With the right song and the right time...

[bluegie]

Ayu really needs the right time, right song(s), and right promotion in order to get another 300K single. Not that it will never happen, but she really needs all of those above.

For Namie, even tho she had a big bang during 60s70s80s, she did slowly build up her base again a few years before that. I think her bottom was the STYLE era. She gain her popularity bits by bits after that. Her albums sales increased each time (so QoHH beat STYLE, then PLAY beat QoHH).

For ayu... well you can see that her sales chart is forming a negative slope right now, so if we wanna see a miracle, she has to build up her base again first. Even if there's a miracle and she got a hit single, a mediocre follow up will not give her the attention she wants (or we want).