Still not quite, that's a list of women that with numbers of albums that at least sold 1 million. So total numbers do have the chance to be different, although someone with most of the hot-selling albums has a great chance to rack up total.

hmmm. that song title, my name's WOMEN makes more sense now, doesn't it?! hehe

THis is good news~ ^__^

good

Is it me, or are they missing something?

1. A Song for XX
2. LOVEppears
3. Duty
4. A BEST
5. I am...
6. RAINBOW
7. A BALLADS
8. Memorial address
9. MY STORY

I counted 9? o.o

A BALLADS never hit 1,000,000. At most, it hit between 850,000 - 900,000.

ppfft ~~ will u guys stop nit-pickin' *grumpy* :grumpy j/k ~~ :D i get what u mean :) its a good indication though~ Btw, is there any list of "most female artist that have no.1. albums?" i wanna know how ayu rank there~

On a side note - I wonder why Hikaru Utada is listed with 4.

I guess UTADA is an entirely different entity o.O

WELL, I e-mailed oricon, and I got a response back.

お問合せいただきありがとうございます。

浜崎あゆみさんのミリオンを記録したアルバムについてご連絡
致します。

『A Song for XX』はミリオンを記録しておりますが、頂いた表の7番、
『A BALLADS』はミリオンに達しておりません。
そのため、浜崎さんのミリオン数は8となります。ご了承ください。

ありがとうございました。

Basically, it says that A BALLADS did not reach a million according to them, :(.

The list refers to just albums. And to date Hikki's only released 3 original albums and 1 single collection.
I know, you'll probably point out [EXODUS], but there's one small difference, she uses 'Utada' instead of her full name. So, that makes EXODUS an exception.

lol that's what I implied :)

I remember she's 5th with 10 albums having reached the number 1 rank.

http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/topics...041221_01.html

Well, Oricon doesn't count every sales, not even every store sales in Japan, as they always say.

hikki listed no.4 together with namie n Misia because both have 4 albums that sold over 1 millions copies..

but seriously, ayu's 8 albums total sales is still lesser than the total sales no. of hikki's 4 albums....

oh well. ayu and hikki are both awesome though. guess it just depends on individual taste. ;)

Yep who's "no.1" really depends on how you look at the numbers.

But I never really let numbers effect who I like. I love Hikki almost as much as Ayu though, and Nmaie is on my list of artist I like.

Fans don't really need to compare too much on this kind of thing. Just concentrate on congratulating on whoever is doing well.

But I like them both so what's my taste? hehe

Like I said before, this is the best ranking thingie, way better than those fan-voting ones.....

awesome news!
thanks

yea thats what ppl told me said oricon doesnt' count big stores like HMV and such so who knows...maybe the sales is already 1 million(a ballads)

... do wish them count more sales numbers though, if they're able to do it. It'll make more accurate data, just for kicks.