the sale aren't too bad.. this album is too pricey (70USD). most ppl wont buying it. only alan's family will.

btw i got mines today from HMW. oh i m so happy now

first day: 3493 (11th)
2nd day: 1310 (18th)
third day: 819 (unofficial number and ranked 14th)
fourth day: no stats (22nd)

Oricon only provides statistics from 1st to 20th.

needing a miracle right now!

The album should come back to 11-20 or above today because of today's release event! There were like almost 400 fans in both 2pm one and 5pm one. I'm so surprised about the number of people as well!

According to Alan herself, after 'Ogura Tomoaki' recommended alan's Best Album on 3/4 on his "Tokudane" show, she got 2000 new followers on twitter today! And that might also be why there were so many people at the event more than usual

wow thats amazing, that should help her

Looks like today's at #20! Yay!

And there are more release events in Osaka tomorrow so this should keep it steady for a while..

Yay awesome!!! I'm so happy with this release!!!!

Here's the pics from today's events by Mr.Kikuchi -> http://twitpic.com/46bwb9

See? That's what I'm talking about. :DDD I don't think it's just 400, I think if you include people from the other floors, there're almost 1,000 audiences. Unfornately (I think) only people at the stage (half of them) bought the album

But still!!!, according to Mr.Kikuchi, today Alan broke the "Most-selling album at Lazona Kawasaki by an AVEX artist" record!!! Wow! Congrats!! :)))

I heard she sold 700+ albums today too!

This best of seems to be charting way better than I expected it to have done. Go, alan!

Wow, today was a great day for alan!

IF YOU are wondering what is Lazona Kawasaki, i found this:

Lazona Kawasaki Plaza (ラゾーナ川崎プラザ, Razōna Kawasaki puraza?) is a shopping mall in Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan. The mall adjoins the west side Kawasaki Station.

Wikipedia, I love U !!!

Go alan!! :) woot so happy about the 700 albums sold :3 she deserves 700,000 but ill settle for the 700 XP

alan is #14 today!!!

Wow! That's amazing! So I guess sales from yesterday's 5pm event reflected with today 2pm event's. And 6pm event's sales from today should reflect tomorrow! :D

I smell a good position on weekly! :P

♥ Looks like mini-lives are a good thing haha~
There were a lot of people at today's Tower Records live too!

oh my god.. congrat to her.. she deserve it.. do you think we might find some video of the mini live from youtube soon?. some fans might upload there... oh man i want to live in japan now

I think it's kind of funny how here we are hoping that alan sells a lot of copies so she has strong ranking and Avex doesn't drop her, but on another page we are giving away a rip of her album away free!

sadly we can't make people buy everything from alan even if that would be nice.
I'm sure alan fans buy whatever they can, I'll have to wait for the OS press myself.

(there are probably many reasons why some don't buy it. 1. it's expensive 2. they might have all her singles 3. they wait for OS press)

It's just a bullshit system. The Music Industries from the beginning should have made it available to buy and download songs from their website in good quality and full versions. It would have been easier for everyone to buy and get it faster. The CD-system is so old.
Alan would have made alot of sales if her songs were sold from a website with MP4 files. That way the sales would gain alot of profits!

RaffeKarim wrote:

It's just a bullshit system. The Music Industries from the beginning should have made it available to buy and download songs from their website in good quality and full versions. It would have been easier for everyone to buy and get it faster. The CD-system is so old.
Alan would have made alot of sales if her songs were sold from a website with MP4 files. That way the sales would gain alot of profits!

yup you have a point there.. but for a crazy alan's fan like me i want more than just her songs and MV. but i also want the picture books and calendar or poster thats comes with the limit edition.


but it would be nice if avex offer a site where u can buy and download her single or album straight away.

I agree that many people want calendars and posters. But if they were able to sell posters and calendars from the website but they actually get delieverd to your position it would be fine too.
But there aren't always all who want the poster and calendars. They see it very expensive buying the whole package because that is the only thing that is being offered.
The people would want the songs as fast as possible and the posters delievered a day or two later. That way noone would actually care about downloading songs and making copies of it. If you sell the song on a very normal price for everyone to accept, I can assure you that the songs will be bought in the highest quality instead of being downloaded on the minium quality.

I have to admit that I do not understand the Japanese music industry and why they feel they have to charge so much for a release. $73 (US) for the limited edition? I received mine yesterday, and I was a little disappointed in the photobook and the calendar, I was really hoping for quite a bit more at that price.

I also agree with RaffeKarim's points. I was only aware of the CD release and I don't know how available it is digitally, but it should be made available in a wider variety of formats, and I would hope it would be more affordable. I can't help but think that alan's sales would be a lot more impressive if people were able to buy reasonably priced high quality digital versions. While I like the higher quality CD versions, I have to ask myself how many $50 - $75 releases I am able to buy.

I think next time I may be a little more patient and wait for the reasonably priced OS version, but I want to show my support for alan. Does Avex consider the sales of the OS versions when they look at alan's popularity?

=)

and the sales of alan in mu-mo, recochoku, chaku uta and all the digital stores ????