[Charts+sales] A BEST 2

[truehappiness]

Well, you have to remember;

In Koda's case, ~ss~ was released during her "peak popularity."

It'd be comparable to Ayu releasing A BEST and I am.. in 2001. Had Ayu had the immense popularity that she had then, I think she probably would have sold like 2 million first week easily for like, EACH of these..

[dayumi]

wow!!!! keep it up Ayuu!!! the sales are not bad..

[LNany]

Exact figures by Oricon:

*1　| A BEST 2 -WHITE- | 475,284
*2　| A BEST 2 -BLACK- | 470,057

[gakkun]

Why do Ayumi fans have this inferiority complex that their favourite artist's sales matters to them so much?

It's like they have to reassure themselves, 'she sells so well, I still have a reason to like her'. When she doesn't, they find all the reasons in the world to explain why her sales are dropping like no tomorrow. It's so amusing to watch.

[CedriK]

Divide sales for the first week by 2, then on the next week sales should be around 200k, and combined sales of the 3rd and 4th week and then A BEST 2 should reach 1 mil. each other, that's my theory.

Go Ayu !!

[Sim']

Thanks *-*

[immel]

Looks like neither of the albums will reach a million.

Nice sales, but a bit lower than I had expected.

[Partino]

Thank god ... not as bad as I thought the sales will be. 470k for each album isn't that bad. And that was just the 1st week. I hope the sales will go much higher. 1.1 million for each shouldn't be so hard to achieve. well ... we'll see ... maybe Japan is going back to roots of the good old fashioned J-Pop and in that area no one can compete with ayu. Let's go get 'em girl. *gg*

[Dark_hated]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Believe it or not, TRF used to be super hot. lol

I'm kind of disappointed in Ayu's fans more than the sales.
I've grown to not give a crap about sales, but apparently a ton of people think she has to sell a million first week to be "worthy" :|

No... I think that low sales means that avex will support her less (less than now... ) and that because of that, releases will have poor quality... (look at Ami Suzuki for example )

[DerrickRocks]

Originally Posted by immel

Looks like neither of the albums will reach a million.

Nice sales, but a bit lower than I had expected.

alot of people are saying it isnt! and i know your a huge ayu fan!! ^.^ but dont give up yet! soon as this new tour starts the sales will rocket!

[AyuGAME]

its a little low for me too..i thought it can hit 800k for both of them in the first week...but lets see..i really hope it can hit million

[immel]

Well, basically any album selling lower than 550k in the first week will not reach a million.

[truehappiness]

What about Mika Nakashima? She sold around 480k first week and eventually got 1.08 million..

Best albums imo are exempt from that "550k" rule..

[immel]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Best albums imo are exempt from that "550k" rule..

True. We'll just have to wait and see if the 2nd week drop follows the normal 70+% drop.

[truehappiness]

Oh yeah, same goes for Porno Graffiti's "BEST BLUE'S" [which was co-released with BEST RED'S..]

After a while, BLUE'S touched upon a million and RED'S was in the high 900k-range. [They debuted with sales of like 460 and 430k..]

[..:Hot:Like:Wow:..]

That rule applies to the biggest artists.

[ayuflareup!]

I think ORICON didn't take into account the preorder sales and some of the other less prevalent cd shops in Japan~ Perhaps they should make an estimation of that as well. If those counts as well, A BEST 2 might reach almost to a MILLION~
But I believe that the 2nd week will have a big drop because people perhaps are saving money to buy koda's new album... BOUNCE & LOVERS. and as well as Mika's new album YES!

[ayu_fan929]

Originally Posted by norain

Well, if Ayum can't beat Second Sessions, that'll be sad. She tried. =) Lets see if she can even hold her top position, Koda is releasing a third best, so yeah...exile. Erm...=) Go ayu.

The 3rd best is a limited edition. And technically, she isn't holding the top spot (since it's only the Oricon year that counts).

The indicator total for yesterday was 12-13k for the albums. If she manages to average 12-13k for the rest of the week, she would sell ~150k for the 2nd week.
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A BALLADS went from 561,127 => 129,241 (and it didn't even reach 1 million in the end)

[truehappiness]

I think A BALLADS had a problem with the covers..
Like, the Japanese people were like "HUH."

[Eu-Kun]

I hope black gets no.1 at the 2nd week

anyway lets hope it will sell 1,000,000 copies