[Charts & Rankings] The Official Oricon Thread ~Party Queen~ II

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Originally Posted by Alucard from Hellsing

There's one thing I don't understand about Ayu's and many other artists sales in Japan in general. Her sales r pretty much going ONLY downhill after RAINBOW (I'm not counting best albums here). So it's not about music quality. If u look at western artists u will see that some albums sell better some don't sell that good. They have their ups and downs. Here sales just keep on going downhill. Is she like losing 100k fans every year or Japan just doesn't bout her anymore. Seems like Namie is the only artist who really has ups and downs. And again looking at Namie you can' say it's bout physical sales only.

it happends in all over the world music market
an artist will sell super high in their peak then go down little by little as their peak is over
as for japan the artists releasing in tight pace
even when they r in their peak they will release even 2 month one after another untill the public gets tired of them n following by decreasing sales
while the US artists release even years after an album
the marketing is also diffrrent
US artist tend to release re-cut single while japan rarely.do that..
it's common thing to get lower sales after years in music industry
it's another story when an artist have a hit song then raise the sales again just like namie did
ayu will raise her sales again when she had a big hit n japan take an attention to her again
japanese people think that ayu had retire after rainboe
only hardcore fan who know her realease album..
so ayu need to be noticed again by general public to get a better sales