I feel ok if namie gets the best female selling this year as well. Right now BF is a best album and HS is a studio album, so I don't find they conflict with each other. Also, most importantly, I really really wanna see a female artist smashing the boybands into pieces this year. It is time to let female artists to top the chart. I definitely dun wanna see exile getting year no. 1. Looking at Namie's current index she may have chance to knock exile down. It may be sad to see hikki falling down from top 5, but at least HS is praised by the critics this time. Also, it sells better than her last album.
There are still about 3 and a half months before the end of the oricon year, so I think HS has still a chance to hit a million copies before that
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