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Old 8th December 2008, 06:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Andrenekoi View Post
Well... Seiko doesn't sells a lot total, but she only have sold-out expensive concerts in big places... So... yeah, she's still very popular....

About Ayu sales... have you guys ever checked her digital sales? According to wikipedia (from Secret singles on):

Startin'/Born to be: 100,000
Blue Bird: 1,040,000
Glitter/Fated: 800,000
Talkin' 2 Myself: 540,000
Together When...: 3,400,000
Mirrorcle World: 226,917

We have 2 singles with very good sales and TW that is just amazing... Considering that MW sales may be the firsk week ones, can't say if it sold low also...
I'm not saying those figures are wrong (many artists are listed as selling several million of their singles online these days) but I do wonder where the information comes from - they just seem to be randomly posted without reliable sources. I would love to find a reliable download sales source though.

Aoyama Thelma's song was the most downloaded song from last year/this year yet it is only registered with 2 million full downloads - so that Together When number is extremely dubious.

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Originally Posted by Andrenekoi View Post
I'm a little tired of this "you trusted wikipedia" thing... it's not like some crazy people had made up this numbers, they were all originally seen in reliable sources, that's why I said MW sold more than that, cause no latter information about this single downloads was provided yet... Wikipedia is just a website were you can see all these sales information at she same place, but you will find all this information in this forum if you do a little research...

I wouldn't be surprised I the person (or people) that writes in ayu's article is an AHS user him/herself, so, I don't see what could be wrong
A lot. I actually don't ever remember reading accurate final numbers for online sales of those songs here. I may be forgetting, but nothing is coming to mind.

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Originally Posted by ストロボ・EdGE View Post
I read somewhere that Seiko had a hit here at some point... though I think I was hit here at some point... though I think I was very young.
It's the song that I mentioned - The Right Combination w/ Donnie Walburg of the New Kids. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfqH-LNX5CI I remember somewhat hearing it on the radio and whatnot at the time.

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