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Originally Posted by bluegie
Yes, but I was referring to hikki's digital sales in the beginning. Be My Last was a total failure in physical because there was only ONE song there. Even when she's beloved, it doesn't mean people are as stupid as EMI think. A cd worth over 1000 yen when there's only one song?
So you see, BML did badly in physical, and it got over a million download instead. Same as her other singles. Hikki doesn't belong to the physical department anymore. She dominates the digital world instead. And she gets loads of money from that surreal place. This is what I hope to see... cuz eventually cd will be another outdated item (just like vinyl disc, cassettes, MD, LD, vcd, etc.). Right now I treat the digital chart as a indicator of how well a song is received by the general public. Most of the time only hardcore fans buy physical things (e.g., ayu, and obviously those johnny boybands).
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Well than we have nothing to worry about people not liking Sunrise/Sunset as it's doing really good digitally or so it seems. Sure, I agree that the people who buy physical singles are mostly the fans and it's not a bad thing Ayu a fair number of hard core fans.
And it seems that the physical sales generally do better if the single doesn't get released digitally (not counting Chaku uta ringtones).