Don't even mention Miley Cyrus.:puke
It will be old news in a few days anyways, it probably already is.
It's interesting that they care so much since Gackt and Ayu are supposed to be irrelevant nowadays.:roflmao:rolleyes

Thought the same! But who knows maybe in a few days there will be an article like this: "Ayumi Hamasaki's songs got 50 million illegal downloads! Singer is now the most successful artist Japan's with more than 103 million copies "sold"* and the first artist in Japan, to break the 100 million mark!" okay, no... But who knows...

Who knows...

*I know illegal download aren't "sold"

To be honest.... now we can claim Ayu has sold over 80 million records in her career, as Recochoku has revealed Ayu has sold 30 million downloads in the chart's 15 years story.:irked

^ yeah it's impressive tbh :)

I didn't see that?

Yeah, it didn't have its own thread:P

http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=377

http://recochoku.jp/special/100529/?...ate=4299010125

That and her current popularity. I bet you, if ayu would've been super popular this wouldn't be happening

I wonder what her popularity would be like if she didn't use social media and kept her personal life completely to herself and unknown to her fans/public (marriage, divorce, maro drama)

Thanks. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't see any actual numbers, just the ranking.

Yes, here are the numbers:

「アーティストランキング」１位はEXILE。 「着うた（R）」「着うたフル（R）」「着うたフルプラス（R)」を合算したランキングで、最もダウンロー ドされたアーティストとなりました。
レコチョク創立と同じ2001年にデビュー、数多くのミリオンヒットを連発し、長くランキングに入るロング ヒット作品も多く、総ダウンロード数が47,453,103と、アーティストランキングで唯一4,000万ダウンロードを超えています。「Lovers Again」「ただ・・・逢いたくて」「Ti Amo」「ふたつの唇」など、着うた（R）週間ランキングでの１位獲得数も最も多いアーティストです 。

なお、累計ダウンロード数は、2位と3位は3,000万ダウンロード以上、4位から7位までの楽曲は2,000万以上ダウンロードされています。

Basically it says the exact numbers for EXILE, second and third spot (Kumi and Ayu) are around 30 million downloads, and 4 - 7 spots are around 20 million downloads.

http://www.oricon.co.jp/pressrelease/98448/

It's odd though, because prior to Mannie she was pretty low key about her private life. Her relationship with Nagase, I think his name was, was relatively hush hush. I wonder what changed?

For a while, I never even knew what Nagase even looked like.:laugh
I also feel like during that time he was kept very separate from Ayu's career.

Going out with Papico
http://i.imgur.com/q9PRlzJl.jpg

More likely packing Papico and shipping it to somewhere

What is I can't even what?

Nagase is a member from Johnny's. The low key part is probably due to him and not really to her. But it's not like it's hard to find out how he looks like, he is pretty famous himself :P

Ayu's private life was never all that public either, if it wasn't for that photo she posted by accident on instagram these days for example, it would be easy to assume she doesn't have non-famous friends.

30 million download...that's really nice!

and wow that's cute...the bag for Papico..

If Ayu wasn't as big as she was, that relationship probably would've been squashed either from their management or by angry fans interfering. But they were actually a very well accepted couple.