Hamasaki Ayumi becomes the top-selling female artist in music DVD sales

[Midori-chan]

YEAH for Ayu-chan!
She can still do it...and for me she will always be #1!!!

[Sandy]

Yaaay ^^ Omedetou <3

[love in music]

wow, congrats to her! def. not an easy thing to do. it's true, it's like she breaks a record at least every year. so proud of her. <3

[Chibi-Chan]

Congrates! o(^-^)o

[waterballoon]

this would only convince avex to spam-release more things xD

but yay congrats Ayu!

[yoshino]

She keep setting records! Great!

[yamadashun]

omedetou, ayu-san!!!

[Mirrorcle World ～longing future～]

Of course, she did it!

[spanishfan]

I don't understand how this make her the most selling SOLO artist as MM is not a SOLO artist...

Ayu must hold also the record of the artist with more records lol

[ownsarai]

Congrats to Ayu~ Such an amazing woman. ^^

[RayJason]

Another great accomplishment reached by little Ayu. She's such a great legend

[Bigtop]

Ayu haters, get out of here! She's not done breaking records yet, I think!

[adantatu2]

VIVA AYU !!!!

[GREENsora]

congratulations ayu!

[y_nathz]

as expected from her, congrats ayu!

[truehappiness]

I don't understand how this make her the most selling SOLO artist as MM is not a SOLO artist...

MM is counted as one female entity. The category is for "female artist(s)/vocalists" I think. So it could be Ikimonogakari or ELT up there as well if they had millions of DVDs sold like Ayu, haha.

[*Petit*]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

It depends on for how long and how many DVDs per year Morning Musume releases. MM don't sell near as much as Ayu does anymore in DVD sales, but they release enough of them to either overtake Ayu again or at least keep it close until one of them decides to retire.(or at least until one of them only releases 1 dvd a year or every 2 years)

So, I wouldn't quite call this title permanently Ayu's yet.

Unless they stop single Vs I don't see that happening.

[truehappiness]

The way I'm seeing it is that while MM is still selling at least 4-5 different DVDs a year [two tours plus 3+ single Vs per year] the totals that they get from those 5 or so DVDs still doesn't add up to say, Ayu's first week of sales for a given DVD.

For example, they sell about 5,000 single Vs nowadays, so that's about 15-20k in single Vs with total sales and then about 10-12k total with their live DVDs which totals about 25-32k in sales for MoMusu each year.

In one year, Ayu tends to sell at least 100k total when her CDL and ARENA TOUR sales are combined. For as long as Ayu still releases DVDs, I don't think MM will be able to get back on top unless for some reason, next year Ayu starts selling 10,000 copies of a DVD by the end of her chart run.

[SunshineSlayer]

^ I believe the gap is something like 13,000-20,000 copies right now, I could be wrong though. So MM probably can possibly overtake the record again by the end of the year and then it would swing back to Ayu again the next year. Also, I'm not sure what DVD releases are all getting counted for MM, like do "MM in Hawaii" or whatever DVDs count? Plus the Hello Project concerts they appear in, etc.

I just think ultimately this record is going to remain close and a permanent "winner" probably won't be decided until one or the other stops releasing for an extended period of time.

[truehappiness]

I don't think Alo-Hello! DVDs count because they are not music DVDs.

Hello!Project is a separate entity, so I don't think they add those into their total... unless they have and every group/soloist contained in them gets "XXXXX" copies added to their total. That'd be odd...