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Originally Posted by Kingofpop
I doubt Koda will ever be considered queen as she will never outsell Ayu's total record sales of 46 000 000 records so far.
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Uhmmm, no because being Queen just doesn't mean you sell the most. Ayu's released a lot + she released during the peak era of CD sales. Namie is definietely considered a Queen of J-pop yet her CD sales are about 60% of Ayu's. Matsutoya Yuming, Seiko Matsuda (etc.) don't match Ayu's ~45m yet their still J-pop Queens.
Anyways, my point is that there really isn't only 1 single "J-pop Queen"; there's a bunch of them representing their own time periods/eras.
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Originally Posted by Kingofpop
Ayu's popularity is slowly rising again anyway
Bold & Delicious/Pride: 132,993
Startin' / Born To Be...: 188,551
BLUE BIRD: 258,566 (Still charting)
Jewel/1love: well i'm sure it will outsell BLUE BIRD
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Well obviously it would rise, it would've been hard to sell lower than Bold & Delicious/Pride since it was released 6 weeks before the album. As for BLUE BIRD, you could say her popularity is going up with it, but another reason could be that the songs were just a lot better (to the Japanese public) than the Startin' single was and also there were 3 covers instead of the regular 2. Btw, it's not charting anymore, it dropped out of the TOP 200 ~2 weeks ago.
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Originally Posted by Kingofpop
Her albums sell well but her singles sell poorly (mostly less than 100 000).
This means she has no staying power.
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After 'secret', she's had 8 non limited singles of which 7 made it past 100k. And I don't see how not selling singles = no staying power. How about Otsuka Ai? Her singles don't sell that much either, and her albums do pretty well yet she's staying strong for at least 2.5 years.