Ayu singles in Oricon Yearly Ranking

[gakkun]

from ayuloveayu bbs

2005オリ年間シングル1-12月リサイズver.
（2005/01/17付～11/28付迄）

*Rank/Sales/Sales in the last week/Title/Artist

*1 945，315 174，788 青春アミーゴ 修二と彰
*1 942，675 ***，*** さくら ケツメイシ
*2 924，379 ***，*** 四次元 Four Dimensions Mr.Children
*4 628，329 ***，*** * ～アスタリスク～ ORANGE RANGE
*5 537，783 ***，525 SCREAM GLAY×EXILE
*6 505，649 ***，614 OCEAN B'z
*7 447，393 ***，*** ラヴ・パレード ORANGE RANGE
*8 427，043 ***，*** ファンタスティポ トラジ・ハイジ
*9 423，593 **2，942 GLAMOROUS SKY NANA starringMIKANAKASHIMA
10 417，464 ***，*** お願い！セニョリータ ORANGE RANGE
11 410，924 ***，617 キズナ ORANGE RANGE
12 401，461 ***，*** NO MORE CRY D-51
13 396，749 ***，433 BANG！BANG！バカンス SMAP
14 376，904 **2，271 ここにしか咲かない花 コブクロ
15 365，011 ***，*** 友だちへ～Say What You Will～ SMAP
16 348，682 ***，426 Dreamland BENNIE K
17 345，340 ***，*** STEP you/is this LOVE? 浜崎あゆみ
18 345，112 *11，160 ENDLESS STORY REIRA starring YUNA ITO
19 321，977 ***，*** 月光花 ジャンヌダルク
20 320，591 **1，741 HEAVEN 浜崎あゆみ

Ayu's still the top solo female artist if you don't count the Nana singles.

worth mentioning: Seishun Amigo took only 3 weeks to beat Sakura and claimed the yearly top spot.

[tinyppl]

Are Orange Range songs really that good? I've only heard few songs from them but really, their releases sell alot.

Few weeks ago I watched a taiwanese tv entertainment program and they call Mika the Jpop Queen. Hehe, I guess there can be more than one Jpop Queen, yes?

[Raleigh]

Originally Posted by tinyppl

Are Orange Range songs really that good? I've only heard few songs from them but really, their releases sell alot.

Few weeks ago I watched a taiwanese tv entertainment program and they call Mika the Jpop Queen. Hehe, I guess there can be more than one Jpop Queen, yes?

Orange Range actually were more popular last year. Personally to me I don't like their songs except a couple of catchy songs and Hana.

And no Mika is not the Jpop Queen. Her last album didn't sell well and I'm quite sure that the reason she's having all this popularity is simply because of NANA, in my opinion. Same goes to Yuna Ito. Many artists' debut single really sells badly in most cases. Ayu, Ai, Hitomi Shimatani and many others' debut single didn't sell well. Even though I must say that her single was really good and well sung.

[Qt Mashi]

yay i feel happy for Ayu! hope Ayu can make a 1 million single seller in the future!

[extepan]

17 and 20...she could have done better!

[ruixiong89]

But hey! Haha, she's the best solo female artiste other than Mika! (Hers was due to NANA and both Glamorous Sky and Endless Story sold very well, due to the movie's popularity indefinitely)

However, yar ... gone are the days of 1 million mark singles ... ever since the J-pop industry subsided ...

[se7entheaven]

what happen to fairyland ?..so sad that i think it ONLY sold out approx. 310,000

[elepop]

Wow, still selling good! How much have those singles sold so far?

Should I add this number to the current copies sold?

[Mirai Noah]

Congrats to Ayu!

[BanFan]

What was the last million dollar seller single for Ayu, '&'? It's amazing how singles are selling less and less.

[Annabelle]

Originally Posted by BanFan

What was the last million dollar seller single for Ayu, '&'? It's amazing how singles are selling less and less.

