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Originally Posted by bluegie
@Luv: LOL I love how you bring out facts. I was gonna write some true facts regarding hikki's release but I deleted my message in the end. It's pointless to argue that in an ayu thread.
@Sunshine: The closing spot is not determined by the current popularity. I think it's more about the artists' statues in the industry. If the value of getting closing position based on the popularity, I'm sure that ayu would have been kicked out already. Let's face the fact that her popularity has been started declining since 2003. And I really think she is not the top selling female artist anymore after 2005 (the time she released (m)u). I really think it's her statue + the no. 1 streaks keeping her from kicking off the hill. Now her album no. 1 streak is broken. It's just a matter of fact the single streak being chopped anytime soon. Once her last streak is gone.. Then I guess people will knock ayu off from the closing position.
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Yes, that is pretty much exactly what I meant.
But, popularity does also play a key role. There are many artists out there that have a high respect status in the industry, but do not get the closing spot. So, when you take status + current popularity - if you are going to be fair - the closing spot should go to either Mr. Children, B'z, Southern (if they didn't go on hiatus), SMAP (which it did at FNS, even though they weren't there), Namie, and I would now put Arashi on that list too (around for 9 years now, 1 and 2 single of the year, quickly becoming the next SMAP imo). Avex still has the magic though to pull off the closing slots for Ayu it seems. I agree though that once the #1 single status is broken, that probably won't be happening anymore.