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Originally Posted by Corvina
Just wondering - so those sales are less creditable, ause less people bought more copies compared to more people buying single copies? Why?
I mean, nobody is forcing anybody to buy anything, looking at it objectively.
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Originally Posted by Corvina
I know, this looks bad and I don't appreciate it.
But everybody has its own reasons to buy CDs. And it's their money.
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I completely understand your point. But yes, I do think their sales are less credible in the sense that they don't really reflect popularity or impact. Yes, they are famous and have a lot of fans, but when one of their singles sell one million copies in a day you might think that there are approximately one million people listening to their songs, and that's absolutely not true. Ayumi released different versions of her singles and changed release dates in order to manipulate the charts a little bit, but it's very unfair to compare these marketing strategies to AKB48. Most people are actually listening to her songs for almost ten years...
And by the way, I'm not blaming AKB's team for being great at making them sell tons of CDs—that's their job after all and they do it very well—but it's very sketchy to think that the results of those strategies can actually be understood as genuine impact or popularity. They literally can't.