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Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer
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.
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That's all true, but assuming that Hikki did release as much as Ayu who knows what her sales would look like now. Still if AVEX wasn't making money from selling Ayu's stuff the number of her releases would have been cut by now, the way it's with the majority of AVEX females right now (besides Koda and Ayu). While you can still use the number of releases as an excuse for her high earnings, if there were no people buying the releases she wouldnt've been where she is. alan undoubtedly released way more singles during 2008 which didn't really do much for her...it's not like Ayu is releasing gazillion singles now, her pace has been pretty slow for years now compared to many other artists.