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Maiku · #21 30th March 2006, 10:25 AM

i notice ayu never promotes her albums

atleast not the last two.. just look at how many live's kumi did and no i'm not bringing kumi out for an ayu vs kumi but i hope ayu would try and promote her albums more

hallelujah_united · #22 30th March 2006, 10:39 AM

She probably doesn't care about sales anymore these days. It seems as if she's releasing material now because it's what she wants to do and has fun doing it. If people don't buy her releases, so be it.

Mad_Cactuar · #23 30th March 2006, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by hallelujah_united

She probably doesn't care about sales anymore these days. It seems as if she's releasing material now because it's what she wants to do and has fun doing it. If people don't buy her releases, so be it.

Yes true! However she does need to sell much also if we want to keep seeing her bloody awesome music videos and packed to the brim CD/DVD contents.

darkswordz · #24 30th March 2006, 11:04 AM

^ true, i don't think avex would have another high budget pv for Ayu =X which is rather sad

just because she is not bringing high sales anymore

ayu_fan929 · #25 30th March 2006, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Maiku

i notice ayu never promotes her albums

atleast not the last two.. just look at how many live's kumi did and no i'm not bringing kumi out for an ayu vs kumi but i hope ayu would try and promote her albums more

well they did have the word "best" in the album, so obviously, she had more perfs. BoA's perfs for her OUTGROW album, had pretty much the same number as (m)u i believe

tethevo · #26 31st March 2006, 05:02 AM

I think low sales are more due to the fact that this album is more worse in quality than MY STORY.

alternarist · #27 31st March 2006, 10:50 AM

^ agree.

Kikaru · #28 31st March 2006, 05:50 PM

^^Well, I thought Mystory was weaker in term of tracks, but better tied together as an album. M(U) had better album tracks IMO, but was kinda of all over the place.

On the performance thing, I notice that in Mystory, when the did the CD review thing on TV with the clips, they done all the songs. This year they only did the songs with only tracks from the singles...I say Ayu should have performanced Rainy Day or Criminal like she performed Walking Proud...

SunshineSlayer · #29 31st March 2006, 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by voltron

I HIGHLY doubt that the promotion wasn't big...when I was in Japan last year, there were advertisements and billboards for My Story all over the place. You can't really say promotion wasn't big unless you live in Japan and see all of the (or lack of) advertisements.

Well, when I was there earlier this month I didn't see much promotion for (miss)Understood or Startin - not compared to the other artists that had releases out.

Sweer · #30 31st March 2006, 07:06 PM

sheesh
sad... I was hoping for it to increase in the sales a bit, but I didnt expect it to loose even more

LacusClyne · #31 1st April 2006, 12:27 AM

urgh. 150 more to go. that's a very long way!

andre2907 · #32 1st April 2006, 03:35 AM

I don't blame promotion. I mean, so what she used B&D to promote the album? Everybody already knew HEAVEN, Fairyland and Step You at that point, plus, it's not like ONE performance for Walking Proud would make MY STORY sell much more. The album inclueded a picture booklet in first press! If that's not a big promotion, than I dunno what it is... I mean, Shibuya was packed with billboards; big screens all over Tokyo airing the CM... by now, of course they ended the promotion, I mean, the promotion for any album in Japan is over after a month (well, not for Koda Kumi, but she's the exception). It's so easy for us to say the reason why the album isn't doing very well is because people don't buy albums anymore or because she didn't sing the song we liked in TV shows, well, people, I think AVEX knows better than us and if they tought that was the right way to promote the album, they were probably closer to the truth than us.

That said, at least it was a small drop. No chance her sales will increase again, I think... but I do think it will reach a million copies.

andre2907 · #33 1st April 2006, 03:38 AM

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Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

Well, when I was there earlier this month I didn't see much promotion for (miss)Understood or Startin - not compared to the other artists that had releases out.

Startin' had a big promotion, I mean, it was the theme song for a bestselling video game (that's a very important tie-in. Tie-in = promotion). Plus, (miss)Undestood was out for a long time and the promotions are over after a month or so

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Kaiouforever · #34 3rd April 2006, 04:26 PM

Why is everyone whining about "low sales?" She's sold over 850,000 copies of this album. I think that's damn good. As long as she can keep putting out high ranking singles and albums that sell like this, she's doing superb.

ayu_fan929 · #35 3rd April 2006, 09:25 PM

^because the number is the lowest out of all 8 albums

tethevo · #36 4th April 2006, 04:36 AM

And it may be the first original album for her to sell LESS than 1 million copies.

darkswordz · #37 4th April 2006, 10:42 AM

^there's a first time to everything... =X

ohsixthirty · #38 4th April 2006, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by andre2907

That said, at least it was a small drop. No chance her sales will increase again, I think... but I do think it will reach a million copies.

yeah, in like three years.

evolution7931 · #39 4th April 2006, 08:32 PM

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Originally Posted by tethevo

And it may be the first original album for her to sell LESS than 1 million copies.

oh well. No ORIGINAL album has reached the 1 million mark all year. Ayu's is the highest selling original album of them all so far. That's enough to satisfy me.

Kaiouforever · #40 8th April 2006, 07:15 AM

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Originally Posted by evolution7931

oh well. No ORIGINAL album has reached the 1 million mark all year. Ayu's is the highest selling original album of them all so far. That's enough to satisfy me.

Seriously! =)