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It was first with real Emotion, then she returned to being unknown for a year until Cutie Honey came along. Then her sales started to rise with Kiseki. secret was released 5 months after Kiseki and her popularity continued to shoot upwards (I think it outsold all her previous 3 studio albums in just 2 weeks). Butterfly kept her career high (as did her other 2 BEST ~first things~ singles). BEST ~first things~ it greatly affected her career, popularity and sales enormously as it outsold secret in (less than) 1 week. Then came the 12 singles/BEST ~second session~, which attracted even more fans. And her 4x Black Cherry singles attracted fans (while maybe losing some) and kept her popularity up.
Her popularity has kept on going up for like ~2 years now, and it was kind of gradual and it wasn't like: unknown pre ~first things~ => unstoppable post ~first things~...
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