2008 - artist total sales (Single + Album + DVD):
 

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2008 Top Artist Karaoke requests:

01 - EXILE
02 - Koda Kumi
03 - Kobukuro
04 - Hamasaki Ayumi
05 - Mr.Children
06 - GReeeeN
07 - Southern All Stars
08 - Kitajima Saburou
09 - L'arc~en~ciel
10 - DREAMS COME TRUE

credits: Mr_Children@jpopmusic

It's nice to see that even tough Ayu had great sales with so few releases this year!

great

wow~

thats awesome!! just behind EXILE ^^

thanks!

How does Kuu have more sales than Ayu for 2008?

100k dvd, 600k album, 100k single, 100k single = 1mil

Ayu: 800k album, 200k single, ??? dvd

and why is Namie not on that list o.O, her best alone should put her on 2nd

LOL

shut up me!
xD

im so stupid

namie is in the 4 place ^^

This list is about karaoke request.

2008 Top Artist Karaoke requests:

01 - EXILE
02 - Koda Kumi
03 - Kobukuro
04 - Hamasaki Ayumi
05 - Mr.Children
06 - GReeeeN
07 - Southern All Stars
08 - Kitajima Saburou
09 - L'arc~en~ciel
10 - DREAMS COME TRUE

The first one where EXILE is #1 and ayu is #2 etc. is the best selling list of the year.

ayu is the best selling female artist of the year (or best proffiting) that's awesome!!
It seems that her 10th anniversary paid off XDD

wow
thats actually true

ayu sold pretty good in this 10th anniversary!!

AC saved the day xDDD

Actually, it looks like Ayu sold less than all of the music acts on that list, however, she generated the second most income or something... (Ithink sales in 10000s are on the right and earnings in million/billion yen on the left Can anyone who knows japanese a little better help out? :P

WOOW.. ayu got #2 again.. nice money for ayu..wuuuhhuuu

Oricon yearly ranking

Album
*8 *,815,643 **2,832 A COMPLETE ～ALL SINGLES～ / 浜崎あゆみ 08/09/10
17 *,568,288 ***,*** GUILTY / 浜崎あゆみ 08/01/01


SIngle
33 *,193,016 ***,*** Mirrorcle World / 浜崎あゆみ 08/04/08

wah ! it's really great ! congratz Ayu !.

ayu ganbatte ne ^^!~...4 ^^!~

lol at Exile's total. Good for everyone else on the list except Kobukuro. I don't dislike them, but I find them to be very overrated.

I would say that to us it was a slow release year because of a lack of new material but in terms of actual releases this list includes the release of: Guilty, Mirrorcle World, 2 Remix albums, CDL 08/09, Arena Tour '07 and A-Complete. As far as I can tell, the only other artist in the top 5 to release that many things this year is Exile.

That's correct. She actually sold less than all the artists on the list comparing singles and albums but she released more products than they did. Releasing 2 concert dvds I'm sure is the only thing that ultimately put her ahead of Namie since concert dvds are the most expensive of the products to buy and still Namie is only very slightly behind in total sales and did better in the amount of units sold.

^thx for the heads-up Sunshine!

this year is EXILE's year..absolute win over other artist, :D! congrats them..

and ayu still the AVEX Most Profitable Queen-bee of the year!!

wonder if she could maintain her position next year.

in the past 2 years ayu's income mostly came from best albums, while in the next year she wouldn't have any more best thingy XD

^ I guess next year will be regular single and album yearly.. hopefully rule to be big HIT

I wouldn't really say that since this measures who had the highest sales, not who had the highest profits. (the two are actually different^_^) I would say that Namie was Avex's most profitable female this year (and probably easily so).

She sold more total units than Ayu and just barely is behind her in total sales with only 3 releases (Play Tour DVD, Best Fiction, 60s70s80s) compared to Ayumi's 7 releases (Guilty, A Complete, 2 remix albums, Mirrorcle World, 2 concert dvds). All of those things required promotional expenses from Avex and really the only one of the things on Namie's list that much promo expenditure would need to be done is Best Fiction since 60s70s80s bill was pretty much footed by Vidal Sassoon. So yeah, actually I would say that Namie was quite easily the best money maker for Avex this year when you take those factors into account.

