No, but she did a song with them on Astromantic. She was on Summer Time Love with Ryohei. And she's written a ton of m-flo songs: Love Don't Cry, Luvotomy, Stuck In Your Love, Simple and Lovely, and Love Song. I think she even sings background on "The Love Bug".
Singles:
01. Kis-My-Ft2 - SHE! HER! HER! (193,000) 02. KARA - Speed Up / Girls Power (99,000)
03. DiVA - Lost the way (65,000) 04. Namie Amuro - Go Round / YEAH-OH (47,000)
Not KARA booking the gerls.
Speed UP/Girls Power both are better than Namie's recycled stale singles, I don't see the problem here.
No, but she did a song with them on Astromantic. She was on Summer Time Love with Ryohei. And she's written a ton of m-flo songs: Love Don't Cry, Luvotomy, Stuck In Your Love, Simple and Lovely, and Love Song. I think she even sings background on "The Love Bug".
Well at least she has those masterpieces in her discog as writing credits. Plus Summer Time Love is fantastic so there's that.
Lemme check that May J song; that was one of the first ones I became aware of as far as jpop goes, but I never actually heard it.
Singles:
01. Kis-My-Ft2 - SHE! HER! HER! (193,000)
02. KARA - Speed Up / Girls Power (99,000)
03. DiVA - Lost the way (65,000)
04. Namie Amuro - Go Round / YEAH-OH (47,000)
05. LUNA SEA - THE ONE ~crash to create~ (24,000)
06. IU - Good Day (21,000)
07. Arashi - Wild at Heart (19,000)
08. YOONHAK from CHOHINSEI - Again (18,000)
09. Berryz Kobo - Be Genki <Naseba Naru!> (16,000)
10. Mirei Shiratori - Picaru Koi ga Shitai (14,000)
Albums:
01. Acid Black Cherry - 2012 (118,000)
02. Ayumi Hamasaki - Party Queen (98,000)
03. TEAM H - The first impression (30,000)
04. AAA - Another side of #AAABEST (29,000)
05. Ikimonogakari - NEWTRAL (26,000)
06. Shota Shimizu - Naturally (19,000)
07. BENI - COVERS (17,000)
08. SCL Project - Last Color (16,000)
09. May'n - HEAT (13,000)
10. miwa - guitarium (10,000)
I rounded the numbers, just in case anyone was wondering.
98,000? That's half of what Love Songs opened with.
I knew Ayumi wasn't going to pass 100k. To think that Love Songs opened with 180k. Even Five opened with more.
The figures for Go Round/YEAH-OH aren't bad, but they are rather low when compared to her last few singles. She hasn't opened with less than 50k for a single first-week since 2007 if my memory serves me right.
I really really REALLY want Namie's new album to surpass at least 100k in first week
Don't worry, it will. Past<Future sold over 300k first week, and while her new album will obviously sell less than that, I would be shocked to see a debut under 100k.
The figures for Go Round/YEAH-OH aren't bad, but they are rather low when compared to her last few singles. She hasn't opened with less than 50k for a single first-week since 2007 if my memory serves me right.
Yea, the sales aren't bad when you factor in some things as I posted before.
-No big tie in like her previous singles such as drama tie-ins and anime tie-ins
-No TV appearances
-Both "Go Round" & "YEAH-OH" not resonating that well with the Japanese
-"Love Story" still selling
She's been having longevity with her singles as of late though so I'm not expecting too much of a drop off come next week.
Yea, the sales aren't bad when you factor in some things as I posted before.
-No big tie in like her previous singles such as drama tie-ins and anime tie-ins
-No TV appearances
-Both "Go Round" & "YEAH-OH" not resonating that well with the Japanese
-"Love Story" still selling
She's been having longevity with her singles as of late though so I'm not expecting too much of a drop off come next week.
Yeah, I'm not worried about the sales, either. Longevity has been present as of late, I mean SSWD/LS sold twice in the long-run what it sold first week, no? She'll be fine.
It's a shame considering how great YEAH-OH is, though.
For anyone that was curious. Ayu had two days count as her first day due to a holiday. It's a shame shes falling fast though.
I finally gave both albums a listen and surprisingly enough, JAPONESQUE is miles better. Not that Kumi brought magic to the table or anything, but I couldn't even get through all of Party Queen.
I finally gave both albums a listen and surprisingly enough, JAPONESQUE is miles better. Not that Kumi brought magic to the table or anything, but I couldn't even get through all of Party Queen.
Party Queen must be REALLY REALLY bad for you to say that.
Yeah, I'm not worried about the sales, either. Longevity has been present as of late, I mean SSWD/LS sold twice in the long-run what it sold first week, no? She'll be fine.
It's a shame considering how great YEAH-OH is, though.
Yes! SSWD/LS opened with 77k and is currently at 160k sold.
& yea, "YEAH-OH" is fire but I assumed it wouldn't be a big hit with the Japanese.
"Go Round" however is doing pretty nicely. Not "Love Story" status but still good. It debuted @ #1 on recochoku and fell off for a bit but it now currently sits at #4: http://recochoku.jp/recochoku_ranking/uta.html
recochoku is main digital retailer in Japan by the way so if you guys ever wanna know what the Japanese are diggin' you should head over there.
She was on Summer Time Love with Ryohei. And she's written a ton of m-flo songs: Love Don't Cry, Luvotomy, Stuck In Your Love, Simple and Lovely, and Love Song. I think she even sings background on "The Love Bug".
