~Chart & Sales~ talkin' 2 myself Single

[Zemus]

This is 7k lower than glitter sold on the first day? Thanks for the news. Well, I hope it will get a boost tomorrow as this single sure deserves to sell good!

Yeah, some of those reviews of the singles are just plain stupid. I have stopped to read them a long time ago @#%$

[GeneticNova]

Awesome first day and it is 26 K
t2m is a hit!!! i personally feel it is better than glitter/fated...
Hope it reaches the sales greater than the 41st single

Y A Y ~ ! Number one today !!!! Hopefully she'll get the week too. No one super popular released this week right?

And it's only the first day of sales, why is everyone freaking out? It's called momentum people, maybe it'll pick up some momentum during the week. You never know

[HiruNoKaze]

Ok so apparently people post smack on amazon.co.jp and then Oricon displays that. zomg I don't like these people lol.

It already has like 99 reviews up. Heyyyyy masa for the defense! go go go~

Oh crap guys, I just realized. Like, it's only the last 10 or so reviews that are all 1star. The first 90 or something have a ton of solid 5/5s hahaahaha WOOOO. Stupid Oricon needs to randomly display reviews.

[ayumisrael]

If it will be #1 weekly then ayu will break the record for the artist with most #1 consecutive singles artist in Japan (or female & solo artist)?

[HiruNoKaze]

lol sorry, I just realized that there are 99 reviews on amazon. Apparently the recent 10 or so are chock full of 1/5s. Buuut if you look at the others, there are a LOT of solid 5/5s WOOOO

masa posted too, it was a good post, go masa!

But seriously, I don't understand how people write these lame critcisms. They keep calling her like...bakemono. like some kinda hideous monster. I remember reading one that was like "odoru na! migurushii kara" which means like "zomg don't DANCE it's fugly." mi [watching] + kurushii [painful] = migurushii (I love Japanese haha). I need to punch some of these people out, seriously you guys...

[ayumisrael]

Originally Posted by HiruNoKaze

lol sorry, I just realized that there are 99 reviews on amazon. Apparently the recent 10 or so are chock full of 1/5s. Buuut if you look at the others, there are a LOT of solid 5/5s WOOOO

masa posted too, it was a good post, go masa!

But seriously, I don't understand how people write these lame critcisms. They keep calling her like...bakemono. like some kinda hideous monster. I remember reading one that was like "odoru na! migurushii kara" which means like "zomg don't DANCE it's fugly." mi [watching] + kurushii [painful] = migurushii (I love Japanese haha). I need to punch some of these people out, seriously you guys...

What? they're horibble X_X People are really really bored.
They even don't like ayu so how come they even write a review about one of her singles?
I highly dislike people like that. BAKA.

Originally Posted by m-ayu

Except for the Johnny's boys.
They seem always sell more than 160k.
for example:
Kinki Kids first week sales = 190495
Arashi first week sales = 192196

So it's not like the sales decrease in general, but maybe they just got tired of Ayu? >_<
You can see the reviews of t2m on amazon japan, who gave it 1 over 5 stars, mainly complaining how she released the singles way too quickly (2 months spare).
I mean, come on! Ayaka did the same thing, so does Angela Aki, Arashi and Kinki Kids (released album and single in 2 months spare), I don't see people complaining much...

*sighs*
poor Ayu.

So how will you explain for example kumi's last single sales?
From a high popularity, look at her sales for the present single now.
And Angela as well.

BTW you actually can't compare popular boy bands to female solo artists.
Sales are low because people get tired of ayu is the same as my name is Bloody Mora. As I see it generally sales are decreasing a lot. Not just for ayu.

[tourniquet]

Originally Posted by HiruNoKaze

I remember reading one that was like "odoru na! migurushii kara" which means like "zomg don't DANCE it's fugly." mi [watching] + kurushii [painful] = migurushii (I love Japanese haha). I need to punch some of these people out, seriously you guys...

concerning her "dancing abilities" he's right, no matter how you put it.

[ayumisrael]

Originally Posted by tourniquet

concerning her "dancing abilities" he's right, no matter how you put it.

No he is not, ayu danced really good, anyone can dance, just because she doesn't do that casually it doesn't mean she dance less good than Namie.
I really don't think so.
Her dance was flawless there was nothing wrong she'd done.
Her dancing abilities depends on how much she do that and what she want to do.
Not if she can or not, 'cause anyone can dance. It's not a matter of if she's got it or not.
10% is talent 90% is the perseverance.

[tourniquet]

Originally Posted by ayumisrael

No he is not, ayu danced really good, anyone can dance, just because she doesn't do that casually it doesn't mean she dance less good than Namie.
I really don't think so.
Her dance was flawless there was nothing wrong she'd done.

the thing is... she didn't exactly dance. at least not under my definition. to swirl around with your arms and shaking your ass off while walking an imaginary catwalk is not exactly dancing, you know. imho she's just been lazy with that PV.

and she'll NEVER reach namie's abilities. the only PV which comes to my mind where she actually danced is INSPIRE and the choreography was awesome, that's why I absolutely love it. well, I don't know her pre-MY STORY PVs, but I guess she's just staring/walking all the time, trying to be cute, as usual.

