Total sales for Hamasaki Ayumi’s singles & albums reach 50 million mark
 

After the 14 years and 4 months since singer Hamasaki Ayumi’s (33) debut in April of 1998, she has established a new record. The August 20th Oricon Weekly Album Ranking (for August 6th through August 12th) shows the tally of sales from her 110 releases (65 singles and 45 albums) as 50,023,000 copies sold. This is the first time that the total sales of singles and albums have broken the 50 million mark for a solo artist.

Since the Oricon ranking charts were established in January 1968, the only other artists to break the 50 million mark are B’z (July 13, 1998) and Mr.Children (March 26, 2007). Hamasaki has thus become the third artist to have achieved this feat, in addition to being the first soloist to do so. The second-ranked solo artist below Hamasaki is Matsutoya Yumi, who has has a total of 38,390,000 sales, while for male solo artists, Fukuyama Masaharu ranks first with 21,633,000 in total copies sold.

In addition, Hamasaki also has other various titles under her belt as a solo singer such as “Most Consecutive First Place Wins” (25 singles), “Highest Total Number of First Place Wins” (37 singles), “Most Consecutive First Place Wins (Year)” (for 12 years), “The Number of Singles That Have Reached Million Sales” (5 singles), “Consecutive Million in Sales (Year)” (for 4 years), “Highest Number of Total Copies Sold” (for 21,416,000 copies), “Most TOP10 Rankings” (48 singles), and “Most Consecutive First Place Wins Since the 1st Album (Year)” (for 13 years) for albums.

Hamasaki spoke happily about her new record, commenting, “When I debuted, I did not think I would be able to reach this far, but I’m really glad to have established a great record like this while gaining the support of many people.” She continued, “This is not Hamasaki Ayumi’s record – I believe it is my fans’ record who have cheered me on and have been continuously supporting me. From here on out, I will continue to deliver more songs, so please support me.”

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Finally Oricon awknowledges this feat that she reached a few years ago
Congrats Ayu :D

I SAY THIS SERIOUSLY AND WITH SINCERITY,

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BOW TO OUR QUEEN, HER HIGHNESS AYUMI HAMASAKI, WHO BROUGHT US ALL THE GREATEST THINGS IN MUSIC. MORE NUMBERS TO COME!!!

The 65 single release count, is including the re-released singles and what else?

Congrats ayu !!!
finalling oricon news came

YES!! ayu is truly THE QUEEN.:heart

I guess so, maybe including the 12cm's and remix singles :shrug

This!!!


The one and only Queen :love:love:love

next goal: to establish hamasaki republic :OMG

I'm thinking of 6 ayu-mi-x III excerpt + 1 A Song is born single.

Party Queen break it! :(

Such old news,
But im glad she said something about it.

and there's still people calling her the flop queen lol.

yay for Ayu :heart

It didn't, GUILTY also got #2. This record is like "At least one album that peaked #1 per year" (:

CONGRATS AYU <3 The best part of it is the ending of her message, saying that she'll keep on releasing songs yay!

Finally!! :D

Really awesome. :) Thanks!

It's really amazing how much she's sold... o_o

Does anyone one know her total sales throughout Asia? I would assume it has to be at least around 75 million.

we all support ayu!!!

YAY AYU!!!

i believe if we added overseas sales..it could be around 60 million

This is an amazing feat! I really proud of Ayu n being her fan

Finally that's official! I'm so happy about it =D Congrats ayu and us fans haha.

“Highest Number of Total Copies Sold” (for 21,416,000 copies)
what is that?

^For singles sales, I suppose?

yeah I also think it's for singles since she did sold more than 20 million copies worth of her singles a while back ago isn't it ? :O

This is a mark that a very few can reach. Very proud. Congratulations, ayu...(despite the lack of #1 this year)

yaaaaaaayyyyy!!!:woohoo::woohoo::banana2::luv2

im so so so happy that finally it's official even its already reached 50M when we included her overseas sale, and this this all i can say right now :yes

glad that ayu said she will continue to deliver great songs! and yes we will continue to support you too Ayu! :love

they post about this on her FB too :yes https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater

Amazing! She's definitely the Queen. Congrats to her. It's really amazing to know that she gathered so many different people together under the Ayu flag.

it's going to an end. ASB and PQ killed it but I'm happy with her achievement for the only solo artist to achieve this record.