Watch Avex come up with A Ultimate or something. :)

@rio: well, the title is Rule, so it'd be unRule if it's not rules for big hit next year, u knw what i mean :D lol

BTW, has ayu 's sales surpass 50 mil mark with this 1.8mil addition..?

bongga!!!
Congrats to ayu!!! Still, the best-selling female artist!!1 Way to go, ayu!!!

Thanks for this news!!!

But still ayu gave them more profit than namie.
And the thing about the compilation albums can be said about other 3 from the list.
EXILE released 3 compilations, B'z released 2 and ayu and namie only 1.
Excluding those compilations non of them would be that high =P

(And for the record AC sold better than EXILE ENTERTAINMENT BEST)..

i'm super surprised that Namie wasn't higher than Ayu, with BF and all. but yaaaay, Ayu!!!

but i thought according to the list, ayu is 2nd?

LOLZ

umm she needs 700K to set 50 million

She is. ^^

Great job on Ayu's side! And great jobs to the other singers too...!

I agree, Kobukuro seems overrated by Japanese...I find their music not a good one for my ears

And for Ayu, yay! even with small number of release she's winning folks!

Congrats to Ayu!!!!

Im a bit sad that koda kumi is at no2 while ayu is at no4...maybe its the lack of releases from ayu!

In terms of earnings, not sales.

awesome , congrats to her even though she had a rough year in the beginning but she managed to weather it eventually

Yeah..
Congrats to Ayu and also Namie... :)

Actually, that's just the list for karaoke requests. Ayu is 2nd overall.

2008 = EXILE
Congratz to Ayu

this was exp[eced actually. but still congrat to her

In terms of CDs and DVDs sold so yes she is the 2nd when it comes to SALES.

On a side note: Why are there so many people who can't read properly?!:innocent

wow at Exile's 5.195 million units with revenue at 195.8 (million/billion Yen!?)

Avex did very well this year. congrats to all on the list.

Omg I hope they don't call it that, "A" Ultimate would make me cringe! "An Ultimate" is proper English :yes... Not that I'm stickler for English grammar, but just THAT particular piece of grammar lol!

Looks like Ayu sold well after all... These figures don't include how much money she generated on tour does it? If not, I can see why she hasn't beat EXILE, they're a beast this year.... I heard they weren't all that famous before certain collaborations with other famous artists such as Kumi?

EXILE was famous that I can say. But just like Namie, they also have their ups and downs.
Yay.... congrats to AYu, I am very glad that she is no. 2 (This is off topic, but whenever I heard no. 2, it reminds me of BONO in SOuthpark)

Yep, 19.58 billion yen in revenue.

This chart is about revenue, not profit; they are entirely two different things.

Sweet! Congrats to Ayu! ^^

I just explained why profit and sales are different things. Ayumi had total higher money earnings because she had 7 releases, 2 of which were dvds (which is what was able to give her a money edge because they are more expensive). Whereas Namie had only 3 releases only one of which that really had any promo costs for Avex at all and very minor production costs compared to Ayumi's releases. So, in reality Namie=Avex's most successful and profitable artist this year. (for women at least, no one can touch Exile this year^_^)

No, she is second in EARNINGS. She is last on the list in sales. Which means that a) she released more products this year than everyone but Exile and b) some of her releases were more expensive to buy than the other artists.

sidenote: I wish Arashi had released a best album this year. It's odd to not see the group that holds three positions on the yearly top 10 singles chart not on this list. (including the top two positions)

:yes

cool thanks for the news.

Sunshine Slayer: Thanks for all the explanations! Things are put into perfect perspective when you tell it the way you do :) Thanks :D

Congrats to Ayu and Namie.

Congrats to ayu

XD ayu's songs are nicer to sing i think

lol ljudi ocito neznaju engleski xD pa ne razumiju razliku izmedu prihoda i prodaje :P

i da, hvala na informaciji^^

aw congrats to Ayuu yay! :heart
Namie is just 4th ;_; I was expected 2nd or 3rd :yes but its still a good position!

aw its nice to see them! Are great :3


EXILE are really overrated, lol I can't stand their songs.

