[Charts+sales] A BEST 2 -- THREAD II

[ayu_fan929]

Since Oricon will include anything that sold in 2007, here's what I got

Ayu
Secret: 170,825
A BEST: 2,935
A BEST 2 (combined): 1,306,911
(m)u LIVE: 8,268
Total: 1,488,939

Kuu
Pre 2007 releases that lapped onto the 2007 Oricon year*: 104,350
Black Cherry: 984,753
~BOUNCE~: 241,077
BUT/Aishou: 103,696
~second session~ LIVE: 76,434
Total: 1,510,310

* includes Yume no Uta/~first things~ CD/~second session~ CD/~first things~ DVD/Cherry Girl.

So they pretty much sold the same amount so far in 2007.

[Lee_Hamasaki]

ok but u can't count ALL sales of Bc and only 20% of Secret...

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Originally Posted by Lee_Hamasaki

where is the sense in that?
secret 170 and black cherry 976?

black cherry released the 20th of december, not in 2007..
so bc approximately sold 400k in 2007

I think the Oricon year starts berfore the 1st of Jan.

Now to something completely different. I will continue to get extreme pleasure from looking at the sales of A BEST 2 individually and BEST ~BL~

Now I can't wait to see Namie and Utadas upcoming album sales, I hope they do so good which will most likely happen.

[hiroshi_ben]

u had miscounted some of ayu sales...secret and (miss)understood arena tour won't sell so low..

[Peger]

Oricon began the year with the 12/13 week, so Secret's first two weeks aren't counted in.

[njanjayrp]

well, it woul donly be fair to count the total sales of Secret, and to be honest Ku had more releases.So when u put it like this, Ayu's still selling just fine.

[DerrickRocks]

ahhhhh?!!!leave kuu out of this focus on Ayu's sales. one is not better than the other come on now! i thought you guys stopped this..Ayu was banned from being talked about in the kuu thread... because it upsets alot of people. i love them both why can't fans co exist...

[Peger]

If people were more mature, there wouldn't be a need for a ban. I guess some people just can't resist starting innane fights over artists.

[ayumisrael]

A BEST 2 sales are doing great ^_^

[ayu_fan929]

I don't see why people think it's "unfair" since...

Originally Posted by Peger

Oricon began the year with the 12/13 week, so Secret's first two weeks aren't counted in.

[DerrickRocks]

^ people are trying to upset ayu fans either it be intentionally or unintentionally. Everyone has different taste in music. Its nature people dont hate ayu as a person or kuu i hope. They just dont like their music...

[truehappiness]

You know, shouldn't any talk of Koda be banned from the Ayumi Hamasaki forums section of this forum? :|

I mean, it's not like there's any real reason for her to ever bring her up in an Ayu news thread..

[I'm just being real here. :<]

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^ Very True, should be banned 110%

[ayu_fan929]

But didn't you say it was inevitable?

[Peger]

The problem is, people should be mature enough to compare sales between two artists without everything turning into a flame war. I don't understand why Kuu is the one coming under attack all the time anyway. At least she and Ayu are on the same label; Ayaka's new album outsold Secret by a lot yet no one's complaining about her.

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Ayaka deserves to sell that much.

[Peger]

Originally Posted by Kingofpop

Ayaka deserves to sell that much.

That's all opinion though. Personally, i felt Ayaka's album was bland and relied entirely on her voice. She has a great one, sure, but a good album takes more than that. An hour of power ballads that sound the same doesn't deserve to hit a million, imo.

[Tasked]

Ayu's really gonna fall of the charts soon; but at least it's awesome that it's still IN the charts now.. Almost all of the albums that are in the top20 are quite new releases..

[WillofDusk]

Combine her shipped n sold copies we've got more than 3mi, that's really something.
She's still far beyond the very top artist of Japan.

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by ayu_fan929

But didn't you say it was inevitable?

Yeah, that's the point.

Stop it from being inevitable by stopping it altogether. :|