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Originally Posted by blackmage
LOL well you don't have to expect anything but sales or chart positioning is just part of the conversation, the territory. Nothing to get too worked up about. Unlike a lot of other artist pages here, chart ranking is a common conversation or mention worthy post that really doesn't happen much on Miliyah's threads. Yeah it sucks that international sales don't reflect on the Oricon charts, and I might not typically follow sales or charting that much with any artist I listen to but I recognize that sales and charting is still an important factor. The last thing I want is Miliyah to barely be able to release music or to even be dropped from her label (always a possibility if artists continuously don't sell per the standards the record label expects or based on projections for the album, etc. Not that I'm saying she is going to be dropped.)
If I care about it, it is because I like Miliyah, I enjoy her music and as a fan I want her to do well.
Anyway out of curiosity sake, LIBERTY went back up on Oricon's daily album chart.
3/7 - #12
3/8 - #7
I'm really loving that saxophone on Want you back.
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LIBERTY kind of bombed. A very sad, sad first week:
#4 - 14,110
But, the good news is she made Top 5. And while this may likely fall off the chart in only a few weeks, she has not sunk to lecca's sales. She's mostly selling similar to Shota and Daichi, and if they're still getting frequent releases, I think she's safe for at least a few more years.
I'm assuming the baseline for most labels is at least 10,000 in sales to keep an artist going, give or take a few poor-selling releases. I guess if we looked at this in terms of comparative sales for US records, she sold around 56k, which is good, but still a massive drop even compared to LOVELAND.
I think LIBERTY is a decent record. I think it suffers from some of the mixing problems which plagued LOVELAND and TRUE LOVERS, namely that it sounds like she's singing karaoke on her own albums. But I'm starting to think it's probably because she sings an octave lower these days. She truly doesn't sing like she did on Ring or HEAVEN. And her mixes usually sound pretty compressed. I don't know. It's a good album, but I'm sad it's not getting better attention. I think it deserves better sales than LOVELAND, and probably better than TRUE LOVERS.