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

[RyRyMini]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

But most of music market is moved by teenagers... teenagers are more passionete about their idols and are more likelly to buy 5 copies of an album, every magazine, the physical singles, the dvds, etc... When people get older, besides passionete collectors or really hardcore fans, they will pretty much download the songs they liked or buy the album where they will get the single tracks... and only if they like the music on the album^^

This may have some truth to it, but as fans, don't we want our favorite artists to have sales that aren't inflated by one person buying more than one copy? It's kind of like if Ayu sells 100,000 and there are 4 versions, it doesn't mean she has 100,000 fans. If she released less versions there would be less sales. But does that mean she should keep releasing more than 2 versions? I don't think so.

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by RyRyMini

This may have some truth to it, but as fans, don't we want our favorite artists to have sales that aren't inflated by one person buying more than one copy? It's kind of like if Ayu sells 100,000 and there are 4 versions, it doesn't mean she has 100,000 fans. If she released less versions there would be less sales. But does that mean she should keep releasing more than 2 versions? I don't think so.

Well, I don't think there are many people buying more than 1 version anyway... maybe it helps with 5% or 10% of total sales, but I would never say 50%...

Also, I wouldn't be surprised if lots of people wait to buy the album after the concerts, so they can see and hear how do the songs sound like, and in this case, Oricon only counts 30% of the sales