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Originally Posted by shizukanaotoko
Love kuu too but ayu's gotta win this battle! Guess I'll be buying the single this week after all  by the way, what do you mean "like MW"? What did avex do to boost its sales and what was the situation in general? |
From what I've understood, the situation with MW was that a boy band (Shuchishin) took people by surprise when they threatened to get #1 weekly instead of Ayu. During that weekend avex started promoting the single with offering special posters or something with the CD to rise sales. In the end, MW managed to scrape up enough sales to surpass Shuchishin, but it was a close call.
The whole debacle can be read in the old Oricon threads for MW. Most specifically this one:
http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=72515
(yes, I actually go back to read through old threads to learn the details about all these big Ayu-debacles)
(Ooh, AHS is crashing. Something interesting going on?)
EDIT: L-leak is out!
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