[Charts & Rankings] 10th Album: NEXT LEVEL - ORICON STYLE

[njanjayrp]

Originally Posted by Empry

Sales for the second day from Oricon:

#1 48318

And my hopes have just died.

[KarenPang]

yup it's already confirmed via http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/

2) TOHOSHINKI ; 30,620
3) DREAMS COME TRUE ; 24,819

please don't tell me somewhere in the 48,318 is the thumbdrive sales ?

[njanjayrp]

Originally Posted by KarenPang

yup it's already confirmed via http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/

2) TOHOSHINKI ; 30,620
3) DREAMS COME TRUE ; 24,819

please don't tell me somewhere in the 48,318 is the thumbdrive sales ?

that's what I thought too I really had hopes this album could outsell GUILTY, but I guess the economic crisis has killed the sales in general. Especially during the last 3 weeks.

[Lanz16]

Originally Posted by Empry

Sales for the second day from Oricon:

#1 48318

OUCH! X_X
Just what I've expected...

[KarenPang]

Originally Posted by njanjayrp

that's what I thought too I really had hopes this album could outsell GUILTY, but I guess the economic crisis has killed the sales in general. Especially during the last 3 weeks.

I echo the same thing as you , I thought with 4 different editions , she might be able to pull things off but the economic crisis has somehow dampen the situation

[LacusClyne]

ooh, are the usb sales counted in the 2nd day chart?

[bluegie]

Originally Posted by ~X2RADialbomber~

Are you serious? LOVEppears is no where as near 'dance' as Next Level.

I dunno how "dance" it is in NL, but the "da da da da wowwowwow... wow wow wow" (WHATEVER) keeps hitting my brain rite now LOL. I guess one of the reasons I love Sparkle is the "da da da da" reminds me about WHATEVER

But... I dun think LOVEppears is "dance" tho. For me, I feel like it's more about visual techno.

And I dun think it's that bad. Let's say for the next few days her sales will be between 20 - 40K, then it's safe to say that the overall first week sales will be around 220K to 250K. Not too bad as there's not much promotion for this album.

And you have to count for two facts about GUILTY: 1 - It was released when the economy was still extremely good; 2 - It was released at x'mas time. Not saying it will help a lot (as Japan doesn't celebrate x'mas), but I think the Japanese still get a little bit hyper for a western festival rite?

[CeReSu]

What a big drop O_____O
Poor Ayu -__-

[KarenPang]

Originally Posted by LacusClyne

ooh, are the usb sales counted in the 2nd day chart?

that's what people said Genie , I don't know how true it's

if it's then I was expecting a much bigger no.

[sanzo2011]

i'm so shocked ! poor Ayu ! tomorrow i 'll see another flop but i hope it'll not be big as this ~~ !

[love in music]

oh dear. this is quite sad.

[njanjayrp]

Originally Posted by bluegie

And I dun think it's that bad. Let's say for the next few days her sales will be between 20 - 40K, then it's safe to say that the overall first week sales will be around 220K to 250K. Not too bad as there's not much promotion for this album.

yeah I agree the album will most likely sell around 220k, 250k top in it's initial week.

[pop909]

Half principle...again....
Well i guess all we can do now is hope for the weekend (like i said before)
Atleast we know she will get #1 though cause tohoshinki is dropping JUST as fast.

[bluegie]

I never expect this album will outsell GUILTY in the first place. As time goes by there'll be less hardcore fans and it's logical to see the sales number will decrease. The point is, we should look for the longevity instead. First week (and maybe extend to second week) sales probly reflect how many hardcore fans she has. Of course there're always more than 1 version so it's hard to say how many fans buying all versions. But I assume the economy is suffering rite now, so there'll be less fans buying more than 1 version. (I'm dragging too far from my main point) The longevity of this album may show how well this album is received by the general public. Probly it will still sell lesser than the previous album, but as long as it enters 500K in the end, I think it's already a good sign.

[Lee^ChaN]

i still can't believe that 99,200 & 48,318 are the actual sales *please let them be the index numbers*
i love this album better than Guilty

[Tony G]

Still might be able to outsel GUILTY, hope it does.

Big drop but to be expected.

[kendelle]

^ They don't do index numbers anymore. The numbers you see are the numbers they are.

It's still pretty good. Low sales are showing in all of the Top Tens there, it's not just Ayu's sales which are low.

I'm pleasantly surprised she's beating Hikki, when she had much higher Ninki xDD

[ayumisrael]

Wow, I didn't think it would drop to less than 50,000 already...
The USB are really counted today? It looks like they did yesterday already -_-.
Anyway the sales are good but I guess the last weeks made everyone underperform (namie, hikki, BoA and now ayu...).

I still hope for some consistency and smaller drops.

[njanjayrp]

Originally Posted by ayumisrael

Wow, I didn't think it would drop to less than 50,000 already...
The USB are really counted today? It looks like they did yesterday already -_-.
Anyway the sales are good but I guess the last weeks made everyone underperform (namie, hikki, BoA and now ayu...).

I still hope for some consistency and smaller drops.

consistency is all that we can hope for now T_T

[Tony G]

Originally Posted by kendelle

^ They don't do index numbers anymore. The numbers you see are the numbers they are.

It's still pretty good. Low sales are showing in all of the Top Tens there, it's not just Ayu's sales which are low.

I'm pleasantly surprised she's beating Hikki, when she had much higher Ninki xDD

oh really? didn't know that.

Well maybe not then! It's a pity since NEXT LEVEL is such a good album.