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Originally Posted by jean-baptiste
After seeing what Ai Otsuka's hiatus did to her...I'm very skeptical about Utada's selling records out the ass. Of course, Utada is a record-setting, music history making icon so there's obviously more hope for her. But still, she's not above the current state of things in music. She will be effected too; SINGLE COLLECTION VOL. 2's sales (which were 6 years ago!) show this.
Nonetheless, 100K would be amazing, anything more would be a dream come true and would prove the power of "Godtada," as she's called around here. But I don't think she's exempt form anything ayu, Kumi, or anyone else is subjected to. Namie even had her crazy second peak and the decline in sales is also evident for her.
With hikki it could honestly go either way. So only time will tell. (Pun intended, lol.)
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It's really hard to compare hikki with ai-chan and namie. Like what orbitalaspect said, they are in different league. Even before ai-chan went on hiatus, her popularity was already sinking so fast. Also, looking at hikki's 2nd best album might give us an impression that she won't sell really good this time. But then again, when she released Sakura Negashi, she could drag in over 100K downloaded in less than 24 hours, and even monthly no. 1 in recochoku. Ai-chan could NEVER do that before or after hiatus. So I really don't think Ai-chan's sales after hiatus would be a good model/indicator of how hikki will do.
As for namie, I must say her style has gone to a totally weird direction that many Japanese casual listeners do not find appealing. She basically released more English songs than Japanese songs after uncontrolled, and I must say that _genic still sold pretty well when most of her songs in the album are English. So can't say her sales can indicate how hikki will sell as well, because namie is brave enough to ditch the comfort zone and create her own taste of music.
Probly ayu and kuu are more relevant, but I don't follow kuu anymore, and I only listen to ayu's few songs for the past few years, so I can't really use their recent data to judge hikki's future sales...
