[Eewyi]

When I readed these I really can`t agree with these points.
I honestly can`t see the fact why most people here are like it`s the end of the world if Ayu is "not" selling well.
When I readed the post it made me angry. Honestly it looked like that the people are only interested in numbers of the sold CD`s.
Of course it`s nice if artist you love is selling well generally.
But it`s not the main thing! I don`t honestly care if Ayu sells 1 million or 500 copies. I don`t care if she isn`t #1 in the Oricon charts.

What I care about is the music. I love Ayus music. As long as I like the stuff she makes I`m all happy. That`s enough to me.

And you must see the facts that she is still selling well, and that se has perfomed 12 full years now. It`s just impossible [and really really stressful to the artist itself] to be the most selling solo artist in Japan all the time. [Or anywhere else]
And Ayu is like Madonna: She likes to try new musical styles. That`s why she has many types of songs and genres. That can be a risk to overall sales of the album, but I think it`s really respectable that she is able to take those risks, even though that can be a risk to the sales.

I heard many artists and many of them actually say that they hate those times when their popularity is over the top: it`s really stresfull. I remember seen one of the documents about Ayu where she actually says that she might want to stop her career, because of the overall superpopularity [this was filmed 2001].

I have so many things to say, but I know it`s not necessary. Sadly I can`t change other`s opinions, but at least I can say what`s mine.

And last thing: I just loved NEXT LEVEL. It`s one of my favorite Ayu albums. And actually, my least favorite is I am...
And those sales? Well looks like they are twisted. I actually like the CD with has lowest overall sales. And don`t like so much of that what is one of the most sold one.
Is that odd? I don`t think so.

I`m waiting RnC impatiently!

Don`t look the numbers. Look at Ayu instead.