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Originally Posted by tourniquet
I don't think they share great parts of fans, so it's not likely that they would steal themselves sales on the same day. but avex may have an eye on keeping her streak going since even 30k sellers can get to #1 nowadays.
but in this case they may have miscalculated the selling power of shu-whatever. ayu's and other established artist's selling power is quite well-known, new artists are kind of unpredictable in the japanese market (also look at thelma...).
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The first part is not absolutely true. Like you say, they have different types of fans. However, when thse artists establish a certain amounts of consecutive no. 1s, the companies would probly wanna maintain it as long as possible. It's not about the sales anymore. It's about that no. 1 statue. Therefore you won't see any artists I mentioned versus each other at all. For example, I just searched on
Mr. Chlidren on wiki a few minutes ago. This group has a long no. 1 streaks as well. But if we look carefully, their singles sales were not that strong during late 2000 - 2002. If avex or Toshiba threw either ayu or hikki against this band, their streak would have been gone already. This applies to
B'z as well (again during 2000 - 2002). So why their no. 1 streaks survive? You can guess that companies kinda like a have deal w/ each other, so that they don't really touch those streaks.
But your second part is true. Sometimes new artists will give a surprising sales, which could be a threat to those established artists. In this case... I think Shuchishin is not a very big threat to ayu up to this point. Unless they can sell over 40000 during the next three days, I think it's safe to say that ayu will get her 30th weekly no. 1. As long as ayu's coming back with a no. 1, she will not be facing harsh rivals during her release week...