bloop7676

wait so, all the a-sides from Seishun to Sexy Cat won't have an album to call their own? lmfao might as well call that era "the lost era" since they cut out so many singles welp. 

i'm almost certain they're gonna have a commemorative album for the 20th now. but i wouldn't be surprised if they didn't either lol

 

Lol, I thought before that Brand New Morning felt like the song Seishun Kozou was really meant to be; looks like UF is pretending that it really is single #58 and the last two years never happened 

 

Honestly though, it would have been kind of ridiculous if those 15 songs had all been included; this would essentially be just a rerelease.  That's another thing I really dislike about the whole "triple A-side" branding - if they insist on including all songs designated as A-sides, there's never going to be any room for new material unless they just exclude large blocks of releases like this.  That isn't a recipe for a good album imo.

^ The message might be more that different EDM is good

The only hope is some big numbers from weekly reports (If that's still thing?) Whatever happens it's an amazing result to run a JE act so close.

 

I'm honoured that someone has a conspiracy theory about me.   (but before I get inundated with requests for tickets etc. I'm not with The Company)

 

"Obsidian is a UF rep" was probably the best moment this week on the forum.  I would think that UF should be more responsive to our feedback if they had actually taken the time to plant employees here though 

@Ayaachan The company is Dentsu, they've been involved in some big scandals recently including being fined a derisory amount for over-working their employees (to death in at least one case) and corruption allegations about the Tokyo Olympic bid.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk...siness-41521460

https://www.theguard...iack-2020-games

 

But yeah sorry for leading things down a dark path this is what I mean though. There's a lot of crazy things behind the scenes that can effect how well MM are getting promoted and it is sad but it can have an effect on whether members get to reach those goals and dreams they have with the group. I'm just really glad that by and large UF treat their Idols well and the rumours are that extends to how well they're paid.

 

Unfortunately I'd have to say that I don't think it's H!P's honesty (refusal to use shady tactics) that's holding them back compared to their competitors.  With Momoclo, who you mentioned earlier, I'm almost certain that they wouldn't have engaged in any of those practices, because from what I've seen Kawakami is the type of person who'd rather stay unpopular forever than "lower himself" to doing things like that.  Even so, they still became highly successful; I see no reason why the same shouldn't be applicable to MM (and in fact they had a lot of advantages in terms of having an established name going into the idol boom), but in my view UF makes the wrong decisions way too often, so they never gain any real traction. 

Whatever happens, is this single doing/did good? 
 
Sorry I'm noob at this, I used to not care about this stuff before.

The single is definitely doing well, but the problems MM has had for years now still persist. They lack staying power both on the physical charts and digital ones if the data we've had people share for the past few singles and what's thus far available for this one is to be believed. They also appear to have lost a chunk of fans, obtained enough to stay more or less where they all ready were sales wise, but did not obtain enough to dramatically increase their sales. Unless Up Front can do something about regularly exposing MM during the downtime between singles they're likely to stay within the just shy of 90k total low/just shy of 165k total high they've been teetering on since 2012's One Two Three/The Matenrou Show. In other words Colorful Era is in the same shoes as Platinum Era but in a much higher range thanks to regularly scheduled promotion and handshake events for singles. If they want to grow the fanbase to subsequently grow their sales they're going to have to be much more active between singles. A play or musical each year is not enough.

I wouldn't say that MM has been in the same place for the whole of the modern era - 90k and 165k are pretty far apart from each other, and I think the changes within this range weren't just natural variation. When MM had those 160k-ish sales around 2014, I think they really were on an upward trend. If they had kept up the momentum they had then I think they could have gone well beyond that mark, but instead that period was followed by two pretty weak years that were really a step back on UF's part imo. I think what we're seeing now is not MM being stuck in the same place for the whole current era, but rather them regaining ground they lost after their high point. I think if they could consistently make releases as solid as this one, and UF doesn't do anything too incompetent, they'd be able to move beyond the 2014 high point; it'll just be harder now that idols aren't so popular anymore.