According to U.Blog, HEART STATION and its singles have physically and digitally combined sold a total of over 20 million!!! Here's a breakdown (numbers are worldwide):

^ Oh wow! That's amazing :yes Go Hikki! :yatta

Making up numbers isn't that cool. :rolleyes

GO Hikki. WOW, those figures are great if they are accurate!~ =]

It's worldwide, that's why all the physical numbers are higher.

How can the numbers jump so much if they weren't even officially released on overseas? Don't tell me about the online sales, since the jump was way huge to be believable. :(

In addition to overseas sales, those numbers include domestic sales that are not always counted at Oricon. I don't see why you need to be so skeptical, I don't think EMI would just make stuff up. They seem like a reliable source. And it was actually a news story by Yahoo! Japan, and I don't think they would just publish fake numbers.

These numbers are likely the "official numbers by Avex" that are only the number of copies shipped. And about a believable source, isn't Avex a reliable source? But meh, only made-up numbers.

Again, why would Yahoo! Japan publish fake numbers? You should just be happy for Hikki, selling over 20,000,000 units of the songs and album of HS!

That's right! She deserves it! :luv2:luv2:luv2

I'm very happy for her, for sure, but that doesn't justifies that I like when these fake jumps on the sales number happen. And they're not pretty reliable. Not at all.

i can't see how it's not reliable if it's from yahoo japan, a news site.

As long as the numbers are giving a positive promotion of Hikki and her music, I'm happy. :)

concerning the numbers for the physical.

i believe they're counting SHIPPED which is what would matter to the record companies since that's what they actually sell (to the record shops and is what gives the record companies their money). the Oricon/Soundscan numbers are actual 'sales' numbers (although taken with a somewhat big grain of salt, since they're multiplied on oricon specifically FOR the places they don't/can't count)

either way, pretty good.

^Yeah, there are definitely places that Oricon does not count in its sales.

I totally agree.

KAORI~I might just pop in tonight! I've been working heaps so I've rarely been keeping up with what's going on in other threads! Gomen! :)

Those numbers are shipped copies to begin with.
Except for oricon that's talking about physical sales in stores, companies and articles usually publish information regarding shipped copies unless if they write "oricon xxxxx...".

Even RIAJ certificated it as million for shipped copies few weeks ago.

Just imagine if her illegal dls were counted as well? :eek

20,000,013 *dl HS illegally* :paperbag