[12/4] ORICON "Secret" 1st Week Sales [See P.7 post 130]

[immel]

Originally Posted by asongforXX

This source seems pretty trustworthy:
http://www.phileweb.com/products/cd-top20/2006/756.html

Translating the text on that page it says that the sales are "presumptions", which is the same as the act of assuming, if that is the case it is a guess based on assumptions on the first week sales of (m)u.

L O L at everyone who is 'crying' because of it.


Sales are important. Maybe not to you all, but for the artist they are. Even if it was your favorite artist a record company isn't going to keep them around with weak sales. They need to make money.

boohoo.

[ayu1m]

lol

So there's nothing to worry.. yet at least.

Great (:

[elepop]

Ummm. I'm pretty sure Kuu will sale pretty well. Perhaps 700,000 or 600,000 copies? But we never know.

Originally Posted by immel

Translating the text on that page it says that the sales are "presumptions", which is the same as the act of assuming, if that is the case it is a guess based on assumptions on the first week sales of (m)u.

Ohhh, I see.

Oh well, the sales should be around this number though.

[AyUmIXx]

one week for 300++ K? that's quite good, or not?

[freedreamer]

well (m)u was a new year album so two weeks of sales was revealed at a go..so i tot it was first week with 654k sales...my bad...

i guess this is the first time im seeing the first week actual sales (sry) so im shocked and disappointed...i hope the sales go up a bit more for the second week...and beat (m)u's 654k and continue progressing like MY STORY's sales did...MS's two weak sales aint as gd as (m)u's but still managed to get 1 mill...

ganbatte Secret! (i have the urge now to go to japan to get some copies for my friend lol)

[AyUmIXx]

one week for 300++ K? that's quite good, or not?

[Dgirl]

ohooooooooooooo...................
unbelievable! "secret" is an amazing~and much better than (m)u.........
why did it get so low,actually extremely low, sales! It couldn't be!! (cry+ ing)

[immel]

Originally Posted by AyUmIXx

one week for 300++ K? that's quite good, or not?

Depends on what you make it in your head.

If you want you can cry because it's bad.

If you want you can be happy because it's good.

If you want you can also do like me and not care less about if it's good or bad, it's a number and Ayumi will keep on singing and making music.

[ohsixthirty]

Originally Posted by //hikari

L O L at everyone who is 'crying' because of it.


Sales are important. Maybe not to you all, but for the artist they are. Even if it was your favorite artist a record company isn't going to keep them around with weak sales. They need to make money.

boohoo.

yep, that is true. sales are very important...afterall, a record company isn't going to release albums that no one is buying, just look at what happened to her remix albums afterall.

[Psychotic_X]

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I was very disappointed... this album is quite good and it was anticipated by many esp. after the lack of singles this year...
It seems Japan's sales are just plummeting.. I wonder if anyone can get sales like the old days...

[elepop]

Originally Posted by Psychotic_X

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I was very disappointed... this album is quite good and it was anticipated by many esp. after the lack of singles this year...
It seems Japan's sales are just plummeting.. I wonder if anyone can get sales like the old days...

In my opinion, unless it's a best-of album, not very likely...

[s1012h]

aww a bit disappointing since we all expect ayu to at least sell 500,000 copies first week
but whatever, Secret's an amazing album, and soon fans who did not buy the CD will realize

[immel]

Originally Posted by Psychotic_X

I wonder if anyone can get sales like the old days...

The two persons who ever had that high sales was Utada and Ayumi, if both of them has dropped this low and the rest of the market is as low as them, we have yet to see how Black Cherry does, it seems that no, no one can.

The only possibility would be if there appears another new artist who has a even huger breakthrough than Ayumi or Utada had back then, but it's hard because CDs is a aged media to release music on. People are much less interested in buying CDs. Back then CDs was the thing to have, it isn't anymore.

[greggerz189]

386k sounds about right.

[immel]

My predicted sales, based on how BLUE BIRD's weekly drops looked:

2nd week: 116k
3: 46k
4: 23k
5: 13k
6: 9k

Final: not too much above 600k

I'm hoping for somewhere near 800k, but that'd need a way higher 2nd week.

[realize_!]

depressing sales but it was expected. Oh well

[firefox]

i highly doubt this is true... ayumi has greater sales power than that!@

[freedreamer]

i wonder if Ayu is gonna be kidna disappointed herself...

i tot usually the first two weeks add to about 600k+ so i think its like this

3: 120k
4: 60k
5: 29k
6: 14k

total: 823k (bleh...1 mill plz)

i highly doubt this is true... ayumi has greater sales power than that!@

im hoping thats the way

[immel]

It might reach 500k with the second week sales, if now those numbers are true.