Why are Namie Amuros sales so high?

[koumori]

Originally Posted by RainyDays

I feel that the amount of effort that went into ayu's album covers for her recent albums is reflective of the quality of the album. I found A One and Colours to be boring for the most part, and their covers, well... don't feature much except her pretty face. If you look at the covers for her older albums (and Namie's covers), you can see that the covers tell stories, through fashion and backgrounds. What stories do the covers for Colours and A One tell besides "I'm lookin' fabulous"?

Well, my point was that I don't feel any of the recent covers - Namie's or Ayu's - tell a particular story (Exception being PAST<FUTURE?), although I do like Namie's more often than Ayu's recently.

[Olw---A]

Well I think something important concerning Namie is that YES she evolves with her time but at the same time she's cohesive... when you listen to a best of yes you know that some songs are from 90's or 00's but everything is cohesive because she keeps the same direction. She got some typical type of songs as Ayu but she don't have a typical formula !

Her look is also cohesive, especially on stage the same mini skirt, boots, long hair...

Everything is cohesive even if it changes through the time obviously

[melissalove]

Some of the comments and comparisons between ayuXnamie are a bit.I'm starting to feel like the whole point of this thread is just to argue and discuss about why namie's sales 1000 times better than ayu right now. Like.. i don't see any threads on why exile's sales are so high?? Or akab48, or even may j's. Gosh just cause namie's finally in the lead?, how unfair

[everlastingRAINBOW]

Namie is consistent enough. She's current, trendy, and not too artsy-fartsy.

[CoriKaru]

Originally Posted by melissalove

Some of the comments and comparisons between ayuXnamie are a bit.I'm starting to feel like the whole point of this thread is just to argue and discuss about why namie's sales 1000 times better than ayu right now. Like.. i don't see any threads on why exile's sales are so high?? Or akab48, or even may j's. Gosh just cause namie's finally in the lead?, how unfair

El-Oh-EL!

[kimmeh]

Originally Posted by Chibi-Chan

I think kimmeh is somehow right. Kimmeh said Ayu is acting as if she wants to be american. It's more about Ayu's actions what pisses japanese fans off. Most things Ayu has done the last few years in her private life let a lot of japanese people think Ayu betrayed their culture. Ayu does "american" things in her private life while releasing typical japanese pop music most of the time. Namie on the contrary is the idealised japanese woman who is releasing american inspired music. So Namie is, for some japanese people, true to her cultural roots but at the same time cool because of her american sounding releases. It's somehow paradox but it's like japanese people do everything to look as european (or to be more precisely as white skinned) as they can but are at the same time proud to be japanese.
Of course there is a lot of racism behind all of this.

Thats exactly what I wanted to say! Thanks