[Koda Kumi] Walk of Kuu's Life in her 173rd thread!

[melissalove]

Originally Posted by Dream

A music card is a card that allows you to download the album but counts as a physical sale (for Oricon). But since it's much cheaper than the actual album, Oricon has stopped counting them for their reports, which is the reason it's being released to the fanclub only (they assume every member will buy the album anyways).

Wait.. so you can download a cheaper version of the album, but it wont be counted towards oricon ( which is important) and they're giving those to her FC which is most of her fan-base. So in other words, most of her fanbase can download cheap uncounted albums. This is bound to hurt overall oricon counted sales. Please tell me i completely misunderstood.

[Dream]

Originally Posted by melissalove

Wait.. so you can download a cheaper version of the album, but it wont be counted towards oricon ( which is important) and they're giving those to her FC which is most of her fan-base. So in other words, most of her fanbase can download cheap uncounted albums. This is bound to hurt overall oricon counted sales. Please tell me i completely misunderstood.

The thing is, nobody really buys music cards for the music itself, they usually just buy it as a collectible or to boost their faves sales (which doesn't work anymore). So I'm pretty sure anyone from the fc who's interested in the album will buy a normal copy.

[ALfromHELLSING]

I just read on fb that it will include only 8 track, which makes music card even more useless. Why would you pay half of the price for half of the album when on iTunes you can do the same and pick your own tracks. Whatever. lol Avex stopped making sense long time ago.

and tenshi no hane thanks for the lyrics translation, beautiful and great message too.

[inthezone]

Who cares about Oricon and their outdated system. Unless they start counting digital sales, they'll remein irrelevant.

[melissalove]

Originally Posted by inthezone

Who cares about Oricon and their outdated system. Unless they start counting digital sales, they'll remein irrelevant.

I guess your right. But whether we like it or not Oricon has a lot of influence in japan.

[Tom Punks]

Originally Posted by inthezone

Who cares about Oricon and their outdated system. Unless they start counting digital sales, they'll remein irrelevant.

How can it be irrelevant when it's the only chart in Japan that's actually relevant lmao

[happiholic★]

Meh, as long as Kuu keeps making music I'm not too concerned about Oricon and their outdated chart.

[ALfromHELLSING]

Originally Posted by happiholic★

Meh, as long as Kuu keeps making music I'm not too concerned about Oricon and their outdated chart.

My thoughts exactly. Oricon is annoying with their counting, not counting, re-counting. I'm getting my copy from iTunes and I don't care if it counts or not. I support my favourite artist and avex is getting its money too, all fair.

WALK OF MY LIFE Music Video might also be like You're So Beautiful, it was pretty but nothing special. walk ~to the future~ was very nice on the other hand.

[kaled kalil]

I just can't understand why Japan's charts are so outdated. They should have a more simple chart mixing all the sales (physical sales and digital)...

[Bigtop]

Originally Posted by kaled kalil

I just can't understand why Japan's charts are so outdated. They should have a more simple chart mixing all the sales (physical sales and digital)...

Do I have to really say this again? Why is Oricon not really a fan of digital downloads? Do they think there's another organization who tracks digital downloads? Problem is...the digital music download market is fragmented! Recochoku, music.jp, dwango, iTunes, etc...is there such thing as a "unified digital download chart" for Japan???

[Minttulatte]

If there isn't, they should create a chart for digital sales. And that's all. :')

[happiholic★]

The physical CD music market us just as fragmented. One could buy the same CD from a number of different sources. I can't imagine that somehow its harder to report the sales of digital music than it is to report that of a physical CD.

[LiDaYu]

Hi, my best friend asked me this picture in good quality.

'Cause she didn't found it, i scanned this and share with you

[Diva_br]

Originally Posted by LiDaYu

Hi, my best friend asked me this picture in good quality.

'Cause she didn't found it, i scanned this and share with you

THANK YOU

[Fernando]

I just preordered my copy of Walk of My Life so I'm happy!

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

I think I'll pick this up in Japan in June instead of ordering online for once!

[Gustavopc]

Kuu's featuring on Vivi is nothing more than a half page interview with a promo pic of the album, it's not even another shooting or an outtake She's getting so lazy with magazines lately, I used to love all her shoots...

And that pic with a blue dress, with the Dream5 guys, is from a kind of Awards held by Mercedes-Benz, saw it on FB at French Fans Page. So, it's not a TV live :/

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

She's getting lazy with magazines? Did she become editor in chief of vivi and I didn't hear about it? Lol

[Gustavopc]

I mean, it gives me the impression she doesn't care about shoots for magazines anymore

[happiholic★]

Originally Posted by Gustavopc

I mean, it gives me the impression she doesn't care about shoots for magazines anymore

I think its more that magazines don't care for her. She's not super popular, so people aren't going to be inclined to pick up a copy if she's on the cover. I think she only gets small spreads because of that too. There has to be some promotion, yes, but I think at this point she's making music for her die hard fans, not trying to win the public like back in the day. I think Ayu is in the same boat.