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Old 25th August 2006, 01:51 AM
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Originally Posted by ayu_fan929 View Post
3) I guess Psychotic_X should really show his charts to you. But it's a fact that her sales didn't increase when she started with 'ero-kakkoii'. The sales started to .go up like a year after she went with this style.
IMHO, her ero-kakoii image was the reason she shoot to the top of the charts (not only because of that, but that was the first reason). Her first huge hit without a big tie-in was BUTTERFLY. Coincidentally, it was with this single that she started to appear heavily on TV and it was then that she start to be heavily promoted with the ero-kakoii image (before, she just did sexy covers and PVs). She went from a nobody to be in every single tabloid when she appeared on Music Station Super Live on a lingerie. Then, BEST ~First Sessions~ was mostly promoted by the cover. I think her music is good but it's thanks to the image she is where she is now, not thanks to the songs.

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