Overall music DVD sales by artist

[PEARL]

1. Arashi – 4,014,000 copies

2. Morning Musume – 2,288,000 copies

3. Hamasaki Ayumi – 2,226,000 copies

Source: Tokyohive, Oricon style

[Bubbly]

What? Morning Musume doing so good? Regarding their Single sales last year I didn't though they would rank this high in any categorie. It's like 3 of my very favoruite artists in the Top 3

[Aderianu]

I didn't know she sell so much DVD

[ayumisrael]

Wow that's great!!

I didn't think she reached 2 million with DVD sales but she is the top 3rd best selling dvd seller overall, it's awesome!!

[duque]

wooo TOP 3
NICE XD
thanks for the info

[rakeru]

Wow, I didn't know it had racked up this much over the years! That's good news!

[truehappiness]

Morning Musume's numbers come from their heyday when they were selling 400-500k of each DVD in 1999~2000.

Ayu is likely to take them over after this year or the next. Great job, Ayu! I don't think she will get near Arashi any time soon. Not that it's a bad thing since they sell 600k of every DVD they sell, haha.

[MissElin_]

^^Lol true. A seccond place will do just fine for me.

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Morning Musume's numbers come from their heyday when they were selling 400-500k of each DVD in 1999~2000.

Yeah, that and they also release 2 concert DVDs each year (as does Ayu). That obviously gives both of them an advantage over most other artists.

[Misa-chan]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

Yeah, that and they also release 2 concert DVDs each year (as does Ayu). That obviously gives both of them an advantage over most other artists.

Hard work pays well. But having to divide the fame and pay between 48 people sort of makes it lose its perk...

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by Misa-chan

Hard work pays well. But having to divide the fame and pay between 48 people sort of makes it lose its perk...

I think you are thinking of AKB48. But yeah, obviously its best if its primarily going to one person although I'm sure various people at AVEX get a large cut as well.

[Misa-chan]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

I think you are thinking of AKB48. But yeah, obviously its best if its primarily going to one person although I'm sure various people at AVEX get a large cut as well.

Oops, my bad.

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by Misa-chan

Hard work pays well. But having to divide the fame and pay between 48 people sort of makes it lose its perk...

Well, the pay never goes to only one person anyway xD

[njanjayrp]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

Yeah, that and they also release 2 concert DVDs each year (as does Ayu). That obviously gives both of them an advantage over most other artists.

The majority of JE and avex acts also release at least 2 DVDs/year. Still if no one was buying their releases they wouldn't be releasing so many of them

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by njanjayrp

The majority of JE and avex acts also release at least 2 DVDs/year. Still if no one was buying their releases they wouldn't be releasing so many of them

In terms of JE, I dont know of any act that consistently releases more than 1 DVD a year. (Arashi for example has only released I think 10 DVDs since 1999) Sometimes Johnnys doesnt even release all of the tours of its artists on DVD for whatever reason．

Avex Im sure has some artists that do though, but I wouldnt say it is the norm.

Bottom line, obviously if you release a lot of DVDs you have a better chance of being high on this list; thats not necassarily a bad thing though, I wish more of my favorite artists would release more DVDs like Ayu does.

[njanjayrp]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

In terms of JE, I dont know of any act that consistently releases more than 1 DVD a year. (Arashi for example has only released I think 10 DVDs since 1999) Sometimes Johnnys doesnt even release all of the tours of its artists on DVD for whatever reason．

OK XD You were right, some of them barely release DVD a year. Still I don't think the concert DVDs were the only thing that counts. For some reason I thought they were releasing much more, but now that I think of it they don't have their own countdown concerts but the JE Countdown instead With avex it is different, in 2008 and 2009 Kumi released 3 DVDs ^^ BoA usually has 2 per year (when she's having an actual tour though). Still it's obvious Ayu tours way more than all of them do as her popularity didn't sink fast. Even Namie who has been present for almost 20 years has less DVDs than Ayu O_O

[njanjayrp]

Good to hear.

[ohsixthirty]

good for Ayu! thanks for sharing the information with us!

[primavera♥]

very cool for the three

congrats to ayu...thats quite a lot of dvds for her to sell all these yrs

[Chibi-Chan]

I would have never thought this, but nice to hear!^^