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Originally Posted by bluegie
Do they really ban concert sales or sales from handshaking event? Hmmmn weird thought  . They probly should ban multiple covers as well lol. |
There was news from Oricon a few months ago that sales from events would be banned because there is no way for Oricon to accurately count them or maybe it is only 30% like truehappiness said; really unclear about the whole thing. Apparently Oricon had basically just been taking record companies words for the sales numbers from those events for years now.
However we never exactly got a clear translation of whether this would include concert sales as well (which also can't be accurately counted by Oricon).
This could help explain why Morning Musume experienced such a massive drop in sales with their most recent single compared to their one from a few months ago.