[2015.04.15] Morning Musume.'15 - Seishun Kozo ga Naiteiru / Yuugure wa Ameagari / Ima Koko Kara

[Anderei]

I don't think they do, but Oricon doesn't count all venues so that's probably why.

[TicTacAnyone]

Previews of solo shots (Seishun Kozo ga Natieiru)
 
Honestly I don't know why they released this video now when the song debuted a week ago.....

[al kusanagi]

[quote="TicTacAnyone"]
Previews of solo shots (Seishun Kozo ga Natieiru)
 
Honestly I don't know why they released this video now when the song debuted a week ago.....
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I'm sure they're getting a bit of income from Youtube nowadays, so more PV versions means more hits, which generates money for a song even after the fact.

[Anderei]

They probably don't get more than a couple of bucks per 1000 views so it's probably still a minuscule amount of money, big picture-wise.

[TicTacAnyone]

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Previews of solo shots (Seishun Kozo ga Natieiru)
 
Honestly I don't know why they released this video now when the song debuted a week ago.....
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I'm sure they're getting a bit of income from Youtube nowadays, so more PV versions means more hits, which generates money for a song even after the fact.
 
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But the thing is is that it's just like 10 seconds of each girl--each with the same lines--as a mini preview, lol, with "Release 4.15" on the bottom. I just don't understand why it's just now getting put out/why it exists XD

[al kusanagi]

But when they put up the full solo PVs then it'll be over a dozen videos worth of promotion.

[TicTacAnyone]

[quote="Al Kusanagi"]
But when they put up the full solo PVs then it'll be over a dozen videos worth of promotion.
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I don't think they're putting them up on the channel, just that these solo shots were broadcast at Shibuya on one of their huge display TVs... As far as I can tell they're not uploading each solo ver. to Youtube, since they haven't been doing that lately...

[kira]

I don't think they've released solo versions in a while, not since they got rid of the Single/Event Vs.
 
Those little preview things look like CMs.

[Anderei]

They've actually brought Event Vs back. They just come out once no one cares anymore so they haven't really been getting posted.

[ShiroiChanUK]

Yeah, I've noticed that in recent years fans have stopped caring about the Event V's. Maybe because of the rise in single editions fans don't see the need for them anymore?

[al kusanagi]

Back in the day, the event Vs had the making of on them, and that was pretty nice to have, but solo shots and whatnot are just boring.

[WonderBuono]

^ Those were the Single Vs. Event Vs have always had solo versions, from what I remember.

[ShiroiChanUK]

I'd rather them go back to 4 editions tbh. RE, LE A, LE B and Single V.

[Anderei]

4 editions with more DVD content would be good. It was annoying when I got ee ka and the 'talk' was 30 seconds.


Event Vs don't sell a lot though so I think packaging DVDs with a lot of MVs is smarter.

[kira]

I don't think single/event v's count on oricon anymore which is why they kind of faded away in priority for UFA. But I could be wrong.



I do wish they did less versions but the reason they have so many is to sell more copies.

[Anderei]

They probably count on the DVD chart that Lovendor and Bitter&Sweet's stuff was on.

[ShiroiChanUK]

In that case they could go the Country Girls route. LE A, RE A, LE B and RE B. I'm sure most fans will appreciate this especially when it comes to cost.

[MejraThea]

Ima Koko Kara without all the anime and kids. Quality isn't great, though.

[Meikochi]

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Thea" data-cid="187650" data-time="1430438387"><a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2om7l4">Ima Koko Kara</a> without all the anime and kids. Quality isn't great, though.</blockquote>


Thanks ! That was the last thing I was waiting for from this single.

[Anderei]

4,067 for the 2nd week. Total is 105,342.

[TicTacAnyone]

Was curious, so I came to look back at the sales records. Total of 105k is the lowest since around Help Me!!/Brainstorming time. Wondering if it was the music style, advertising, lack of Sayumi or just overall bad luck that the single dropped around 20k (or more in some cases) from the last 5 singles.

[JPope]

Musically, it was an average single at best. The lack of Sayumi, or any other member that non-wotas care about, likely played a part, too.

[Anderei]

It's not a huge drop from Tiki Bun when you consider it was a graduation single that sold less than people expected. People weren't buying singles just because Sayumi was there and Tiki Bun sort of proved that.

[Shoujo Q]

On Ongakusai, MM'15 performed Seishun Kozo ga Naiteiru. Watch it here.