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Originally Posted by njanjayrp
You're presuming that both share a similar/same fan base, which is most likely far from being true, you could as well presume that the fans of all the boybands are the same people which would mean they are more than willing to spend their money on all those singles. It's obvious that You were... has no troubles attracting the casual listeners as the ringtone is still in top3 after a month since it's release. Another thing is that casual listeners rarely buy physical releases nowdays which means that those who are "undecided" will most likely just purchase the tracks digitally. In other words what you're saying makes little to no sense mostly because we have no idea to what extent do their fan bases overlap.
Just because we the non Japanese jpop fans listen to many female artists and that many female artists come in package for us that doesn't mean it's the same in Japan (in fact from what I've heard I am sure it's not).
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Read my post once more... That is exactly what I wrote. It is not existing fans that are important in sales, it's capturing new audience, gather new listeners. And you can't really say Ayu and Namie don't have the same fans, how can you know? I bet there are alot of those 127 million people that like both Ayu and Namie.
Of course it plays a role whether your biggest competitor releases an album or single ther same time as you do, artits always try to avoid that, and it is for a reason. Namie's album has been out for some weeks, so I don't really see the competition with Ayu's single this time, just someone else mentioned it. Don't you think Ayu and her management are paying close attention to which other artists release music the same date she does? And I can assure you, they keep good count of Namie's sales.
Also, whether you purchase digitally or buy physical copies does not matter. The dough rolls in anyways.