yeah 50K on the 2nd week
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Originally Posted by Uemarasan
For all the people who are worried about these sales, do you remember the following artists?
Mai Kuraki
Chemistry
Orange Range
At some point in their careers, they've outsold Ayumi Hamasaki, single-wise and album-wise. I think Ayu is still doing very well for someone who's been around for a decade.
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I think it's quite weird to put Mai and CHEMISTRY there (not saying it's totally wrong
). When Mai was freakin' popular around 2000 (thanks to hikki), Ayu was just very popular, but not super popular compared to Mai. The hikki vs. ayu wasn't even started because at that point no one would stand against hikki at all (well it's true
).
I dunno why I feel CHEMISTRY shouldn't be on the list. I know which albums you're talking about
:
Second to None vs.
RAINBOW (yearly no. 1 and no. 2 respectively). Probly at that time ayu was still freakin' popular (2002), so I dun feel ayu was "defeated" by CHEMISTRY at all. Not to mention that ayu got yearly no. 1 single in 2002 (even tho StN and RAINBOW were counted as 2003 releases in oricon year).
Of course I know your main point is that those three artists/groups were once extremely popular and now they're so dull. tbh... Mai's music were even MUCH more "recycling" compared to ayu. It's so boring to hear the same tune over and over again. CHEMISTRY... well once Douchin was married the group suffered a lot. And I dunno why, but their music wasn't that appealing as well. For OR... I think they're doing their own things and dun really care about the sales anymore...