ayu's running out of cards to play to keep herself at the top...i mean, she already played the BEST cards, and now the ayu-mi-x cards, and of course, new albums and singles are a given. what else can she do at this point but keep trying? sometime soon, she'll lose her #1 streak in singles, too...
it's just the truth. but it doesn't matter!! her concerts still SELL OUT and she's still popular. it's just that her mega era is winding down...kind of like matsutoya yumi. matsutoya-san can't really sell 1 million or even get #1 anymore, but it's still a well-known fact that she's a mogul in the japanese music industry. i think the same will go for ayu in the coming future. she'll still be considered a queen of jpop for sure.