^Nope, not anymore. Almost 90% of the artists from our time (Ai, kuu, Mai, MISIA, Ringo, ayu, etc...) are all pretty much going downhilll except hikki.
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Originally Posted by Baco__
@DeepRiver hahha oh, the shade.
And wow 1,63 million in one day. How can they even print that much lol
Every time I talk to my Japanese student (he's a Japanese 29 yo man living in Brazil, working for some big company) and my Japanese teacher (also 29 yo, moved from Kyoto seven years ago) about Jpop we end up talking a lot about Utada Hikaru and Ken Hirai. They talk very fondly of them both and are super hyped for Fantτme as well (I actually sang along with my student to 花束を君に)
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Back then 2 million copies (overall) were not uncommon for the top-tier artists. If you look at the numbers from this
site for 2001 yearly album chart, you can see 22 albums sold over million copies, and the top 5 sold at least 2 million. (If you go back to
1999, you can see the top 8 were all over 2 million copies).
And yes, that 03.28 (to be more precise, it was 03.27) was a big day in Japan music. I remember that oricon renovated its website again that particular day when the number came out. It was very insane for the whole week. Hikki and ayu fans fought so badly, and those who loved both of them were really torn (including myself, though I was hoping hikki to win lol).