they are everywhere, LITERALLY :thud

J-dramas, variety shows, commercials, billboards....everywhere

helps having the most powerful agency in Japan push you onto the public for the last decade

anyway happy for Ayu :D

tho AKB will catch up soon

Legend

awesome!!

:yes:yes:yes:yes

The Empress! May that number continue to climb.

As a fan of ARASHI (let alone Johnny's groups) for the past 5 years , they definitely worked their butt out to get to where they're at now currently & it's not as though they came outta nowhere

ARASHI has been around since 1999 & back then , nobody gave a hoot about them , just like AKB48 but look at where both artistes are at now

With that said , for ayumi to be the only solo artiste listed on Oricon in this list , it's an honour for her , super big time . Just think of how many other solo artistes that want to see his/her name on it but will not get the chance to

Awesome!

I would hardly call it nobody giving a hoot haha.. They were just selling SINGLE platinum status-ish, compared to their current million results.

yeah but they also experienced slump sales when they were still in Pony Canyon & when they transferred to JStorm , things got somewhat better

it's only when Hana Yori Dango came along which slowly push their popularity up bit by bit and when they started hosting back to back variety shows of their own which really escalated their popularity significantly

now buying their concert tickets is a 1 in a million chance as I heard prices for them can go up to 10 million yen per ticket in the black market :tired

When I first saw this thread, I was mortified. 253 million DVDs?
I knew that was wrong. DVDs in Japan are a billion dollars each.

Keep getting those sales ayuma!

Wooo!

in history? hmmmm

Well she released waaaay more DVDs for one thing. :). Morning musume as well.
Still though it's a nice accomplishment for both.
Arashi though....,,,wow, no one will be catching that for a while or ever.

I also don't disparage arashi their success, they built very slowly and worked hard for years, they were not an instant success by any means.

MoMusu's DVDs count their various Single Vs (basically a DVD version of their single with videos only) so it adds up a lot more than Ayu's usual CDL/tour DVD thing. I mean, COMPLETE CLIP BOX/A 50 SINGLES/A CLIPS/A CLIP BOX probably also helped too in Ayu's case most of those were one time releases.

^ Yeah, its hard to even know what would count for MM. Like would the MM in Hawaii (or insert other various locations) DVDs be counted? Hello Project concert dvds? Photobook DVDs etc.

Compared to other artists, Ayu also has quite a few DVDs. Very few artists routinely release 2 concert DVDs per year. Plus she has had several PV collections released (at least 4 off the top of my head?) Plus she did also release DVD singles at the height of her career like MM and those I think sold quite a lot.

AKB also falls in this category so I think sometime soon they will pass both Ayu and MM. I don't follow their sales closely, but I imagine they have to be close.

Yeah, but compared to MoMusu's like 30-40+ Single Vs, Ayu has only had like 4 DVD singles total maybe? I recall SURREAL, M, evolution, and vogue~Far away~SEASONS.

Very few artists also have two pretty large concerts a year so it makes sense imo that she would release two. However, I don't know if CDL will continue to be released on its own and may instead be bundled with albums/compilations from now on.

AKB's DVD totals are nowhere near ARASHI's so perhaps they won't really overtake MoMusu or Ayu anytime soon? Maybe if they continue this momentum for the next five+ years.

^ I wasn't necassarily comparing Ayu to MM; just saying that both have an abnormally high number of DVD releases which accounts for them being 2 and 3. :) If SMAP, B'z, Utada, Namie even etc., had more releases they would most likely make it higher on the list as well.

AKBs totals are no where near Arashi's, but who's are? AKB most likely will pass Ayu and MM unfortunately; Ayu and MM both deserve it more imo though.

WOW, Great!! The best solo artist, as expected <3

Hum not necessarily you know now Ayu sells less DVD with 2 releases than Namie, b'z, smap etc... with one release ^^ But Ayu have a lot of DVD at her prime who have passed the 100 /150 K ! But the VHS don't count ? the best selling vidéo of Ayu is a VHS but I don't find the figure ... Anyone know ?

Once again we are talking about Namie. I though people didn't want to talk about her anymore.

Congratulations ayuuuuuu