[01/01] 9th album "GUILTY" debuted at #2 on Oricon Weekly

[ChrNo]

aedon, i really want to thank you to have give that wonderful album to me. you were right a long time ago (well not that long, right, i don't want to make you feel like an old granny xD)

AYUMI IS THE QUEEN OF JPOP !!!!!

if you didn't send it to me i will never know anyother nice jpop songs, aside from berryz (and i don't even like all of them lol)

really, thank you a lot, it made my day.

i never said i didn't think she was the queen, but i just can't say that with the few i know about jpopmusic

i love the intro of (don't)Leave me alone ^^

aedon don don don don !!! to show you i mean it, i will make the award i told you before, i really didn't have much time, but i'll do it

Edit : omg i went out of the Miya world... i feel lost...

* ChrNo takes Stryfe's GPS

[aedon]

* aedon huggles ChrNo tight

I'm so happy

[antipathy]

god, I cannot believe how stupid I am. After such a long waiting time, my GUILTY copy finally arrived. Full of anticipation, I'm opening my package and what do I have to find? I ordered the wrong copy - the one without the photobook. 
 

well, there is nothing I can do about it, so anyone knows if there are already scans of it somewhere?

[aedon]

Sorry to hear that. But truehappiness@AHS scanned it

aka DroolBoy here :p

+ Oricon Daily update

2007/12/25 #1 39,292

2007/12/26 #1 24,256

2007/12/27 #1 18,391

2007/12/28 #1 19,874
2007/12/29 #1 18,070
2007/12/30 #1 20,449
2008/12/31 #2 19,066
2008/01/01 #1 22,453
2008/01/02 #2 17,810
2008/01/03 #2 24,645
2008/01/04 #3 10,881
2008/01/05 #3 8272
2008/01/06 #3 12,336
2008/01/07 #1 9238
2008/01/08 #3 8076

Oricon Weekly
2008/01/14 #2 432,113
GUILTY is Ayu's first #2 original album, Kobukuro outsold her by 22,488 copies. So long, #1 album streak.

2008/01/09 #3 5930
2008/01/10 #3 4646
2008/01/11 #3 3293

[Guchi_Jnr]

GUILTY is Ayu's first #2 original album, Kobukuro outsold her by 22,488 copies. So long, #1 album streak.

And that is all thanks to the leak...
As soon as I saw "GUILTY" was up on the net, I told my wife "This is gonna fuck with her sales!", and I'm positive it has..
Sure, true fans will still buy it in the end, but a lot of people here will now buy it after the next pay day, since not many have spare cash just after Christmas, and definitely not something you could easily get for free..

Fans that upload always say they are trying to share the love, but in reality, they are screwing an artist out of sales/money..

[wakaba_doll]

Fans that upload always say they are trying to share the love, but in reality, they are screwing an artist out of sales/money..

QFT. I'm finding that to be more and more true. And the GUILTY leak was WAY early, too. It's a huge shame 

[Guchi_Jnr]

Personally, I think that sharing a virtually "unknown" artist's music can be a good thing, since it can attract new fans, but artists such as Hamasaki doesn't need word-of-mouth anymore...

I should point out, that I'm in no way a Hamasaki fan (when I went to a☆nation the other year, I didn't even stick around to watch her performance), but I'm a strong believer that an artist deserves the ranking/sales they are entitled to..

[aedon]

Oricon Daily

2007/12/25 #1 39,292

2007/12/26 #1 24,256

2007/12/27 #1 18,391

2007/12/28 #1 19,874
2007/12/29 #1 18,070
2007/12/30 #1 20,449
2008/12/31 #2 19,066
2008/01/01 #1 22,453
2008/01/02 #2 17,810
2008/01/03 #2 24,645
2008/01/04 #3 10,881
2008/01/05 #3 8272
2008/01/06 #3 12,336
2008/01/07 #1 9238
2008/01/08 #3 8076

2008/01/09 #3 5930
2008/01/10 #3 4646
2008/01/11 #3 3293

2008/01/12 #4
2008/01/13 #3 6740
2008/01/14 #4
2008/01/15 #7
2008/01/16 #8
2008/01/17 #7
2008/01/18 #7
2008/01/19 #11
2008/01/20 #7
2008/01/21 #7

Oricon Weekly
2008/01/14 #2 432,113
2008/01/21 #2 *72,027
2008/01/28 #7 *24,715

total: 528,855

At least it sold over 500k in 2 weeks

[aedon]

Oricon Weekly

2008/01/14 #2 432,113
2008/01/21 #2 *72,027
2008/01/28 #7 *24,715
2008/02/04 #19 12,340
2008/02/11 #23 *8,826

total: 550,021

[shadowstar]

^ Even with super early leaks, Ayu manages to own sales numbers.

[iopjkl0099]

thanks for sharing