[Charts & Rankings] The Official Oricon Thread ~crossroad & L for 50th Single~

[Cherry Dynamite]

I bet Seiko Matsuda doesn't even care.

Hopefully L will sell well~

[AyuGAME]

^Japanese is really competitive country...i think seiko does care about the record...not that much...but i think she know about this thing going on with her almost breaking record

[TITANIC]

Ok. Ayu is about to break Seiko's record. after that, here's the hope for her to supress Mr. Children with 29 consecutives

[freedreamer]

^and how many more to that?

edit: ok so with L..it'll be 25 consec?..she may achieve it in 2 years time..but thats saying if MrChildren stops hahaha..thats impossible right?

[chocopockymaster]

Originally Posted by freedreamer

^and how many more to that?

She's at 24 right now. L will be 25 (fingers crossed). So, 4 more.

Problem is, Mr. Children is still releasing, still insanely popular, and not going anywhere anytime soon.

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

Originally Posted by Cherry Dynamite

I bet Seiko Matsuda doesn't even care.

Hopefully L will sell well~

lol is not like she could do anything about it anyway

maybe buy 100k copies of crossroad??

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

I think she'll be able to break their record as well...

[Andrenekoi]

Well, Mr Children doesn't have a record... in order to break a record, she should break's B'z: 43 consecutive #1 singles

[TITANIC]

^ it's not about to break their record being the 2nd of most consecutive #1 single.
I just realized, Kinki Kids and Mr.children have 29 consecutive singles. Ayu needs 3 or 4 more years to do that, imo
If Daybreak never exist, she definately surpass both of them

[Andrenekoi]

Cuz breaking B'z record is nearly impossible anyway

[Max_ZZZ]

awww the L pv's are so nice, waaay better than crossroad LOL man that ugly cgi explosion made me laugh

[kendelle]

I have a feeling I won't get my singles for a while lol....the November 2010 Vivi is apparently waiting on a stock delivery...waah!

[Nackar_91]

Lol, we've all been looking forward to this so very much, and now she hasn't even broken the record yet and people are already talking about new records XD.

Personally, I'll be so glad that this is all over and the stress of her HAVING TO GET NO. 1 being gone.

[C+R+E+AYUMI]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

Well, Mr Children doesn't have a record... in order to break a record, she should break's B'z: 43 consecutive #1 singles

they're monsters really..(in the good sense)

anyway, fingers crossed until tomorrow

[Ranma Matsuri]

Originally Posted by rakeru

It's cool that by coincidence the record breaker (presumably) is also her big 50th single. I can't get over how perfect the timing is.

It is quite the coinwinkidink isn't it?

Already knew it but congrats to Ayu on her #1 anyway.

So the B'z record is 43? She can probably shorten the gap between them in the next 5 years as she's definitely not going to stop releasing anytime soon but unless they retire or pick a horrible week to release, we're probably just gonna have to be content with her having Seiko's record (which is still pretty damn remarkable on it's own). You can argue about Avex's marketing gimmicks and the picking safe weeks to release or whatever but there's only so much you can do in that arena, the rest falls on the people that support her. As much as this woman pumps out year after year, for 8 years she's managed to have a #1 single. Almost a decade.

[bluegie]

Originally Posted by Ranma Matsuri

You can argue about Avex's marketing gimmicks and the picking safe weeks to release or whatever but there's only so much you can do in that arena, the rest falls on the people that support her. As much as this woman pumps out year after year, for 8 years she's managed to have a #1 single. Almost a decade.

Not only avex doing that. B'z company, the Johnnys', Mr. Chlidren's company, etc. are doing the same thing. I dun think B'z can maintain the longest streak if their company doesn't choose safe weeks for them. Groups like AKB48 can totally blow the streak apart.

So, ayu streak will keep on until one day when a new artist kills it off (SCS is a good example).

[ayumisrael]

1st Week
Position: #1
Estimated Sales: 72,398
Official Total Sales: 73,691

2nd Week

1st Day
Position: #3
Sales: 2,139
Total Sales: 75,830

[～※人魚※～]

^
Not bad, not bad

[Elednist]

It would be nice if in the first week she would reach 75k, but is OK, at least the sales are higher than MOON. I hope she gets more promotion for L, cause she is not doing very much to sell more with the last 2 singles xD

[jbrat2219]

Originally Posted by ストロボ・EdGE

No, I want lives on Music Station, Heyx3, etc. It doesn't "make me feel better", whatever it was that you were implying by that. But as long as I've been listening to Ayu, TV lives have been part of the new single out excitement. I love those shows, especially Msta seeing favorite artists together and interacting and then performing their new songs. Ayu performing live is one of my favorite parts of there being a new single out. What's wrong with that? :/

Don't really care for her being on magazines constantly, and I'm not in Japan so I don't care for trucks rolling around with her face on them. But I get it that Ayu is SUPER busy and she has a lot going on, but in any case it isn't like she's the one that books the lives or anything; I just feel these singles should've been performed on TV more, that's all. The Music Station performance of crossroad made me love and appreciate the song so much more when I didn't care for it much. At least it seems to me, a good way to promote your songs is to perform them on TV which leads to this clever comment:

Nothing is wrong with that I just always wondered why people get so bent out of shape all the time over promotion. I guess it's because I'm content with Ayu's music alone? Maybe I ignorantly thought that since we're all big fans and we all get all the information we need by following her, what do you need more promotion for? That's what I meant by "feel better." Does it make you feel better to see her out there more and to see word getting around more about her music. I didn't mean anything by it, I was honestly just curious to why that is xD;. But if you're a fan of TV lives then naturally lack thereof will be upsetting. Considering her schedule, you can clearly see why she's not performing much this time around though.