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Old 13th October 2016, 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by AyuGAME View Post
^yes, there is possibility that this is truely sold out...
but I believe this is marketing strategy..it's very basic strategy that people going to want something that hard to get, especially if the stuff is really popular and everybody else has it, you don't want to be left out as the only one that don't have it.
not a wrong thing to do though, smart enough. I think Ayu has done this before as well, saying that the CD is sold out, maybe happened when Mirrorcle world release?
I agree. I don't remember Ayu using this on Mirrorcle World, but she may have used it on the vertical sleeve CD+DVD edition that sold out almost immediately. Remember that Mirror was a huge deal. Fans rallied heavily for her to release that interlude as a full song. I would have used it on a less popular release, imo.

I wouldn't be surprised if Fantome's first press was 400k. Utada may be huge, but Ai Otsuka was also pretty big until her hiatus started in 2009. When she returned, LOVE FANTASTIC only sold 6k. And LOVE TRiCKY only sold 5k. Certainly did not expect that, both as a long-time fan, and for the sheer fact that Ai also writes and produces almost all of her music.
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