[Charts & Rankings] AKB48 surpass Ayu as best selling female Japanese artist

[kendelle]

I think it's silly to compare a group to a soloist but on that token consider that near everything related to sales = popularity is almost impossible to measure.

Ayu's A BEST is her highest seller, but that also had 6 cover variants....and almost everything has a CD/CD+DVD/TA Version minimum which artificially inflates stats for everyone. The fact that AKB started in 2005 and took off in 2006 but still took another 11 years to outpace Ayu (even with their million sellers and the A/B/C/D/E/Theater versions of everything) is pretty phenomenal in itself.

The only thing I want to see if Ayu's record increase a whole bunch when her next album drops to widen the margin.