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Originally Posted by Yukitora
What sounds more just to you? A pattern in huge decreasing sales after a best release for a large amount of artists or your blabbering theory? 'Oh that song wasn't great', 'Hitomi's already old'. Well Ayu's released really horrible songs too, and they've sold well. The B'z/southern all stars have been around for 20 years, yet they still sold well when they were hitomi's age (in the industry).
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None of the mentioned artists had a huge decrease in sales after a best release, as I pointed out. Most of them were already on the decline including mai k, hitomi, Yaida Hitomi, hikki... check up the sales man, they don't lie. Mai K's albums and singles haev been selling less and less ever since she debuted. I'm pretty sure Mai's best selling single was her 1st. If you excluded Mai's best album and ranked all her original albums in order of sales, they would fall neatly in the same order in which they were released. hikki has a very similar pattern of sales as well. hitomi had a mid career jump due to "LOVE 2000," but has also been on the decline since then. The fact that her best album "SELF PORTRAIT," still ended up selling a few hundred thousand copies less than her original album "LOVE LIFE," the album that featured "LOVE 2000," proves she was losing popularity before its release. hitomi also took a long hiatus after the release of her best album that probably also affected her popularity. Yaiko's singles have been selling less and less since "Look Back Again/Over the Distance," her most popular single. And I tried not to be insulting when critical of your theory, so please don't insult me either. I keep up with sales generally pretty well for these artists, and my theory is backed by sales if you bothered to look them up.
by the way, I never said "hitomi's old." I said she's been around long enough to have experienced drastic changes in her popularity over the years (which is true... she was not relatively very popular around the time of the release of the singles from the "thermo plastic" album. Many of them did not make the top 20, just like some of her singles right now). Your example about B'z/SAS proves my point in a way, because they've released single compilation albums and are still very popular. Let's also not forget Koda Kumi, who has had no absolutely trouble moving those limited edition singles from CD store shelves since the release of her "BEST~first things~" album.