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

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Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

I don't think they had much of a cultural impact either. Manufaturated acts rarely do.

Maeda Atsuko's hairstyle had a heavy impact for a while but now the trend is gone

ayu's blonde & fashion had a heavy impact in 2000 and look how Kana Nishino is still out there living from what ayu raised

Originally Posted by Corvina

So as long as the record company or the CEO isn't buying their own stuff, but actual fans do, I personally don't see a problem.

I kind of sense that you think is ethic the way fans wallet is exploited by AKB. If it was ethic in the first place AKB wouldn't have been kicked out from their previous record company SONY (After the conglomerate was sued for a marketing practice of putting 1 out of 48 random posters inside of CDs, therefore even if you buy all the 48 CDs you wouldn't get all the posters).