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Originally Posted by Andrenekoi
Don't forget you are on AHS, the forum dedicated to the singer that broke the record for consecutive #1 in 2010 without having any real hit since 2006. You don't have to sell a lot to get a weekly #1, you only need to sell more than the other people are selling on that week... If they sell bad, you only need to sell a little "less" bad.
And even If I agree that selling milliosns of copies of a single shows it is a really popular song, you can sell millions with small numbers each week and never actually reach the #1, or even top 5, on the same way a strong fanbase can buy a massive number of copies once the song debut, and after that she song fall hard because very little people out of that fanbase actually cared.
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I think it's kinda dumb to compare the japanese market to the US one, considering singles and albums don't usually have any longevity in Japan. Plus Oricon is based on physical sales only. No singles chart is really relevant anymore in Japan tbh.