Ayu, third best seller for year 2007
 

congratz Ayu ^^

Congratulation to Ayu!
But is there a mistake of the sale of Secret? 180,898 ONLY!?

^ Nah, it's about correct. Remember that Secret released on 2006.11.29. And this is for 2007 sales.
Anyway, Ayu still sales very well. Congrats to her!

If Ayu could release more singles, she could beat Mr.Children and Kuu easily.

Congrats ayu and kumi and YUI!!
But I think that there should be some miss tour DVD sales that entered this year too XD

I'm proud of Ayu. She hasn't even released a LIVE DVD yet and she's still in the top three. 2008 will be the year of Ayu because she's got ASIA TOUR, CDL 07-08Anniversary, [UNTITLED] album, and a new commercial contract too.

thanks for the info ^^ she's still going strong after all these years

That's great to see she did so well this year

AMAZING! Ayu rooockkk onnn!!!

oh...i see
Only the sales in 2007 will be counted.

Yeah! 2008 will be the year of Ayu!
10th Anniversary! Avex must make great promotion for Ayu.
And I hope Ayu will have a DOME TOUR / STADIUM TOUR in 2008!

wow that is very good sales! if only Ayu released her album or concert or another single Ayu could come 1st!

yay!~ that's so great!!!
she's in the top 3

Congrat's and go Ayu!

LOL, is this the data that ayu_fan929 compiled? :D Besides, 2007 isn't over.

She didn't even released that much stuff and still managed to be the #3 best seller of 2007? That's awesome. <3

all she needs is like, 100,000 more in sales to be above kuu--well, technically less, but 100,000 would be a safer zone hahaha.

but thats so awesome! im glad she's already in the top 3!

Wow I'm so proud of ayu

this would be awesome

Go Ayu! For not realeasing much during 2007 she still managed to rank #3 which is awsome!

i think that way too, if she release a concert dvd and another single, she will become number one

aw.. kuu beats ayu... -_-

AYU is great

congrats to ayumi. :)

i suppose in terms of dollar amount ayu may win~!

lalala :innocent I think that #3 is very good

congrats Ayu and Arashi :333

Nice. Still though, Secret only sold that much O_O;;!? What the? xD

yeah im really confused with the secret sales. black cherry was released the same month as secret and it says it sold WAY more, which is the true amount of sales for black cherry. but seeing as secret was released that month, is should indicate the correct sales. they were both released december of 06, weren't they?! haha i just dont understand really :-\

Black Cherry released almost a month later (20th December) than Secret did. But that 1,018,670 can't be right. Because it sold 500k in it's first week and that was still in 2006. So Kuu should have 500k less sales in 2007 than reported in post #1.

Unless they start to count for 2007 already in last week of '06?

Wow, thats great considering Ayu has released less products then Kuu and Mr. Children and isnt that far behind them in sales. Ayu is definitely getting better and 2008 will be her year.

Yea, that's what they did...counted all of her "2006" sales of BC over to next year which I thikn is unfair but hey, it's the rules. We can get mad at Kumiko for that. Congrats to the both of them. It's still amazing that Ayu didn't even release that much and still managed to take the #3 spot. Ayu still has game. Besides, next Ayumi and Kumiko is going to have to worry about one person next year: Utada Hikaru! :laugh

I don't understand whats the point of counting sales by adding up everything: albums, singles & DVDs. those things are hardly equal :o

Well, I would say that since albums in general sucks nowadays, the record companies plus Oricon wants the artists to look good or whatever. I recall albums was the only thing that counted most or rather mattered.....but now everything is about money and spotlight and who can outdo who! :no

3rd is really good considering that there was no concert dvds and only 5 releases this year! omedetou!

Congratz to Ayu!!!!! well done!! keep working cause your the best!

I think that is based on the oricon year not the actual year itself...that's why secret's first 2 weeks wasn't counted and black cherry, that was released later, was counted fully. Anyways...congrats to ayu~ I'm very proud of her!

Congratulation to Ayu

Well Oricon was always obsessed with counting numbers since day one. Furthermore the only way to classify an artist in Japan is by sales unlike from USA where some artists don't sell a lot but still get critical acclaim. Personally I think it sucks because it leads artists to try to fit into the slot of mainstream rather than try new things.

Good news! I'm glad she's still doing well after so many years.

It is... http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=181

...except they added 'Secret' sales in (which is the wrong number anyway). It's supposed to be 171,997 and not 180,898.
EDIT: ...and they have the wrong sales for A BEST 2.

Because that's basically how Oricon counts it?

So this is faulty information then and the person who created this thread actually ripped this info from you? :grumpy

Wow, Ayu released 2 singles and Kumi released 4 and they are roughly only 100,000 sale apart!

Probably: I posted->ayu.no put it on their site->Utadayumi saw it on ayu.no and posted it back here.

Koda beat Ayu damn it

Nice, she's still up there in the top

Look at this way ayu ready: Kumiko didn't beat her by much like she did last year. Ayumi was more popular than Kumiko this year even though Kumiko had more singles and released more. This is a sign that Kumiko is somewhat passed her peak now while Ayumi is slowly gaining some of it back (despite her sales). Next year, Ayumi will release a lot more.....prolly more than Kumiko. SO she'll be selling A LOT more.

I knew Kuu would be up there - it's nice to see Ayu too

YEP!!
that's what we always hope for, ayu will TOTALLY beat kuu next year and even other band/artist and get on the top as the best seller of 2008!

about the anniversary, i think japan artist has some kind of tradition on celebrating their 10th anniversary, and that is celebrating with fans on a gigantic concert at Tokyo Dome.
And i really hope ayu also do that, that'll be AWESOME!!!

