^ They really do that with Britney? Wow.
To be honest i'm not sure if it's possible, i mean not knowing how much your last cd sold, i don't think she's the kind of person hiding and saying "no, no, don't show me the numbers, i don't wanna know!!!"
It would be weird if she didn't know at all how much her cds are selling nowadays. I have trouble imagining that someday, when her albums sell less than 5k avex is gonna say to her "okay Ayu, no more Yoyogi, you won't fill it anymore" to which she's gonna reply, "what are you saying? aren't my album still selling 300k???"
She's aware of her sales going down i think, but i don't know whether she's sad about it and just don't care, i think she might be a little sad, who wouldn't?
I don't think she publicly commented about it though (somebody tell me if i'm wrong) but she probably had "the talk" with avex about it, i wonder if they ever thought if kicking her out because of her declining sales, if Max Matsuura wasn't one of her friends maybe they would have done it by now, well her sales aren't THAT bad so far, but we'll see how it is in a few years.