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Originally Posted by lovethatkuu&ayu
..... You do know the drop from W Face to AND won't be any different from Bon Voyage to WALK OF MY LIFE. AND will sell slightly under 21k. That is not a hard drop at all. A hard drop off is what happened with Kana and her 2017 album.
As for the remix album, you seriously weren't expecting a top 20 debut when DH7 barely made it. I say this in the nicest possible way. You're a bit spoiled. Spoiled in the sense that Koda during her starlet days (2005 to 2009) was a juggernaut. Koda hasn't been a starlet since TRICK and we are quickly approaching the 10th anniversary of that release. I'm not sure what you're expecting from a female J-Pop artist pushing 20 years in the business dominated by idol fever.
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The difference though is that back then sales declined from 60k to 50 which you're right isn't all that bad. Assuming AND finishes at 20k, a drop of 8k from 28k isn't very good considering its about a 30% or so drop. I just don't want to see her next album barely selling 10k total. However to be fair it should be noted W FACE had a very solid TV campaign. Nothing near her prime days but still respectable whereas AND had barely a peep outside Twitter.
I would say Kuu was a starlet from 2005 to 2012 as she was still appearing on Kouhaku, MSSL, and was very much in the public eye with the majority of sales still coming outside her main fanbase. It all sort of came crashing down in 2013 when she completely ditched (or was dumped, either side can be argued) her prime-time TV show slots at MS and the year-end shows.
All I would like to see is Kuu staying around the 20k (15k at the very least) mark for albums so we can still get decent MVs like LIT every now and then.