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Originally Posted by Luv ~Venus~
Oh, gawd! Here we go again with the tie-ins crap.  Almost every artists on the Oricon charts right now have tie-ins, whether its a great one or not. It's not Hikki's fault that she can get better tie-ins than other artists and sell well when comes to having tie-ins. I never see anyone blaming JE and Mr. Children and Kubukoro for having great tie-ins. It's alreadys Hikki who gets that "without tie-ins she wouldn't sell." |
I don't think anyone is blaming Hikki for the tie-ins she gets. It's not right to outright
blame someone for whatever promotion they do, as long as it's in the boundaries of common sense. [Some meet-and-greets are kinda crossing that line, but that's a different story.
] But yeah, if she wouldn't have had Hana Yori Dango 2, Flavor Of Life would have not become the #2 single of 2007. If she wouldn't have had Last Friends then HEART STATION wouldn't have had minimal decreases in sales as weeks went by et cetera.