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Originally Posted by ayumisrael
Maybe it was 34 overall but it was the 3rd best selling by female artist and one of the two singles that outsold that is Thelma Aoyama's which kind of lost her power quick after the smashing success of soba ni iru ne.
For a female artist and after a long time in the industry we can say that ayu is doing a bit of exceptionly well and not just "oh well, decent like everyone".
We also shouldn't compare her single sales and positions on yearly chart to what they were during her peak or 6 years ago to now as sales are way not the same, and she is still one of the top female sellers for female singers.
Also even if she had 7 releases last year (that she was the 2nd overall best selling artist of the year), they still have to sell quite well to reach there since decent for each release is not enough. Even if she had 50 releases they would worth zero if they would sell low or just decently, without a good popularity she wouldn't be able to reach even close, even with billion releases a year. Comparing how she could do that a few years ago just with few releases is futile of course, and so comparing her popularity (even generally sales) to now.
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Several of your points have merit, but my main argument was simply that she is no longer the best selling female on the year end charts and hasn't been for a few years now. Also, in terms of 2nd best selling artist of the year, that is once again only for Avex I believe. And everyone's sales are down from 6 years ago - even the johnny's groups in general are. So, the difference is, is that a few years ago she was able to still hang in with the top sellers in the country (male or female). Nowadays though, despite the fact that every artists sales have gone down since then, she is now not able to keep pace with them in terms of the end of the year rankings as well as she used to in the past.
edit: I should add that Arashi is the only notable exception here that I can think of. Their sales are actually up from what they were a few years ago, despite the fact that this is their 10th year around.
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Isn't seiko matsuda the only female artist that ayu's streak still didn't take over?
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Currently yes, but there were several other female artists that had number 1 streaks in the past as well but each time that they started to lose their number 1s, it pretty much spelled the end of their careers. Who knows how much modern times might have changed though.
btw, Ayu has a loooong way to go before she has any kind of record for number 1 albums. Matsutoya Yumi has 18 #1 albums, 17 of which were consecutive. And I don't even know if Yumi is the one that holds the record!
