ayumi hamasaki NEW SINGLE "Nonfiction" Release 2022.04.22

[Katsuyuki012]

^It's her best-charting single on the download chart!
For reference (Oricon):

#12 – Nonfiction
#14 – Ohia no Ki
#22 – Dreamed a Dream
#29 – 23rd Monster

And while her chart numbers aren't too important these days, it is a bit of a shame that this could've been her second top ten single there (the first one would've been Ohia no Ki) if they hadn't released it so late* in the week. Still, it's very nice to see a small upswing!

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Spoiler:

That's also why/how she gets those daily number 1s – it kinda seems like that's what they (Avex and Ayu) are going for. I mean, I kinda get it, but daily chart positions don't mean much against weekly ones soo.
After all, a weekly top 10 song is a top song (overall) but a song that gets #1 for a day doesn't get called a number 1 hit.

But that's just overanalyzing it considering they don't even try. I'm super happy about the result!