Startin'/Born to be... 2nd week sales

[Brittany]

Originally Posted by *Petit*

Not Ayu-Cds at least.

Well, at least it sold more than Bold&Delicious. XD

True, and it's something to be happy about.

[Olw---A]

it's strange.. the song is good & french, PV are wonderfull...
What's appening?
I wonder if all the singles are bad saled this week

[Axel_Grease]

O_O Such a huge drop. At least it's still top 5. Hope next week it'll stay in top 5.

[joe198663]

Although Ayu's new single sales not well, her performance has improved a lot, especially her singing skill. We should appreciate it also.Don't just focus on her sales.

[bluegie]

I always think ayu's sale ain't that bad, and I've already pointed out that the last few no. 1 singles' first week sales were lower than that (except B'z of course). Popularity is one issue (she's not as popular as before but she's still popular somehow... you know what I mean). the problem about cd sales is another major issue. Nowadays people tends to buy mp3s. Many Japanese have iPod and probly they download this single from iTunes. Of course, Startin'/Born To Be... is considered a weaker single in ayu. Anywayz, , there're so many factors leading the low sales at this moment.. Dun feel sad or disappointed just because the sales dropped from 110K to 30K. Kumi's BEST~ss~ got the similar drop (from 983K on the first week to 2xxK this week.. I was really shocked.. I thought it would sell at least 300 to 400K this week...)

PS: I just use Kumi's album as an example to generalize the low sales. I'm not comparing them... pls don't start any fight because of that... I do bring B'z up as well... probly HYDE, hikki, Exile, ASIAN KUNG FU GENERATION, etc.. @@

[ayu_fan929]

Originally Posted by bluegie

and I've already pointed out that the last few no. 1 singles' first week sales were lower than that (except B'z of course).

the only reason y the lower sellers got the #1 spot was cos there was no competition. the wasnt any relatively big name artist that released a single between the time ENDLICHERI ENDLICHERI was released and hikki's week. during hikki's week too, sure, there were bigger names, but the lower sales is cos their popularity is suffering, not cos of piracy and wut not. as for EXILE getting the #1 spot the week before ayu, their album is gonna be released next week, so there wasnt any much hope for their single to sell extremely well from the beginning.

Originally Posted by bluegie

the problem about cd sales is another major issue. Nowadays people tends to buy mp3s. Many Japanese have iPod and probly they download this single from iTunes. Of course, Startin'/Born To Be... is considered a weaker single in ayu.

buying cds maybe one of the issues, but i really dont think its THAT big of an issue, especially in japanese society. but i agree, imo, this IS one of her weaker singles, so i wasn't expecting much from it anyways.

Originally Posted by bluegie

Kumi's BEST~ss~ got the similar drop (from 983K on the first week to 2xxK this week.. I was really shocked.. I thought it would sell at least 300 to 400K this week...)

one of the main factos that kumi's album did so well on the 1st week was cos of the limited edition that had 2DVDs. it made up almost half of the total sales. the limited edition sold out on the 1st week, so it was also expected that it would drop quite a bit in the 2nd week since the incentive was gone. also, considering this factor, she did quite well, as hirai ken and ketsumeishi who also debuted with 900k+ sales, were only a bit higher than kumi's 2nd week.

Originally Posted by evolution7931

it annoys me when people are saying OMG AYUS POPULARITY IS DROPPING YAY! just because a single is selling lower than usual.. the whole market is like that nowadays, every year its getting worse and worse..

it actually annoys me when ppl say "every year its getting worse and worse..." cos its NOT true. ppl tend to exagerrate things a lot. i think some ppl think that just cos other countries have declining sales that automatically means japan is having declining sales year after year. well, its NOT true. 2005 single sales have done better than 2004 single sales. 2005 album sales have done better than 2003 album sales. sure, we mite have a slow start into 2006, but im still optimistic that 2006 sales can match or do better than 2005's.

also, note that im not saying that the 2005 sales arent doing worse than 2001. thats obvious, i already know that sales in general have declined since the peak at the turn of the millennium. wut im saying is thats its not doing "worse every year."

[petitepiper]

Not bad^^
These sales put a ceiling to from now on around the 350.000 copies a score that finally many artists would be delighted by realize.

[Cyria]

I love the single so I'm especially sad it had such a big drop in sales.

[Tasked]

as long as Ayu still continually produces #1-hits like no other, I don't care much...

[evolution7931]

it annoys me when people are saying OMG AYUS POPULARITY IS DROPPING YAY! just because a single is selling lower than usual.. the whole market is like that nowadays, every year its getting worse and worse..

[ohsixthirty]

Originally Posted by evolution7931

it annoys me when people are saying OMG AYUS POPULARITY IS DROPPING YAY!

well no one said "YAY" about it. i'm sure they'll post here soon though to say that. lol.

[ayu_ayu301]

I don't know .. I think ayu songs are still really high quality compared to many other singles .. I think it's just that people aren't that excited about buying an "AYU CD" anymore .. her music is still really catchy and the lyrics are still beautiful ...

i think she just need another publicity stunt that will get the public interested in her again .. not just go by ayu cd and say something like "o .. there's the new ayu cd, it's good but i don't think i'll get it" kinda attitude.

[gakkun]

Originally Posted by ayu_ayu301

I don't know .. I think ayu songs are still really high quality compared to many other singles .. I think it's just that people aren't that excited about buying an "AYU CD" anymore .. her music is still really catchy and the lyrics are still beautiful ...

i think she just need another publicity stunt that will get the public interested in her again .. not just go by ayu cd and say something like "o .. there's the new ayu cd, it's good but i don't think i'll get it" kinda attitude.

tha'ts so true, she just isn't 'new' and 'in' anymore, no matter how good the actual song is.

[elepop]

Big drop, but at least she's still on the top 5 and this single has already passed "B&D" single!~

[Mad_Cactuar]

Great, she's still in the top 5! ^^ I don't think it'll reach 200 000, but it's done well enough so far..

[[taskin.ayu]]

The drop is actually quite surprising, but I think the sales are still pretty good, because of the state of the market at the moment. D: 100K+ are pretty good sales now for singles unfortunatly. ):

[bernardation]

i don't know, i'm not a big fan of any of the songs in that single. the same goes for the pvs.
so i'm not impressed this single is not selling so well.

but i'm hoping her next single will be really good and she'll be back to the 300k mark.

[truehappiness]

I really think sales shouldn't indicate anything..

It's not like she'll get an award for sales anytime soon LOL [she stopped doing that a whilleee ago] She'll get awards for making the no.1s that she makes though :]

<3 her no.1s.. I wonder if Ayu will go to only sell about 450k in singles a year :\ /falls over

[ayu_fan929]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

It's not like she'll get an award for sales anytime soon LOL [she stopped doing that a whilleee ago] She'll get awards for making the no.1s that she makes though :]

well sales and #1s r linked together....

[LacusClyne]

WHAT!!! so low....and it's still in the top 5! does that mean the no 1 sales isn't that good either.