[SALES] Ayu Weeklies + Current Yearly TOP 30

[Kouichi]

"BLUE BIRD" 6th Week Sales

Weekly Sales: 4,288
Total Sales: 250,058
Yearly Ranking: 21

"(miss) understood" Weekly Sales

Weekly Sales: 785
Total Sales: 876,695
Yearly Ranking: 6

[darkswordz]

Thanks alot!
BLUE BIRD HAVE PASSED 250K MARK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ayu_fan929]

EDIT: In repsonse to tokyoxjapanxfan and evolution7931 posts, here are the Ayu rankings (within the TOP 100) for the best selling singles/albums in Japan's history.

SINGLES: 'A' is the 57th best selling single in Japan.
ALBUMS: 'A BEST' is 6th / 'Duty' is 22nd / 'LOVEppears' is 38th / 'I am...' is 52nd / 'RAINBOW' is 87th.
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BLUE BIRD Week 6
Rank: 37 / Weekly Sales: 4,288 / Total Sales: 250,058 / Monthly Rank: 3

(miss) understood Weekly Sales
Weekly Sales: 785 / Total Sales: 876,695

I'll update with CDL when the BBS update as well.
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For those wondering how well 2006 is doing here are some stats:
2005 TOP 50 Single Sales (As of 1st Week of August): 14,373,533
2006 TOP 50 Single Sales (As of 1st Week of August): 14,471,775
2006 Increase of 98,242 or 0.68%

2005 TOP 50 Album Sales (As of 1st Week of August): 26,077,989
2006 TOP 50 Album Sales (As of 1st Week of August): 24,043,697
2006 Decrease of 2,034,292 or 7.8%
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Current Overall Yearly Chart
TOP 30 SINGLES
01 1,026,372 'Real Face' - KAT-TUN
02 *,753,617 'Konayuki' - Remioromen (Total: 847,102)
03 *,665,396 'Seishun Amigo' - Shuuji to Akura (Total: 1,610,711) *64th best selling Japanese single*
04 *,586,539 'Daite Senorita' - Yamashita Tomohisa
05 *,562,196 'Tada...Aitakute' - EXILE
06 *,508,257 'SIGNAL' - KAT-TUN
07 *,489,514 'Junrenka' - Shounan Nokaze
08 *,483,325 'supernova/karma' - BUMP OF CHICKEN
09 *,404,207 'Dear WOMAN' - SMAP
10 *,372,491 'Houkiboshi' - Mr. Children
11 *,348,586 'milk tea/Utsukushiki Hana' - Fukuyama Masaharu
12 *,341,743 'Tabibito' - Ketsumeishi
13 *,340,768 'Triangle' - SMAP
14 *,327,740 'SPLASH!' - B'z
15 *,317,397 'SNOW! SNOW! SNOW!' - KinKi Kids
16 *,304,370 'Shodo' - B'z
17 *,301,192 'Venus' - Tackey & Tsubasa
18 *,264,230 'Koi no Tsubomi' - Koda Kumi
19 *,257,634 'Sakura' - Kobukuro (Total: 418,665)
20 *,252,871 'Deep in your heart/+ MILLION but - LOVE' - Domoto Koichi
21 *,250,058 'BLUE BIRD' - Hamasaki Ayumi
22 *,238,868 'Natsumoyo' - KinKi Kids
23 *,233,375 'Yuruginaimono Hitotsu' - B'z
24 *,222,848 'Sayaendou/Hadashi no Cinderella Boy' - NEWS
25 *,222,546 'I believe' - ayaka
26 *,216,502 'Champione' - ORANGE RANGE
27 *,207,484 '4 hot wave' - Koda Kumi
28 *,206,566 'Precious' - Yuna Ito
29 *,202,645 'Kitto Daijobu' - Arashi
30 *,200,423 'Only Human' - K
...
41 *,188,551 'Startin'/Born To Be...' - Hamasaki Ayumi
...
49 *,132,993 'Bold & Delicious/Pride' - Hamasaki Ayumi

