[Charts & Rankings] Recochoku 2009 Yearly Ranking

[truehappiness]

but in the overall chart, all artists count - not just women and there were somewhere around 15 or so ahead of Ayu in the Chaku Uta and Chaku Uta full and not all of them were collaborations.

True, but most of the artists that are ahead of her that aren't already ahead of her are female for the most part, haha.

It seems likely to me that the cumulative total of her sales [NEXT LEVEL/new singles only] on Recochoku outdid the other artists' totals and that's what placed her ahead of the rest. I feel as though the 20 or so tracks she had in the past year might've been downloaded more than we expect, but not enough to make the top 100, you know? And then there's the small percentage of people who buy the older material. I guess we'd need to see what the ranking looked like last year to know for sure.

In the 2007 yearly chart though, she was #6 overall, with few tracks in the top 100. JEWEL ranked highest at #50/#46. But that was just "overall"... probably everything counted at once? That was a bit strange, hm. And to add, her half year rankings for this year were pretty similar to the final tally... it doesn't look as though she was featured much on the 2008 yearly chart since she pretty much only had Together When... representing everything, so overall she had a much better year this year than any year before. I wonder if Japan liked the songs more this year? It's sort of sad how Thelma was topping every single chart last year, and now she's barely anywhere to be seen, haha.

http://recochoku.jp/recochoku_rankin...ber/index.html

Find all the yearly rankings near the bottom of the page.

So perhaps we are underestimating the strength of her older material... but if that were the case, her older tracks should at least chart during a daily ranking at some point, so what gives for her to be ranking so highly in the overall Chaku-Uta/Full charts? Hm...

Yes, and for the singles released 2008-2009 period she was out of the top 20. But when you count in those 1300+ she is in the top 5.... Is my logic really totally off here?

Perhaps, but having two songs that are in the top 25 might've helped her more than having one song in the top 20... [even if some of those songs did sell a million in Chaku-Uta totals]

[jbrat2219]

Like Sunshine said, even if her old stuff is contributing to this spike, it's not a bad thing. It shows people still have an interest in her after all these years. And as someone pointed out, that 1,300+ Ayu material didn't just appear over night. Many of her songs have been available for years. It's impressive that people with less can hold their own against her, but it's even more impressive (to me at least) that she can hold her own after all these years. Old songs or not, people are still interested enough to buy them. And that's just digital sales. And in Aoyama Thelma's case, she had one (or more?) super big hit and now where is she? All in all, GOOD JOB AYU!