I thought it was "H". "&" sold a little less than 600 000 copies. I'm getting tired of ORANGE RANGE, seriously. Never liked them, except for "LOCOLOTION" which was a cover. Yay for Ayu! I didn't expect HEAVEN to be in the yearly top 20, how great!

[*Petit*]

Could anyone post the romaji?

I think she did well, in some ways. Her best single did better than last years, and although she diden't get as many singles in the chart her full sales are better.

[Raleigh]

Originally Posted by Annabelle

I thought it was "H". "&" sold a little less than 600 000 copies. I'm getting tired of ORANGE RANGE, seriously. Never liked them, except for "LOCOLOTION" which was a cover. Yay for Ayu! I didn't expect HEAVEN to be in the yearly top 20, how great!

You're not the only one. I'm bored beyond belief with ORANGE RANGE and I don't know why Japan is so insane over them.

& sold 591,481 and not 1 million. H did sell a little over 1 million.

[ohsixthirty]

doesn't seem like she did all that well...

[ImpactBreaker]

Originally Posted by touchedstar

doesn't seem like she did all that well...

LOL I don't think so, I think she did well. Most people in AHS prefer the female japanese artists over the male ones. In Japan it seems like the opposite happens (there's simply a fever over boy bands and male artists). Even in her peak days, ayu was always far behind masle groups like CHEMISTRY and EXILE.
Mika Nakashima was the best selling female artist (we can't really be sure whether it was her herself, or the sucess of NANA, which is a very famous japanese series in Japan at the moment so it could be getting a ride in that fact, not to mention HYDE's name is printed because there's his collaboration on that single) and ayu was the second one with STEP you/is this LOVE? a single that really wasn't advertising anything (except for maybe taking a ride on japanese people's favorite song from MY STORY "my name's WOMEN"). Utada didn't even make it to the top 20, and I can't even say other famous jpop female artists there

[Uemarasan]

Originally Posted by ImpactBreaker

LOL I don't think so, I think she did well. Most people in AHS prefer the female japanese artists over the male ones. In Japan it seems like the opposite happens (there's simply a fever over boy bands and male artists). Even in her peak days, ayu was always far behind masle groups like CHEMISTRY and EXILE.
Mika Nakashima was the best selling female artist (we can't really be sure whether it was her herself, or the sucess of NANA, which is a very famous japanese series in Japan at the moment so it could be getting a ride in that fact, not to mention HYDE's name is printed because there's his collaboration on that single) and ayu was the second one with STEP you/is this LOVE? a single that really wasn't advertising anything (except for maybe taking a ride on japanese people's favorite song from MY STORY "my name's WOMEN"). Utada didn't even make it to the top 20, and I can't even say other famous jpop female artists there

Err, nope. Where are you getting your data? Saleswise, during her peak days, Ayu sold MORE than both Chemistry and Exile in terms of total units. That's why she was best-selling artist of the year in Japan for 2001, 2002, and 2004. Chemistry and Exile were never close. They were the ones "far behind".

Mika Nakashima isn't the best-selling female artist of this year. In terms of singles sold, Ayu is still ahead of her. Ayu is still ahead of everyone else, as a matter of fact.

Hikki hasn't released a good single since her Deep River days. Colors was good, but the second track Simple and Clean was just plain terrible.

[ImpactBreaker]

Originally Posted by Uemarasan

Err, nope. Where are you getting your data? Saleswise, during her peak days, Ayu sold MORE than both Chemistry and Exile in terms of total units. That's why she was best-selling artist of the year in Japan for 2001, 2002, and 2004. Chemistry and Exile were never close. They were the ones "far behind".

From oricon. I didn't check it right now, but I have a good memory, and at around 2001-2002 CHEMISTRY would top ayu in terms of units sold. However, ayu had far much more releases than them, that's why she actually sold more units but if you single out in a single release, that would be a different story. Their album sold far much more than I am... when both had been released.

