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Originally Posted by Rocky Raven
Actually the BAM u mentioned had been coming firstly & quietly since 'Queen of Hip Pop'(2005), with Pink Panther as the album art theme, it was her most commercially successful effort in five years before Play was released.
Later it came a little bigger with single 'Baby Don't Cry' & then album 'PLAY'(2007). Plus 'PLAY' sales(541k) at that time weren't low at all.
So after 'PLAY', everything officially started.
I mean, it's not like her peak came out of nowhere, it did need time and a fine catalyst for long-tearm success |
Yeap.. Namie's 2nd peak was showing for a while before Best Fiction... But most western people who were jpop fans in the 2000s didn't really now about her, most who knew about her just thought she was some has-been 90s singer, theyweren't following her moves and didn't pay attention until not paying attention was impossible^^