The Official glitter/fated Sales + Positions Thread

[andre2907]

200k in the first week is impossible, sorry.

Originally Posted by ayumisrael

FOL wasn't such hit, maybe just its sales, because of a really good marketing.
The song just good but nothig special...

Are you crazy? It was a huge hit. It made her top the 2006 favorite artist list by Oricon for the first time in 2 years, it is the best-selling digital single ever (7 million copies sold) and digital + physical sales equal 7.7 million sold making it the best-selling single ever. So yes, Flavor of Life was a giant huge hit.

[ayumisrael]

Originally Posted by andre2907

200k in the first week is impossible, sorry.


Are you crazy? It was a huge hit. It made her top the 2006 favorite artist list by Oricon for the first time in 2 years, it is the best-selling digital single ever (7 million copies sold) and digital + physical sales equal 7.7 million sold making it the best-selling single ever. So yes, Flavor of Life was a giant huge hit.

I wasn't talking sales wise, with the Tie ins and hikki's divorce I wouldn't count it as hit because those are the reasons it sold like it sold.

Btw about 5,000,000 or more from those downloads are just ringtones...
If it would be the best selling single then it needs to sell physically a lot more and this is not a FOL thread xD.
I liked the single but it wasn't really a special song like Passion. If Passion would have those marketings it would sell like FOL its sell were huge yes, but it's not a big surprise. I'm happy that it had such a great marketing that it could give hikki good sales.

I'm glad that ayu is #1 for 3 days ^_^ only 3 days left.

[tourniquet]

Originally Posted by ayumisrael

I wasn't talking sales wise, with the Tie ins and hikki's divorce I wouldn't count it as hit because those are the reasons it sold like it sold.

oh well, it's all about the music in japan... >__>

it's not like ayu isn't promoting her stuff in any way one can come up with (movie tie in of glitter/fated). and people don't buy stuff because someone got divorced. "ohmigosh, I'm so sorry for her, I'll buy that single, so she feels better." - this kind of crap. x_x

[andre2907]

Originally Posted by ayumisrael

I wasn't talking sales wise, with the Tie ins and hikki's divorce I wouldn't count it as hit because those are the reasons it sold like it sold.

Well, people obviously liked the song. Ayu broke-up too and do you see a huge increase in sales? And the single had a tie-in with a movie and the movie flopped BIG time in Japan, so it's not like Ayu isn't using the exact same tricks as Utada Hikaru, it just didn't work as well.

[ayumisrael]

Originally Posted by andre2907

Well, people obviously liked the song. Ayu broke-up too and do you see a huge increase in sales? And the single had a tie-in with a movie and the movie flopped BIG time in Japan, so it's not like Ayu isn't using the exact same tricks as Utada Hikaru, it just didn't work as well.

As I said before CMs/movies tie-ins are nothing compared to drama tie-ins specially the Drama hikki's FoL was in with high ratings.
That's the reason leaving aside the divorce thing...
Sales started to really raise and shoot at the day this drama was aired and hikki's divorce message together, both or the drama gave FoL its high sales, without the tie in it would sell like boku wa kuma^_^.

Originally Posted by ayumisrael

without the tie in it would sell like boku wa kuma ^_^.

hell noo!
without the tie-in it would still be number one (for one week.) and sell around 200+k.

[Raleigh]

Originally Posted by ayumisrael

without the tie in it would sell like boku wa kuma^_^.

Without the tie-in and the sob story of the divorce [arranged conveniently during FoL] she wouldn't be selling this hight with the single.