Startin' 10th/(m)u 19th/CDL 8th week sales

[lunichi]

Startin'

Week sales: 870

Total sales: 185,102

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(miss)understood

Week sales: 954

Total sales: 867,457

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Countdown live 2005/2006

week sales: 1,218

Total sales: 47,370

[Echidna]

yay! I'm 1st %))
thanx!!
sales is so baaad... (((((((

[ayu_fan929]

both Startin' and (m)u have gone below the 1,000/week mark....

edit: (m)u will probably lose the title of being the best selling original album by next week, as Def Tech takes over.

Originally Posted by ayu_fan929

(m)u will probably lose the title of being the best selling original album by next week, as Def Tech takes over.

-Happy Mask Salesman Voice- Have faith. I hope she makes it. D:!!

[ayu_fan929]

Originally Posted by Ayumi no Yume

-Happy Mask Salesman Voice- Have faith. I hope she makes it. D:!!

Well I'm being realistic here. Def Tech's album in 3 weeks have already sold 792k. Last week they sold like 128k. They only need to sell 75k to pass (m)u. (m)u will still be the highest female selling orginal album though. She will only for sure have this title until we see how ULTRA BLUE does though.

[elepop]

Thanks for the updates!

[Axel_Grease]

Eek! Startin'/BTB... and (m)u sales are so low. V_V

[AyuGAME]

thanks

[krishna]

Sales are so bad!
But thanks for the info

[extepan]

thanks for the info
there is no way MU and startin will break the magic milestones

[sexysaucestar]

^ Yeah, I'll have to agree In some ways, I think Ayu is being overshadowed right now by the "it" artists...

[immel]

I can't say I'm anything else than impressed by the sales staying like this, even after 8 years and many new "it" artists coming and going.

[~X2RADialbomber~]

That's really good for Ayu, sadly though the numbers are really slow

[Daking]

Although she might not make the magical numbers in sales, these numbers are still respectable. With all the different types of music out there, drop in sales are to be expected as time goes on. I'm sure now more than ever the people buying her albums are the diehard fans. so if she can continually get 800k on her albums i see nothing wrong.

[truehappiness]

Does anyone from Ayu's era even sell as well as she does? :/

[like a debut in 98/99~?]

[elepop]

Ayu's album is the highest non-best-of albums in that list, so that makes me happy!

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Does anyone from Ayu's era even sell as well as she does? :/

[like a debut in 98/99~?]

I'd like to know that too!

[*Petit*]

Originally Posted by asongforXX

Ayu's album is the highest non-best-of albums in that list, so that makes me happy!



I'd like to know that too!

No, not really.

No idol female of any other label than avex is selling anything at the moment. People "competing" with ayu in the beginning was basically mai kuraki, aiko, suzuki ami and morning musume. during about 200o other female idols came like koda, otsuka, matsuura, aiuchi, shimatani, aya ueto etc. it was booming. Most of these artists have had good sales, but are now hardly reaching the top ten.
None of them compare to ayumi (except for perhaps ootsuka at the moment, well see about next year though) in single sales, but in album sales quite a few have reached high numbers. As from what I can see, the only label being able to keep their female idols fresh and popular is avex (except for aiko perhaps...?). The females who have "survived" all or gained popularity all have some "special" skill that before the time of ayumi wasen't common among traditional idol girls. THis includes song writing (otsuka), composing (otsuka), sexy erotic image replacing "girl next door" or "kawaii" (koda), or simply being an overly popular niche artist like mika nakashima or namie amuro. This would also explain H!Ps drastic fall in sales. the style is simply not a la mode at the moment.

I think it's quite amazing how namie amuro has managed to reclaim the charts so lang after her golden days though, but I don't think this would have bben possible if she stuck to her old music. Look at what happened to ami suzuki....

[Yukitora]

^Well basically all her singles in 98 sold less than Startin'/Born to Be (although Trust is only around 3k less) but no other single except Bold & Delicious/Pride has sold that low ever except for remix singles. ASFXX sold 1.4mil.

What a big percentage drop O_O

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by Yukitora

^Well basically all her singles in 98 sold less than Startin'/Born to Be (although Trust is only around 3k less) but no other single except Bold & Delicious/Pride has sold that low ever except for remix singles. ASFXX sold 1.4mil.

What a big percentage drop O_O

~_~ Yukitora~! I meant the people who came out around the same time as Ayu [female solo artists]..

are they even selling as well as Ayu right now?

[alternarist]

thanks for the update! but the sales of (miss) understood is really bad! it has not even hit 900,000!