I feel bad for Ayu though considering there were no other female artists who can EVEN compete with her this year in terms of sales. (Okay, there's BoA, but her singles aren't that good in terms of sales) and Ayu is the only female artist to have her single on the top 10 so far according to Oricon.
But it seems that Utada has finally gotten her ass back to the Japan music world and well, i have this feeling she'll sell like crazy again. Despite the fact that "Dare ga negai" wasn't that much of a seller, i hope this is not another ballad. Her ballads dont' seem to do so well compared to her other R&B etc. But if she and Ayu were to drop their albums on the same day, that would be WAR.
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