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NEWS: Love Live's μ's Best Album Best Live Collection II Certified Gold




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John Hayabusa



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 10:34 pm Reply with quote
This has been a glorious year for Love Live. So happy for this idol franchise.
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Mr. Oshawott



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 10:43 pm Reply with quote
The future of Love Live seems to keep getting brighter. Smile
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Chaos Wings



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 11, 2015 1:11 am Reply with quote
The μ's girls have the Midas touch it would seem. Wink

Well deserved though, I absolutely love this franchise. Bring on the film and keep more coming because I am nowhere near burnt out from Love Live! just yet.

On a related note, aren't NIS America selling this on their website?
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Hameyadea



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 11, 2015 2:30 am Reply with quote
ANN wrote:
In Japan, the RIAJ certifies singles, albums, and digital download singles as "gold" when they have sold at least 100,000 copies.


That sounds about right, seeing how a lot of Love Live!'s home-media (music CDs, DVDs/BDs) reach the ~80,000 range.
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Ejc



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 11, 2015 4:14 am Reply with quote
Hameyadea wrote:
ANN wrote:
In Japan, the RIAJ certifies singles, albums, and digital download singles as "gold" when they have sold at least 100,000 copies.


That sounds about right, seeing how a lot of Love Live!'s home-media (music CDs, DVDs/BDs) reach the ~80,000 range.


It was fairly obvious it would be gold certified for shipping over 100K copies, since the 1st Best Live collection has reached 122K+ Oricon "sales" (but it has obviously "shipped" more than that since Oricon does not include overseas sales or unsold stock in their sales numbers) after charting for 126 consecutive weeks since its release back in January 2013.

If a fan wants to get pretty much the whole Love Live! discography in just 5 CDs, then naturally people would buy the 1st and 2nd collections. The mobile game is also an excellent way for casual fans to get into the franchise (because pretty much the whole discography is in the game as shortened versions of the songs), and they are the ones that are contributing to the ~1K average weekly sales for the 1st collection.
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Polycell



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 11, 2015 5:19 am Reply with quote
Chaos Wings wrote:
On a related note, aren't NIS America selling this on their website?
They sold out during the pre-order stage.
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AnimeMaine



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 11, 2015 7:05 am Reply with quote
I just recently bought Collection I on Amazon, with a bonus Blu-ray with 5 animated songs. I cannot attest to its current availability however.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 11, 2015 7:39 am Reply with quote
Congrats to the franchise and fans. For those that don't know, the μ is the Greek letter mu. Why they choose letters like this for the title is beyond me.
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TheObserver99



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 11, 2015 10:02 am Reply with quote
Am currently living in Japan. Can confirm that Love Live has basically taken over every street corner, and the advertising in every bloody train station. And the ramen cups in every convenience store.

...The hype is real....
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Foxaika



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 11, 2015 10:02 am Reply with quote
Kadmos1 wrote:
For those that don't know, the μ is the Greek letter mu. Why they choose letters like this for the title is beyond me.
It's explained if you watch the show. spoiler[I won't go into full details as to how they got the name(don't want to spoil too much), but it's because there are nine members, and nine muses in Greek mythology. Hence µ's]
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Nozomi Tojo



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 11, 2015 7:54 pm Reply with quote
Nice

Also

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Love Live! The School Idol Movie will open in Japan on June 13


That's in two days Confused man i wished i lived in Japan Very Happy
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Moru



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 11, 2015 10:54 pm Reply with quote
Gah! I forgot about the movie! Oh, I am so excited!
I am so proud of Love Live! and it's fans for getting the franchise this far. I have personally been following since the first season release and am in love with the characters. I'm excited for their future.
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