[official] & score : 287 002

[iarwain]

Confirmed by Oricon : & is #1 with 287 002 copies sold the first week.

2nd and 3rd sold respectively 70 000 and 38 000 copies.

Congrats Ayu !

http://www.oricon.co.jp/ranking/weekly_single.html

[Grantith]

Not too shabby at all. Thanks a lot for the official numbers!

[JinHamasaki]

Very very bad for ayu.........
I wonder what the heck happened?!?!
Voyage sold 310,000 on its first week and that is ONE song.

[Piccolo]

Congratz to Ayu !! I wonder if it will hit a million, that would be cool. "Very very bad for ayu" <-- What the heck, she is leading in singles and that is bad? I don't understand your logic.

[ayu_ready78]

Even tho Ayu got 1st place in sales for the & single this week (congrats), I heard from my friend that not many ppl are buying her releases as they usually do. Wonder if this is true or not

[tetsuo69]

see the morning musume slaes.. for this week not so good.. ayumi is the only singer new that sold over 100,000 copies we should be happy

[lilkrnjasheekx]

when ayus stuff debuts it always sells extremely higher compared to other releases ^_^

[destiny_ayu]

Congrats to AYU!!!

[Connected]

[i]Originally posted by P
Congratz to Ayu !! I wonder if it will hit a million, that would be cool. "Very very bad for ayu" <-- What the heck, she is leading in singles and that is bad? I don't understand your logic.

Though unwilling I have to admit that Ayu has done EXTREMELY bad, if the numbers are true (I keep on seeing last week's charts on the Oricon page) that makes "&" the lowest-selling debut for Ayu since "Far away" (except for AUDIENCE and Daybreak, there were only 300,000 copies of them), and that was in 2000. And worse, "&" had four new songs!!! For a more related comparision, "H" sold 417,000 in its first week.

Hard to say this, but is this the beginning of the end for Ayu? Fingers crossed for "forgiveness"...

[rainbowseason]

WOW ayu ayu i knew she can do it

[tetsuo69]

Originally posted by Connected
Though unwilling I have to admit that Ayu has done EXTREMELY bad, if the numbers are true (I keep on seeing last week's charts on the Oricon page) that makes "&" the lowest-selling debut for Ayu since "Far away" (except for AUDIENCE and Daybreak, there were only 300,000 copies of them), and that was in 2000. And worse, "&" had four new songs!!! For a more related comparision, "H" sold 417,000 in its first week.

Hard to say this, but is this the beginning of the end for Ayu? Fingers crossed for "forgiveness"...

yeah but time changes .. and not everyone sales are as great as b4... she did great.. compare to others

we should all be happy we help on buyin the CD cause i am./.

[eVe]

I don't think it's bad. Look at 2nd and 3rd place. Much worser than ayu.
So: CONGRATULATS TO AYU

[Jasmine]

The debut of this single is only a little less the Utada's COLORS - so depending on how long it stays on the charts it could end up selling anywhere from 500k to 1million. Also to clear things up Voyage only sold about 230k in the first week.






Have a Happy Day!
~Jasmine

[JinHamasaki]

No, according to HCE, it sold 310,920. And HCE always gets his numbers from oricon.

[Ryoko]

Thanks.. I'm sure the numbers will increase...

[Jasmine]

Oricon is also know a bit for exagerating sales a bit. My numbers are from the acommy chart ^_~







Have a Happy Day!
~Jasmine

[boogieordie]

Originally posted by JinHamasaki
No, according to HCE, it sold 310,920. And HCE always gets his numbers from oricon.

Check on the oricon page - http://www.oricon.co.jp/ranking/weekly_single.html

It says 287,002.

Ashley

[JinHamasaki]

I meant Voyage, referring to Jasmine's post.

[boogieordie]

Oh .. hahah...sorry

Ashley

[hiro]

If it makes you feel any better i just calculated the top ten sales for the singles chart and the & single sold more than all of them combined!

That's just very sad for the j-pop industry.