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Digital sales definitely need to be added. It's flat out stupid at this point, for them to not count digital sales at all. It kills me to see physical sales literally pretty much dead, but that's how it is, and every single music chart in the world should be required to show the number of digital copies sold, in one way or another.
Also, especially for Japan (where non-Japanese presses are also extremely popular, in various countries across the globe), I believe they should definitely start counting other presses as well, like Ayuin brought up. From what I've seen, not many people here have ever bought a Japanese version CD, so thousands of sales are lost for every release of countless artists.
But I believe ORICON is accurate in what they do show.. I mean, it's thought that the the US Billboard may inflate or exaggerate sales, but I've never heard anything like that against ORICON. But then again, none of us can actually know for sure about any of the charts accuracy, probably, right?
Anyway.. I do understand if they don't ever lump in other presses in the charts, but it's ridiculous to leave out digital. As long as they start counting that, I'll respect ORICON (or whoever) much more. Just, there's no way to tell, like you said, the true sales or even popularity of artists on the Chart the way it is now. Physical and digital sales the past few years differ literally by hundreds of thousands, maybe even a million or more.
Last edited by Crystal_Ageha; 7th January 2010 at 04:06 AM.
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