[CHARTS + SALES] GUILTY -- ORICON STYLE Thread 4 - Page 11

extepan · #**201** 10th February 2008, 05:34 AM

550k is not a good number for ayu. avex needs to do more promotion.

ayumixfan · #**202** 10th February 2008, 10:43 AM

^lol O_O They did so much for her already XD! lol I Don't think its possible to promote GUILTY anymore than this XD

AyuGAME · #**203** 10th February 2008, 10:53 AM

^i agree..but i think avex need to think other strategy to promote her...more creative and create a new innovation

ayumixfan · #**204** 10th February 2008, 10:55 AM

^ lol thats true =)! Change can always be useful, especially with a change of music =D

roanmy · #**205** 10th February 2008, 11:52 AM

Has Ayu done any live performances for this album? At all?

Except for the singles...

ayumixfan · #**206** 10th February 2008, 11:54 AM

^ Wasn't CDL live suppose to be the live perf? =S

WillofDusk · #**207** 10th February 2008, 11:58 AM

there hasnt been any tv performances
Yea if you mention that, that's kinda weird when she doesnt perform any song on tv for the album tracks like last year (JEWEL and 1LOVE)
This year is just together when... but its a single and that doenst count

TITANIC · #**208** 10th February 2008, 12:58 PM

i think they must give more stuff and bonus like kuu.. maybe it will increase the sales

kournikova · #**209** 10th February 2008, 01:31 PM

it would be too uncommon for ayumi to release with a lot of bonuses, let alone 16 new vclips + 16 tracks....... the way kingdom pvs are mostly underbudgeted for a vclip..... so I think avex's decision on ayu is still right... its just... she isnt there and she needs to make something special like a huge smashing hits "SEASON" or "M", If she releases one single like that, believe me.. she'll be back and selling like crazy

Aggar · #**210** 10th February 2008, 01:40 PM

^^ yeah , she don't need to give a lot of bonuses . . she just need to do songs like "M"

TITANIC · #**211** 10th February 2008, 02:19 PM

beside she need to realese great song, they need to give more bonus for fans..
it'll increase the sales..

Aggar · #**212** 10th February 2008, 02:33 PM

hmm . . actually I don't care about the sales . . what I care is her popularity . . I just want her to be famous again like 2002 or her old days

TITANIC · #**213** 10th February 2008, 02:37 PM

^ dont worry about her popularity..
in asia, her name and hikki is the most influence...

i dun care how much it has been sold, i juz care about the chart position

Aggar · #**214** 10th February 2008, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by riozz

^ dont worry about her popularity..
in asia, her name and hikki is the most influence...

i dun care how much it has been sold, i juz care about the chart position

good idea

Minttulatte · #**215** 10th February 2008, 02:50 PM

I think Ayu should re-release A Song for XX this year or next. Or at least re-arrange/release poker face, because it's her first single. I'd really like to hear that as a remade version. I'm sure it will sound awesome. <3

And about what she should do to sell better; release albums as CD Only, CD+DVD and CD+2DVD like Koda Kumi, or make some new themes for TV dramas like Hikki did with her Flavor of Life song. :3 I would like these both ideas a lot, it would work fine.

But I don't really care about the sales or position or her fame, because I'm sure people does respect Ayu even if her sales are less than 100,000 per album nowadays. I think, for her, selling over 500,000 is awesome thing. :> She's not selling as bad as I thought she would be. But she's still Ayu, even she doesn't sell over a million per album like in 1999-2004 she did. ^^

njanjayrp · #**216** 10th February 2008, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Aggar

hmm . . actually I don't care about the sales . . what I care is her popularity . . I just want her to be famous again like 2002 or her old days

Only a HUGE miracle can make her as popular as she was in 2001/2002, and it's nearly impossible. I guess that if she performed the new song in shows, it would sell a bit better, I doubt more than 20~30 k better tough. I don't want to see Ayu release an album that has more bonuses than actual good songs, those bonuses aren't helping neither Dong Bang Shin Ki nor Kumi to sell much more than they actually would considering their current levels of popularity. Sure it's nice to have a best of album with extras, but studio albums should be about songs, and I like the fact that people like Ayu, Hikki and Shimatani are putting the music in the first place.

Aggar · #**217** 10th February 2008, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by njanjayrp

Only a HUGE miracle can make her as popular as she was in 2001/2002, and it's nearly impossible. I guess that if she performed the new song in shows, it would sell a bit better, I doubt more than 20~30 k better tough. I don't want to see Ayu release an album that has more bonuses than actual good songs, those bonuses aren't helping neither Dong Bang Shin Ki nor Kumi to sell much more than they actually would considering their current levels of popularity. Sure it's nice to have a best of album with extras, but studio albums should be about songs, and I like the fact that people like Ayu, Hikki and Shimatani are putting the music in the first place.

yeah . . you are right

tourniquet · #**218** 10th February 2008, 06:27 PM

no more bonuses. ever.

it's getting ridiculous. I don't want to pay 5000 yen each time I want an album.

and sales are ok at this point. look at what LOVE PiECE sold to date.

Jwiz · #**219** 10th February 2008, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by AyuGAME

^i agree..but i think avex need to think other strategy to promote her...more creative and create a new innovation

absolutely agree with ya...avex should put in more effort in generating creative strategy to promote ayu..like how much effort they've done in coming out new strategies each time to promote koda.

njanjayrp · #**220** 10th February 2008, 10:59 PM

If there was a thing I'd like her to do, is a short movie for A Song For XX ~ And then XD, the first part could reflect Ayu's childhood, the 2nd her falling in love and changing her mind, about running away alone, and well it would be nice if there would be at least another one to conclude the story XD. And soo nice to at least release a SPECIAL standalone DVD with newly recorded PVs of the old songs (the ones that had no PV or just the CMs), though that will probably never happen.