Let's say.. ayu won't release single with B'z in the same week cuz B'z can knock down ayu easily now... But back then when ayu was popular B'z did the same thing to avoid ayu. If the artists has been creating several consecutive no. 1s, they will try to maintain the stream as much as possible. That's why you won't see KinKi Kids' singles vs. any big artists' ones. Same to another other big artists (unless they want a fight). At this moment I dun think avex will make any crazy idea to chop off ayu's no. 1 road.
So if you see a big artist not getting no. 1, that means a new big artist is popping out suddenly (I doubt that Johnny boy band is big tho... unless their sales figure is over 200,000 copies. Otherwise I will just think it's avex error this time. I mean come on.. to beat ayu that artist must sell over 170,000 copies per week, which is the average of ayu selling in the debut week... If HEAVEN got less than 150,000 it's like something wrong going around ayu but not her competitors).
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