What was Ayu's BEST SELLING single? and how much it sold?

[CRAZYBOAT]

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i heard it was M and Dearest. Was it?

[jerms]

..and worst? jw..is it forgivenesS?

[ImpactBreaker]

I'm not really sure which but I think it was "A"..........A was the longest single (in length) in the story of japanese music and it also had like various different colors.

[Grantith]

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Sales Chart:
http://www.hamasaki-republic.org/sales.shtml

The best selling single was A with 1,630,540 copies.

[jerms]

hah omg tanks..but its weird how A sold more then a song for xx/rainbow eh? lmfao

[CRAZYBOAT]

Originally posted by jerms
hah omg tanks..but its weird how A sold more then a song for xx/rainbow eh? lmfao

i assume because in the years of "A", CD sold good because not many people download fromt eh interent....and now, everywhere, CD are going bankrupts......and rainbow was released in 2003...and people don't buy much sicne P2P...

I'm pretty sure it's not A anymore. I think it's H. H sold about a million in the first month... total over the year was about 1.7million or so.

[Findlay]

This is what I know so far,
1. A
2. SEASONS
3. M
4. Boys & Girls
5. H
6. evolution
...

[ruixiong89]

I think A was her best selling single. It broke like 1.5 million copies if I didn't remember wrongly. H only broke the 1 million copies record. (refers to Music Station Ayumi Single Ranking)

Ayumi Hamasaki Best 20 (ok this is just for Reference)

1. M
2. Voyage
3. SEASONS
4. Dearest
5. Boys and Girls
6. TO BE
7. HANABI
8. A Song for XX
9. appears
10. Depend on you
11. evolution
12. SURREAL
13. Trust
14. Fly High
15. NEVER EVER
16. Far away
17. Free & Easy
18. UNITE!
19. YOU
20. Audience

does it help?? Oh yar, this is as of er ... ok, before A BALLADS was released, 12.03.2003

[gakkun]

Originally posted by ruixiong89
I think A was her best selling single. It broke like 1.5 million copies if I didn't remember wrongly. H only broke the 1 million copies record. (refers to Music Station Ayumi Single Ranking)

Ayumi Hamasaki Best 20 (ok this is just for Reference)

1. M
2. Voyage
3. SEASONS
4. Dearest
5. Boys and Girls
6. TO BE
7. HANABI
8. A Song for XX
9. appears
10. Depend on you
11. evolution
12. SURREAL
13. Trust
14. Fly High
15. NEVER EVER
16. Far away
17. Free & Easy
18. UNITE!
19. YOU
20. Audience

does it help?? Oh yar, this is as of er ... ok, before A BALLADS was released, 12.03.2003

Umm..is that how many times the songs have been played, not how well they sold? First of all ASFXX wasn't a single, secondly, Voyage, Dearest definitely didn't break the 1 million mark, and where's H?

[Grantith]

Originally posted by samuraiDRIVE
I'm pretty sure it's not A anymore. I think it's H. H sold about a million in the first month... total over the year was about 1.7million or so.

H barely made it to one million. It definitely did not pass A's sales.

[gakkun]

Originally posted by Grantith
H barely made it to one million. It definitely did not pass A's sales.

Oh yeah another important fact: H was the only Japanese single in 2003 to break the 1 million mark.

[ruixiong89]

Oops ... hehe, thanks for correcting that gakkun if not I'll have been confused still ... argh, I want the A single because I lost it

[gakkun]

Originally posted by ruixiong89
Oops ... hehe, thanks for correcting that gakkun if not I'll have been confused still ... argh, I want the A single because I lost it

Um...*points up* it was Grantith who pointed out that H barely sold 1 million...not me.

[Findlay]

Originally posted by gakkun
Umm..is that how many times the songs have been played, not how well they sold? First of all ASFXX wasn't a single, secondly, Voyage, Dearest definitely didn't break the 1 million mark, and where's H?

That ranking was from the talk part in September '01 when ayu sang Dearest on Music Station. It was just like her favorite songs chosen by the audience not the one for sales. ^_^

[gakkun]

Originally posted by BrightLight
That ranking was from the talk part in September '01 when ayu sang Dearest on Music Station. It was just like her favorite songs chosen by the audience not the one for sales. ^_^

Ahhhhh thanks for the enlightenment. =D

[hanabiwings]

Yeah, the singles market has been lagging over the past few years. It's really undeniable that MDs, mp3s, and P2P sharing has affected singles sales. Also, the economy, lack of something 'new' out there to stablize the loss of many top groups has really emptied out the top ten. Some of the top singles lately have been really weird or things that wouldn't have had a chance a few years ago. I notice that these days, there are no huge artists besides ayu and a handleful of others where all their singles hit the top ten. It seems to be just a case-by-case basis at this point.

Still, she continues to release new and varied material. I think it's only a matter of time before she hits it huge again if she keeps up at this rate. (That's my hope anyway.)