[Translation] [2013] ayu loses sales record to AKB48 (Article)

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

It's kinda offensive comparing Ayumi to Aguilera considering the later, as truehappiness said, never had much of a big impact to begin with... Ayumi is the best selling soloist ever on the Oricon era, and even if I don't know how fair is to say she is the biggest female star Japan ever had considering the impact of people like Momoe Yamaguchi, Seiko Matsuda, Matsutoya Yumi, Hikaru Utada and Misora Hibari, but she for sure is among them, while Aguilera never was really among the top American popstars ever.

And I just love how a lot of funs enjoy talking about how Ayu loves or "disloves" her work like they were having tea with her weekly.

I guess I was thinking more in terms of numbers. She's up there with those other soloists though IMO. I still find it fascinating that she pretty much had no experience with singing professionally before this.