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Old 9th September 2015, 08:14 AM
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Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer View Post
Honestly, I don't even care about the charts anymore. Basically the Oricon chart validity has been destroyed by 2 things: not including digital sales and AKB48.
Agreed.

Pretty much the perfect storm has been done - this, as well as not including foreign sales (although that's not much), and all that on top of the troubles we've been seeing with Ayu over the past couple of years or so...

(I have to wonder what will the next great J-pop icon will be other than AKB48 and/or Johnny's groups, and when will that happen.)
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