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Originally Posted by candlize
FYI, ayu's had more than one remix album hit #1.
ayu-ro mix 1 and 2 both hit the number one spot on Oricon.
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No, neither of them was #1
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Originally Posted by Yukitora
Ayu is pretty much the only Japanese female solo-artist who can still sell a stable amount after their best album. Mai Kurai, Namie Amuro went from multi-million album sales to less than 500k. Hikki is just starting to suffer now, but her new Japanese album may prove more sucessful than her singles released this year. IMO, if A BEST was never released, I am... would've sold 4 million and RAINBOW would've sold 3 million. I am... only sold less than Duty because of A BEST.  |
I don't agree with you at all. It's not like if Namie didn't released her best album she would sell a lot of her next album, that's not it, she sold much less after her best album because of the 1 year hiatus.
Mai Kuraki was already selling poorly when her best album was released, so she wasn't a multi-million seller when Wish You Best come out. As everybody pointed out, her sales were in decline since her first single.
Is very usual to the record company release the best album when the artist popularity is declining. Like Tomomo Kahala, her first album sold over 2 million, her second 1 million and her third barely sold 50k. Then they released her compilation and it sold over 600k.
So no, I don't think 2 million people didn't bought 'I Am...' and 'Rainbow' if there wasn't A BEST because the tracks aren't even the same! It makes no sense at all, IMO.