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Old 4th June 2008, 07:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Celaphorce View Post
^I don't base album sales on their preceding singles...it seems most of the time that some singles are good but the albums suck, imo the singles for Heart Station weren't all that, but the album as a whole was an instant hit!
Partially true, but in ayaka's case it will be different. There's a stable fan base for hikki (let's say currently at least 700K people will still buy hikki's album no matter what). Also, in general public's eyes, hikki tends to give a better performance on single songs AS WELL AS album songs. Therefore, people feel "safer" to buy her album.

Ayaka is still pretty new to the industry, and it's always a formula that when the artist is quite popular with the debut, his/her 1st album tends to sell better. Once the heat is leaking, the artist will fade off unless s/he has been providing better music as s/he goes on. Ayaka didn't do too well during the last year, so I dun really see her next album will be a million seller at all.
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