Maaya Sakamoto’s Kazeyomi Debuts in Oricon Dailies at #2
Woohoo, that’s high, the single sold 9255 units on its first day of release. The #1 spot occupied by the Code Geass Complete Best album is not very far from them, so there’s a chance of it to be overtaken. Congratulations to Maaya!!! I sure hope it gets the #1 spot in the weekly rankings!
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January 15th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
I’m going out to buy it tomorrow. I did listen to it on YouTube…very very nice. “Blue Ether” was just what I thought it would be. Piano, Maaya, no cutesy voice. Gorgeous!!
January 15th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Ah no, you made the same mistake as me, it didn’t sell 9000 copies or whatever because it’s not ACTUALLY on the chart yet – that is the NINKI index number. Basically it’s an estimate of what the sales will be first day after they’ve surveyed a sample of people to see what they would buy if they were going to. It’s an indicator of how popular something will be though. They haven’t updated the album for the 14th first day yet. Someone over at Jpop music did the magic sum that people do to guess and said Maaya probably sold about 15,000 copies first day.
^^;;; I got it wrong too
January 15th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
From Jpopmusic:
ALBUMS
x->1 – Code Geass – 10,557 (x1.7) = 17,947
x->2 – Sakamoto Maaya – 9,255 (x1.7) = 15,734
x->3 – Alice nine. – 2,996 (x1.7) = 5,093
All I know is that Oricon tallies and ranks based on sales from stores affiliated with them, which results in the base number (9,255 in bold in that above computation). The multiplier (x1.7) is there to estimate how many people bought it who were not buying from Oricon-affiliated stores. There were some arguments before as to what the multiplier should be, but people seem to have settled for x1.7 (worst-case scenario is that everyone bought CDs from Oricon-affiliated sites, which would mean no multiplier at all).
I think what should be made clear though, is that those numbers are not accurate, but from the view point of Oricon who makes the ranks, that’s how much they know it sold, and that’s what they base the ranks on.