[CoverPic]Ayu in Tokyo Headline 297- A BEST 2 reached 2 millions?
 

[CoverPic]Ayu in Tokyo Headline 297

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...1984/thor6.jpg

http://www.tokyoheadline.com/#

It says underneath the pic....A BEST 2 reached 2 million copies and ayu is the first female artist's albums to rank #1 and #2 after 36 years. huh?? how did it get 2 million copies? is it 2 million copies shipped or what?

credits: taylayu @ ayunite

edit: from the website:
浜崎あゆみがまた歴史を作った。2月28日にリリースしたベストアルバム『BEST　2－WHITE－』と 『BEST　2－BLACK－』が、12日付オリコンチャートで初登場1位、2位を獲得した。セールスも既 に200万枚を突破し、揺るぎない人気を知らしめた。

Translation from excite:
Ayumi Hamasaki made the history again. Released best album 'BEST 2?WHITE?' and 'BEST 2?BLACK?' acquired 2nd place on February 28 the first first appearance place in the Oricon dated the 12th chart. Sales also had already exceeded two million pieces, and unshakable popularity was made to be known.

2 mil?
I'll be satisfied when it'll reach 4 as A BEST...
:P
cruel, huh? :P

I'm thinking... it's either worldwide sales or shipping.

mmh I want to know too..

It's probably the shipped amounts. What else could it be? I don't think she has sold ~900k of -BLACK- and -WHITE- combined outside of Japan.

why not?? she's really famous on Asia, it could be possible...

Today is definitely the day of fuzzy ayu news...

i agree ... fuzzy ayu news for sure X_X

thanks for the news.

Arigatou for the info - Ayu will reach the target ^^

go ayu! u can do it!!! make history again!!!

hmm if it's asia wide, then thats believable since the biggest asian artists sell around 3 million asia wide.

Typo in the paper? The article is referencing Oricon numbers, which only reflect sales in Japan.

wow...i think its combine outside and inside japan...
yay 2 millions!!!

2 million is probably the shipping number not the sales number.

o.0

hope it will be like A BEST^^

thx for the news^^

that is awesome

tx 4 the info.. i think is shipping number....but still good news..

Two Million? Impossible.

Yep. Impossible.

is it good to have 2 million in shipping numbers?

Its good for avex

Thanks for the info. Yup perhaps it's about the shipping figures.

lies, all lies!

woo.. great news.. hope it will break A BEST 1 record..

so now what? shipping or actual sales? can anyone clearify this??

Bah, who the hell cares, hooray.

yea all it says is "sales broke 2 mil" without any specification of what kinda sales

probly physical + digital sales = 2 million...?
but that's quite unlikely..

haha 2 mil copies shipped overseas doesnt mean that 2 mil copies sold!! sales hasnt even reach a million yet.. oh well.. :(

it has... ~940K on the first week (both albums) then 190K this week.. so now it's about 1.13 million copies being sold :D

Lol, nice typo then! :P "2 million... no wait! It's 1 million... ah, whatevaa."

Do they sell 3 million in two weeks? :o

Uhm... is hard to belive but I know 3 fans of my city that bought both versions (B&W), and my city is a little island. If in every city of Europe and America 3 people buy both versions...

then again oricon miss out on many online stores and not just stores and there the oversea fans in asian and some in other parts of the world, if i'm not wrong ayu still one of the most popular if not the most popular japanese singer in asia. i think around 870k sold outside japan is possible and stores that orico didnt count.

like bluegie said it has already sold 1.13 million counted by oricon. for both version

No way. Two or three artists sell over 1 million copies in the whole Asia territory (excluding Japan) and Ayu isn't one of them. I mean, she is really popular, but she's nowhere near as big and promoted as, say, Jay Chou or even Rain and not even them sell that much, so..

I know oricon dont count every cd stores in Japan...there is only a percentage of stores in Japan they count.

^They recover that 'loss' by giving each store a different weighting.

i.e. Let's say you bough 1 CD from Tower Records in Shibuya, that might translate to 5 CDs on Oricon to make up for the music stores not counted by Oricon.

I think it's a typo or it's the number of copies shipped.

Thanks for the news.