Startin' 10th/(m)u 19th/CDL 8th week sales
 

Startin'

Week sales: 870

Total sales: 185,102

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(miss)understood

Week sales: 954

Total sales: 867,457

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Countdown live 2005/2006

week sales: 1,218

Total sales: 47,370

yay! I'm 1st %))
thanx!!
sales is so baaad... :((((((((

both Startin' and (m)u have gone below the 1,000/week mark.... :(

edit: (m)u will probably lose the title of being the best selling original album by next week, as Def Tech takes over.

Thanks for the updates!

Eek! Startin'/BTB... and (m)u sales are so low. V_V

thanks

Sales are so bad!
But thanks for the info

thanks for the info
there is no way MU and startin will break the magic milestones

^ Yeah, I'll have to agree :( In some ways, I think Ayu is being overshadowed right now by the "it" artists...

I can't say I'm anything else than impressed by the sales staying like this, even after 8 years and many new "it" artists coming and going.

That's really good for Ayu, sadly though the numbers are really slow

Although she might not make the magical numbers in sales, these numbers are still respectable. With all the different types of music out there, drop in sales are to be expected as time goes on. I'm sure now more than ever the people buying her albums are the diehard fans. so if she can continually get 800k on her albums i see nothing wrong.

Does anyone from Ayu's era even sell as well as she does? :/

[like a debut in 98/99~?]

^Well basically all her singles in 98 sold less than Startin'/Born to Be (although Trust is only around 3k less) but no other single except Bold & Delicious/Pride has sold that low ever except for remix singles. ASFXX sold 1.4mil.

What a big percentage drop O_O

thanks for the update! but the sales of (miss) understood is really bad! it has not even hit 900,000! :no

Hum...not good sales
But i read that the CDL is in #2, so, it can't be so bad, hum?
Thank you for the info

oh no :thud

(m)u is so close! Just 142,543 to go!

^If she keep on selling around 1000 copies/week that means it'll take her 130~ weeks to reach one million. She won't stay on the charts for another 2.6 years ;)

These are not bad sales O_o' The sales have been dropping from a long time, it would come a day that her single/album would stop selling =P

^these aren't good. but like i said in my previous post, there's a point where the fickle fans drop off and we reach her devoted fans, its just a matter of where that point is. if she can pull 700k+ w/out the fickle fans she'll be ok.

-Happy Mask Salesman Voice- Have faith. :) I hope she makes it. D:!!

top 20: 2006 albums

*1 2,018,474 Complete Single Collection '95-'05 ken hirai 2005/11/23

*2 1,651,054 BEST～second session～ koda kumi 2006/03/08

*3 1,185,908 B'z The Best "PleasureⅡ" B'z 2005/11/30　

*4 1,071,258 BEST mika nakashima 2005/12/07 　　

*5 *,867,457 (miss)understood ayumi hamasaki 2006/01/01

*6 *,817,114 NAMELESS WORLD コブクロ 2005/12/21

*7 *,800,366 LOVE COOK ai otsuka 2005/12/14

*8 *,792,896 Catch The Wave Def Tech 2006/04/26

*9 *,704,806 Best of KAT-TUN KAT-TUN 2006/03/22

10 *,591,753 CYCLE HIT 1991-1997 スピッツ 2006/03/25

11 *,591,131 空いっぱいに奏でる祈り Aqua Timez 2005/08/24 累計
594,346

12 *,536,723 BEST ～first things～ koda kumi 2005/09/21 累計
1,744,516

13 *,475,871 CYCLE HIT 1997-2005 スピッツ 2006/03/25

14 *,467,167 ASIA EXILE 2006/03/29

15 *,451,715 THE LOVE ROCKS DREAMS COME TRUE 2006/02/22

16 *,425,199 Curtain Call:The Hits EMINEM 2005/12/02

17 *,417,125 OUTGROW BoA 2006/02/15

18 *,389,510 Confidence HY 2006/04/12

19 *,381,370 Amarantine Enya 2005/11/23

20 *,326,822 Confessions On A Dance Floor Madonna 2005/11/16

Well I'm being realistic here. Def Tech's album in 3 weeks have already sold 792k. Last week they sold like 128k. They only need to sell 75k to pass (m)u. (m)u will still be the highest female selling orginal album though. She will only for sure have this title until we see how ULTRA BLUE does though.

