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Old 13th August 2009, 08:03 PM
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^ considering this is a fun summer song, yes. I expected it to sell more than MW and Rule but maybe not as much as Days.

It's sad to see that Ayu's sales have fallen to almost MM levels these days. In fact Ayu dropped more than MM did - and that's no small feat considering both artists usually have big drops, but rarely does someone have as big drops as MM these days. In some ways though, I can understand it.

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Originally Posted by rakeru View Post
as far as this being the end of an era, i believe so! 0_o but maybe not necessarily for single female artists. in the US, at least, there is no more money in single and album sales. it's all about the tour-- without one, an artist doesn't cash in. it seems Japan is following that trend. and like the US, i think Japan will drop boybands in a few years and (hopefully) embrace single female artists once more.
Highly doubtful. Boybands are really a part of the culture over there. Its not like they just suddenly became popular a few years ago. Boybands have been there since basically the start of Japanese pop music - they aren't really seen as something bad or shameful over there.

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Originally Posted by njanjayrp View Post
Ahm, Together When... = Double Platinum for Chaku Uta and Platinum for Chaku-uta full, so I guess the total number is close to a million, Google Translation is at least good for something -> http://translate.google.com/translat...history_state0
No chart ever has Chaku-uta and Chaku-uta full combined. (as already explained) and even if they did, 750,000 is still a ways off from 1 million.

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