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Originally Posted by truehappiness
Blah, it's people like this who basically talk about how Ayu's career has been down the tubes in terms of financial success/selling power when for the last 10 years, she's been in the top 3 for female solo artists in total sales in yen.
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To be fair though, you have to admit that is due in large part to her high number of releases each year. (Koda too probably) If Ayu released less products or the other female artists released more, it would likely be a different result. So that's good for Ayu and Avex, they work non-stop to put out more releases and therefore to end up as the overall highest sellers; nothing wrong there. The year 2001 is a prime example though where on an individual basis, Hikki's products outsold Ayu's but because Ayu released like a gazillion singles that year, she came out as number 1 overall. So I don't think you can just look at the final result and say that it tells the whole story.