^ RAINBOW sold 1.8 million copies and is counted in 2003 income plus A BALLADS sold nearly 1million copies while in 2004 she only had Memorial Address and 3 singles for MY STORY. Thats what I could think

I'm always surprised that Ayu and Namie still hit the top 20..although she lost many positions this year

2011 sales are higher than 2010 sales? lol like how come.

2010 - RNRC album, 3 singles, LS partial sales
2011 - LS partial sales, Ayumix 7, FIVE

i dunno about the AVEX year ending @March or whatever but if we base this by calendar year, i think it's impossible for FIVE to beat RNRC and Love songs. feel free to correct me though :shrug

Stunned with 1st being Akb. Omg cant believe arashi and exile cannot win them!

saw this yearly ranking sale on Twitter, is it the same? somehow the second place here is soloist Ieri Leo, i dont understand japanese just according to the tweets

http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmus...ull/?cat_id=tw

Even when ayu "flops" (as people has been saying) she does incredibly well, #2 as solo singer is great! :)

2001 was insane, even higher than this year of akb48 :thud

2001 was the higher grossing of the decade but the grossing of Utada was slightly better in 1999 (first love 7.65 M) and also Bz' in 1998 (2 BEST Album 9M)^^

That's new artists who debuted this year sales ranking.

Wow that's good enough!!!

Weird to see the drop from 2003 to 2004...still, Ayu doing better than expected sales-wise looking at this.

yeah.... kinda surprising..

well, all of Love songs sales where in 2011... it didnt chart till the first week for some reason.
so 2011 had more stuff...
dont forgot all the blu-ray DVD's as well...
2011 had a TON of stuff released.

that only means Ayu should leave japan for a while and do a world tour. her fans are everywhere!