[RUMOR] 1 LOVE / JEWEL release date has been announced!

[immel]

Anthony, you're still to learn one thing about yourself.

You never disliked anything Ayu XD.

[truehappiness]

Actually, I slightly disliked her pregger period of wolfhair and pregnant-mom dresses during Moments.

Her style was overloaded due to Memorial address and she sort of 'failed' in most fashion attempts at the time. Thank goodness that by the end of the year, MY STORY had amazing photoshoots

[bluegie]

i just gone for half day and it's 6 pages already... killing my eyes while reading all posts (esp at 4am).

Anywayz, I really hope this is just a rumour (regarding the release date). It's a very stupid move to release a single against NANA. Right, the first week of GLAMOROUS SKY was only around 110K copies, but in the end it's over 390K.. What if this time more people choose to buy Nana's 2nd single on the first week? And what if the new nana song is so freakin' good? The name NANA + a freakin' good song may help the single selling over 200K on the first week.

I really hope this is false.

[truehappiness]

Does it really?

ENDLESS STORY was good, as was GLAMOROUS SKY.. they were just VERY stable.

All that really matters is first week sales.. I don't think 200k is possible for female soloists, even for NANA. Maybe 100k for 2-3 weeks..
There's a preview snippet out for the NANA2 song that's by Mika...
It's a sort of ballad.. thing.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NQYXnJdVwzw

[bluegie]

There are several reasons affecting/helping NANA's sales:
1) the hardcore NANA manga fans (trust me it's huge in Japan)
2) it's "NANA" singing it...
3) one member of GLAY composed the song
4) the author of NANA wrote the lyrics

If ayu can get 160K at least on the first week (like BLUE BIRD), then ayu will have more chance to get no. 1. If the sale sucks (like Startin'/BTB), I think NANA may get no. 1..

so why take the risk? I'm sure there should be other safer release dates other than NANA/REIRA weeks..

Btw... GLAMOROUS SKY's second week was like 90K.. so probly this time she may manage to get over 160K copies on the first week...

[Mad_Cactuar]

It's always like that isn't it.. My Story was bad because there were so many album tracks. (miss)understood was bad because there were so many single tracks. No one will ever be satisfied.

Although having too many single tracks makes the album not very listenable after some time.

While having too many album tracks will only raise the risk of encountering a bad track in the CD.


EDIT:

Since Glamorous Sky sold like crazy in the long run, expect Hitoiro to sell like crazy in the first week as everyone will think Nana singles are god now.

[immel]

The "#1 single streaks" just feels more and more pointless as it's all more or less only about planning when to release a single, so that it won't have any competition.

[Mad_Cactuar]

^ Wow, you always say the correct things. That's so true.

[immel]

Wouldn't it be more of a feat to be able to plan and have ALL of your singles at #2 instead of #1?

[bluegie]

NANA sold like crazy on the first few weeks and it's quite stable in long run.. REIRA was the one surprising me.. ENDLESS STORY sold ~90K on the first week I think (got no. 2, NANA got no. 1 on the second week)... then ended up over 340K. Also, REIRA stayed at top 5 for quite a long time (longer than GLAMOROUS SKY I think)..

so I really wish that ayu won't release anything during NANA/REIRA weeks...


Edit: I do agree with you immel... Eventually ayu won't get no.1 and probly she will get lower and lower in terms of sales and ranking.. But it's just personal feeling.. I wanna see ayu to get more no. 1s...

[Mad_Cactuar]

Yeah, once Ayu's #1 streak is broken, I doubt it'll ever be the same again. *shudders*

[bluegie]

At the same time, we won't really care about the no. 1 thingie anymore once ayu not getting no. 1 anymore.. We'll just love her songs no matter what.

That's what I went thru after hikki got no. 4 on Passion and no. 2 on Keep Tryin'. I felt really sad when Passion only got 40K copies and no. 4 on the first week... but after I just accepted the fact and move on... I just want my beloved artists release new materials so I can listen to them

[truehappiness]

Uhm, since when has Ayu NOT gotten no.1 on stuff o_o;

The "#1 single streaks" just feels more and more pointless as it's all more or less only about planning when to release a single, so that it won't have any competition.

Honestly, Ayu has sales that would most likely beat MANY other weeks of artists' sales..
The artists that she needs to just look out for are drama/movie tie-ins, Johnny's bands, and random guy groups.
And there you have Ayu's competition LOL

[immel]

Not since... but it has happened a lot... Daybreak?

He said 'once ayu not getting no. 1 anymore..'

[immel]

I don't care if her stuff will start dropping in the charts... as long as I still like it.

What will make me sad is if she'll ever start making music or other things that I do not like.

[bluegie]

no no no, I was just talking about how I would feel if ayu's not getting no.1 anymore... What I wanna say is that, the moment my beloved artists didn't get no. 1 was quite painful, but once I've gone thru that stage I dun care about the no. 1 idea anymore.

So.. right now ayu's still get no. 1, so I dun wanna get that painful feeling that early..

[truehappiness]

I know, but what's happening now is that she's getting no.1 miraculously on like, everything even with margins of 800 or less copies on some instances! <3



IMHO; NANA doesn't help you too much.. :\ I think the anime can be an example of this.. kinda. But then again, it's a whole different ballgame there.

We'll see when NINKIs come out, I guess.

[~X2RADialbomber~]

LOL Maybe she'll debut at Number #2 on the Daily Charts, like what happened to HEAVEN and then supposedly "all the avex staff went out and bought HEAVEN so that HEAVEN could get number 1"

[immel]

@Anthony - That happened once...

The rest is miraculous ... planning O_o

[truehappiness]

Actually, she debuted at no.2 and DROPPED to no.3 and then was no.1 for the rest of the week with 160k :O (plus the overall sales for HEAVEN were higher than fairyland's which debuted higher as well at 176k)


[Remember when MC Tatsujin aka Mad Cactuar had the 'Heaven closer to HELL!!' threads? Oi.]


edit:

Originally Posted by immel;[CENTER

902042]@Anthony - That happened once... [/CENTER]

The rest is miraculous ... planning O_o

Twice. B&D AND HEAVEN both had close encounters with no.2 x.x~

Let us review the no. 1s so far of 2006 from Wiki:
29 07.19 KAT-TUN SIGNAL 450,752 MEGARYU Garyuu Senpuu 36,085
30 07.26 KinKi Kids Natsu Moyou 238,868 SMAP Pop Up! SMAP 320,912
31 08.02 ARASHI Aozora Pedal 154,832 V6 Very best II 108,631
32 08.09 Southern All Stars Dirty Old Man ~Saraba Natsu yo~ 132,796 Every Little Thing Crispy Park 93,189
33 08.16 Sukima Switch Guarana 40,523 Various Artists Beautiful Songs ~Kokoro de Kiku Uta~ 60,034
34 08.23 TOKIO Sorafune / do! do! do! 121,099 aiko Kanojo 250,059
35 08.30 GYM Fever to Future 226,459 Shonannokaze Shonannokaze ~Riders High~ 219,602
36 09.06 Amane Kaoru Taiyou no Uta 111,159 YUKI WAVE 221,811
37 09.13 Glay Natsuoto / Hen na Yume 101,028 Domoto Koichi mirror 121,384
38 09.20 Amane Kaoru Taiyou no Uta 47,119 SEAMO Live Goes On 100,401
39 09.27 ayaka Mikadzuki 40,091 Kobukuro ALL SINGLES BEST 556,988

Other than the OBVIOUS guy groups, Ayu beats out the rest, don't you think? :p