I don't trust it either, but I don't trust many of those numbers that's presented, it's too hard to guess :P. But your estimations are good, I think that the absolutely biggest part of her annual income is coming from the tour goods though.

Then there's also the profit from CMs, was it 100mil yen/CM to hire Ayu? And other various ads.

Hey, 89.8 billion yen is profit(net income), 77b(Koda) and 70b(Ayu) are revenue, they are different~!

hmm.. thanks for the news!! i read it in the newspaper here as well!!

No, according to the avex financial report, 89.8 billion yen is revenue. Net Income was 4.4 billion yen.

Source: http://www.avex.co.jp/e_site/tansin/pdf/c0606_01.pdf

is this in the year 2005 or all together as long as they both been with Avex?

^2005 financial year (Apr 1 '05-Mar 31 '06)

i think Ayu still has more...She has been popular since her first album but Koda only really popular since Butterfly..(i noe the FFX-2 wan also boosted her but i think she was still not boosted enuf then)

I don't get this. Why people are always trying to discuss who's more popular? So what Koda Kumi wasn't popular since her first album? This don't make sense. Right now, Koda Kumi is more popular.

How does that have to with Kumi bringing in more money thaan Ayu in 2005?

Makes sense. Ayu's ARENA TOURS are her main source of income. They always SELL OUT everything -- tickets and all that memorabilia crap. O_O I know I'd pay hella money to see her in concert, though.