[Oricon] Ayu places 7th in total sales for 2010
 

From Oricon BiZ:
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Values are in millions of yen.

01. Arashi
02. Tohoshinki
03. AKB48
04. Ikimonogakari
05. EXILE
06. Kanjani8
07. Hamasaki Ayumi
08. KAT-TUN
09. Nishino Kana
10. Koda Kumi

Ayu sold about 2.83 billion yen worth of CDs/DVDs this year. 678 million yen came from singles, 1.3 billion yen from albums, and 866 million yen from live DVD sales.

Ayu placed 7th for the year. Arashi was 1st with a whopping 16.8 billion yen in sales! I think she counts as the top solo female artist if Ikimonogakari is counted as a female-led band. Not sure. Pretty impressive considering she's been around the longest out of most of these acts. (Not sure about EXILE though.)

Source - http://biz-m.oricon.co.jp/news/data/544.shtml

Past rankings:
2009 - 9th - 3.436 billion
2008 - 2nd - 7.188 billion
2007 - 2nd - 7.057 billion
2006 - 5th - 6.893 billion
2005 - 4th - 6.908 billion
2004 - 5th - 5.4 billion
2003 - 1st - 10.5 billion
2002 - 2nd - 11.5 billion
2001 - 1st - 24.5 billion
2000 - 1st - 21.7 billion
1999 - 5th - 19.7 billion

Wow, that´s great!!!
Koda did great too!

OMG they're super rich! jealous. XD

Omg I'm so glad Kuu's there too. I knew she still sells enough to be in top ten :luv2

Cool!

And wow for the Koda! :heart Her album sales are great!

And woah at ikimonogakari's figures lol Damn.

woww thankss!
that means, she's still the highest among the solo female singers?
at least she goes up to rank no. 7 from 9th in 2009..
congrats ayu!

Ayu is still the top selling solo artist after more than 10 years in the business. What an achievement.

GREAT JOB AYU~!!

congarts, ayu-chan ^^

who's on 1st-2nd-4th-9th-and 10th?
kanjani 8 on 6th, i'm right?
and koda kumi on 10th?

**i'm sorry, i can't remember about kanji's name from more artist ^^;;

01. Arashi
02. Tohoshinki
03. AKB48
04. Ikimonogakari
05. EXILE
06. Kanjani8
07. Hamasaki Ayumi
08. KAT-TUN
09. Nishino Kana

hoo sankyuu ^^
i'm sorry, I did not see your complete translation ^^;;
i'm so sorry....

what a bunch of money..
$_$

TOP SOLO!
TOP FEMALE!
Ayu is still freaking amazing :)

wow she earned A LOT from DVDs...there was AT09 and CDL0910 only right?

Given the fact that she's been around for long, with this results... it's quite good already. Somemore those above her are all in groups.... so if we divide them accordingly to the number of members, ayu will be ranked 2nd or 3rd

GreAt job!! Ayu!!:)

ayu is such a diva. haha

she dropped alot after no more best album from 2008-2009

she still manage on the top 10..and she is the most senior artist in that chart...
cool enough..thanks for sharing the info...

Nice to see that Ayu is still the best selling solo female singer. :D
Her sales drop but her rank position goes up.
So i think in general all artists' sales are also dropping.

She did a great job ! congrats !^^!

thx ^^ congratulations to ayu again~!

Yay Ayu and Arashi! ^^

Ayu still dominates! <3 She's the best!

Glad Kuu made it too! :yes

CONGRATZ AYU! :)
she moved up from last year!! which is great ;)

It's pretty impressive for Kana, too! Isn't she only in her second or third year? The rest of the competition is either a) a long standing act b) a group or c) both.

That's super awesome!!
She is in the top 10 for 11 years already of the best selling yearly acts!!
I'm so happy for her =D

Good for her, moving up in the charts from last year!

Well, there are other female solo artists the released bests or great selling original albums but ayu is still above them. xD

not bad. of course I always think she deserves #1 though.

^Well, if we were just doing solo acts she would be #1. ;)

congrats to ayumi!

and arashi! :heart i'm also very happy to see kanjani8, kana nishino, ikimonogakari, and koda kumi on the list too! congrats to everyone! :D

amazing!!!!
really good peak!!!

thats lovely. fantastic :D

*__* wow new comer like nishino kana doing a really2 great job for her sales!
Koda in here too~
congratz for all artist :D

I'm surprised Kana Nishino is on there! That's so good for her :D And incredible for Ayumi to still be in the top 10 after all this time. Just goes to show how much of a queen she is haha :)

Went to look it up and wow, only 2 years. 2010 definitely has been her year.

Congrats Ayu!!!

I think Ayu is the only solo artist to have made it that high!!

The power of Ayu!!! >__<

I just hope that she will be in top TEN every year!! really!!

Kana did some heavy promotion when her new album came out in June this year. She had the poster on every streetlight thing all over Shibuya, like how ayu promoted her A BEST album.

wooo great job Ayu!
I'm so happy!!! ^^

Really great for ayu!! So happy to see this news~
Thanks for sharing!

Yeah well, she's new she has to LOL.

She debuted in 2007, so I won't really call that new. But she did stop releasing for a while after her debut and now she's making a comeback, so I guess that counts. ^^

yay ayu!!!

still the 1st lady *-*

Nice! She is ayu after all

I want that money too!

OMG..

congrats ayu...

ow,and I'm very impressed in 2001 rank... :yes

great great job!

Really proud of her! She deserves it, she's a non-stop worker...

This is awesome!!!!!!!

YES!!! I really would've thought Kana might have beaten her, but it's awesome to know that even with her decrease in sales, Ayu's still the best selling female artist of 2010. That's such an awesome accomplishment :')

not trying to be the pessimistic one here but her sales really dropped compared to 10 years ago, but still, good job.

an kana too :D

Well most artists sales at ayu's point usually drop, the great thing though is that they didn't drop by a lot.
ayu's overall total sales last year were around 80,000 more. xD

Oricon Yearly Positions

Albums
#21 Rock'n'Roll Circus

Singles
#56 You were.../BALLAD
#66 crossroad
#70 MOON/blossom
#71 L

DVDs
#18 ayumi hamasaki ARENA TOUR 2009 ~NEXT LEVEL~ A

so sad that Ayu can't get in top 20 for album and top 50 for single !~~!

Congrats for Ayu... hope she'll hold that streak for 2011! :)

With a lot of johnnys, AKB48 and K-POP groups, her sales and peak are really good!!
keep going ayu!!!!!

It's even more sad for people who can't get into the top 20 for weekly albums~

It's still REALLY good for Ayu to have made it in the top 30.

10 year ago was her golden era..
so ther's no point to compare it with nowdays sales..
watching her still on top 10 yearly after over 10 years in music industry is so awsome..

btw
L surrely should have a better position..

n can ayu break 100k again with her next single..