Startin'/Born To Be... 1st week sales

[ayu_fan929]

Hamasaki Ayumi's 39th Single, 'Startin'/Born To Be...'
1st week stats+sales

Rank: 1
Sales: 116,034
sales link: http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/ranking/15339/

-26th #1 single. (The most #1 singles for a female singer)
-14th consecutive #1 single since April 2002's 'Free & Easy'.
-37th TOP TEN single.
-Holds the #1 spot for female singer in 3 categories:
(1) most singles sold (19,777,000)
(2) number of top 10 singles (37)
(3) number of #1 singles (26)

article link: http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/ranking/15343/

found 3 of the closest debut numbers i could find (gives an idea where the total sales would be headed towards)
1999/05/12 'TO BE' Debut: 109,860 Total: 324,500
2002/03/06 'Daybreak' Debut: 113,170 Total: 197,140 (Limited 300,000)
2006/03/08 'Startin'/Born To Be...' Debut: 116,034 Total: ???,???
2003/08/20 'forgiveness' Debut: 132,092 Total: 222,194

[CREA.tive]

yay for ayuthats good salesbut not as much as Step you/Is this love, am I wrong?

[jasjasss]

hix hix so little
tot she will be selling 160k ~~
so this single wont reach 300k iMo ~!!

[Raleigh]

Congrats to Ayu. First week sales looking pretty good.

[LEOyumi]

Wow, that's good! \o/

[summersnow]

Congrats! actually not bad...at least people are still buying her singles...^^

[krishna]

Oh my God,so little number.
It seems hard to reach 300k.

[truehappiness]

...the week isn't even done yet xD

[Maiku]

kinda low did you guys see the sales for koda kumi? almost a million on the first week

[iphis]

i am sad about that

although Ayu is making records,but the selling is falling down all the time
first the album,than the single

what can i say? her music is so good ~~why people stop loving it?

btw: Kumi's ablum sells more than 900.000 in the 1st week,while ayu's still hasnt reach 900,000 after 10 weeks

i wanna cry

[truehappiness]

Remember.

Best album.

12 weeks of consecutive hype.

And sex PVs [majority!].

Obviously, avex has chosen someone who will sell a LOT. But what will happen after this? :\

[Qt Mashi]

i think it's quite low, even lower than forgiveness :O

anyways grats to Ayu for having the weekly number 1!

[ayu_fan929]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

...the week isn't even done yet xD

oricon gives out early numbers once monday in japan is over. margin of error btwn these numbers and final numbers: +/- 1,000 copies (so not that significant)

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Remember.

Best album.

12 weeks of consecutive hype.

And sex PVs [majority!].

Obviously, avex has chosen someone who will sell a LOT. But what will happen after this? :\

983k is still a lot. just admit that shes popular. this number is even better than hikki's BEST album. n o yea, name 7 of the 12 PVs that are 'sex PVs'.

[truehappiness]

And in Koda's case its probably like 20k >>

/cough ;_;

[ayu_fan929]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

And in Koda's case its probably like 20k >>

/cough ;_;

UMMMM....how about NO.

[jasjasss]

Omg KuMI !!!
no her sales are simillar to Ken Hirai Best album and Ketsumeishi 4th album
so it will prolly sales 1.8 k ~

[gakkun]

Originally Posted by ayu_fan929

oricon gives out early numbers once monday in japan is over. margin of error btwn these numbers and final numbers: +/- 1,000 copies (so not that significant)


983k is still a lot. just admit that shes popular. this number is even better than hikki's BEST album. n o yea, name 7 of the 12 PVs that are 'sex PVs'.

no these are the final numbers their week begins/ends on mondays but they don't publish it until wednesdays that's all.

on the other hand, who cares about the sales?? Ayu is dominating every single category! It's going to be a looooooong time before anyone breaks her record, if ever.

[truehappiness]

Well to sell 980k in a week kind of says how many she sells in a day... :\

[ayu_fan929]

Originally Posted by gakkun

no these are the final numbers their week begins/ends on mondays but they don't publish it until wednesdays that's all.

no. wut i meant in 'final' numbers is that this single wont sell bang on 116,000. it will be like 115,952 or 116,325. those r wut i call the 'final' numbers. the 116,000 wut i call 'early' numbers.

[Maiku]

what can i say? her music is so good ~~why people stop loving it

mostly cause all her lives seem the same and her image hardly has anything new

983k is still a lot. just admit that shes popular. this number is even better than hikki's BEST album. n o yea, name 7 of the 12 PVs that are 'sex PVs'.

again dont compare Best album sales to original album sales as i see you doing that with M.U and koda kumi New Best album -_- why dont you try and compare this Best album to Ayumi A Best? yes i admit kumi is popular but will she ever break the Rocords that ayumi has set? the awnser mostly NO!!

she can always Fade away after this a good example orange range they outsold ayumi at a time but did they set records? the awnser is no

on the other hand, who cares about the sales?? Ayu is dominating every single category! It's going to be a looooooong time before anyone breaks her record, if ever.

couldnt agreed better