[happiholic★]

Perhaps not living in Japan doesn't give me a lot of right to say this, but being a music consumer of the current age of music has given me this idea: perhaps Kuu's success with digital charts and not so much with physical sales is due to her much younger and "hipper" fanbase. Not only has Kuu kept her fans from the earlier stage of her career, but she has attracted a much younger crowd, one that only downloads music. I don't buy CDs of my favorite North American artists. I use iTunes. I only have Japanese CDs because that's the only way yo support them from Canada. And adding to that, she has no streak for avex to worry about its like, why bother? In comparison, since some one decided to drag Ayu into this, perhaps on of the reasons she sells best physically, but not better digitally is that her fans are the same crowd that has been with her since her peak, and they are CD buyers. I've noticed that with Japanese fans, there are more older Ayu fans, as old as 40, where are Kuu fans are in their 20s and younger. And I honestly wonder, not to be negative toward Ayu, would she still have her streak if avex had just let things be released whenever, not caring about the weekly competition?