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Originally Posted by ayumisrael

Thank you Sunshineslayer for the earlier reccomendation of Superfly. =D


For the discussed matter.

Namie also went downhill since her peak back on the 90s and she started to pick up just three years ago.
ayu still is on the way and close to, (probably next year or in two years) but she still didn't reach the "slump" namie arrived in order to pick up from there.
Unlike namie that also had a downward from the hill until Baby Don't Cry ayu's popularity since 2001 have been decreasing moderately and not hugely. The reasons between both are incomparable but still ayu's decreases between the years were small and that's a great thing. namie's biggest "slump" was with STYLE (which is too sad since it's my favorite album of Namie) and her singles around that album where she sold like 221,874 for that album and around the 40,000-50,000 - +with the singles. ayu is going into that slump but hasn't yet arrived. She still sell a million + a year since she can afford at least average +- numbers.
(Though probably next year it will be less).

In general, namie went downhill to certain point and ayu still didn't arrive there and then Namie picked up with Baby Don't Cry-PLAY-60s70s80s-BEST FICTION.
ayu might arrive to that "slump" or a worst one and then pick up again -when- and -if- she will release a hit or a few again and will be treated with promotion and marketing accordingly, like with namie's great hit single 60s70s80s and the beginning of her Vidal Sassoon campaign. It's not like ayu dropped by millions through the single years and it's not like she barely sell anything anymore.

Again she might not pick up and the whole point of what I'm trying to say is that we still can't know if she will be able to pick up, maybe like namie maybe more maybe less.
It's too early to say. It looks like a 50/50 situation at the moment.

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Agree with you .... in the future ayu will need better promotions like she had years ago...