[Paparazzi]

Hey all, so I got a little curious - I wanted to see how Ayumi's sales would stack up if "normalized" against global market trends. I wanted to specifically use Japan's numbers but was unable to find them. I used the global total physical sales by year to create this. For example, if in 2000, 5000 albums were sold, but in 2001, 2500 were sold, then 1 album sold in 2001 counts as the equivalent of 2 albums in 2001. If you have any questions, please let me know!

Year	Album			Sales		Adj. Sales
1999	A Song for XX		1,452,000	1,635,488
1999	Loveppears		2,562,000	2,885,758
2000	Duty			2,904,000	2,904,000
2001	A Best			4,294,000	4,402,556
2002	I Am…			2,308,000	2,594,057
2002	Rainbow			1,857,000	2,087,159
2003	A Ballads		924,000		1,060,900
2003	Memorial Address	1,062,000	1,219,346
2004	My Story		1,132,000	1,269,175
2006	(Miss)Understood	877,000		1,156,867
2006	Secret			666,000		878,533
2007	A Best 2 (Black)	703,000		1,142,453
2007	A Best 2 (White)	722,000		1,173,330
2008	Guilty			568,000		1,149,861
2008	A Complete		854,000		1,728,841
2009	Next Level		380,000		940,658
2010	Rock n Roll Circus	318,000		967,653
2010	Love Songs		273,000		830,721
2011	Five			213,000		695,705
2012	Party Queen		148,000		558,635
2012	A Summer Best		140,000		528,438
2012	Love			94,000		354,809
2012	Again			54,000		203,826
2013	Love Again		89,000		392,805
2014	Colours			53,000		274,592
2015	A One			53,000		308,041
2015	Sixxxxxx		44,000		255,732
2016	Made In Japan		30,000		174,363