Top 20 1st Week Worldwide Sales For Female Solo Artistes
 

'stole' this from Rocky Raven :P

but other than that , here's the list as provided :

1. Britney Spears - Circus 814.000
2. Madonna - Hard Candy 758.000
3. Namie Amuro - BEST FICTION 682.000
4. Mary J.Blige - Growing Pains 648.000
5. Taylor Swift - Fearless 619.000
6. Mariah Carey - E=MC2 617.000
7. Beyonce - I am Sasha Fierce 591.000
8. Pink - Funhouse - 549.000
9. ayumi hamasaki - A COMPLETE ~ALL SINGLES~ 539.000
10. Utada Hikaru - HEART STATION 480.000
11. Koda Kumi - Kingdom 421.000
12. Miley Cyrus - Breakout 398.000
13. ayaka - Sing to the Sky 315.000
14. Enya - And Winter Came... 236.000
15. Janet Jackson - Discipline 232.000
16. Kou Shibasaki - Single Best 227.000
17. Jennifer Hudson - Jennifer Hudson 224.000
18. ayumi hamasaki - GUILTY 202.000
19. Duffy - Rockferry 188.000
20. Christina Aguilera - Keeps Gettin' Better: A Decade Of Hits 161.000

Source - http://www.mediatraffic.de/

wow look at ayumi go :O

Ayu Rules~ XD

WOW! She got in two places!
Way to go, Ayu ~o(^O^)o~

Ayu's the only one on there twice. :D

Lol dominance.

Awww man.

Namie's right under Britney and Madonna.

She beat Mariah, Beyonce, Janet Jackson!

Go Namie!

LOLZ of course! B/c she release 2 album!

Anyway, here's my thread XD It seems that few ppl here not go read Asian Music Chat n only read news here...

GO Ayu!!! Nice to see she beat out a few American artists!

Shweet :)
Nice to see her twice on there.

Great to see Namie so high too!

Ayu may not have placed as high as others but I think having two spots on the list is more than enough compensation for that. :D Go Ayu & congrats to Namie.

wow! congrats to AYU~

Im kinda dissapointed... Also does Oricron only count Japanese sales? Because i would think Ayu would sale more then that in Taiwan, and China.

Ayu ftw! N1!

Wow, congrats to Ayu! And even more congrats to Namie! She really deserves it! :D And Im still a bit grumpy about the fact that Kingdom got more then GUILTY...
Thx for posting the info!

ooh, YES! she beat so many US artists that need to stop making music.

lol, of course since she is the only one to release two albums.

Honestly, I put all the Japanese artists at the top of the list when you take into account that their albums are in much more limited distribution than the rest of the artists who you can find pretty much anywhere around the world - the Japanese music industry is a monster.

YAY!!!

wooohooo 9th and 18th in the world charts!!!!!
:breakdanc

Thats great for Ayu! Two places! Also nice to see Kuu on there ^^

wow really nice.
But AC sells more than it o_o' strange chart.

Anyway thanks

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 ~

Way to go Namie for getting such a high score and......

WOOT!AYU! Two spots is so awesome!! I'm so glad she's the only one on there twice!! ^_^

wow... there are only americans and japanese on the top.

YAY~ That's my AYU!

Ayu rules!!!! She got 2 places... and she even sells mora than Cristina Aguilera jajajaja!!!!!!!

Circus totally pwnt Hard Candy BUT ANYWAY congratulations to Ayu, Namie, ayaka and all the other jpop artists in there that I missed lol.

Yay ayu got TWO!

Wow, congrats to Ayu - 2 positions in world chart.
YUI, Hikki, Kuu - congrats.

Namie rules!!!!!

That's true to an extent, however the point still remains that albums sold in only one country (with only half the population of the US) can sell the same and often times outsell those from the US that are available world wide is pretty amazing. Logically that just shouldn't be able to happen.

I also think that US albums are also getting more and more front loaded in their sales as well. It used to be albums would keep selling pretty steadily for years sometimes, but that doesn't seem to be the trend the last couple of years. Britney's last album for example, even to this day has not hit 1 million copies in the US.

Way to go, Ayu! You took down HEART STATION and Kingdom.
Yeah for Namie's high position!

Omg for GUILTY but AC did fairly well...anyway congratulations to both albums for making into the charts!

Nice!

And is Circus really that amazing? Everyone really seems to like it!

Thanks for sharing!

yeah.. so happy for Ayu to be in 2 places!. :)

and congrats to Namie too..!

(I'm kinda surprise Britney's topped the chart :p)

congrats ayu

#9 is a great ranking! :D so is #18 :P congrats to ayu.

Yeah i forgot about the worldwide perspective. And japanese albums are so much more expensive too. What drew me into japanese music in the first place was the quality of the instrumentation.