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Originally Posted by Tony G
I think you are jumping the gun.
Sales = Popularity?
I think that link is not as strong as you think.
And what about her sales outside of Japan, which everyone seems to sweep under the rug?
Digital sales?
I think Ayu is going to be prominent in those TV shows right until when she deicdes to call it quits. She's still huge around the world, and that has a lot of pull.
And the quality of her releases has not gone down, in fact, this year's 3 songs make up one of her best years in terms of song quality. What exactly can she do? Really the only thing that she can do is totally change her sound, but she's pretty much covered all areas of pop.
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Sales are an indicator of popularity, but not the only thing of course. The fact is though, with the general public, she is not all that popular anymore - so she is starting to lose on both accounts. (the reasons for this has been discussed at length here and in other threads so I'm not going to go through it again)
And no, she is not a huge digital seller. And I'm also not sure where you are getting the information that she is "huge around the world." Well known in a few asian countries, but certainly not the world - neither of which has anything to do with her status inside of Japan anyways...
And of course she can still take part in the end of year shows until she becomes completely obsolete, but what is at issue here is the closing spot and whether or not she should continue to get it or whether she should have even been getting it this year.
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Originally Posted by Megshere
I know this is just as offtopic and not really important, but I just want to point out that Koichi from KK didn't know what PASMO was on his own either. An earlier guest on the show answered PASMO to one of the questions and then Koichi was like "What's a PASMO?" The guest told him all about it then. I don't remember what episode this was exactly, but I do remember it because it was cute/funny. That's why he was so into talking about it. He had just recently learned all about it and could look smart.
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Really, thats interesting. I wonder if that is from around the time that they originally came out with them then?