Sales up to date

**sugarbasil** · #1 5th July 2007, 08:39 AM

Does anyone know what Ayu's total sales are to this day? I'm trying to put them in retrospect to other famous musicians. I heard somewhere that she's beaten Green Day in total sales. O_o

~X2RADialbomber~ · #2 5th July 2007, 10:05 AM

It's just over 50,000,000

fanmail · #3 5th July 2007, 12:09 PM

what about individual albums? I'd love to know the modern current up-to-date sales of them

norain · #4 5th July 2007, 08:31 PM

Well, 50 million is in japan only right?

slowmoth · #5 5th July 2007, 08:57 PM

In February she was 45,528,000 so now she is 46,915,476

**sugarbasil** · #6 5th July 2007, 11:21 PM

Is that just her Japan sales or her worldwide sales?

Maxker · #7 5th July 2007, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by sugarbasil

Is that just her Japan sales or her worldwide sales?

Just her Japan sales, approved by Oricon ^^

norain · #8 7th July 2007, 02:56 AM

wow, so if we counted all sales, then she'd be well over 50 million then? sorta.

Impracticable · #9 7th July 2007, 05:33 AM

Well, using her avex sales (which has its biases, but probably kept longer records of sales than oricon, since the stop once it stops charting) it would probably at like 50~52 million.

Lee_Hamasaki · #10 7th July 2007, 01:05 PM

worldwide maybe are more than 60milion..

Maxker · #11 7th July 2007, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Lee_Hamasaki

worldwide maybe are more than 60milion..

Yes, most likely

Impracticable · #12 7th July 2007, 05:11 PM

Yeah id assume ... According to wikipedia (not really totally reliable ...) A BEST alone is a certified 6x million international seller.

*Petit* · #13 7th July 2007, 05:22 PM

Yep, what everone is using as "official sales" are actually Oricon records which is the highest regarded japanese records' sales chart, but I do think that avex sales would be more accurate actually. I don't know if those include taiwan, Hong Kong etc sales, but I'm pretty sure they include yesasia japan version sales and CDJapan sales plus many of the stores not counted by oricon.

Impracticable · #14 7th July 2007, 05:25 PM

^ and they probably keep adding sales even after they stopped charting on oricon ...

ayu DIOR · #15 7th July 2007, 05:50 PM

wikipedia said 50 million CDs and 25 million singles, but I'm not sure how reliable they are. *shrugs*

Impracticable · #16 7th July 2007, 06:06 PM

she has sold only about 22 million Singles from what i know ... (even though she supposedly just apssed 20 million with BLUE BIRD ... maybe she sells a lot of old singles too per year? XD) and in the 50 million the Singles are included/

capsule · #17 12th July 2007, 07:02 AM

Well....if we counted all her record sales, it has already surpassed 50 million. Wikipedia might not be an accurate source but i think...the record sales probably true though. She had already surpassed 50 million mark (more than 30 million albums and over 20 million copies...i think).

Partino · #18 12th July 2007, 07:34 AM

wow .... 50 mil in japan alone ... britney spears sold 76 mil international ... hmmm maybe ayu should really consider pursueing a international career ... she'll pass the 100 mil easily

IYFreak · #19 13th July 2007, 12:58 AM

I don't thinks So since english isn't Ayu's first language

Impracticable · #20 13th July 2007, 03:41 AM

Yeah but Japan has a huge music industry (second buggest in the world) so it would be easier for Ayu, speaking english and japanese, to get aninternational career than say ... a polish man who could only speak polish .. or maybe even an american singer, since Ayumi would be able to appeal to both Music Industries.