[Uemarasan]

Originally Posted by ImpactBreaker

From oricon. I didn't check it right now, but I have a good memory, and at around 2001-2002 CHEMISTRY would top ayu in terms of units sold. However, ayu had far much more releases than them, that's why she actually sold more units but if you single out in a single release, that would be a different story. Their album sold far much more than I am... when both had been released.

I don't know how we can possibly compare their single releases in 2001 fairly (Ayu released 5 including a "special" release - A Song is Born, Chemistry released 3), but if we use the sales of Ayu's top three singles of 2001 and compare their sales numbers to Chemistry's three singles, Ayu still would have sold more. Of course, I'm not saying that's the fairest way to compare. Anyway, Chemistry's Pieces of a Dream just sold a little more than Ayu's Evolution (her top-selling 2001 release). Planet Chart numbers: Pieces - 1298320, Evolution - 1087690. That is not "far behind".

I think the FAIREST way to compare Ayu and Chemistry is to compare their overall top-selling singles for the December 2000 - November 2001 cycle. (Oricon uses this time-frame for its year-end charts).

Pieces of a Dream - 1298320
M - 1319070

I guess Ayu has sold more in what is probably her peak year on the Oricon (December 2000 - November 2001). Not Chemistry.

In the next year (2002), Ayu would have a mega-hit with H. Chemistry would sadly fall from grace. Their best-selling single of 2002 (It Takes Two) just managed sales of 498180. Even Ayu's worst-selling single of 2002 (Free & Easy, I wont be counting Daybreak since it's an album cut) outsold Chemistry's highest-selling single.

Okay, Chemistry's The Way We Are outsold I Am..., but there is this little thing called A Best. A Best was released in 2001, the same year as The Way We Are. Anyway, The Way We Are sold just a little more than I Am... It sold around 2.5 million units, while I Am... sold around 2.4 million. I don't think that's "far behind".

And Chemistry would just fall, and fall, and fall.

So where is Chemistry now? I don't see any of their singles in the top 20.

Exile was virtually nonexistent during Ayu's peak years (2000-2001-2002).

My mistake, by the way. Ayu was best-selling artist for 2000, 2001, and 2003.

[andre2907]

Originally Posted by ImpactBreaker

From oricon. I didn't check it right now, but I have a good memory, and at around 2001-2002 CHEMISTRY would top ayu in terms of units sold. However, ayu had far much more releases than them, that's why she actually sold more units but if you single out in a single release, that would be a different story. Their album sold far much more than I am... when both had been released.

In 2002, CHEMISTRY outsold Ayu, but in 2001 and 2000, Ayu was unbeatble. She was selling more than B'z, selling more than Mr. Children, more than Chemistry, Exile, SMAP, every Johnny's band... she was only selling less than Hikki.

[andre2907]

Originally Posted by ImpactBreaker

LOL I don't think so, I think she did well. Most people in AHS prefer the female japanese artists over the male ones. In Japan it seems like the opposite happens (there's simply a fever over boy bands and male artists). Even in her peak days, ayu was always far behind masle groups like CHEMISTRY and EXILE.
Mika Nakashima was the best selling female artist (we can't really be sure

It's not a Japanese thing, it's a universal thing. Male artists usually sell better than females. Since 1997 with the Spice Girls, the annual charts in US never had a female on the top position.

Plus, in 2000, 2001, females artists were more popular than male artists. Utada Hikaru was selling extremely well, Mai Kuraki too and Ayumi was always outselling the males and the boybands [EXILE just surpassed Ayu now, after her peak] and was the most powerful performer. Now, males are more popular again.

whether it was her herself, or the sucess of NANA, which is a very famous japanese series in Japan at the moment so it could be getting a ride in that fact, not to mention HYDE's name is printed because there's his collaboration on that single)

No, it wasn't Mika, it was NANA. Mika singles always sold poorly, but thanks to NANA her single sold VERY well. If it wasn't for Nana, than Yuna Ito wouldn't have sold so well, because that was her first single, she didn't had a fanbase to go and buy her singles, who went to buy her single was Nana's fanbase.