Ayu's sudden popularity in Taiwan
 

Edit:
My bad. She's no longer popular in Taiwan.

Didn't she tour there in 2008? That could have helped boost popularity.

^I guess so too! It's probably b/c of Aisa Tour 2008, which ended in November in Taiwan!

I thought Secret and Guilty were world tours???

That could explain it?

Also Love Songs was a huge drop...

How did Party Queen and FIVE fair?

Yeah, I'm kind of wondering...

That's odd...hey, not complaining though! Yay!

But I think it's weird that there was an asia tour in 2007 and GUILTY that was released months after was her lowest selling album :no or maybe Taiwanese people simply dislike GUILTY....

FIVE was 1,24% and Party Queen's % will be out at the end of the year ;)

^FIVE is even lower than GUILTY... As for Party Queen I am guessing it might be even lower than FIVE.

Where are you see it ? It's very interesting I thought that Secret & A complete all singles were her best selling in Asia according to wikipedia

^This one for example, 2009 yearly chart and NEXT LEVEL is #2
http://www.5music.com.tw/CDTop-Year-2009-J.asp

No! It seems that Party Queen sold better than FIVE and GUILTY :D

^Really? Where did you see that?

Maybe because most of the people I know do not like the album, I got the impression that it has lower sales than FIVE.

maybe FIVE got low sales because it was a mini??
I dont know how that country and their music deals with mini albums...
i know in america they are very rare and are usually called EP's.

It's strange because if you look at G music year end chart the numbers are not the same ?

http://www.g-music.com.tw/event/2010...ranking-3.html

^ different people always report different numbers...
all this kind of stuff is a crap shot anyways... lol

I couldn't find G-music's yearly rankings after 2008 so I took 5music's data

G-music 2006 - (m)u (4,4% of total yearly sales)
G-music 2006 - Secret (2,1%)
G-music 2008 - GUILTY (1,3%)
5music 2009 - NEXT LEVEL (4,2%)
5music 2010 - R'n'RC (5,0%)
5music 2010 - Love Songs (3,1%)

Also, i read another report that gave ayumi's album, Secret at 3.54%...

G-Music and 5-Music are two different charts, so they won't have the same numbers.

I think it's primarely because of the Asia tour. The whole "Asia is one" theme was a great one, and it was (in my opinion) an amazing concert! If that concert and theme couldn't convert people into Ayu-ism, Idk what would!

are there no approximate sales numbers for these albums in taiwan? what about china, hong kong, korea?

^ GUILTY is the only one that charted in Korea selling just 1,800 copies