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Originally Posted by alterna♥
To #2, all sales are going down, probably world wide because of the growth of downloads instead of buying. They don't count legal downloads in Japan (yet!) but hopefully they will one day.
Ayumi is still top!
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It's not only in sales. The fact her albums were always the second best-selling albums of the year and with her last 2 albums she suddenly wasn't Top 5 anymore. Plus, her singles were always one of the 10 best-selling of the year, now her singles aren't on the Top 10 anymore, only on the lower half of the Top 20. You can't compare her popularity with sales from the early 2000s and now because, as you said, sales decreased a lot, so you have to use annual rankings and such to compare.
With singles+albums she's still the best-selling female artist, but Koda Kumi outsold My Story with her Best ~First Things~ and will probably outsell (miss)understood with her Best ~Second Sessions~ (but that's just a guess).
That doesn't mean she's not popular anymore tough... her popularity is decreasing, but we can still like her
