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I love ayu but Utada Hikaru has sold more records (or roughly the same amount) than ayumi hamasaki and she's done it in half the releases.
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Utada Hikaru is vastly overrated in Japan, I would say. She could release a 4 track mini-album and it'd sell a million. She's good, but not
that good. Her total in Japan is about 13 million lower than Ayu's, it seems. It'd be depressing if Ayu had more works and sold WAY less like a certain artist though, haha.
Utada's studio album sales average is rather high though.
Average Utada album sales: about 2,707,090
Average Ayumi album sales: about 1,316,760
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What I'm saying is i feel she needs to let her albums marinate a little. let them sink in. Release an album that so good that you won't feel the need to release another one for years.
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Well, most of Ayu's albums are growers where about a year later you realize it's amazing when that "Oh!" moment happens. I think she loves to put out new music, and with Rock'n'Roll Circus, it really shows that she's trying to step up her game after not having all that much time to produce Secret/GUILTY/NEXT LEVEL. If she loves what she's doing, why should she slow down/take 2-3 years to make an album if all most people are going to do is go crazy?
Most people would probably want her to do an album so amazing it'd make your ears explode if it meant waiting 3 years, but I don't think the Japanese record industry is that forgiving.