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Old 21st March 2012, 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by truehappiness View Post
http://www.tsutaya.co.jp/rank/cd_sell.html?s=2

It's just one shop. It seems like whoever is posting those on Baidu or whatever is scanning the 2ch thread as well which is posting mainly the sites where Ayu is not selling above ABC which makes things look bad.
It's not really one shop. Tsutaya is the biggest chain of CD retailers in Japan. It is a pretty good gauge for how something will do on the charts.

Also I think its kinda pointless to look for reasons why ABC is beating her. I mean every artist these days has a million and one things to get people to buy their album. What is more important to look at is to compare Ayu's sales against herself. Correct me if I'm wrong, but even compared to FIVE, aren't these numbers quite low? And if it's true that today is the day the pre-orders were counted, then I really expect the sales to nose dive tomorrow.

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