- Masaharu Fukuyama - 68,758
- miwa - 24,855
- ayu - 20,025
#YouDidntTellUs!!! My gosh... Masaharu Fukuyama may have wiped out hopes of Ayu or miwa getting #1...
To be honest, I'm actually a bit disappointed with the album, both sales-wise and tracklist-wise. That sales numbers...I'm surprised how low this is - less than 25,000 on the first day alone. (Can someone get the 'Delight' album numbers?) But I'm gonna guess that much of the album is 'recycled' - that means there's too much of it are 'been there, done that' material (we've released it before). And, I think, this may have backfired miwa quite a bit.
Now, what I could complain about Masaharu Fukuyama is this: 'Tamariku' is an album where he sings various songs only by himself with the acoustic guitar. WHAT!? How in the world an album with NO NEW SONGS - just some old songs, re-released for 2015 in an acoustic guitar version - DOMINATE THE NUBMER ONE SPOT!?!?!?
I mean...that's not right. This kind of an album outselling both Ayu and miwa COMBINED, and it's not a studio album unlike Ayu or miwa???
But I do have to agree partially with the sales numbers that I've been seeing. There's just simply too much of the recycled stuff. As for the new songs, 'Stress Free' is sometimes nothing but stressful - what in the world is this? This is one of those 'love or hate' affair about how miwa sings...this song, for some people, might call it 'one of the most annoying' (saw that on JPopsuki). Personally, my favorite is 'super heroine', but in all, the fact that 64% of the album (nine of the 14 songs in the tracklist) is recycled...that may be the reason why the sales numbers are lower than what I expect.
Any reviews of this album here would be greatly appreciated, because, I have a feeling the reviews that I might hear might not be positive, and it could reflect the sales numbers that we're seeing...