[andre2907]

Originally Posted by bluegie

No, I'm not saying they are not selling bad back then. What I mean is that there's always a moment a particular group outsells the others. Boybands didn't sell bad (and in fact their sales have been quite consistent), but the girls just outold them back then. I wouldn't say the females dominated the chart (like took all yearly top 10 spaces), but usually those top 3 positions were occupied by artists like hikki, ayu, or mai, misia, ringo, momosu, etc (esp hikki and ayu).

So I hope that some female artists (or even a more serious male / male duo) will pound those boybands soon... (well it'll be excellent if those females will be hikki and ayu again LOL)

Koda Kumi outsell boybands. Ayumi Hamasaki most of the time still outsell boybands in album sales. Hikki too. Except for EXILE, album sales for boybands aren't particularly impressive, unlike their singles sales.