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Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer
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.
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Oricon definitely should add digital sales to the physical sales because I have seen some physically badly selling singles on Oricon sell 100,000+ copies on digital charts. For example some of Kana Nishino's early singles weren't sold that well according to Oricon but on Digital Charts they hit 500,000 copies. It was a funny sight tbh.

Another example that comes to mind is Koda Kumi's Ai wo tomenaide which sold 30,000 physical copies and 100,000+ digital copies in 2011. I wish those were combined on Oricon chart lol. :'D
As for AKB48, I agree with you. Imo their influence on J-Pop as a whole has been negative. New artists are mostly boring or something I get over with way too soon for my liking and creativity is also missing. It's really sad, and I noticed it really began when this group became popular with their ridiculous marketing gimmicks. -.-