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^Them Ayu would make it even worse xD
But really, Oricon is a market mapping mechanism, and it maps physical sales of the Japanese music industry.
Concert sales are actually pretty easy to fake, considering the labels/artists staff would send Oricon the numbers. They actually counted 100% of venue sales but there was too much fraud.
And foreign sales doesn't help mapping the japanese market at all. Even if there are stan wars based on Oricon numbers, they make money because there are Japanese companies interested in knowing whats interesting in their own market for promotional use (like knowing what band to ask for a theme song, or what idol to be the spokeperson of the brand). There are some Japanese acts (and Ayu isn't among those) that have a barely existant intern fanbase, but has a good overseas fanbase, and counting overseas sales mask the actual viability of the said music acts on the japanese market alone.
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