Exactly how well did the Single M do?

norain · #1 1st January 2005, 08:18 AM

See I didn't become a big fan of Ayu til last year, although I knew about her etc I listened to her I wasn't a big fan...I was there when the 'M' single arrived...

How well did it do? What were the fans reactions?

In my opinion it's my favorite song of hers...I just love it...

She's hot too...especially when she has her hair in the bang wave whatever with long hair!

Back on the question, how well did it do?

tommy96814 · #2 1st January 2005, 08:35 AM

i still like the depend on you ayu lol also i was there all the way back when they got her depend on you song on this playstation one rpg/date similation game thousand arms wayyyyyyy back in 97 i think. XD also i really like and then but it is soooo underrated they didnt even have a pv for it xd

extepan · #3 1st January 2005, 09:39 AM

it sold 1,579,970 copies. that's how well it did.

norain · #4 1st January 2005, 09:42 AM

But like do you have week sales or something? ;_;? That's the highest any of her singles sold right?

kel64 · #5 1st January 2005, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by norain

But like do you have week sales or something? ;_;? That's the highest any of her singles sold right?

The A single is Ayu's best selling single, though I dont have any figures at hand.

EDIT:
http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21995

kournikova · #6 1st January 2005, 02:20 PM

A is her best.... but i still couldnt believe why it is her best... maybe because 4 new tracks... ^^ M is a super single... ^^

Tasked · #7 1st January 2005, 02:50 PM

remember to add about 20% if you wanna know the global sales cos the sales-stats are for japanese version only... anyway M was the very first single ayu composed herself!

gakkun · #8 1st January 2005, 03:33 PM

I thought M sold 1.3 million?? And SEASONS sold 1.5 million and A sold 1.6. I'm not sure if they are the exact numbers but that's the order of the top three: A, then SEASONS, then M.

extepan · #9 1st January 2005, 05:21 PM

there are conflicting info about how well M sold.

some sources say it sold 1.5 M while some say it sold 1.3 M.

Piccolo · #10 1st January 2005, 05:35 PM

1,319,070 for 18 weeks, according to Hamasaki Republic's Info-bank. That seems about right. 4.5 months, usually sales kind of.... drop after that. A sold 1,630,540 after 18 weeks also, according to them once again.

Link to their old data base. http://www.hamasaki-republic.org/sales.shtml

jerms · #11 1st January 2005, 09:36 PM

boys & girls also did very well.

_CREA_ · #12 2nd January 2005, 12:55 AM

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Originally Posted by tommy96814

i still like the depend on you ayu lol also i was there all the way back when they got her depend on you song on this playstation one rpg/date similation game thousand arms wayyyyyyy back in 97 i think. XD also i really like and then but it is soooo underrated they didnt even have a pv for it xd

Depend on you did have a PV, didn't it? The one with lots of blue, and she was standing in the middle of nowhere with a long white coat...I think... @_@

EDIT: Yes, it did! Caps (from the CM, since I don't have the full PV on the computer):

Back on topic, yes, I do believe M fell third after A and Seasons...however, I don't know weekly sales or anything, sorry! That's really specific ne~

norain · #13 2nd January 2005, 01:44 AM

Maybe it's just from the CM and not a PV...because Never Ever only has a commercial no video, also hanabi too

Catzi · #14 2nd January 2005, 03:01 AM

There is a Depend on you PV. Yea, 100% sure about that.

Anyhow, I don't really understand why M is such a great song, but I guess it did pretty good.

_CREA_ · #15 2nd January 2005, 04:13 AM

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Originally Posted by norain

Maybe it's just from the CM and not a PV...because Never Ever only has a commercial no video, also hanabi too

Yeah, believe me, there is. As I said, I don't have the full version on my computer at the moment...but I've seen it before.

EDIT: Also, I am... and UNITE! only had commercial clips.

norain · #16 2nd January 2005, 04:35 AM

M is a great song because of...the goodness of it!

And what the video means...and the thing...what's it called? the instruments used! ^_^

Yeah I just remembered there is a Depend on You one, I don't like it very much...I thought it was Daybreak at first because it looked blue...lol

FancySN · #17 2nd January 2005, 04:39 AM

Wow...now I don't feel so impressed by Ayu's recent singles sales anymore. I wish she could still sell as much as she used to..

Piccolo · #18 2nd January 2005, 05:59 AM

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Originally Posted by FancySN

Wow...now I don't feel so impressed by Ayu's recent singles sales anymore. I wish she could still sell as much as she used to..

The times have changed. Even today there aren't many artists in Japan that are even capable of producing those numbers.

_CREA_ · #19 2nd January 2005, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by FancySN

Wow...now I don't feel so impressed by Ayu's recent singles sales anymore. I wish she could still sell as much as she used to..

Yes, as Piccolo said, sales just aren't what they used to be. 1,000,000 used to be the big cornerstone for what was considered a really good job for a single...now, it's generally 300,000.

norain · #20 2nd January 2005, 09:38 PM

Nonono...it was because in the past you didn't have 2 billion p2p peoples...