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Does anyone know what Ayu's total sales are to this day? I'm trying to put them in retrospect to other famous musicians. I heard somewhere that she's beaten Green Day in total sales. O_o

It's just over 50,000,000

what about individual albums? I'd love to know the modern current up-to-date sales of them :D

Well, 50 million is in japan only right?

In February she was 45,528,000 so now she is 46,915,476 :yes

Is that just her Japan sales or her worldwide sales?

Just her Japan sales, approved by Oricon ^^

wow, so if we counted all sales, then she'd be well over 50 million then? sorta.

Well, using her avex sales (which has its biases, but probably kept longer records of sales than oricon, since the stop once it stops charting) it would probably at like 50~52 million.

worldwide maybe are more than 60milion..

Yes, most likely :D

Yeah id assume ... According to wikipedia (not really totally reliable ...) A BEST alone is a certified 6x million international seller.

Yep, what everone is using as "official sales" are actually Oricon records which is the highest regarded japanese records' sales chart, but I do think that avex sales would be more accurate actually. I don't know if those include taiwan, Hong Kong etc sales, but I'm pretty sure they include yesasia japan version sales and CDJapan sales plus many of the stores not counted by oricon.

^ and they probably keep adding sales even after they stopped charting on oricon ...

wikipedia said 50 million CDs and 25 million singles, but I'm not sure how reliable they are. *shrugs*

she has sold only about 22 million Singles from what i know ... (even though she supposedly just apssed 20 million with BLUE BIRD ... maybe she sells a lot of old singles too per year? XD) and in the 50 million the Singles are included/

Well....if we counted all her record sales, it has already surpassed 50 million. Wikipedia might not be an accurate source but i think...the record sales probably true though. She had already surpassed 50 million mark (more than 30 million albums and over 20 million copies...i think).

wow .... 50 mil in japan alone ... britney spears sold 76 mil international ... hmmm maybe ayu should really consider pursueing a international career ... she'll pass the 100 mil easily

I don't thinks So since english isn't Ayu's first language

Yeah but Japan has a huge music industry (second buggest in the world) so it would be easier for Ayu, speaking english and japanese, to get aninternational career than say ... a polish man who could only speak polish .. or maybe even an american singer, since Ayumi would be able to appeal to both Music Industries.