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Originally Posted by Alucard from Hellsing
It is actually pretty sad... And I just do not understand if it is she's who do not care about promo that much anymore and more concentrated on her TOURS now, or it's a fault of greedy avex? 
And I'm pretty sure that avex once again forced her to release it sooner than she planned. However I might be wrong.
As for promo. I know that Kuu is not Ayu, but she's performed TABOO thousand of times as well as stay with me and she wasn't able to reach even 90K for each. Rule/Sparkle was never performed (that Rule performance was actually for album promo already) and she's easily crossed 100K. Or was it 'cause of Dragon Ball?  |
Ayu's singles have always tended to sell pretty well though, relative to most other artists nowadays who are not Johnny's. I mean, the other artists who release singles that outsell hers... that's usually because their song is a hit, right? I'm thinking of Soba ni iru ne and Kiseki. The other singles by these artists don't really outsell Ayu on average. (Although that's changing.) Ayu's songs don't usually rank on Billboard-Japan since they add in radio-play and other factors... except Days, because Days ranked #1, so Ayu's other songs are usually not really the "hottest must listen song this season!" to the casual listener. That shows that Ayu is selling well consistently despite not producing actual hits.
On a side note, although it's nice that Ayu gets more time away from advertising and promotion (but is performing wayyyyy more concerts), I kinda miss her constant appearance in the public through television or other things.