[ayumisrael]

Originally Posted by tourniquet

the thing is... she didn't exactly dance. at least not under my definition. to swirl around with your arms and shaking your ass off while walking an imaginary catwalk is not exactly dancing, you know. imho she's just been lazy with that PV.

and she'll NEVER reach namie's abilities. the only PV which comes to my mind where she actually danced is INSPIRE and the choreography was awesome, that's why I absolutely love it. well, I don't know her pre-MY STORY PVs, but I guess she's just staring/walking all the time, trying to be cute, as usual.

and what's wrong with that? She is a SINGER after all not a dancer.
If I would want to see dancers perfromances I wouldn't look at a singer dances (not even Namie's because I like her because she's a singer I don't really mind her dancings anyway).
And ayu won't reach her abilites because she doesn't plan to dance and she wants to be more of a singer.
The dancing for that PV was an artistic thing, to show rage, it really fitted the song, I really don't think she wanted to say "look I'm cool, I'm dancing."
ayu was never the dancer type and I really hope she'll never will because she's perfect the way she is xD.
And no in most of her PVs she's not cute, she has a REAL story around them, that makes the PV interesting, without dancing all the time.
If you don't like those types of PVs then that's your option ^_^. I don't think ayu should be critisized because she doesn't dance, or just danced artistically in 3 of her PVs in her entire career to do something different.

I think that person was just being bully and don't even care with anything ayu ever did. I doubt he even like anything about her, that's why I was annoyed about what he wrote.

[Peger]

Originally Posted by tourniquet

the thing is... she didn't exactly dance. at least not under my definition. to swirl around with your arms and shaking your ass off while walking an imaginary catwalk is not exactly dancing, you know. imho she's just been lazy with that PV.

and she'll NEVER reach namie's abilities. the only PV which comes to my mind where she actually danced is INSPIRE and the choreography was awesome, that's why I absolutely love it. well, I don't know her pre-MY STORY PVs, but I guess she's just staring/walking all the time, trying to be cute, as usual.

Uh, have you ever actually seen Namie dance? She's usually pretty bad.

As for the sales, it's not suprising imo, this is an unusual single choice for Ayu and the tie-in's suck. This is basically 2007's version of B&D/Pride. I'm glad she released these songs though, they're her strongest in years.

[criminal]

Originally Posted by ayumisrael

They even don't like ayu so how come they even write a review about one of her singles?

Well, just because you don't like an artist doesn't mean you can't be objective when writing a review, though.

Originally Posted by ayumisrael

Sales are low because people get tired of ayu is the same as my name is Bloody Mora. As I see it generally sales are decreasing a lot. Not just for ayu.

You can't blame the worse first day sales of talkin' 2 myself on the fact that people don't buy CDs that much. Face it, if you've been supporting an artist from the start of the decade, a lot of people are bound to get bored of them. PLUS the few casual fans that Ayumi has might prefer a poppy sound over a rocky sound.

Originally Posted by ayu_fan929

CLAP & LOVE/Why has now sold ~42k. (The +DVD version helped boost the sales)

Anything under 150k for that is a disgrace. D:

Originally Posted by AyuGAME

i think DBSK is really a big threat for ayu this week...hopefully she can maintain her position. sigh...its really frustating when we can't do anything, we can just depend on ayu fans at japan to make her get number one position

avex trax care about Ayumi's streak. If they had thought that DBSK can sell more copies than Ayumi, they wouldn't have let DBSK release on the same day as Ayumi.

[ayumisrael]

Originally Posted by criminal

Well, just because you don't like an artist doesn't mean you can't be objective when writing a review, though.

So if I hate an artist and will obviously write negative things about him will my review be objective? I don't think so...

I for one even don't do this because I think it's cruel and really subjective, because things I will write about him won't be true, they'll just be because of the very fact I don't like him/hate him...

[Raleigh]

Originally Posted by tourniquet

concerning her "dancing abilities" he's right, no matter how you put it.

Okay her dancing wasn't so great but I've seen so much worse in J-Pop. A load of girl/boybands have these retarded dances which make me think I'm back to kindergarten. Seriously dancing is so not something most of the Japanese stars excel in. Most artists just have a simple choreography or prance around like idiots. Only serious singers-dancers like BoA pull it off well.

In any way, I bet whoever said it was some annoying person who can only make themselves feel better by insulting a diva.

[criminal]

I guess the Japanese prefer cheerful/sad song over rock? o_o

[Maxker]

What's wrong with the sales? She's #1, what more do we actually need =x Thanks for sharing

[AyuGAME]

wonder...why it can be so low..hopefully second day sales and for the rest week of the week sales will become stable not drop down so much

[leo_nardez]

Ya, i think sooo

people are considering to wait for album, which is almost the same price with hell lots more songs than single. besides, download link is everywhere to be found.

That's why.
And koda kumi sales this time really low, even her popularity is quite high now in Japan (i think so,,,)

[dayumi]

Just don't bother those people guys, as long as she produce great music I'm happy.