Yayy awesome news..
Ayu is the Queen of JPOP!

oh thats awesome!

Such happy news. She deserves to be at the top forever.

And also the long awaited oricon article! I wondered why there isn't one yet lol

http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/confidence/2015631/

:yes

I'm so happy for her!

Well done Ayumi! :)

Only Ayu can do it!!
Proud my ultimate idol!!

Congrats Queen Ayu!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!! That's my girl <3

SO HAPPY!!! IT'S ON THE PAPERS AND ALL...awesomeness once again. They've really stepped up the marketing through social media huh? It feels foreign yet really nice

I may have to celebrate this official milestone by listening to my fav Ayu songs all day! Congrats Ayu!

2012 is not yet over. Remember, these 50 million copies are not achieved without a handful of surprises. It's Ayu we're talking about here. ;)

Love this post. Ayu's powers are truly magical, it transcended languages and races and all kinds of people. That's how an artist should be. :love

Congratulations ayu!
But I'm not that surprised; it was only a matter of time when you would reach 50 million.

Congratz Ayu! i don't think any soloist can reach this mark soon! The next 2 contenders are Hikki and Namie!

Wohoo!! That was a huge number for a soloist from Asia. And she modestly said that its all because of her fans that she can achieve this amazing thing. Truly a down to earth Diva.

Of course it's thanks to her fans, they bought those copies xD

Dayum. Congratulations, Ayu! You deserve it! <3

THIS! :P

Congrats to Ayu! She is truly an icon, a legend in the music industry. :love

FELICIDADES AYU!!! MUY BIEN MERECIDO!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!! WELL DONE!! AYU IS THE BEST!!

Ayu deserves that and much more, so we fans must keep helping so she can reaches another goal ♥ I'm really proud of her and her accomplishments!

I wonder how her total sales are now?? Including everything she's sold across Asia, etc.

^That will be a super amazing number!!

J-POP EMPRESS ALWAYS & FOREVER

thnx 4 the info

I want to know her worldwide sales. :yes

55-65 million, I guess?

I would say over 70Million :laugh I hope we can know for sure how much it is, someday :yes

It could be. But Secret was her best selling album overseas, right? 2 million, perhaps? Well if all of her albums/singles sold that well throughout Asia and across the globe, she'll be slaying lots then. :thud

But I guess it's safe to say 60-70m.

^Her best selling album overseas is also A Best^^

wanna know too,hope oricon will reveal her overseas sale too,

so Ayu's aset is just woow,how many zero i wonder :D

Oh well for studio albums, perhaps? :)

How much did A BEST sell by the way?

Yay it's official <3

Congrats to her!

A BEST sold more than Secret in worldwide and topped 6 million but that's unofficial number

I would like to know what Max's thought after she achieved this record.

^ But for original studio albums, did any of the other 12 sold better than Secret?

i think it's time already for us to get another CNN talk or any interview or special documentary about Ayu's achievement

not sure for that. from what I know I am... sold massively in Singapore having sold 10.000 which is very unusual for a japanese album, then A COMPLETE became the best selling album in Taiwan for year 2008

REMIX SINGLE (10):
previewsly unreleased 1 -> 4
excerpts from ayu-mi-x III DSC 1 -> 6

COLLABORATION SINGLE (2):
a song is born
Dream ON

DIGITAL SINGLE (3):
Together When...
Happening Here
how beautiful you are

makes 15 so with the normal 50 singles we reach the 65 ^^

Listening to Party queen while reading this, and yes, ayu, you are truly the QUUEN.
Keep it going girl! <3

ohh i see. thanks for clearing that out. i was really thinking about Secret because it was noisy at the time of its release, plus the first Asian tour to promote it. :)

it may be because of ayu presence @ Singapore mtv asia music award
n she won the award. .
:)

THIS THIS THIS

The only queen that can do this!!! :D

I think I heard it somewhere that it's 75 million all over Asia?

Awesome Ayu! wooooo

so impresed with her and LOVING A Summer Best!