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Originally Posted by bluegie

^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.


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).

yeah, I know that, but... let's say: now we're thinking they printed 400k for fantome for it's first press. how much did they used to print for the first press back then. I mean: the first DAY sold more than a bunch of other albums lol were those numbers predicted?