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Originally Posted by Corvina
People, her sales are not going to go up again.
Physical sales are going down every year, except for artists having their breakthrough/peaks.
The only things still rising every yesr are streaming numbers and concert ticket sales.
So why should it be different for Kuu fans?
More of them will stream and buy less, too.
But as she's not an especially popular artist anymore, it looks worse than it is.
The number for the minis is a bit lower than I expected, but minis usually sell less than full albums and they're divided here.
And Kuu knows exactly where she's staying.
Last thing she talked about charts wise was that she's ckecking preorder numbers with her staff.
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I was thinking the same thing, tbh. I think nowdays most of Kuu's fans (except for the die hard ones that will also buy physical releases) probably stream nowadays, either on Spotify or Line music (which is evident from her stream numbers). I remember her thanking everyone in an Insta story last year because Re(Cord) was #1 on Line Music.
It may not be Oricon but that's still a number 1 to me.
Kpop is the same. I think the only reason they sell physical still is because they offer a lot more goodies with their CDs because they know people won't buy the CD without them, they'll just stream it. The goodies they offer for standard editions are often more than what much more expensive JPOP FC editions have, as well. I recently bought CLC's 'Helicopter' single and it had a photobook inside, a bookmark, little random member cards, I think stickers as well and more.
Obviously not trying to compare since Kpop is a lot bigger nowadays with more money behind it, but it could also be another reason why not many people are buying physical JPOP sales each year. Especially with the pandemic hitting everyone, people have less money than before, and it's cheaper to use a streaming site than to buy lots of CDs of artists you like.
I could be wrong, but that's how it seems to me.
EDIT: Thank you for my responses to my Tenso shipping question, that helps a lot!