That chart is hella awesome! Go Namie! =]

That is amazing!!
Great job Ayu, TWICE on the list!!

haha awesome~ and on there twice!

^ I think exactly the same. I think that the American industry should stop complaining about piracy and ask themselves why the heck does Britney release an album and it sells 800.000 in the whole world in the first week, and why a Japanese artist can do the same just releasing it in Japan. American music industry is losing its old power imo...

wow..that's cool...

thank you! i'm happy for ayu :heart and namie who beat many artist! and so did kuu, enya, and brit

haha I guess Ayu's "decade of hits" is more popular than Christina A's is!
Way to go Ayu!!
And other fellow Japanese singers!

Not only that, but Britney will not achieve number one of the world charts due to two Japanese groups. In her first week of release, Exile ballad best came out and sold around 950,000 copies. Now in her second week of release, Mr. Children comes out with an album that sells somewhere in the range of 700,000-800,000.

At some point music producers in America need to wake up and realize that the direction American music has been going in for quite some time now is a completely crappy one. A lot of it I think has to do with overall degradation in the quality of the music, lack of lyrical depth and lack of depth to most of the artists themselves. That is generalizing, but when you look at the whole of popular American music right now, I think its pretty accurate. I still love American music, but pretty much all of it comes from pre-2000. :)

ayu 741.000 the sales of two album ayu its great

Neat. Ayu has such a strong fanbase which supports her 1st week sales. Now if only her sales could be as consistent as some of the artistes up there :P

I agree that the quality popular American music is declining but i think you should look at the sales trend for following weeks as well. Albums on japan charts almost always decline quite drastically in subsequent weeks but US albums can still sell hundreds of thousands in later weeks. The most i give Exile is 2 million but i'm sure Britney will go over that. This is only the first week sales, maybe there's no need to read too much into it.

I posted the missing list before, so now the list w/z no missin'
And YUI also has 2 album there!

=The REST=
11. Kumi Koda - Kingdom 421.000
12. Miley Cyrus - Breakout 398.000
13. Ayaka - Sing To The Sky 315.000
14. YUI - I LOVED YESTERDAY 285,407
15. Enya - And Winter Came... 236.000
16. Janet Jackson - Discipline 232.000
17. Kou Shibasaki - Single Best 227.000
18. Jennifer Hudson - Jennifer Hudson 224.000
19. Ayumi Hamasaki - Guilty 202.000
20. Duffy - Rockferry 188.000
21. YUI - MY SHORT STORIES 173,741

thats pretty good!!!! thanks!

Congrats to Ayu!! And Namie too!!!

She sandwich Hikki and Kuu-chan!
But Namie-chan topped the charts.


Thanks for the news! :)

damn it, beyonce was ranked higher >=[

wow...2 places! That's great! lol

wow! so awesome!
its worldwide, and ayu got two places~!

That's awesome, truly awesome ~