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Old 5th July 2012, 09:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Andrenekoi View Post
I'm explaining why a lot of the western jpop fans believe Namie's comeback came out of nowhere during Best Fiction: Because most of them weren't paying attention to her before it.

But, as I also stated, she was growing bigger for a while when the best actually happened...
BEST FICTION's sales pretty much took everyone by surprise though. People were expecting it to be a success...but not a 1.8million copies sold kind of success. I'd say most casual j-pop fans noticed her when PLAY was released...even more so when 60s70s80s came out.

I disagree about not many people knowing about her also. She gained a lot of notoriety with oversea j-pop fans thanks to inuyasha and at the time j-urban had a huge fandom in the oversea japanese music scene and she was at the helm of that.
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