[Old] Ayumi's Total album sales break 20 Million copies
 

Japan's songstress Ayumi Hamasaki once again broke her own record of 14 million copies by adding the sum to 20, making her the best seller in the industry.

If we count the "Nothing from Nothing", her maiden album way before she joins Avex Trax, Ayumi has already released 19 albums in total. That is 5 Original Albums, 1 Compilation, 13 Remix Albums; as for the singles, Ayumi had now released 41 so far (28 original singles, 2 Remix Singles, 8 Re-Releases, plus 1 Charity single feat. KEIKO). Which what we have now is a overwhelming total of 60 releasements.

Such achivements were said to be the one and only in the Japan, or even in the world. (Is this what they say as Never Ever?)

Here's some recap for Ayumi's Achievements:

1998 : 5 Singles (510,000 copies sold)

1999 : 7 Singles (4.41 million), 3 Albums (4.44 million)

2000 : 8 singles (4.98 million), 6 Albums (4.65 million)

2001 : 17 singles (4.61 million), 5 Albums (5.52 Million)

2002 : Due to the changes of Avex's Marketing Strategy, Ayumi had only released merely 4 singles (2.57 Million) and 5 Albums (4.86 million)

Note :

Ayumi's Best Selling Singles & Albums

Singles :

"A" (1.63 Million)

"Seasons" (1.37 Million)

"M" (1.32 Million)

Albums :

A BEST (4.3 Million)

Duty (2.9 Million)

LOVEppears (2.6 Million)

By the way, Ayumi's rival Utada Hikaru also scored 15 miilion of sales worldwide! Keep it up Ayumi!

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Translated by Isaac Hiew
Original Article by UNITE! (Ayucn Member)
Credit own by and given to Ayucn and the original poster

7th March 2003

Thats great! Keep up the good work ayu! Way to go!!!!

i hate it when those ayu bashers say ayu's sales isn't as high as so and so and that she's just wasting too much expense on advertising that doesn't make sense...etc etc

so prove they're wrong

Huh???:confused ayu had a total of 19 albums??? isit remixes??? like ayutrance???

Great for her!

wow !!! tremendous !!!!!!!!!

Dang! thats a lot! Amazing!
too bad i can't support her that much... (i'm a poor guy :( )

That's really really impressive!!!! WOW!!!! Thanks for the info Isaac! Thanks!!! :thumbsup

damn thats great!

wow!
that's great news!
keep it up!

Ayu is so awesome and it shows! Anyone who thinks differently needs to have their head examined! Yay for Ayu! I'm so proud of her!

Sorry for being so idle in the news section, I just got my internet connection back but regretably it's the old 56k. I went to the telecom company and they THEN told me that my new home was over 5 kilometers away from the nearest broadcast station..... whatever. My new home was only situated for merely 2.3KM from my old place and this is all I get.

Moreover the electricity here is very unstable. Almost everyday there were black outs and I encountered thrice in 2 days. My mum even told me it's better off at my old house. WAKE UP!

The moral: Never accept a house from your rich relatives. Buy your own house.

Issac... may i noe.. how come ayu got 3 Albums in 1999 ;6 Albums in 2000; 5 Albums in 2001???is all the trances, ayu-ro-mix... included in that amount of albums?

Ayumi rules !!!! She'll hit that 50 million mark in no time :)

Go ayumi! I ran into the lunch room today and im like melony! OMG! listen to all this ayumi stuff i just learned. All the other people were staring at me like okie psycho....

SWEET^ :DD GO AYU!

wow.... glad to hear that~~~
cHEeeeers~~~

GOOD JOB AYU!

Ya!!
good for Ayu~~ no one can ever take her place... NEVER EVER~~
muwahaha~

Thanks for the info and translation isaac.

Too bad about your new home :(

Strange..... I did said there were 13 remix albums there.

Yeah! I know Issiac! Chibinina just read it a little too fast or something...:) Ayumi is so amazing!!! 30,000? Maybe avex trax made a typo!!!

Okok... thnx for the info... Gd Job...Ayu Go!

20 million... just multiple them with 2000 yen (middle price of an album and single) imagine... how much money was produced... wowwww

but it's kinda not fair to compare her with utada.... since hikki's single and album release are much more less compared to ayu's crazy releases.... and the results is still amazing.... 15 millions.... wowwwwwwwww.... *_*

I think there was a time when Ayumi had sold more albums than Robbie Williams worldwide :eek

Nice job ayu! You have everything from the looks, spirit and most of all mind.

yea !!! dat mean all my supportin paid off !!! *woo hoo*

compare the teenage's and mine.... any similarities?

plenty !!!!...........

i like both singers!!! And both rivals...(Sigh...) GO AYUMI!! GO Hikki!!!! Yay! :shimmy :P

wow..... GO AYU !!!! is that only sales for Japan because adding other asian countries these bound to be way more sales!

i loved reading this piece of news!

didnt last year just single broke 17million
i know this is old news... so i'm guessing sales of (singles/albums) now should be near the 30 million or so

i like it when ayu break sales records!

i always thought Utada sold more albums than ayumi
wow Ayumi sold 5 million albums more than Utada, that's alot more!
yay go ayumi~

7th March 2003 !?

My BIRTHDAY! WOOHOO!