[official] & score : 287 002
 

Confirmed by Oricon : & is #1 with 287 002 copies sold the first week.

2nd and 3rd sold respectively 70 000 and 38 000 copies.

Congrats Ayu !

http://www.oricon.co.jp/ranking/weekly_single.html

Not too shabby at all. :thumbsup Thanks a lot for the official numbers!

Very very bad for ayu......... :(
I wonder what the heck happened?!?!
Voyage sold 310,000 on its first week and that is ONE song.

Congratz to Ayu !! I wonder if it will hit a million, that would be cool. "Very very bad for ayu" <-- What the heck, she is leading in singles and that is bad? I don't understand your logic.

Even tho Ayu got 1st place in sales for the & single this week (congrats), I heard from my friend that not many ppl are buying her releases as they usually do. Wonder if this is true or not :shrug

see the morning musume slaes.. for this week not so good.. ayumi is the only singer new that sold over 100,000 copies we should be happy

when ayus stuff debuts it always sells extremely higher compared to other releases ^_^

Congrats to AYU!!!

This is bad...
 

Though unwilling I have to admit that Ayu has done EXTREMELY bad, if the numbers are true (I keep on seeing last week's charts on the Oricon page) that makes "&" the lowest-selling debut for Ayu since "Far away" (except for AUDIENCE and Daybreak, there were only 300,000 copies of them), and that was in 2000. And worse, "&" had four new songs!!! For a more related comparision, "H" sold 417,000 in its first week.

Hard to say this, but is this the beginning of the end for Ayu? :( Fingers crossed for "forgiveness"...

WOW ayu ayu i knew she can do it

Re: This is bad...
 

yeah but time changes .. and not everyone sales are as great as b4... she did great.. compare to others:thumbsup

we should all be happy we help on buyin the CD cause i am./.:thumbsup

I don't think it's bad. Look at 2nd and 3rd place. Much worser than ayu.
So: CONGRATULATS TO AYU :)

The debut of this single is only a little less the Utada's COLORS - so depending on how long it stays on the charts it could end up selling anywhere from 500k to 1million. Also to clear things up Voyage only sold about 230k in the first week.






Have a Happy Day!
~Jasmine

No, according to HCE, it sold 310,920. And HCE always gets his numbers from oricon.

Thanks.. I'm sure the numbers will increase...

Oricon is also know a bit for exagerating sales a bit. My numbers are from the acommy chart ^_~







Have a Happy Day!
~Jasmine

Check on the oricon page - http://www.oricon.co.jp/ranking/weekly_single.html

It says 287,002.

Ashley

I meant Voyage, referring to Jasmine's post.

Oh .. hahah...sorry :)

Ashley

If it makes you feel any better i just calculated the top ten sales for the singles chart and the & single sold more than all of them combined!

That's just very sad for the j-pop industry.

For me the no. of copies that sold was GREAT!!!
to reach more than 200,000 on its first week is amazing,
check out V6,SMAP,KinKi Kids etc.. they recently released their new single this year.. but their new single sold less that AYU '&' single on their first week..

ConGrat 2' AYU!!

maybe she should do a couple songs in her old style...see how that will compare to her new style...and maybe ayu will be convinced to stick with the old if they sell better

congrats ayu!!!!! she again proves her to be the top jpop queen in japan to-date!

congrats to ayu.
thanks for the info.
This single may sell better in the next few weeks or so...^^;

wow... c0ngras to ayu!!

Aha, not so bad for ayu, although i wish & could pass 1 magic million mark.... a bit sad about the false 800 000 copies sold...

Maybe this is the only comfort ayu can get in releasing '&'...

what... SMAP's single '�¢ŠE‚Ɉê‚‚¾‚¯‚̉Ô' sold over 630,000 in the first week, according to Oricons.

now we have to face the fact, though.

Once again ayu has shown her wrath by the sheer heavy numbers of her sales of the latest single.

Alan Tam, did you see that?

All of these were because of the crippling Japan economy.....
As for the Taiwanese, having merely 50000 copies were more than enough for them to hold a celebration party.....

Is the Overseas edition released? I'm still waitting for it.:(

I don't know if the Overseas version has been released in Malaysia, but YesAsia has released it:

http://global.yesasia.com/assocred.a...-music/did-97/

hey is it true ayumi overtook BZ on sales? i'm not sure if this is true.. with (&) single?

YAAYYYYYYYYY~~~~
CONGRATS to AYUUUUUUUUUUU :) :) :) :)

hey i;m not still sure.. thats why me asking... i wanna know

Guess who is #1 today in oricon charts.

For its 2nd week, & sold 108 244 copies, and is 2nd of the weekly top.

Source : Oricon weelky ranking.

Bad score :(

who's 1st?

A guy group called ENERGY...

*shrugs* I never heard of em..

it was a group called B'z...energy is the name of the song..they are actually very popular group in japan..kinda like a pop band more than a group i should say....they have been around for a long time...

but anyways..'cus today ayu is back at number 1 again!!!! yayayayay!!!

its not no.1 anymore :weep try check the oricon chart. they updated it again. I don't know who the singer is that took the number one spot from ayu.

I thought they were no.1 this week and Ayu was #2

As of 7-23-03, 9:24PM Los Angeles time, Ayu is still down at #2 right now....what happened? :weep

ya think abt it ayu has done her best now singles r hard to sell so ayu has done very well already