This is great! #1 With a nearly 14 year old album!

so cool!!!

Good job Ayima !!!

That's amazing <3

Who... full song was certified Platinum by RIAJ for 250,000+ downloads! =)

Awesome! Thanks!

thanks to A BEST :heart

Not sure where to post this but there's a site that tracks weekly iTunes Japan top 50 best selling tracks and Ayu's charted a few times recently.

14/12/22 #13 Movin' on without you 浜崎あゆみ 6,896 / 6,896
14/12/29 #28 Movin' on without you 浜崎あゆみ 1,925 / 8,821
15/01/19 #50 Movin' on without you 浜崎あゆみ 739 / 10,707

14/12/29 #20 Zutto... 浜崎あゆみ 3,601 / 3,601
15/01/05 #20 Zutto... 浜崎あゆみ 2,966 / 6,567

They only show the tracks in the top 50 so they've sold more than that but it's cool to have some figures since digital sales in Japan are always so hard to track!

http://www.tnsori.com/

Wow that's nice and those tracks are still charting on Recochoku and had a better performance than what they did on iTunes, so yay!

Impressive. Good to see it's back.

ayu's HANABI (full song) got Gold certification for over 100,000 downloads.

That long? An almost-thirteen-year-old song just got 100,000 downloads??? Whoa... 2002 song getting gold in downloads in 2015...

Well 2002 was a year before online legal/digital downloads started and the single itself physically sold over a million (and the best selling single of 2002 even though it had independent and July 1st too).

Most people who were interested in this song probably already got it physically in the single/RAINBOW/A BEST 2 -BLACK-so it's probably the popularity of the song that got that many people to download it as well and it took that long.

Songs that had digital popularity were songs that were hits and released from 2003-2004 onwards.

Yeah, and artists that are experiencing their top nowadays sell a lot more digitally than physically, talking about singles. Like Nishino Kana, her singles can't reach 30k but she always is at least gold certified for each single. And also they can't sell like ayu did years ago, even experiencing great digital sales it's nothing like what CDs used to sell, so hardly someone will break ayu's streak.


btw @ayumisrael where did you get this info from? Could you post the link please?

http://www.riaj.or.jp/data/others/chart/w150220.html

Of course!
And kana is a good example for an artist that grew popular after 2003 and she sold digitally better than physically especially in singles (even though her 2nd original album sold around 750,000).
Even kuu sold better digitally especially in singles (but she were at a time were singles still sold physically better in general).

AKB48 succeeds both physically and digitally but their physical success is based on 200,000-400,000 people buying multiple versions constantly for years of their singles because of live events, meetings, lives tickets etc.