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Old 15th July 2009, 09:51 PM
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Originally Posted by truehappiness View Post
True, but his site hasn't exactly been known for providing the most accurate information [no offense, Maxker, haha.] like the Oricon sales figures with Ayu at the top with 30 billion, or the report that Together When.. sold millions of ringtones when it really only sold 750k and it linked to some random avex press release.. it was just really weird.
Ahh, I didn't know that was his site actually. Still though, it seems a pretty coincidental thing if he made it up then.

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Originally Posted by Bigtop View Post
Yeah, maybe she should stay in Asia, where opportunities are better, as I think her English skills might be fine but not sufficient enough to compete with more-popular Western artists from the United States, such as Miley Cyrus...
My opinion has pretty much always been that if Utada, who is a native speaker and technically American, can't make it in the US - then it is doubtful that any asian can, at least for the time being.

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