@ drdolce - Momoiro Clover Z were tasked to sing MOON PRIDE last year which their rendition (cover) was used to promote the newly rebooted Sailor Moon anime
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And yeah as for people who're buying truckloads of AKB48's material (not 1 or 2 if you genuinely supposedly like the single and/or album) , I did read a while back ago that there're some who can buy literally by the thousands just to secure handshake/voting election tickets that comes inside the CD and that's a lot of $ especially for those who're mere office workers o_O
Unlike AKB48 , Johnny & Associates has been around since 1962 and it has never been their style to force feed fans & massive dump a lot of over the top marketing tactics when comes to selling of their music
Also demographic wise , Johnnys fans tend to be teens/tweens (depending on who you support) & frankly they always easily go broke with other non indirect marketing tactics such as releasing tons of shop photos everytime a certain Johnny group release something new lol
Although now the senior groups like TOKIO , Tackey & Tsubasa can't sell that well as compared to their younger counterparts , there's nothing wrong with it . If they start to use over the top marketing tactics , then that might backfire & they might come across as desperate to get sales back but they've been around for so long & as such they don't see the need to do that in any single bit
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