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Originally Posted by bluegie
Talking about ayu and hikki... Like every people said hikki hasn't released anything for over 1.5 years. So even as a fan I dunno what impact she can make in Be My Last. If you say she gets less popular then how can she get the highest album sales last year (note: orange range's musiQ got 2.5 million copies as well... but they released it so late so it wasn't included in last year chart? or maybe half of their sales was included?). IF hikki sold less than 20K in the first week, then she's not that popular. Her last single did sold only around 15K, but first the cover is ugly, second the pv is ugly, and third she released the pv 1.5 weeks after the single had released.
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1) actually, hikki's previous single sold 400K, overselling all of ayu's '04 singles.
2) yes, hikki was '04's best seller by far. hikki beat 2nd place mr. children by ~800K
3) musiQ will b included in the 2005 top 100 even tho it was released in dec '04. the reason? ORICON ends their sales year on the last wednesday of
november.
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Originally Posted by Rody!
Well.... Namie Amuro may have been very popular before Ayu's era, but she is NOWHERE near Ayu's stage.. Utada Hikaru also is not a queen. She is a musician. If you'd ask people in Japan: "who is ayumi hamasaki?" they would say "A superstar / the queen of jpop", but if you'd ask "who is utada hikaru?" they would say "An amazing singer". And that's exactly what Utada is. An amazing singer, NOT some overproduced jpop idol pushed to the top to reign over Japan...
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actually i think if namie amuro didn't get married n have a child, sadly to say, i would think she would be more popular than ayu, at least at the turn of 2000. even tho namie was only jpop queen for 2yrs, her influence during the 2 yrs were huge. in '96 she was the youngest artist to sell over 10 million copies in 1 yr, which ayu has never done b4. namie is also credited w/many trends (mayb even more than ayu), the most famous is the dying of the hair (forgot wuts it called in japanese), this trend is still popular today.
as for hikki, i agree shes a musician, but i would still consider to b a queen, the queen of jmusic.
ayu's decline? japanese ppl r just tired n want sumthing new? age could play an important factor, sum ppl mite think ayu's getting too old to be in the idol industry nemore n would rather move on to sumthing new like BoA or otsuka ai or koda kumi or mika.
neways: jmusic queens= namie amuro (96-97), hikki (98-01, ayu (99-01)