Yay congrats Ayu!! :D Kinda disappointed Kuu beat her though..

Kuu got 6 vynils no wonder she's bigger sales :P
If Ayu had one more on the list, she would ahve been second. No offence but that's true
Anyway congrats to both girls ! :D

yay!! congrats to ayu!! and also congrats to Koda kumi too!

Wow, a big gap between ayu and ai. Awesome, 4 avex artists in the top 10!

Congratz to ayu :)!

aww, and i thought this was official...

great!!
congrats to Ayu!!
if she would have released one more thing (single or live dvd)
she would have beaten everyone!!

anyway, she's the best for me :D

next year will be a great year of harvest for ayu =)

its unbelievable how she released so little, but her distance between #1 and #2 is not a lot~ so proud of her! thanks for posting info!

Aww, congrats Kuucchan! Obviously I'd wish Ayu topped the chart, but I'm happy for Kuu. I don't listen to Mr. Children much so I'm indifferent towards them. xD
It's amazing that Ayu's #3 and hasn't even released much this year. Even with sales in general being so low lately, it's great to see she's still at (near) the top.

Yay! Go AYU!

oh just third :(

ayu needs to release more!!

Yeah! Congreats Ayu
I hope she would be No.1 in 2008 >.<

this is great!! congrats, ayu!!!

thanks for the news, so great!!
congratz Ayu

Congrats to Ayu i DID expect her to be higher. Also congrats to my girl kumi too.

Eh, in my opinion, Ayu's 2007 materials were a whole lot better than Kuu's. But the #3 spot is still good nonetheless.

3rd spot is really good..
but I noticed the questioning of the validity of this??
Is this actually a TRUE best seller info for 2007?? I mean, it's not even over yet (2007) and the numbers for a best 2 and secret aren't correct (??) according to a few posts??
Either way, 3rd place with how little she put out this year is still very good for Ayu!

GO AYU!!!
kuu only beat ayu..becuase she went crazy this year...

congratz to ayu..
if she realese 1 single agai, i think she'll get 2nd best seller

secret sold more than 494K in 2007..
this year secret sold more than 180K..

if she realese 1 single again, i think ayu'll get 2nd best seller..

secret sold more than 494K in 2006 and this year sold more than 180K.
ok..

3rd place is really good

Probably in sales numbers ayu is 3rd.
But if it would be the most profit artist of the year I think it would be ayu since most of the copies her A BEST 2 albums sold are the CD+2DVD copies, and it brings a lot of cash, + the singles, the miss tour sales that got to this year, Secret sales that got to this year and next month's digital single (which we still know how it will do) but assuming at the moment a lot of profit will come out of it. Let's not forget the ASIA TOUR as well they should've profit A LOT from it (or else avex the money grabbers wouldn't even allow it of course).
So basically I think that ayu is the most profit artist of 2007.

^Well we don't know the "profit" unless we know how much avex has spent on her. For all we know, it could be a lot of money too. She might be one of the highest "revenue" makers though.

No.

The real Secret and A BEST 2 numbers:

*5 *,716,582 A BEST 2-WHITE- / 浜崎あゆみ 07/02/28
*7 *,696,728 A BEST 2-BLACK- / 浜崎あゆみ 07/02/28
67 *,171,997 Secret / 浜崎あゆみ 06/11/29 累計666,396

About profit, the only way we can know is if someone gets hold of the tax reports in Japan. I think there were some yearly reports in the past where Ayu was one of the highest tax payer, meaning she earned a lot. Maybe someone will dig it up at the end of this year.

This is amazing, even if it was copied and pasted. :]

Avex pretty stated on that A BEST 2 pdf that it was the most profiting project of 2007.

They spent tons of money on the A BEST 2 project just as they did with A BEST if not more!

But still, they stated that it was the most PROFIT project of 2007 XD
Of course they paid money for that but they got it back and got a great profit, as they wrote.

I thought it just said that it had high sales given the more expensive price.

Exactly, how much did A BEST and A BEST 2 cost? (^_^')

They pretty were happy that the profit from the whole project was really good, but this too.

^ Yes and they also were happy to see something which is so high priced sell so well.

i bet avex wishes now that they didnt put CDL 06-07 on the A BEST 2 package hehe :D

^ Very true. I actually can't see Ayu getting higher next year. :<

One question? Where is Hikaru Utada? Didn't she sell well this year too?

Go Ayu and Ai! :D

She didn't manage to sell over million physical copies this year =\

Well, Hikki hasn't sold into the millions plus she hasn't released an album to boost herself to the top five. I'm gonna go on my instinct and say that if Hikki had released one more single plus an album than she would have been either #1 or #2 on the list.

considering she didnt release a new album this year and avex didnt release the tour of secret yet, i think next year she will be number 1

ayu did a wonderful job!
Go Ayu! You can stilll be popular for further 10 years

If she's promoted/marketed right by Avex. I don't think her last DVD sold over 100k copies. Her upcoming album needs to do well too if not better than Kumiko's, Mr. Children's, and Hikki's upcoming album.

congrats to Ayu ^^

ooooooh, nice to see yui climbing the charts

Kuu before Ayu :(

WOW! Congrats to AYU!

PSSSSST.....

That's excellent news! I normally don't care about sales, but well, in the end that's what counts. coughmoneycough

Hmm, where's Utada? I think she's done the least promotion with the best sales. lol

^ She didn't release an album this year though. Most of an artist's sales come from albums. Though FoL was really successful, it still wasn't album-caliber work.

hikki only realese single FOL and K&C/BW.
total sales more than 800K..
so she didn't in the top sales this year

:clapclap

Yay for Ayu!