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Originally Posted by Bigtop
Why is Avex struggling financially recently?
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Well, they can no longer depend on certain acts to carry them in terms of sales. Yeah, the company is making money off of Namie, but that won't last into 2019, when people start moving on.
Their main LDH groups are showing signs of slippage. The company is barely shipping platinum with Sandaime J Soul Brothers. EXILE can no longer ship platinum with an original album. E-girls saw their original album sales fall hard this year too.
It's not just the LDH groups to be fair. TVXQ released that high quality BEST and it couldn't ship platinum. The studio album they're about to release, will be their weakest seller in a decade. AAA will see their 2018 album struggle to break 100k in sales. The company isn't making much from actual physical sales these days. The only thing they can count on is the avex live division. That is what has been holding the company up for the past couple of years.