[waterballoon]

Whatever sales become, she's still my #1.

In any case, there are a lot of reasons to attribute her declining sales etc, and as SunshineSlayer has mentioned, sales for all artistes have indeed declined since like 2002/2003? I remember Ayu's H was like the only single that managed to sell more than a million copies in 2002.

So I mean I won't ever expect any of her singles or albums to sell like zomg1million!!!111 copies anymore... it's just really hard to do so in this era. As long as she can sell decent number of copies (going by current trend, I would say 500-700kish for albums, and at most 200k for singles), I would be happy.

Also, another thing to note is that, Ayu is doing MUCH better than most, if not all of her female avex/Japan singers. Right now, if you ask me, I think her only "threats" are Namie and Utada Hikaru.

Even singers whom I really like, like Kuu, Ai Otsuka, Yuna Ito etc... they have had their peaks, and then it just kind of fell apart... so for Ayu to still maintain #1 for her singles... sell 850k or so for A COMPLETE and all that... I think it's very good already.