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Originally Posted by brener
Edit: Just checked it out and Colours won't make it to top 5 due to:
#1 Kis-My-Ft2 new album (last album debuted with 222,155 copies. . .)
#2 Tomomi Itano's bebut album (AKB48 solo act, no more words)
#3 UVERworld new album (last album debuted with 95,441 copies ^^')
## ayumi hamasaki - Colours (with 50k?)
#4 KAT-TUN's new album second week
#5 Chris Hart's new album second week
#6 Kimura Kaela's new best album second week
Ayu might be #4 (optimist) or #5/#6 (pessimist)... Things got worse now that Oricon won't count Japanese copies shipped outside Japan anymore. Hard times are coming.
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Whoa... I didn't know about it... It's obvious about Kisumai (Johnny's, obviously; why would Avex do Kisumai and Ayu on the same day???) and Tomochin (former AKB48), but I didn't know about UVERworld...
And, yeah, KAT-TUN - I'd be surprised if they would outsell Ayu's first week sales...
And what's with Chris Hart selling in Japan?
And since Ayu has a more significant INTERNATIONAL sales than, say, Kisumai (which their fanbase is almost exclusively Japanese), and Oricon now EXCLUDING INTERNATIONAL sales for their sales numbers...this is probably the perfect storm - FOR THE BAD. I mean, what a turn of events... First the concerns between Ayu and Tomochin, then Kisumai announcing an album that completely eliminates the chance of #1, and even reducing the chances of a #2 because of Tomochin, and then came that Oricon announcement that they won't count international sales anymore...
Is this the end of the Ayu era on the Oricon top list? It seems I don't even care about Oricon or Ayu anymore...