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Originally Posted by brener
Oricon does have some reason for not counting overseas' sales anymore, they never should have counted in the first place. It's a Japanese ranking, so the numbers should be only for the Japanese territory, just like Billboard USA and any other ranking site. I think those numbers started to make some considerable gap between artists who sell a lot outside Japan and artists that can't do it. Think about the numbers that these girlgroups and boybands can sell around the Asian continent, it wouldn't be fair to count their sales when artists like ayumi don't sell that big.
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I disagree. If the sale is made in Japan for a Japanese product, it should count, regardless of where that product ends up going.
In any case, Ayu's sales are about to take a nose-dive because a good portion of those would be to international consumers.