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Old 12th April 2010, 02:33 AM
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But also...you know, people here at AHS are kinda....blinded a little bit...thinking that an album selling just 300k sucks. A lot of people here have no idea what it's like to follow artists that are never in the top ten, or the top five, and for the vast majority of artists in Japan, that is their reality.
That's because they were spoiled by the age of million sellers being the norm.

Nowadays, anything from 300-500k is hard to approach for most artists. Even HUGE artists like Namie aren't even at 600k right now. It's a bit sad, but why should sales really matter all that much anyway? (concerning Ayu)

People act like getting #2 or #3 is the end of the world, when plenty of artists would KILL to rank in the top 3. Artists would LOVE to sell 100k+ with a single when they're only selling 11k total. Heck, Ayu was even the highest selling digital female soloist for chaku uta last year!

It sometimes makes me wonder if people realize what a bunch of bull it is when they try pointing out just how "unpopular" she is.
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