to STEP you IMO. STEP you was eye-catching, it was edgy, extremely catchy and had high "sing-along" factor.

if the single was like "STEP you/alterna" then i think ayu would've been able to sell way higher than "STEP you/is this LOVE?" or "fairyland"

and I agree with Ayufan929! Thats what I tell everyone.. STEP you/alterna will sell TONS because both are promoted, fairyland/Is This Love will sell a decent amount too..

No, that wasn't me o.o lol...

not reallie ... look at Mika Nakashima and B'z new single ....
they sell a lot ~