>_< doesn't look like its gonna hit 900,000 either

How long can we see S/B break 200k?

may be 20 more weeks?

30?

could be this week if we band together and buy 14,898 copies this week. Who's with me?!

Oh,,
It was so bad,,
Umm,, was it only for the japanese version, or for the whole version around the world??
:(

^^ I think they only count the versions sold in Japan right? they dont count like Yesasia, or do they?

sales are low everywhere...it's to be expected. I think Def Tech might surpass her though. I think she might hit 900,000 though.

^Yes, Japan only. Only a few countries in the world actually have sale trackers like Oricon.

well then i guess sadly our members in japan must pick up the slack! :D

~_~ Yukitora~! I meant the people who came out around the same time as Ayu [female solo artists]..

are they even selling as well as Ayu right now?

lets go japan and buy (m)u until it reaches 1 mill...haha

I was just on iTunes, and today's top vids (Japan) are

1. Startin' original mix
3.Born To Be... original mix

Before I really didn't think that iTunes could be a factor in sales...but maybe it is. Everyone's downloading now, and iTunes is really more convenient...maybe a lot of people have turned to downloads. The video is only 400 yen...

So if you buy both songs at 200 yen each plus the two vids at 400 yen...that's 1200 yen.

Ayu's album is the highest non-best-of albums in that list, so that makes me happy! :)

I'd like to know that too!

Well, the RIAJ did state that of all digital downloads, downloads through the mobile/cell phone make up 96%. So I'd think that cellphone music services like Chaku-Uta are way more popular than iTunes.

Here's the TOP 100 for the 3 different types of downloads on Chaku-Uta (Full song, Ringtones, Vids)
http://recochoku.jp/recochoku_ranking/full.html (Full song; HEAVEN is at #86)
http://recochoku.jp/recochoku_ranking/movie.html (Vids; HEAVEN at #35, fairyland at #79)
http://recochoku.jp/recochoku_ranking/uta.html (Ringtones)
http://recochoku.jp/recochoku_ranking/all.html (Overall)

Oh god, 3 digits only..

No, not really.

No idol female of any other label than avex is selling anything at the moment. People "competing" with ayu in the beginning was basically mai kuraki, aiko, suzuki ami and morning musume. during about 200o other female idols came like koda, otsuka, matsuura, aiuchi, shimatani, aya ueto etc. it was booming. Most of these artists have had good sales, but are now hardly reaching the top ten.
None of them compare to ayumi (except for perhaps ootsuka at the moment, well see about next year though) in single sales, but in album sales quite a few have reached high numbers. As from what I can see, the only label being able to keep their female idols fresh and popular is avex (except for aiko perhaps...?). The females who have "survived" all or gained popularity all have some "special" skill that before the time of ayumi wasen't common among traditional idol girls. THis includes song writing (otsuka), composing (otsuka), sexy erotic image replacing "girl next door" or "kawaii" (koda), or simply being an overly popular niche artist like mika nakashima or namie amuro. This would also explain H!Ps drastic fall in sales. the style is simply not a la mode at the moment.

I think it's quite amazing how namie amuro has managed to reclaim the charts so lang after her golden days though, but I don't think this would have bben possible if she stuck to her old music. Look at what happened to ami suzuki....

^yep. avex owns in the solo female category.

:/

Single-wise we can still say Ayu is doing fabulously. :]

After all, she is! :p Boybands and drama theme songs.. blah. If only Ayu was more promoted for that single~