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Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0
The late 80s weren't so good to her though and she went from consistently hitting number one (she had more than 20 number one singles in the 80s) to rarely breaking the top 20 virtually overnight.
She was dismissed from her label in 2000 and signed to a new label in 2002. Since then it's pretty much just been cover albums, compilations, and more ballad and enka-style music, and she's proven to be quite successful with it (won an award for her 2007 Enka album, which reached the top 10 actually).
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Just wanted to correct you. Every Akina single released from 1985-1991 reached the top 3 (all going #1 besides 2 singles which went to #3). Her last single released in late 1991 went to #1 selling over 480,000 copies. It wasn't until 1993 when Akina signed a new record label that her sales started to decline. Her first non Top 20 single was in 1995 so it wasn't "overnight."
In 2014 Akina sold over 150,000+ albums with her original best album going to #3. This year in January she got her first Top 10 single since 1993 that is still charting (and should outsell Zutto by the end of it's chart-run). She also released a cover album that debuted at #5 and is still charting as well.