[Charts & Rankings] Top 20 1st Week Worldwide Sales For Female Solo Artistes

[kendelle]

Way to go Namie for getting such a high score and......

WOOT!AYU! Two spots is so awesome!! I'm so glad she's the only one on there twice!! ^_^

[jeffycue]

wow... there are only americans and japanese on the top.

[asmAyumi1992]

YAY~ That's my AYU!

[Emperatriz Ayumi]

Ayu rules!!!! She got 2 places... and she even sells mora than Cristina Aguilera jajajaja!!!!!!!

[Meat Pao]

Circus totally pwnt Hard Candy BUT ANYWAY congratulations to Ayu, Namie, ayaka and all the other jpop artists in there that I missed lol.

[PEARL]

Yay ayu got TWO!

[Handjan]

Wow, congrats to Ayu - 2 positions in world chart.
YUI, Hikki, Kuu - congrats.

Namie rules!!!!!

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by SolarAngel

Neat. Ayu has such a strong fanbase which supports her 1st week sales. Now if only her sales could be as consistent as some of the artistes up there

I agree that the quality popular American music is declining but i think you should look at the sales trend for following weeks as well. Albums on japan charts almost always decline quite drastically in subsequent weeks but US albums can still sell hundreds of thousands in later weeks. The most i give Exile is 2 million but i'm sure Britney will go over that. This is only the first week sales, maybe there's no need to read too much into it.

That's true to an extent, however the point still remains that albums sold in only one country (with only half the population of the US) can sell the same and often times outsell those from the US that are available world wide is pretty amazing. Logically that just shouldn't be able to happen.

I also think that US albums are also getting more and more front loaded in their sales as well. It used to be albums would keep selling pretty steadily for years sometimes, but that doesn't seem to be the trend the last couple of years. Britney's last album for example, even to this day has not hit 1 million copies in the US.

[Yum!Fruit_Salad!]

Way to go, Ayu! You took down HEART STATION and Kingdom.
Yeah for Namie's high position!

[Jwiz]

Omg for GUILTY but AC did fairly well...anyway congratulations to both albums for making into the charts!

[Chibi_Venus]

Nice!

And is Circus really that amazing? Everyone really seems to like it!

Thanks for sharing!

[yoshino]

yeah.. so happy for Ayu to be in 2 places!.

and congrats to Namie too..!

(I'm kinda surprise Britney's topped the chart :p)

[angelwing886]

congrats ayu

[Beauty4123]

#9 is a great ranking! so is #18 congrats to ayu.

[SolarAngel]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

That's true to an extent, however the point still remains that albums sold in only one country (with only half the population of the US) can sell the same and often times outsell those from the US that are available world wide is pretty amazing. Logically that just shouldn't be able to happen.

Yeah i forgot about the worldwide perspective. And japanese albums are so much more expensive too. What drew me into japanese music in the first place was the quality of the instrumentation.