[9/20 ORICON] Some info
 

BLUE BIRD is out of the TOP 200.
(miss) understood is out of the TOP 300.

Some info about the close race:

06 877,433 '(miss) understood' - Hamasaki Ayumi
07 867,362 'ULTRA BLUE' - Utada Hikaru (Weekly Sales: 2,004; down 14.1% from last week)
08 861,135 'NAMELESS WORLD' - Kobukuro (Weekly Sales: 1,709; down 6.46% from last week)
09 824,293 'LOVE COOK' - Otsuka Ai (Weekly Sales: 1,074; down 25.52% from last week)

Kobukuro is releasing a BEST Album next week, which will have a good chance of making it to the TOP 5 yearlies (million seller) and they also have a tour in October. Both of these might fuel sales of NAMELESS WORLD.

Thanks for the update ^^

I think it will take 5-7 weeks before UB take over (m)u at the rate its going

let's hope BB return soon :)
the worse postion ayu can get in the yearly chart is the 9th postion, at least she is in the top ten :D

interesting... im surprised that love cook is still charting. its been awhile since it came out

Thanks for the information :yes

Kinda depressing news ^_^"


Thanks anyway :)

ok.. expected that (miss) understood falls out of TOP 300. thanks for the news!!!!

thanks! tho i dont understand why nameless world sold so many, i hate that album..its so boring..lol but whatever, thanks :D

I never heard of Kobukuro, seems famous though.

Thankies for the update! I hope they make comebacks somehow...

hmm...yeah never heard of her too

anyways~ganbatte Ayu!

amd thanks for the news

It's a group

hope m(u) can hold its position
i dont want ultra blue beat it

Thanks for the info.

I wonder if UB can outsell MU by the end of the yearly charts. I hoped for a long time that it wont happen but I want it to happen now. I love both albums, with MU the favorite of the two, but I just want to see a defeat. Sounds weird coming from me, but MU is the first Ayumi album that I didn't buy because I loved the single tracks more so then the album ones.

out...:(

well... (m)u has been a while goin' around...

It charted for almost a year, which I find quite impressive, even if the sales of the album are pretty "low".

Close sales between Ayu and Hikki!

Go Ayu !!!
She still in top 10. :)

Aw!! How come "BLUE BIRD" fell out... But whatever, it will be back, I'm sure!! :P

m(u) still strong! but why no weekly sales?

^Because both (miss)understood and BLUE BIRD dropped out of the top-lists, and after that their sales numbers are not released to anyone except those who pay BIG money to get the exact numbers.

Dang it. Someone pay big money NOW. lol

Or we could wait for the Ayu's 50th single when she hits some record again.. D:

What do you mean about waiting for the 50th single?

See, when BLUE BIRD came out, there was that new record set or something..

And they had a list of singles' sales up till now.. :o

Ah, yes, I remember that :yes. But wasn't that list pretty... outdated or something? I remember the numbers being a bit odd? Maybe that was some mag scan... around when Startin' was released... bad memory.

Even if it was a list I wonder if it was the "official" final sales from Oricon or if it was the absolutely exact sales that avex are holding on to?

Maybe I missed something.

It was from ORICON STYLE, so they were from ORICON.

Now that you mention it I remember it so much that I even remembered the location where I save the magazine on my computer... lol.

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/5...80rzyx3.th.jpg

Does anyone have the latest Oricon update? This is 10 days old.

I think people stopped bothering when both (m)u and BB dropped out of the toplists, so it'll probably be harder much to get the numbers from some source.

I'm curious about ULTRA BLUE's sales next to (miss)understood.

*6 *,877,433 ***,*** (miss)understood 浜崎あゆみ 2006/01/01
*7 *,869,001 **1,639 ULTRA BLUE 宇多田ヒカル 2006/06/14
*8 *,863,351 **2,216 NAMELESS WORLD コブクロ 2005/12/21

I very much doubt it'll pass (m)u before the end of the year.

Thank you for updating us :).

I'd be surprised it it didn't pass (miss)understood.

Sales have been low period.

I'm also surprised, but the Oricon year is over very very soon.

I honestly don't care. o_o;

Sales matter on some level, but recently I've grown to not really care.. >>

Interesting, thanks for sharing

? everyone in the single world still compare hamasaki and utada... or hamasaki and koda....... >.< but interesting though,.... both are struggling :D

8 more weeks including this current one.