[Charts & Rankings] The Official Oricon Thread ~Party Queen~

[TeamAyu2004]

i think she is selling rather well for the lack of promotion that avex did for this...
I mean I have been told that most people didn't even know she had an album coming out!

[jewelbox]

Originally Posted by jyujiw

And AHS, why such a drama? People who are hating ayu since 2009 as it seems, please, log off. It's pretty simple

I don't see any haters or bashers, I see people with opinions about this album.

[AyuBlackwind]

I have thought seriously that Five and Party Queen are under-promoted. They weren't promoted as much as her other albums. Five had no singles. Party Queen has only HBYA and four PV's. Maybe she's in an idgaf kinda mood lately?

[ccsharumun]

I'll say I'm surprised I was right in my personal guesstimate for the numbers thus far. I expected her name to sell more from the first day. But the analysis of some other users is starting to make sense: between the poor art/videos (compared to her previous works--I don't care how much some people said they enjoyed it) and poor last minute marketing, it's not as surprising.

Originally Posted by Cardboard box

I don't see any haters or bashers, I see people with opinions about this album.

Agreed.

[greggerz189]

Hm. The fact that she can still debut in the top two slots after all these years is a feat in and of itself. She doesn't exactly have the selling power she did ten years ago, so I'm impressed with the fact that she can still shake up the charts with a new release. I was pleasantly surprised to hear that she took more stylistic risks with this new album. I really hope she continues to push herself sonically and lyrically.

[YUKARI]

if there were some promotion on tv like live performances and etc. I'm sure she'd definitely had 1st place.

ayu, avex, if you are still interested in this business, you need to understand that time has changed and now you guys need to fight for the 1st place and good sales

[toniayu]

Originally Posted by jyujiw

And AHS, why such a drama? People who are hating ayu since 2009 as it seems, please, log off. It's pretty simple

agree

[Onton]

the figure today is gonna out soon...

[Aditmi Krisnasaki ~II~]

is it because of its early release at iTunes Japan? o.O

this album deserves better...

[Foyuki]

2 18,115 Ｐａｒｔｙ　Ｑｕｅｅｎ AVT 12/3/21
浜崎あゆみ

[truehappiness]

*83,816　Acid Black Cherry
*65,490　浜崎あゆみ
*23,358　AAA

Totals so far?

For comparison:
　　NEXT LE　Rock'n'　Love so　FIVE　　Party
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月　***,***　***,***　***,***　***,***　*27,338
火　*99,200　*85,142　*70,669　*56,258　*20,037
水　*48,318　*42,288　*36,911　*27,004　*18,115
木　*24,935　*19,693　*21,854　*13,008　***,***
金　*17,208　*15,297　*14,303　**9,235　***,***
土　*18,089　*16,737　*12,729　**8,161　***,***
日　*20,167　*14,841　*10,981　**9,078　***,***
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計　227,917　193,998　167,387　122,744　(65,490)

初　240,810　205,058　180,048　127,024　***,***
累　379,989　318,454　272,653　213,495　***,***

I wonder if she might sell 15k+ all week? Since this week started a day early, should think of the first two days as a "first day"? If that's the case, we can expect Ayu to be around 10-15k tomorrow. Today is what would normally be the second day for most releases.

[shuyalove]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

I don't think that's really fair. Fan or not, if you don't like something, then you are under no obligation to buy it. The artist is selling their product to us and its up to us, the consumer, to judge whether it is worth buying or not. Even for me, I don't buy blindly from my various favorite artists; I just buy the products that I like the most and feel are worth the price tag - its up to the artist/record company to make me believe that they are. Record companies don't make PVs and covers just for the hell of it, they do it in the hopes that it will appeal to the consumers and they can make their money back + extra; that's why they need to make sure that what they are expecting people to pay for is actually something appealing to the audience. Sometimes they hit and sometimes they miss.
Albums and especially albums + dvd + 2dvds are expensive. I don't think only 4 pvs is necessarily the problem, but more so the quality of the pvs. Had they been 4 high quality pvs, I think more people would shell out their money.

I'm totally agree with you! I think NaNaNa PV and Shake It PV are very similar and not worked... I think japanese people were waiting a QUEEN (like ayu is) not a sad queen...

[LONJJONG]

OMG seriously? O_O

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

I remember a couple of years ago when people used to say, "omfg I'm gonna die the day when she sells 100k of her albums and not 1m like before..."

Well, the day is here LOL

[ren'ai]

Woahhhhhh so much drama.. She's still like, 7k ahead of kuu's JAPONESQUE 1st & 2nd day sells and Kuu dropped really fast that week and still managed 98k. If Party Queen keeps it up, 100k 1st week is in the bag. What more do you guys want?

[emi♡]

She's much closer to kuukuu's sales though than I had predicted...


Well, she's still doing okay.

[toniayu]

well,i hope it reach 200,000 copies at the end

[bondingo]

The sales are pretty good considering the current landscape of the Japanese music industry. AKB manages to sell like crazy, but there are a million reasons why they do that Ayu doesn't satisfy any of (it's also their singles that sell so well, not albums), which is good for her that she can still sell 100k in the first week (I'm sure she will at this rate) with ZERO promotion and singles leading up to it. I'm happy with the sales. I was actually expecting worse.

[Tony G]

^ But FIVE was exactly the same (no singles, no promotion) and had a stronger 3-day total AND was a mini-album. Half a year is not a long time and definitely not long enough to see a fall this sharp and contribute it to the falling sales of CDs or a lack of promotion. This is definitely not it this time.

There should also be interest in this release given her divorce not so long ago. I was expecting that to show in the sales.

This time, it might have to do with the product itself. The artwork is one. The PVs are another. The songs (besides for the middle section and HBYA) and not tracks where people would turn to Ayu to hear. And I daresay Timmy's face being plastered in everything is probably turning away Japanese fans as well.

[AyuGAME]

Hope for miracle from today season finale of saigo kara nibanme no koi!

I want to see Ayu get number one, even just for one day!