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Old 26th February 2009, 11:34 AM
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Originally Posted by hpg23 View Post
I donīt understand why people say that Days was such a big hit (at least the impression I get from your comments), but I perceived it as a standar Ayu hit. Was Days/GREEN that good at the end?
Let's say in this way. Probly Days/GREEN isn't a super big hit in the end, but definitely it's something we haven't seen from ayu sales for a quite long time. Just looking at the physical sales probly doesn't tell much, because I believe that nowadays only hardcore fans buy physical cds (especially for singles). Most casual buyers just purchase digital formats.

So now let's look at ayu's digital sales... well she's never a big digital seller. I think she didn't conquer the iTune charts after (m)u. Of course she may get daily no. 1 on digital chart on the first day, but most of the time she may just fall back to top 10.

When Days released JUST as ringtones, somehow it shows general public were interested. She did get longer no. 1 on ringtone/RBT/movie charts. She stayed on top 3 in overall download chart for a few weeks. When the full song was released, it helped her to stay on overall weekly no. 1 for a week at least. This hasn't happened for quite a long time for ayu. And Days did manage to get monthly no. 2 in the end.

So I do believe that Days was quite a hit back in x'mas time .
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