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Originally Posted by juicy
you guys have to remember oricon is not really the final say in anything. kumi's "stay with me" sold 2.5+ mil but it did pretty crappy on the oricon. a lot of people prefer to buy digitally now.
it's just a chart position though. of course we all wanted her to be number 1 but this isn't ayu, it's our kumi kuu! she didn't have some amazing streak to uphold  though i am kind of speaking too soon, the world may flip upside down and tegomass may drop way below kumi. but .. i don't think so |
Though digital downloads don't really determine anything.
Most of the downloaders downloaded a 30-50 seconds of the song,
Also kuu had no song that sold even 100,000 (digitally) since then so the million people dissapeared, physical buyers are more consitent and interest in an artist (rather than a song or a chorus of a song) can be checked more over them and also the profit from legal downloads are barely 1% from physical sales.
Most likely because of those reasons artists and labels consist on release physical CDs.
But yeah it wasn't bad at all.
I wish kuu's sales were better but I agree that kuu had better singles though I liked all of the songs.