TOP 30 ALBUMS
01 2,044,849 'Single Collection '95-'05 "UTABAKA" ' - Hirai Ken *70th best selling Japanese album*
02 1,730,769 'BEST ~second session~' - Koda Kumi *99th best selling Japanese album*
03 1,191,725 'B'z The Best "Pleasure II" ' - B'z
04 1,160,946 'Catch The Wave' - Def Tech
05 1,085,891 'BEST' - Nakashima Mika
06 *,876,695 '(miss) understood' - Hamasaki Ayumi
07 *,843,052 'NAMELESS WORLD' - Kobukuro
08 *,836,449 'ULTRA BLUE' - Utada Hikaru
09 *,812,011 'LOVE COOK' - Otsuka Ai
10 *,726,882 'Best of KAT-TUN' - KAT-TUN
11 *,656,513 'CYCLE HIT '91-'97 Single Collection' - Spitz
12 *,619,990 'Sora Ippai ni Kanaderu Inori' - Aqua Timez (Total: 623,205)
13 *,604,527 'HORIZON' - Remioromen
14 *,591,676 'BEST ~first things~' - Koda Kumi (Total: 1,799,469) *90th best selling Japanese album*
15 *,521,190 'CYCLE HIT '97-'05 Single Collection' - Spitz
16 *,510,749 'MONSTER' - B'z
17 *,495,497 'ASIA' - EXILE
18 *,463,801 'THE LOVE ROCKS' - DREAMS COME TRUE
19 *,445,734 'Confidence' - HY
20 *,427,037 'OUTGROW' - BoA
21 *,425,938 'Curtain Call: The Hits" - EMINEM
22 *,401,760 'Daniel Powter' - Daniel Powter (Total: 402,299)
23 *,390,407 'AMARANTINE' - Enya
24 *,343,211 'Confessions on a Dancefloor' - Madonna (Total: 396,274)
25 *,339,044 'Home' - Angela Aki
26 *,330,595 'Stadium Arcadium' - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
27 *,320,912 'Pop Up! SMAP' - SMAP
28 *,306,176 'Back to Bedlam' - James Blunt
29 *,293,604 'Adult' - Tokyo Jihen
30 *,278,930 'Def Tech' - Def Tech (Total: 1,936,561) *78th best selling Japanese album*
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2006 Current Breakdown of Singles (vs. Same Time 2005)
1 million+ = 1 single (vs. 0 single)
500k+ = 6 singles (vs. 4 singles)
250k+ = 21 singles (vs. 24 singles)

2006 Current Breakdown of Albums (vs. Same Time 2005)
1 million+ = 5 albums (vs. 7 albums)
500k+ = 16 albums (vs. 14 albums)
250k+ = 33 albums (vs. 37 albums)

[immel]

Wow, extensive . Thanks for the thorough update, I'm still amazed by the fact that (miss)understood is still the best selling original album by a solo artist this year, the fact that it's her lowest selling album ever kind of does not matter if she keep that spot.

I don't think the (m)u sales will ever stop surprising me... will it EVER drop out of the charts? hehe.

And for BLUE BIRD... my calculations/guesses are still staying correct...
Week 2 drop: 70%
Week 3 drop: 60%
Week 4 drop: 50%
Week 5 drop: 40%
Week 6 drop: 30%

The next week sales should be somewhere near 3200.


Oh, and congratulations to Ayu for breaking 250k copies!

[darkswordz]

thanks for the chart
but i think S/BTB derserve a better spot

[ayu_fan929]

immel: ULTRA BLUE is getting there. I think it will (m)u in a month or month and a half? But definitely by the end of the oricon year.

[immel]

That's true, is the sales of that album still going strong? Several thousand each week still if I'm not wrong? The cover of ULTRA BLUE is so much prettier, no wonder ...

[Mad_Cactuar]

I dont think Ayu will beat Koi no Tsubomi or get in the Top 20 but still awesome job! ULTRA BLUE will end up at 900 000 for sure. I'm happy for Mika! ^ ^ #5 of the year yay!

[ayu_fan929]

Originally Posted by immel

That's true, is the sales of that album still going strong? Several thousand each week still if I'm not wrong? The cover of ULTRA BLUE is so much prettier, no wonder ...

It sold ~12k this past week. Her tour is still going on and ends in about a month, so I think it might keep her sales above 5000 until then.

[Ayumi-Yummi]

Blue Bird is doing really well! I didn't think Ayu could pass 250K again, so I'm happy she's back to having great single sales!

[immel]

I belive she'd need to sell 50k more copies if she is to be sure to pass (m)u, which for sure is a possibility, but might also not be. I think they'll end up very close to each other.

[AyuGAME]

congrats ayu to still maintain her position
thanks for the info

[AyuGAME]

yay! thanks for the info

[hiroshi_ben]

i hope she will continue to sell well!^^congrats!!!i love ayu!

[elepop]

Woohoo, it reached 250,000 copies! "(m)u" still doing quite good!

[ayu_fan929]

Originally Posted by immel

I belive she'd need to sell 50k more copies if she is to be sure to pass (m)u, which for sure is a possibility, but might also not be. I think they'll end up very close to each other.

Yep. Considering on a week to week comparison they are only 8-9k apart. So UB will sell more than (m)u by a bit more.

[Yukitora]

Don't be too dissapointe if Ultra Blue outsells (miss)understood - It won't be the first time Hikki has outsold an Ayu album XD

congrats Ayu for breaking the 250k mark this week thanks ayu_fan929! (Not sure why we need another thread but this one was more informative )

[elepop]

Thanks for sharing!

If we take out the "best-of" albums, Ayu would be #2 for overall album sales! And almost all of those artists in the overall single chart that are doing better than Ayu are... boybands! XD Oh well, both "(m)u" and "BB" are still selling so that's great!

Hoping her next single will kick some of those artists asses!

[freedreamer]

great job...she is still strong i feel...Koda is going strong too...4 hot wave is doing well up there

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

ooh thats cool. does anyone know if ayu has any of those "#th best selling japanese album/single" or anything? i'd be interested to know