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Originally Posted by Impracticable
Just look at Utada Hikaru's "Flavor of Life", it's now the best selling DIGITAL single of all time in the entire world and one of the most successful songs of all time, but oricon doesn't even recognize its digital sales, much less include the in their charts (like Billboard does.)
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That 7 million figure EMI gave out is kind of flawed since like 5 million of that number were ringtones and not the full song.
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Originally Posted by Weslicious
If Digital releases were incorporated the charts could become a complete mess. If someone released an album and loads of the tracks were downloaded individually rather than 'Buy Album', then an artist could feasibly hold positions 1-12 in the charts. The top 40 could be made up of 4 artists 
Oricon should just register a 'downloads' chart, so you'd have 'single's' 'albums' 'downloads'. |
I agree. I think it's easier for Billboard to count digital releases since I think less American artists release B-sides/double, triple or quadruple A side singles. In Japan, should the B-sides be charted separately? or should they be included with the A-sides sales? etc. etc. It would be nice if Oricon did do a weekly digital chart with actual numbers.