[miwa] The 5th Thread ~ The 5th Year ~ Road to 5th Anniversary

[adantatu2]

Originally Posted by mellody

I didn't know about the song and straight out to Google already and what a surprise, it's on Spotify! But still can't play it tho, you know country restriction.

Spoiler:

Hahahaha, I can't play the youtube link because it is country restriction too.
I'm going to jpopsuki asap.

[Bigtop]

Stupid content ID blocking not only in Japan but also YouTube Red (YouTube Premium) countries because of Sony's protectionist policies... (>_<)

Problem is that JPopsuki doesn't have it either. If anyone is able to upload it to there (and/or AHS) as soon as possible, it will be greatly appreciated.

[Yoake]

You can get it on https://eimusics.com/. It's where I found it.

[mellody]

Let me say something about that Limited Edition and Regular Edition covers first:
In my opinion, those are better than ONENESS and We are the light, but still among her releases so far, that's just the worst. The Special Edition was very nice though.

First CD has 14 tracks but the Second one has 17??!? Those new tracks are short, I guess. Unchained Love was okay, hopefully the new track is as good as FRiDAY-MA-MAGiC. Okay, that was random.

This release will decide if miwa will continue her future works or not, because you know, Best Album is always a warning of end of an era. I don't know the rest of the competition release, can you give us whole list of who are releasing albums on that date? (Other than Daichi Miura and 2PM)

PVs in Blu-ray though, yum. Hikari e.

[HTMSD]

Planning to buy the Special limited edition, and quite disappointed with the fact that she didn't include those MVs in the miwa clips vol. 2,

ホイッスル〜君と過ごした日々〜, Kiss you. 君に出会えたから, 360°, 夜空。feat.ハジ→, ONENESS, Princess, 結-ゆい-, シャイニー, SPLASH WORLD, アップデート

yet some newest PV like "We are the light" are included... It'll be a loong-loong time before we'll get Kiss you in actual HD without M-On watermark xD

However, the limited edition cover is nice :3

[Bigtop]

^ Yeah, now I just realized miwa clips vol. 2 doesn't include every MV since the release of vol. 1 (which was a standalone release). Don't know why they would make such a decision like this...

Now I'm not sure if I want to even buy this in the first place.

[Bigtop]

Sorry for double-posting, but...

Happy 28th birthday miwa!!!

[adantatu2]

The DISC 1 of the best includes the works that I truly love from her <3
The cover with the guitar is the best.

[HTMSD]

miwa THE BEST oricon chart ranking
(7/10) - #2 15,447
(7/11) - #3 4,455
(7/12) - #1 2,649
(7/13) - #1 2,226 (24,777)
(7/14) -
(7/15) -
(7/16) -

#1 for the first day is Hatsukoi, none can defeat Godtada

[Bigtop]

@HTMSD

miwa had 15,447 on the first day. JUNHO (from 2PM, K-pop group) was #1 with 27,270 (#2 on 7/11 with 5,176).

That being said, the sales numbers have been underwhelming at best. I'm disappointed this is supposed to be miwa's 'best' album and this is missing the mark - by being outperformed by 2PM's JUNHO (making matters worse, 2PM/JUNHO are signed to Epic Records, which is also a Sony label, and is also the same label that Utada is signed to!)...

I was also considering buying hi-res from Recochoku (or mora, which is owned by Sony? But I use Recochoku because I'm more familiar with that), but while the tracklist is the same as the CD (yes, you get every song), I'm not sure if the album is worth the value when the album mainly consists of A-sides, save for three songs at the end (two new songs and a different version of a B-side).

[mellody]

So, did she get #1 spot for weekly rank?

I guess this is the end of an era.

[Bigtop]

Originally Posted by mellody

So, did she get #1 spot for weekly rank?

I guess this is the end of an era.

No.

JUNHO (2PM) took #1 weekly, sorry.

No worse than third, to be sure. But I'd be shocked if UTADA takes #2 weekly!

[Yoake]

Damn I totally forgot about that CD XD

[adantatu2]

For a best I was expecting higher sales.

[mellody]

miwa is not even selling 50k copies for the best album means...

Her fanbase is relatively small, I thought by doing a tour she would be able to reach 100k easily.

Now I'm kinda wondering about her popularity, her state of being as a singer-songwriter, will she survive?

[Bigtop]

JUNHO (#1) sold 40,907.

miwa (#2) 'only' sold 28,949.

Utada (#3) sold 27,997.

(https://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/w/2018-07-23/)

I'm not sure if miwa has anything left in her tank, bag of tricks, whatever...I don't know where she fits right now.

The reason why her popularity shot up was because of the guitarissimo album that was #1...but not without the earthquake and tsunami back in 2011 that really shuffled a lot of album releases (including AKB48's, which had to delay further to June instead of April). If it wasn't for that, miwa wouldn't be #1 - and the entire world wouldn't be in a position like this...

Also, not to forget, miwa was left out of the Kouhaku last year (2017).

[mellody]

Originally Posted by Bigtop

I'm not sure if miwa has anything left in her tank, bag of tricks, whatever...I don't know where she fits right now.

Also, not to forget, miwa was left out of the Kouhaku last year (2017).

This. Basically, that's what I'm wondering about.
I thought her post-guitarissimo era is the highest peak of her career, but soon after that, no more. Like I said before, her fanbase is actually relatively small, despite that full audience in Budoukan and any of her tour.

To me, she's not evolving anymore after Delight, even Delight itself is a carbon copy of Hikari e, which sounds like a lazy attempt. Compared to another singer-songwriter, she's stuck so much to the point she's not evolving anymore.

Another reason is that because the CD sales are declining as well.
I don't know if her digital release sells well.

[adantatu2]

Maybe she is stressed and she doesn't know what do to after all these years.

[Yoake]

I'm just so not into miwa that I came across her new digital single without knowing she had something on the stove. What surprise me isn't the song (because I haven't listened to it yet) but her haircut! She looks so mature and different. I wonder if title is different from her recent work.

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[mellody]

Girl better gives something nice after that haircut, kinda reminds me to YUI when she cut her hair short and release GLORIA, a great song.

I couldn't believe I just comparing them again