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Old 9th April 2021, 10:21 AM
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forgiveness, though .........is still pathetic

I mean, sure, the remaster is leagues better than the original mix (especially the awful white noise during the intro), but it doesn't sound better than the A COMPLETE version.
the white noise is still there, and pretty much during the whole song lol it bothers me so much
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Old 9th April 2021, 01:35 PM
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Well, I was wrong, it only sold 2184 copies today
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Old 9th April 2021, 01:40 PM
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Happy to see her number 1, but when I saw it’s only 2k copies I am like mehhhh
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These photos look promising. I hope anyone could find the time and effort to make some good scans.

But honestly, I am in no place asking for this, because I'm not bothered to buy the actual album. So I'll wait forever, if that is what it takes.
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It doesn't seem like they've uploaded all the remastered tracks to Spotify or some of them have not been remastered as most of the songs are actually linked to the old releases and had retained their play count (much like TO BE had on the LOVEappears 20th Anniversary edition). i.e. You were...'s and TODAY's A BALLADS 2 version has less than 1000 plays while the original has 300k while momentum, Love song, Life and the majority of DISC 1 songs have retained their play count.
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^thats weird.
However, I think we can finally call her an online artist. I don't even bother to look at her physical sales anymore. I think her streaming numbers are pretty solid and far from "a has been".
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A BALLADS 2 is #2 on Recochoku :
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I found these on Instagram today
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The way that any of those pics would've been a better cover lol
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That last picture is so kawaii.
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Not sure if this was posted, but she’s No 1 today as well, with sales of 2184 copies.
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Not sure if this was posted, but she’s No 1 today as well, with sales of 2184 copies.
OMG... US$50 in an album without 10K in sales. People tried to warn me but I really believed I she would make 100K.

Now we are really lucky if it gets 30K. Omg...
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Wow. Gorgeous!!!!
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This whole photo shoot is amazing. She's such a wonderful and expressive model.

As for this album, I'm disappointed in it personally. I never really care about the sales, but I'm glad it's not reaching higher numbers to maybe tell Avex that they made the wrong decision not making it closer to how A BALLADS was (with its re-arrangements giving new life to certain songs).
Perhaps they'll do a ballads 3 in a better way, if that comes to exist at some point.
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the white noise is still there, and pretty much during the whole song lol it bothers me so much
the A COMPLETE version really is the best we have—and even in that you can still make out the white noise! this song is so difficult to get right

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Not sure if this was posted, but she’s No 1 today as well, with sales of 2184 copies.
sales number is really sad, but at least she's number 1. thanks for sharing this!
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I actually thought that the white noice in forgiveness is intentional lol
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Yeah if they wanted to re-mix it, they would maybe take out the noise, but all they did was remaster the original final files (which has some noise on the piano). It’s not at all distracting to me though. Makes it feel like it was all recorded in a room together.
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OMG... US$50 in an album without 10K in sales. People tried to warn me but I really believed I she would make 100K.

Now we are really lucky if it gets 30K. Omg...
Why on earth would you think she’d sell 100k? She hasn’t managed to sell this much since 2013? She hasn’t had any hits in the interim and her fan base is aging and has different priorities than collecting cds 😙🌸
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Why on earth would you think she’d sell 100k? She hasn’t managed to sell this much since 2013? She hasn’t had any hits in the interim and her fan base is aging and has different priorities than collecting cds 😙🌸
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