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Old 11th April 2011, 11:46 PM
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Originally Posted by njanjayrp View Post
I guess, but you could hardly say that Ayu's or Utada's popularity was dropping during their peak when Ayu had evolution and M being some of her biggest hits ever, yet the album sold less than Duty and it was the same with Hikki. Her singles were still selling as much as they did before back then, but her album sales kept dropping. Look at the sales of her Distance singles, almost all of those crossed a million mark and outsold all her First Love singles, yet the album sales dropped by 3 millions.
You have a point there. Never really thought about it. It's almost as if an artist's most popular singles come after their best selling album, haha. I guess that's because they have the "inverted" single release system in Japan.

Anyway, I guess you were right on EXILE. Still, I'm kind of sad, since they and Mr. Children were my "guaranteed million sellers". At this point in time, Japan doesn't have any anymore : /