Originally Posted by Nackar_91 (Post 2664618)

It kind of does, but that's the internet for ya, where everything is easily misconstrued : P

I realize that, of course, their popularity could have become less. That's completely viable. The only problem is that this doesn't or barely show in their single sales, and it'd be weird if somehow their popularity dropped in between the single and the album. If all of their singles would've done less I could've expected a sudden drop. This just seems so random...

At least the Mr. Children album had a very good reason for not selling a million, what with the album being announced basically a few days in advance and there not being any single or promotion for it. But then that's Mr. Children and they can do NO wrong XD

Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan (Post 2664907)

Kinda depends on how one defines popularity. If one thinks popularity is all about sales, then yes, they could say that after Duty, Ayu's popularity started decreasing.

Originally Posted by njanjayrp (Post 2664903)

I guess, but you could hardly say that Ayu's or Utada's popularity was dropping during their peak when Ayu had evolution and M being some of her biggest hits ever, yet the album sold less than Duty and it was the same with Hikki. Her singles were still selling as much as they did before back then, but her album sales kept dropping. Look at the sales of her Distance singles, almost all of those crossed a million mark and outsold all her First Love singles, yet the album sales dropped by 3 millions.