Namie Amuro success

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by ExodusUK

It was Baby Don't Cry. I remember Ayu fans on that Jpopmusic forum would troll Namie fans constantly when her singles would fail to even make the top 5 meanwhile Ayu was having near 100k first week singles still. How the tables have turned..

Even after Baby Don't Cry though, some of Namie's singles didn't chart that well. She's never been (in her second peak) that amazing across the board on singles. Her albums though were steadily building.

I still say, from having been a fan prior to that, the turning point was Queen of Hip Pop, which then built into the success of Baby Don't Cry.

Style charted for 23 weeks and sold 221,000 copies and Queen of Hip Hop charted for 70 weeks and sold 494,000. That's a huge upward jump in a one album span after her career had been on a steady downhill for several years. Next, Play charted for 53 weeks and while it sold more than QOHP, it wasn't by a landslide, at 540,000 copies.