[2009] What actually causes ayu's sales to drop?

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Originally Posted by Sophia ~ The goddess of Wisdom

In addition, if you look at her A-Complete sales, you will see that only a small portion of the sales is coming from japan, whereas a large portion of it is coming from other asian countries, and the oricon simply does not take those sales into account, and so this misleads us and makes us think that Ayu is declinging VERY rapidly.
I know this because I lived in Hong Kong for a few months last year, right arounbd the time of her asia tour, and I know that when I walk the streets, I hear many people talking about Ayu, and CD stores, fashion stores, and almost every place with teenagers will have Ayu music on.
When she had her first Hong Kong concert, even really big stars in the chinese music industry went to see her, and the same thing happened in Taiwan and Shanghai too. In addition to winning many awards in other asian markets.
So I think it's fair to say that her popularity is indeed dropping from her peak in japan because she is nothing new anymore, but in Asia, she is really establishing her popularity, and seeing a large increase in the number of fans, as well as sales in other asian markets. So I wouldn't be suprised if she also reaches her peak again by support of her asian fans from different markets.
I'm one of the fans that really supports Ayu, and I expect to see her reach her peak again in Asia.

that's interesting. Do we have figures for her sales in those countries?