Thanks for the news! :]

sorry, my bad.

thanks for the explanation SunShineSlayer. i completely forgot about how ayu's releases have a higher prize than namie's, no wonder her revenue is higher. :D

Congrats to EXILE :) they are one of my favorite bands :P 24 karats... :D

Cograts to Ayu and Namie, but I wish Namie was higher

No. 2 is pretty good! Congrats Ayu! ^^

WOW.... unexpected!!!!
GOOD WORK AYU!!!!!

No problem, thanks for the compliment. :)

In conclusion, ayumi sold less than EXILE, Kobukoro, B'z and namie. End of story.

Ayu's numbers since 1999:

Year | Ranking | Earnings
１９９９ 　５位　１５７．０億円
２０００ 　１位　２１７．５億円
２００１ 　１位　２４３．７億円
２００２　 ２位　１１５．７億円
２００３ 　１位　１０５．２億円
２００４ 　５位　　５４．１億円
２００５ 　４位　　６９．０億円
２００６ 　５位　　６８．９億円
２００７ 　２位　　７０．５億円
２００８ 　２位　　７１．９億円

^^ It's raising :D

(omg @2001 numbers)

This is excellent ~ :luv2 congrats to ayu <3

Wow the best numbers in the least 4 years. Thats good.
And oh lord for the 2001!

Yes, it's fantastic!:luv2 I'm also surprised at the "low" numbers back in 2004...

Wow congrats ayu and yep, all her tenth anniversary promotions have paid off X]

Yeah this is awesome! Lol she still generated more profits than females who have sold better. Maybe not promoting ayu too heavily this year saved a lot cost so there's always two sides to a coin.

Yay for Ayu!!!!

Ayu's promo this year actually wasn't small, I mean 7 releases - that isn't a small number. But they were mostly fluff releases (extending an already released track for a single, two remix albums, a best album etc), so she lacked in new material, but certainly not material in general. The highest profit generator this year had to have been Namie; she had the least amount of investment from Avex with the highest return - thats how you measure profit.

Am I the only person not even remotely interested in EXILE and that cannot comprehend why they are popular? XD

Yeah but that's the cost of producing the product itself. Stuff like advertisements, tissue packets, putting up posters everywhere seems to have been toned down, that's why i'm guessing they managed to save some costs here and there. I'm surprised also that namie was not more profitable than ayu, but at least that's what the figures tell us. I'm guessing A Complete was a whopper profit generator but so was Best Fiction... It's weird.

Exile just pawned everybody... It's incredible. I'm not interested in them also but i've never given their music a shot so i don't know how good they are.

No, I don't understand either.
Woot for the Ayu earnings!

Oricon yearly ranking

Album
*8 *,815,643 **2,832 A COMPLETE ～ALL SINGLES～ / 浜崎あゆみ 08/09/10
17 *,568,288 ***,*** GUILTY / 浜崎あゆみ 08/01/0
*247　*,*38,269　ayu‐mi‐x 6 ―GOLD―　浜崎あゆみ　08/03/26　
*264　*,*35,606　ayu‐mi‐x 6 ―SILVER―　浜崎あゆみ　08/03/26　


SIngle
33 *,193,016 ***,*** Mirrorcle World / 浜崎あゆみ 08/04/08

yeah, EXILE are just boring, 5 of them arent even musicians o.0(dancers dont count as musicians to me), they should change places with high and mighty color, they need attention, they at least HAVE some talent
congrats to ayu, quite big! i expected her not to be in the top 5

That's what I've been saying though - Namie was the highest profit generator for Avex (other than Exile), not Ayu. This list does not show profit.

great news~

What great sales considering there wasn't much new material aside ftom MW, Green/Days and a few 10th anniversary versions. I'm so happy for Ayu!!

Wow, that's amazing. I'm sure EXILE will be on top for a while, too.

Avex must be REALLY happy right now to have at least 33.57 BILLION yen flowing in (an "oku" is 100 million, right?). That's not including their concerts, either.

Is she 2nd place or 4th? ><"" (The both are great places!)

2nd in terms of money generated from sales, and no 5 on that list in terms of total sales. :)
The No 4 thing was for karaoke requests.