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@Tony G & Sunshine: I actually agree with Sunshine for this round. If you follow around The recochoku site, you should notice that ayu is not a strong digital seller. Unless she has a general appealing song (in this case, Days), usually you don't see her on top 3 very often (e.g., GREEN, plus the others).
And even if she's popular over the world (which sadly she isn't), it doesn't really affect her popularity and statue in Japan. It's just like... do the US general public really care if Britney is popular in Europe? Will her success in Europe hugely affect her popularity in her own country??
@ayumisrael: Of course without a strong tie in, a single will not be selling as good as it is (and this applies to every artist). However, I would love to point out that even hikki sucks at physical sales (at least during BML, Passion, etc), her digital sales are one of the strongest in Japan. Take BML as an exmaple. The physical sales were very bad, but the digital sales were very strong. Also, not all her songs are written for the tie in. Take Prisoner Of Love as an example. It wasn't announced as the op of LAST FRIENDS until a few days before the album was released. And through her blog, hikki never mentioned that as a theme song. It's just the producers of the drama chose it in the end. Eternally is another example. The song was in Distance and now they use it as the OP of Innocent Love. You can say POL outshines the others (which I dun think so), but you can't say it's made for the drama, because it never was.
No, I'm not backing up for hikki. And I believe no one is dissing or laughing at ayu AT ALL. Instead, most of us are point out some facts about ayu's current situation objectively. No one says her situation is very bad at all, as we're just comparing what she did before and she does now. You can't really say her situation is GREAT rite now unless you wipe out all her past.
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