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Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

But couldn't you argue then that Ayu is in a band too? Because technically she is. Honestly, I don't see much of a difference between Ayu and Yoshida Miwa. I think it just suits peoples purpose to not count Dreams Come True as a female artist - when she is in fact a female and an artist. - same goes for other bands like Every Little Thing and Girl Next Door. I think the line between Ayu and female fronted bands is a very fine one and negligible imo. In fact I would say that Ayu is even more of a band than many of the female fronted bands are. (such as Girl Next Door)

Agreed.

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

It's like people are saying that DCT is only selling well because its a band, therefore their sales don't count when compared to Ayu. Which is ridiculous imo. DCT also showed that it doesn't matter if you are a female artist, you have the ability to hang up there with the top selling male artists. Most people here seem to act as if its an impossible dream or something to sell as well as male artists and then use that as a reason to excuse whoever their favorite artists low sales are. When in fact those same artists have had sales that matched, exceeded, or at least came close to matching those same male artists in the past. It's not something that's impossible, as DCT proved, but its all in offering a product that people want and enjoy.

I'm not sure what kind of tangent I just went on. lol.

I am not saying that DCT is selling just cuz they are a band But I have a good example of an artist under a stage name that represented a band - "sweetbox" even though Jade was the only one who ever appeared on stage, Geo was doing the composing and arrangements and people thought of sweetbox as a band (duo). They had decent sales considering they weren't really promoted, all their albums reached at least gold status in Japan, now the moment they had to get rid of the name, while both Jade and Geo still worked together on all the Jade Valerie songs, both the albums flopped, the music style they did was pretty much the same thing they did with ADDICTED (which sold around 130k in Japan) yet the albums simple didn't sell.

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

....I did. BoAs sales have been in a talespin for a long time.

While I agree that BoA's sales were only going one way since Winter Love, considering that even though Love & Honesty sold around 700k, BEST OF SOUL still managed to sell over a million, while BEST&USA couldn't have possibly sold that much, I at least expected it to outsell THE FACE as it's a best of after all.