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Originally Posted by Yumsushi
I don't know how they can compare one person to a group; that's definitely not a fair or reasonable comparison. At least we can say it took a group the size of a small country selling like 10 versions of each single to beat her.
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This ^. My first thought was "female artist" means "female ARTIST" not "ARTISTS". Congrats to AKB48, especially seeing as they've had declining sales for their past few singles and it's neat to see them have a major comeback, but I can't put 48 teen girls in bikinis against 30+-year-old Ayumi Hamasaki. Arguably, Ayumi has not had 47 other girls around to cover up bad stage performances, poor vocals, and help do all of the promotion throughout her career. So, that said, I don't think AKB48 technically did surpass Ayumi here. They are, however, the biggest group of female artists in Oricon history.