Ayu's Spotify Stats

[njanjayrp]

23rd Monster falls into the (don’t) Leave me alone, decision, GAME etc. type of song. Back in the day it would have been either an album promo track or the back side of a double a-side single ��

[Evan Odinson]

SEASONS has been added to the official playlist of Japan's TOP streamed songs from the 90's

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37...0c476797704d16

BLUE BIRD has been added to the official playlist of Japan's TOP streamed songs from the 00's

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37...1db515c54a4411

Also, BLUE BIRD just hit 9M streams! This is her second most streamed song and SEASONS is just 500K streams away to hit 10M, let's stream it as much as possible!

M is just 200K streams away from 9M as well!

[Katsuyuki012]

Originally Posted by Evan Odinson

SEASONS has been added to the official playlist of Japan's TOP streamed songs from the 90's

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37...0c476797704d16

Also SEASONS: *was released in 2000*

[Evan Odinson]

Originally Posted by Katsuyuki012

Also SEASONS: *was released in 2000*

haha well there's always this debate, technically speaking the year 2000 was still part of the 90's since current calendars counts decades starting with the first year 1 and not year Zero, but experts says both ways are acceptable since most people thinks it goes from zero to 9, so yeah, kinda confusing but technically not wrong lol

[oaristos]

Originally Posted by Evan Odinson

SEASONS has been added to the official playlist of Japan's TOP streamed songs from the 90's

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37...0c476797704d16

BLUE BIRD has been added to the official playlist of Japan's TOP streamed songs from the 00's

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37...1db515c54a4411

Also, BLUE BIRD just hit 9M streams! This is her second most streamed song and SEASONS is just 500K streams away to hit 10M, let's stream it as much as possible!

M is just 200K streams away from 9M as well!

It's so odd that Ayu only has one song in that 00's playlist... Sometimes I feel like Japan likes to pretend her career doesn't exist.

[summerain]

Originally Posted by oaristos

It's so odd that Ayu only has one song in that 00's playlist... Sometimes I feel like Japan likes to pretend her career doesn't exist.

But if I understood it right, it's a list of most streamed songs that were released in 00s, it's not a selection made by a team of limited people.

EDIT: I was reading you again and I realized you are criticizing the audience in general hahaha I think it's also bizarre to see only 2 Utada songs in this list.

[MKAyu]

Originally Posted by oaristos

It's so odd that Ayu only has one song in that 00's playlist... Sometimes I feel like Japan likes to pretend her career doesn't exist.

Haters are probably angry that she's still successful. Sold-out tie-in merchandise? A top-selling fictionalized autobiography-turned-drama? Concerts that sell well and an Instagram with more followers than many current stars?

How dare someone that clean people find embarrassing and that young people aren't into continue so shamelessly living her life as she wants and making money at it! She doesn't suit the current, more modest mores and people have passionate feelings about her, otherwise there wouldn't be hundreds of comments on every little article that comes out describing the newest thing she said on her Instagram. They might want to forget her, but they can't! And eventually, divas and bling will come back into fashion.

[Evan Odinson]

There's also the fact that many songs are worldwide famous for certain 90's anime, so they get more streams thanks to the anime fans around the world unlike Ayu, her biggest hits aren't anime/videogames ties-in (Dearest would be the only "big" in her ties-in, her Tales Of openings are great but the franchise is not as international and popular as idk final fantasy lol) so her biggest hits such a BLUE BIRD, SEASONS, M, Boys & Girls, Voyage, etc mostly receive streams only in Japan and her international fanbase of course, but still there's a big difference compared to hit anime songs.