Have you influenced someone to buy NEXT LEVEL?

SURREAL__RAINBOW · #1 28th March 2009, 09:04 AM

Well, the sales of this album are good! But maybe not as many of us expected, so I decided to start making my friends to buy the album if they like it xD

I mean, I showed them the pvs, some songs and the covers, I also told them about the limited edition thing, the USBs and stuff, and 2 of my friends seem very interested!

I also published a review of the album in Facebook ^^ and put the links from Yesasia and CDJapan so the interested people can have a look at them!!

I hope my 2 friends get to buy the album!! ^^ both of them really liked Sparkle!! lol

so, have you done anything to help the sales?? have you ever done it before with other album/single/dvd, etc??

pommy48 · #2 28th March 2009, 09:11 AM

hmm never....i remember getting my friend to buy the powerpuff girls movie....but that's about it @_@

there's really no one i know that knows as much jpop as i do within my friend circle

LacusClyne · #3 28th March 2009, 10:24 AM

if you want the sales to be charted in Oricon, you can put the links for cdjapan. only cdjapan sales counts towards Oricon

ayuni · #4 28th March 2009, 06:18 PM

I have done a more outrageous approaching to it.
I tell my friend, if they won't buy the album I don't invite them to my birthday party next month.

NintendoHTF1242 · #5 28th March 2009, 06:25 PM

Nope. My friends are my age, and I can't expect any of them to go out and shell 30+ for a JPN CD. Plus only about 3 of them like J-Pop.

elepop · #6 28th March 2009, 07:00 PM

No. My friends don't really listen to Japanese music. And personally, I think "NEXT LEVEL" is Ayu's worst album, so I would definitely not suggest this album to anybody... XD

stickyrice · #7 28th March 2009, 07:06 PM

Nope. I don't want to knowing my friends financial isn't in the best situation for them to import a cd. NEXT LEVEL and Kumi's Collaboration album is most likely going to be my last purchase for few months as well. My friends can't seem to get enough of "Days" though lol

emi♡ · #8 28th March 2009, 07:27 PM

No, and considering the album...I probably wont ever lol

KarenPang · #9 28th March 2009, 10:32 PM

no

love in music · #10 28th March 2009, 10:53 PM

i doubt any of my friends would want to spend at least $30 on a japanese artist they never listen to

a_kingdom21 · #11 29th March 2009, 01:55 AM

i just promo it on any forum in my country......

RikkuChii · #12 29th March 2009, 02:35 AM

None of my friends listen to Japanese music. When I tell them how much I spend on a Japanese CD, they look at me as if I was crazy. You should've seen the faces they gave me when I told them I bought the USB.

..so, no. It's next to impossible to influence anyone I know.

jbrat2219 · #13 29th March 2009, 02:42 AM

Nah, I've never convinced any of my friends to buy an Ayu album... I just kind of give them mine xD;

Chef+Vanny · #14 29th March 2009, 03:28 AM

no.....they spend their money on clothes(girls)
boys spend their money on LAN........what you expect

mcluva420 · #15 29th March 2009, 03:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RikkuChii

None of my friends listen to Japanese music. When I tell them how much I spend on a Japanese CD, they look at me as if I was crazy. You should've seen the faces they gave me when I told them I bought the USB.

..so, no. It's next to impossible to influence anyone I know.

me too. i splurge on ALOT on japanese CDs. very few of my friends listen 2 japanese music. and i would never tell anyone to buy such expensive things..
although i have convinced my friend to buy a CD single for charity

critter333294 · #16 29th March 2009, 05:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RikkuChii

None of my friends listen to Japanese music. When I tell them how much I spend on a Japanese CD, they look at me as if I was crazy. You should've seen the faces they gave me when I told them I bought the USB.

..so, no. It's next to impossible to influence anyone I know.

SAME! My friends think i'm an idiot for buying Ayu cds for 50+ dollars. They do think she's pretty and dresses nice, but I could never convince them to buy her cd.

dreamland2.0 · #17 29th March 2009, 06:34 AM

Mine's the same answer as most people. None of my friends listen to Japanese music, and they also think I'm insane for spending so much money on CD's.
Oh well, to each his own

SURREAL__RAINBOW · #18 29th March 2009, 06:39 AM

woow!

i thought many people would say yes but lol

i think many of you guys are right!!

but anyway, i study japanese lol so many of my classmates are interested in japanese music and others

and i brought ayu to class once (a dvd) and everyone was like wow!! shes great!

so yea

alternarist · #19 29th March 2009, 08:14 AM

i didnt. but i have a friend who is extremely interested about Rule!

lfe. · #20 29th March 2009, 09:27 AM

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Originally Posted by SURREAL__RAINBOW

and i brought ayu to class once (a dvd) and everyone was like wow!! shes great!

I brought NEXT LEVEL and was looking through the booklet during a class break. One girl saw it and said "she had so much plastic surgery"

I just said to myself "yeaaa...I'm not doing this ever again..."