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Originally Posted by joshuapeterson
Because it's VERY rare for someone at her age in Japanese entertainment to stay in her position. Matsuda lost it very quickly about 10 years into her career, so did Namie, and let's face it: BoA, Utada, Otsuka, Nakashima, even Koda, have lost it and are hanging on by a thread nowadays. Last year we saw BoA and Utada both lose their #1 streaks on Oricon. Even Ami Suzuki, who had a massive comeback after being blacklisted, has fallen off the face of the earth. Japan culture likes new things and Ayu isn't so new anymore... Every other singer that has been around as long as Ayu has has lost it, and the fact that Ayu can still sell 70k in one week without promotion is a sign that she's definitely the Empress of J-Pop..
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Ern...
I think he was talking about people over here thinking that Avex controls every little act Ayu does... Anyway...
Seiko's first number 1 single was released on 1980, and her last, on 1996... so, for 16 years, she was strong enough to have big hits... 16 is more than Ayu's entire career... And anyone that thinks that Ayu is hardworking needs to take a look at Seiko's discography... I don't like her, but if 44 albums on 30 years is not being hard working, I don't know what it is xD
The only reason that Namie's fame faded was the pregnancy+marriage+divorce+workingmom thing... She went from the supreme queen of jpop to nobody... and her recovery is also absurdly uncommon
Utada never really promoted herself by her streaks... Even so, she still holds her album's streak (even if TITO failed, UTADA is considered a different artist by Oricon) and she still does oversell almost everyone on digital charts... Being 7 of her post "come back" singles million sellers...
BoA and Otsuka never were as big as her western fans like to believe... they never got even close to Namie's, Ayu's or Hikki's status
Mika and Koda both had huge peaks and now maintain a stable fanbase... even if they got bigger than BoA and Otsuka, still not as big as the other ones