Rule/Sparkle - ORICON STYLE
 

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Congratulations to Ayu!

Officially 32 No. 1 Singles
20 Consecutive No. 1 Singles


Article on ORICON STYLE
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This Week Daily Ranking & Sales

[2nd Week]

2009.03.02

Position: #1
Sales: 3,061

2009.03.03

Position: #11
Sales: ----

2009.03.04

Position: #11
Sales: ----

2009.03.05

Position: #11
Sales: ----



Weekly Ranking & Sales

[1st Week] 2009.03.09

Position: #1
Sales: 95,309



Previous Daily Ranking & Sales

[1st Week] 2009.02.24 - 2009.03.01




Estimated Total Sales (Up to 2009.03.02): 98,370

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ORICON STYLE SINGLE DAILY RANKING
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*holds breath*

I think she's going to do well against the competition...

I say 22k first day sales.

i hope its a hit ^^

There haven't been any performances of this single yet...so, I predict no LOWER than 20k for the first day.

I really have no idea which way the sales are going to go for this one. Almost no promotion and the album comes out in a month. eek scary.

Not only no performances but from what I can tell, the CM hasn't even aired on tv.

I'm very very worried. Rule/Sparkle feel so rushed, the songs aren't up to her amazing standards.

Both songs lack something..

I don't think she'll lose her #1 streak, but I certainly don't expect to see sales as good as Days/Green

I think 30k....sounds like another t2m :(

I think she'd be rushing it if she actually did ANY TV promotion for this. She was been in LA, and then came back to Japan for a few days before going BACK out to LA. Maybe she'll do more promotion after the single comes out? Her new album does come out at the end of next month, and Dragonball does come out in a two weeks in Japan...

I don't really care if she doesn't do extremely well for this single. Of course, people know about the single in Japan because of it's tie-in with Dragonball, it's been featured on news programs, and of course her fans know about this. *shrugs*

Lord Jesus, I hope it's more than that! hahaha

i expect them to be very very low.

Higher quality album > TV performances of this single.

She clearly preferred spending time on her album and making good music rather than doing the rounds on music TV shows. And many are forgetting the fact it has that Dragonball tie-in to promote it.

hope sales will be 150k, i don't expect more because they already started album promotion

As I've been saying, this DBE movie does not seem to have much hype going on in Japan (or anywhere for that matter) nor does 2 brief mentions on entertainment news shows equal anywhere near good promotion, especially considering that neither of those shows air in a prime time hour. (one was late late night and the other sometime in the early morning I can't remember.)

No matter what, this album is rushed (more so than any of her albums have been) and she was done with the recording prior to when she should have been doing tv performances, so I really don't think that's the reason. She's been filming pvs instead so that they will just barely be able to get onto the album pressings in time. Rush. Doesn't mean it'll be bad though, just means that it left no time for actually promoting the single. Seems like the planning is just way off.

LOL I thought that the sales were out already! Ahhhh +.+

This will probably sell around what talkin 2 myself sold.

^ That's pretty much what I'm thinking. Either that or lower. I'll consider this single successful if it somehow manages to outsell talkin 2 myself.

Ah, I'm having a bad hunch for Rule/Sparkle too... I mean yeah SunshineSlayer has probably already stated all the reasons to why it wouldn't sell well. But I mean nothing is certain, so it's just waiting for one more day to find out how does this single sell then!

she will face flumpool and dream comes true...
DCT is the biggest competitor i think