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

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by Yumsushi

I'm not sure what you're saying but how are you speaking for all Western Jpop fans? And even if what you're saying is true, that doesn't change the fact that her second coming began with Queen of HipPop. I mean Mr Children is a huge band in Japan and I personally have chosen to ignore their existence in my 10 yrs plus of J-fandom. That doesn't change the fact that they've always been popular.

I'm explaining why a lot of the western jpop fans believe Namie's comeback came out of nowhere during Best Fiction: Because most of them weren't paying attention to her before it.

But, as I also stated, she was growing bigger for a while when the best actually happened...

[Mr. Goto]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

I'm explaining why a lot of the western jpop fans believe Namie's comeback came out of nowhere during Best Fiction: Because most of them weren't paying attention to her before it.

But, as I also stated, she was growing bigger for a while when the best actually happened...

BEST FICTION's sales pretty much took everyone by surprise though. People were expecting it to be a success...but not a 1.8million copies sold kind of success. I'd say most casual j-pop fans noticed her when PLAY was released...even more so when 60s70s80s came out.

I disagree about not many people knowing about her also. She gained a lot of notoriety with oversea j-pop fans thanks to inuyasha and at the time j-urban had a huge fandom in the oversea japanese music scene and she was at the helm of that.

[njanjayrp]

Originally Posted by Mr. Goto

I disagree about not many people knowing about her also. She gained a lot of notoriety with oversea j-pop fans thanks to inuyasha and at the time j-urban had a huge fandom in the oversea japanese music scene and she was at the helm of that.

Namie Amuro still doesn't have an International fan base the size of Ayu's or Hikki's nor do more people know who she is outside Japan, just take a look at the number of their last.fm listeners for instance. I don't think J-urban has ever actually had a big fan base around the world. I mean I discovered her in 2005 and tbh I didn't think she was that great compared to the other two as her music back at the time (Style, Queen of Hip Hop) sounded way too American for my taste and I was into completely different stuff. So I pretty much agree that her International fan base started getting bigger with QoHH and PLAY and that before that not many people actually gave a damn about her.

[Mr. Goto]

Originally Posted by njanjayrp

Namie Amuro still doesn't have an International fan base the size of Ayu's or Hikki's nor do more people know who she is outside Japan, just take a look at the number of their last.fm listeners for instance. I don't think J-urban has ever actually had a big fan base around the world. I mean I discovered her in 2005 and tbh I didn't think she was that great compared to the other two as her music back at the time (Style, Queen of Hip Hop) sounded way too American for my taste and I was into completely different stuff. So I pretty much agree that her International fan base started getting bigger with QoHH and PLAY and that before that not many people actually gave a damn about her.

I wasn't implying she had the largest fanbase tho (that can compare with ayu and hikki) just that she had a pretty big one.

[emi♡]

Originally Posted by njanjayrp

I don't think J-urban has ever actually had a big fan base around the world. I mean I discovered her in 2005 and tbh I didn't think she was that great compared to the other two as her music back at the time (Style, Queen of Hip Hop) sounded way too American for my taste and I was into completely different stuff. So I pretty much agree that her International fan base started getting bigger with QoHH and PLAY and that before that not many people actually gave a damn about her.

It doesn't even have that huge a fanbase in Japan :/

The fact that Namie is popular with her type of music...is really something.

[Bigtop]

Originally Posted by emi♡

It doesn't even have that huge a fanbase in Japan :/

The fact that Namie is popular with her type of music...is really something.

What is her type of music? Something that is more popular than Ayu's style, which Japan is not much in favor of these days...?

[njanjayrp]

Originally Posted by emi♡

It doesn't even have that huge a fanbase in Japan :/

The fact that Namie is popular with her type of music...is really something.

Pretty much. Though I've never really thought she belonged to the j-urban crowd.