THE MOST SELLING ALBUM OF ALL TIME

[Thulanks]

Hey guys! I was checking the charts and I was wonderin'... What is the most selling J-album of all time?

[Annabelle]

Hikaru Utada's "First Love". It sold over 7 500 000 copies

[immel]

^Up till todays date it's even over 10kk I've heard.

[alt.total-loser]

Go Utada, go.

[Uemarasan]

Around 8 million in Japan and 2 million overseas

[~X2RADialbomber~]

That's amazing O_O Too bad she'll never get sales like that again x.x (Well you never know, I guess...)

[Mad_Cactuar]

Utada's first three albums are all in the Top 10 of "highest-selling Japanese album of all time". Not counting Precious of course.

[Partino]

and her new album is hardly making the one million. what's wrong with the people in japan. have they enough of utada??

[Uemarasan]

Ultra Blue isn't that good an album.

*Runs away from the Hikkidites*

[Zeke.]

Originally Posted by Uemarasan

Ultra Blue isn't that good an album.

*Runs away from the Hikkidites*

I LOVE ULTRA BLUE!! I hate the originals of many of her older songs... Too RnB for me!

[Dustie]

Originally Posted by anime_fanatic21

Too RnB for me!

Which is exactly the reason why the album was such a big hit. The R'n'B tune it had.

[criminal]

Originally Posted by Partino

and her new album is hardly making the one million. what's wrong with the people in japan. have they enough of utada??

Piracy has a lot to do with the whole market slowing down.

[immel]

Originally Posted by criminal

Piracy has a lot to do with the whole market slowing down.

That is what the recording companies tell us, research pretty much point in the very much exact opposite direction. Piracy has rather saved the recording industry, making the sales drop slower than they normally would.

The normal CD-R is almost an obsolete medium after so many years, just like its predecessors, vinyls, tapes etc. They all had lower and lower sales, and then a new medium to release media on was invented.

The recording companies simply need to find a new attractive way to present us their music, if they want to earn excessive amounts of money again.

None of them is certainly not running low on money, at the least.

[PSYCHEDELICOdust]

Originally Posted by immel

That is what the recording companies tell us, research pretty much point in the very much exact opposite direction. Piracy has rather saved the recording industry, making the sales drop slower than they normally would.

The normal CD-R is almost an obsolete medium after so many years, just like its predecessors, vinyls, tapes etc. They all had lower and lower sales, and then a new medium to release media on was invented.

The recording companies simply need to find a new attractive way to present us their music, if they want to earn excessive amounts of money again.

None of them is certainly not running low on money, at the least.

Seriously, the whole downloading thing really helps with deciding on purchases. I've purchased a bunch of things just based on downloading.

Although I'll mourn the death of the CD market. 192kbs mp3 purchasing does not cut it for me.

[*Petit*]

Originally Posted by PSYCHEDELICOdust

Seriously, the whole downloading thing really helps with deciding on purchases. I've purchased a bunch of things just based on downloading.

Although I'll mourn the death of the CD market. 192kbs mp3 purchasing does not cut it for me.

The sound quality is faaaar worse than the CD too. =/

[Partino]

Originally Posted by criminal

Piracy has a lot to do with the whole market slowing down.

and why are mariay carey's "new album" surpassed the 10 million mark??

[~X2RADialbomber~]

^ I'd also have to agree with that statement.

[Halla]

this site lists sales and is up-dated too :RIAJ Certified Million seller albums

I'm not sure how accurate it is , but it looks pretty correct to me. it has 'First Love' by Hikki as the best-selling album.

[truehappiness]

Yes and while we're at it:

Michael Jackson's Thriller is the most selling album-ever in the world..

50-60 million copies worldwide, I believe.

[immel]

^That's sick, considering Ayu is working on reaching 50mil in total sales, counted throughout her entire career with all her releases added up together.

As much as wikipedia can be trusted... they have a compiled list of the highest selling albums, world wide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...bums_worldwide

Here's one for singles, as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best-se...gles_worldwide

Don't trust those blindly, but they do actually give a quite accurate view of how it looks. No Japanese artist is even close to entering any of those two "charts".