Ayumi Hamasaki on the 100 best-selling albums in Japanese history

[*Petit*]

Originally Posted by Dark Eiri

And this doesn't count overseas and websales!
Go, Ayu, Go!

I think this only counts the amount sold while in Oricon?

It's really not suprising. Albums don't sell nearly as much as they did a few years ago.

Nothing sells as it used to, although the album sales have gone down a lot, single sales has dropped even more. One of the proves is DEF . DIVA managing to det in number one with a bit less than 30.000 copies in one week. ...



I am... was released at a point when sales were starting to drop (right??) and the sinlges released upfront also sold a lot. I never saw any statistics claiming it to be anymore than her third most sold album (not counting BEST).

[andre2907]

Originally Posted by nmskalmn

Source?

Oricon itself.

VERY SORRY for not posting A BEST, by the way. Just updated. It's her best-selling album

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

Yeah, where is the source for this? Becuase I was fairly certain that I Am is Ayu's 2nd best selling album, not LOVEppears.

No, it's not. DUTY is her best-selling studio album. I'll add total sales.

[nmskalmn]

Originally Posted by andre2907

Oricon itself.

Please post a link to the page with the statistics.

[andre2907]

Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0

No, they are. andre might not have put them. But I know they're counted cuz B'z Best Treasure and Best Pleasure are in the top 5. (might be 2nd and 3rd, or 3rd and 4th, or something.)

Andre, can you post a link to the list? i had it before but i've lost it.

EDIT: Gah, annabelle beat me by one minute. Thanks for the link!

http://www.ongakuen.com/album.htm. The complete list (until 2004)

[Raleigh]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

It's really not suprising. Albums don't sell nearly as much as they did a few years ago.

Pretty much.

Wow. That's a tad disappointing.

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by andre2907

No, it's not. DUTY is her best-selling studio album. I'll add total sales.

Yeah, I know Duty is her best selling album but I had read that I am was her second best selling but now the source for that has taken that number down, so it may very well be LOVEppears. I don't count A Best, just the original albums.

[MsMiyabi]

Hikki is number 1? OMG

[ayu_fan929]

^
^heres the oricon yearly results for both "LOVEppears" n "I am..."

1999: LOVEppears: 1,443,490 (yearly rank #15)
2000: LOVEppears: 1,077,960 (yearly rank #14)
which puts LOVEppears at 2,511,450

2002: I am...: 2,301,020 (yearly rank #2)

obviously, the 2 albums would have continued selling, but the amount is not significant to be provided in the oricon top 100 every yr.

credits:
http://www1.interq.or.jp/kunioki/yea.../rc_ms99.shtml
http://www1.interq.or.jp/kunioki/yea.../rc_ms00.shtml
http://www1.interq.or.jp/kunioki/yea.../rc_ms02.shtml

hikki holds #1, 2 for the bet selling original albums!

winterkill: how r the sales #'s disappointing?
akurei: was that supposed to be sarcasm?

as mentioned, there will be 4 new albums joining the overall top 100 chart:
ORANGE RANGE- musiQ sold about 2,637,000+ (#32)
Ketsumeishi- Ketsu no Police 4 sold about 1,930,000+ (#72)
Def Tech- Def Tech sold about 1,720,000+ (#96)
Ken Hirai- Single Collection has sold about 1,750,000+ (#90)

[Sweer]

pretty interesting, I always knew Ayu would be pretty high up there, but I thought her albums were somewhat closer to each other on the ranking

Originally Posted by ayu_fan929

winterkill: how r the sales #'s disappointing?

Whoops, no, not the sales. I forgot to explain why it's disappointing — it's the fact that albums used to sell a lot more and none of her newer albums are up on the list.

[fantaisie.sign]

Interesting, but I thought Namie's (older) albums would be a LOT higher on that list. Oh well. . .

[andre2907]

Originally Posted by Chibinina4

Interesting, but I thought Namie's (older) albums would be a LOT higher on that list. Oh well. . .

A LOT higher? It's the 12th best-selling album in Japan! The 2nd biggest music-market in the world where thousands of albums are released every year.

But, in the end of 1996, it was the third best-selling album of Japan ever [after Atomic Heart, from Mr.Children and globe first album).

[fantaisie.sign]

^ Well, I meant 181920 really. I know being within the top 100 is great, but being number 99 is a bit surprising. Of course, I haven't seen the total units sold for that album.

[andre2907]

Originally Posted by Chibinina4

^ Well, I meant 181920 really. I know being within the top 100 is great, but being number 99 is a bit surprising. Of course, I haven't seen the total units sold for that album.

Oh, I see. But it was a compilation and it was released right after she announced she was pregnant, at the end of the year, so it had only a few months to sell, because then she was out of the spotlight.

[ayu_fan929]

Originally Posted by Winterkill

Whoops, no, not the sales. I forgot to explain why it's disappointing — it's the fact that albums used to sell a lot more and none of her newer albums are up on the list.

well yea....the only newest album that made it to the top 50 was musiQ, but there are a couple more that have made it to the top 100. which does still mean that albums do sell, but ur rite, not as much as they used to.

[stardusties]

wow..Hikki's First Love got #1!?...e.e....i though either Distance or Deep Rvier would -shrug- , he PVs way back then were soo cheezy XDD!!!

but wow,Ayu's populatiry really shows a bell structure...I wonder if she can get any new album up on there!