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Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer
There've been a few million selling albums in the last couple of years, so they do still happen. They are just rare as heck these days. I may have overshot the runway with a million, but I think it will get close. This isn't just a best album; it's a retirement album, which in Japan historically have sold huge. And even just her original albums are still selling several hundred thousand copies (true Genic was her lowest, but even that still sold over 250,000; and Uncontrolled in 2012 sold half a million by itself). Plus it has actual value to it as it not only has new songs, but will also be containing, I assume, many singles that have not been put on any album yet.
Actually, I think I just reconvinced myself. lol. It's going to hit a million.
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I just checked - the last million selling album was by AKB48 in 2014.
Even with Namie declining in sales again the last years, this will for sure be better than _genic without a doubt, better than Ballada (500k) probably. But I don't believe it will happen more than that.
And btw. I can't get it out of my head, but the title of the new best 'Finally'...sounds so much like 'Finally I can retire!'. xD
Considering those rumours, that she had a 25 year contract ending this year and wasn't able before...hm.