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Originally Posted by ayu_fan929
I agree that this year especially there's a lot more JE in the top 10. (half of the top 10 is JE). But, there's about the same amount of non-JE and the same amount of solo artists in the top 30. As for having only 1 female artist selling more than 200k so far into the year, if you look back at the same time last year, "Jupiter" was the highest selling female single during this time, and that only sold 175k. We already have 3 female singles selling more than that. But hey, the year's not even half way done yet, so I'm still very optimistic for the rest of the year.
Me too. He's really the one that I can think of when it comes to success right now. Yes, his best album does have the top album position so far.
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You have to remember that Jupiter did not come out in 2005. It came out way back in 2003!
It was on the chart a very long time and sold close to a million copies. So it's not the best example. Better would be that by this time last year Ayumi released Step You which went on to sell 345,000 copies, BoA had released one of her most financially successful singles ever with Do the Motion, Mika Nakashima released Sakura Mau Koro which sold over 100,000 copies(a strong number for her). Compare that to this year where Ayumi's sales have fallen to under 200,000 and none of the supposed "successors" to her throne are selling well either.(Koda's album is selling great, but we are talking singles here.) That just looks sad.
I'm not necassarily comparing Ayu and other artists to the sales of the boy bands - the boy groups do typically sell more, as you stated. The only artists that hang with them sales wise are usually Ayumi, B'z, Mr. Children, and the Southern All Stars. What I was looking at more, was comparing each artist and boy group to themselves. The boy groups sales are pretty much all up across the board and other artists sales are dropping. Which sucks. I like my share of boy bands sometimes too but this year so far has been ridiculous.