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Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer
Well, my main point was that its an extreme rarity for a studio album to sell a million copies these days, especially for a female artist. 2 artists doing it, does not equal a trend.  So I would never expect that for Namie (or Ayu or whoever). And when did I say Ayu wasn't among their best selling artists and all that? I was just giving a possible explanation for why she wouldn't do as much promo these days as in the old days....
About the JE thing - I don't think their album sales are a good indicator of how popular they are or not. Johnny's has rarely if ever had high original album sales for any group, but there is no doubt that groups like SMAP, Kinki, Arashi etc are indeed extremely popular with the general public. The albums just have a very bad reputation of being filled with filler songs that are no where near as good as the single tracks. (which is usually true.) I wouldn't buy them and I'm a fan, haha. |
You didn't say that, I simply tried to prove that AVEX still heavily invests in her, just in other fields, Koda has never had a PV budget that GREEN or JEWEL got and you can't say those 2 were recorded in Ayu's peak and the same goes to Amuro
It also seems that Ayu is among the very rare AVEX artists who get to record their albums in other countries quite often.
I didn't say they are not popular, I said their songs aren't that popular, with arashi and SMAP obviously being an exception, I am pretty sure the last real hit NEWS had was weeek and I am pretty sure people don't like Yamapi for his amazing vocal skills ^^
Do you remember the yearly Recochoku rankings? Plummet you say? Regardless of what songs actually made her rank that high, the fact is, she is obviously doing very well digitally.
I actually missed you btw~ it's nice to have an actual conversation again~
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Most Downloaded Artist for chaku uta
#4 ayumi hamasaki
Most Downloaded Artist for chaku uta FULL
#3 ayumi hamasaki
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