[9/25] Morning Musume。album - The Best! ~Updated Morning Musume。~

[PikoAshy]

It's ironic I have been wanting current momusu to sing these songs for a long time, but then messing with the arrangements bothers me the most. I feel like instead of trying to surpass the seniors with the same track they are trying to do their own thing. Still going to buy it just not now

[321BreakinOut]

Well of course theyre trying to do their own thing it's a new era .To keep up with the momentum I guess they had to rearrange all the past songs to accommodate the newer fans that have attributed to their recent success...except...the songs came out so cheesy !

[iluvatarin]

http://www.billboard-japan.com/special/detail/713

Estrea worked hard tonight to translate this article at b!p:

http://blog-project.net/special-translations/158761

It's a good, long read! Enjoy the SayaSuzu relationship

[Nono]

They should have just went with a regular best album, huge missed opportunity.

[esm]

Meh. I like the album. I'm glad they released this even if it may not be the best idea for selling an album.

[Starra]

I really don't get why people were expecting super high sales with this. It's for a very niche audience (as Zunu said), so I'm surprised it did as well as it ended up doing.

16k is a lot for a Hello! Project album, you guys.

[otaku_blue]

They should have just went with a regular best album, huge missed opportunity.

strongly disagree with this.
they've done a best album before, it'd be so pointless to do it again when its still available.

if they were going to re-record only the vocals and keep the instrumentals the same it'd add more fire to the discussion of "whos better" which distracts from the point of the album which was to help promote the current MM.

doesn't matter if old fans don't like the remixes, the old versions still exist but these girls are different now from the originals which i believe was the point of the album.

[teth]

In any case, I don't care what anyone says but album sales have never been big for MM, even during Golden Age.

Their albums sold better than the singles during Golden Era. Their best selling release EVER isn't even Love Machine - it's their first Best Of album. I don't remember much of 2001-2005 as far as UFA tactics go, so they might not have focused on album promotion.

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Thanks for the sales chart.
However, their best of came out when they were at the height of their popularity. Of course it sold well.

Look a their third album. It came out after two insanely huge hit singles and still sold mediocre.
Album sales before that were also at same level as the singles.
Keep in mind also that considering the times, selling less than 700k hardly qualified as a hit back then.
Ask any casual fans from the time and they will still know single songs way more than the album songs

If anything, they're more comparable to early days of MM... When people knew of them but don't know their current singles yet. 3 #1s are great but they are still nowhere near Love Mahine level yet.
When they have more hits and are more recognized by the public, then we can expect or at least hope for better album sales

[Amped]

#32 on Oricon to start the 2nd week.

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[Nono]

They should have just went with a regular best album, huge missed opportunity.

strongly disagree with this.
they've done a best album before, it'd be so pointless to do it again when its still available.

if they were going to re-record only the vocals and keep the instrumentals the same it'd add more fire to the discussion of "whos better" which distracts from the point of the album which was to help promote the current MM.

doesn't matter if old fans don't like the remixes, the old versions still exist but these girls are different now from the originals which i believe was the point of the album.

that best came out 6 years ago...why would someone who's only now getting into the current lineup of mm be interested in that album?? 23 a-sides have been released since then, they could have even ignored platinum era and started with maji desu sa ska. wagamama/gundan got the group so much publicity and a best album would have definitely benefited from that.

i don't agree with the talk saying how this was aimed for a niche audience too it was just a bad move in general. this album had great promo for H!P standards, i can't even remember the last time they put so much effort into one. so that leads me to believe they had some pretty high standards for this or it would have got the usual H!P album treatment (hi queen of j-pop, smile sensation etc.)

the lacking dvd content might have been a small factor for the sales too but at the end of the day promo is always the most important thing. an album could have been released in like 5 editions with good dvd content but true success and relevance comes with the general public, and how are people supposed to go and buy the album if they don't even know it exists.