[Charts & Rankings] 2008 - artist total sales (Single + Album + DVD):

[njanjayrp]

2008 Top Artist Karaoke requests:

01 - EXILE
02 - Koda Kumi
03 - Kobukuro
04 - Hamasaki Ayumi
05 - Mr.Children
06 - GReeeeN
07 - Southern All Stars
08 - Kitajima Saburou
09 - L'arc~en~ciel
10 - DREAMS COME TRUE

credits: Mr_Children@jpopmusic

It's nice to see that even tough Ayu had great sales with so few releases this year!

[marekcarey]

great

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

wow~

thats awesome!! just behind EXILE ^^

thanks!

[Milox]

How does Kuu have more sales than Ayu for 2008?

100k dvd, 600k album, 100k single, 100k single = 1mil

Ayu: 800k album, 200k single, ??? dvd

and why is Namie not on that list o.O, her best alone should put her on 2nd

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

Originally Posted by Milox

How does Kuu have more sales than Ayu for 2008?

100k dvd, 600k album, 100k single, 100k single = 1mil

Ayu: 800k album, 200k single, ??? dvd

and why is Namie not on that list o.O, her best alone should put her on 2nd

LOL

shut up me!
xD

im so stupid

namie is in the 4 place ^^

[ayumisrael]

Originally Posted by Milox

How does Kuu have more sales than Ayu for 2008?

100k dvd, 600k album, 100k single, 100k single = 1mil

Ayu: 800k album, 200k single, ??? dvd

and why is Namie not on that list o.O, her best alone should put her on 2nd

This list is about karaoke request.

2008 Top Artist Karaoke requests:

01 - EXILE
02 - Koda Kumi
03 - Kobukuro
04 - Hamasaki Ayumi
05 - Mr.Children
06 - GReeeeN
07 - Southern All Stars
08 - Kitajima Saburou
09 - L'arc~en~ciel
10 - DREAMS COME TRUE

The first one where EXILE is #1 and ayu is #2 etc. is the best selling list of the year.

ayu is the best selling female artist of the year (or best proffiting) that's awesome!!
It seems that her 10th anniversary paid off XDD

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

Originally Posted by ayumisrael

This list is about karaoke request.

2008 Top Artist Karaoke requests:

01 - EXILE
02 - Koda Kumi
03 - Kobukuro
04 - Hamasaki Ayumi
05 - Mr.Children
06 - GReeeeN
07 - Southern All Stars
08 - Kitajima Saburou
09 - L'arc~en~ciel
10 - DREAMS COME TRUE

The first one where EXILE is #1 and ayu is #2 etc. is the best selling list of the year.

ayu is the best selling female artist of the year (or best proffiting) that's awesome!!
It seems that her 10th anniversary paid off XDD

wow
thats actually true

ayu sold pretty good in this 10th anniversary!!

AC saved the day xDDD

[roanmy]

Actually, it looks like Ayu sold less than all of the music acts on that list, however, she generated the second most income or something... (Ithink sales in 10000s are on the right and earnings in million/billion yen on the left Can anyone who knows japanese a little better help out?

[TITANIC]

WOOW.. ayu got #2 again.. nice money for ayu..wuuuhhuuu

Oricon yearly ranking

Album
*8 *,815,643 **2,832 A COMPLETE ～ALL SINGLES～ / 浜崎あゆみ 08/09/10
17 *,568,288 ***,*** GUILTY / 浜崎あゆみ 08/01/01


SIngle
33 *,193,016 ***,*** Mirrorcle World / 浜崎あゆみ 08/04/08

[sanzo2011]

wah ! it's really great ! congratz Ayu !.

[Ahi_max91]

ayu ganbatte ne ^^!~...4 ^^!~

[SunshineSlayer]

lol at Exile's total. Good for everyone else on the list except Kobukuro. I don't dislike them, but I find them to be very overrated.

Originally Posted by njanjayrp

It's nice to see that even tough Ayu had great sales with so few releases this year!

I would say that to us it was a slow release year because of a lack of new material but in terms of actual releases this list includes the release of: Guilty, Mirrorcle World, 2 Remix albums, CDL 08/09, Arena Tour '07 and A-Complete. As far as I can tell, the only other artist in the top 5 to release that many things this year is Exile.

Originally Posted by roanmy

Actually, it looks like Ayu sold less than all of the music acts on that list, however, she generated the second most income or something... (Ithink sales in 10000s are on the right and earnings in million/billion yen on the left Can anyone who knows japanese a little better help out?

That's correct. She actually sold less than all the artists on the list comparing singles and albums but she released more products than they did. Releasing 2 concert dvds I'm sure is the only thing that ultimately put her ahead of Namie since concert dvds are the most expensive of the products to buy and still Namie is only very slightly behind in total sales and did better in the amount of units sold.

[4ever*ayu]

^thx for the heads-up Sunshine!

this year is EXILE's year..absolute win over other artist, ! congrats them..

and ayu still the AVEX Most Profitable Queen-bee of the year!!

[ayu-fan]

wonder if she could maintain her position next year.

in the past 2 years ayu's income mostly came from best albums, while in the next year she wouldn't have any more best thingy XD

[TITANIC]

^ I guess next year will be regular single and album yearly.. hopefully rule to be big HIT

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by 4ever*ayu

^thx for the heads-up Sunshine!

this year is EXILE's year..absolute win over other artist, ! congrats them..

and ayu still the AVEX Most Profitable Queen-bee of the year!!

I wouldn't really say that since this measures who had the highest sales, not who had the highest profits. (the two are actually different^_^) I would say that Namie was Avex's most profitable female this year (and probably easily so).

She sold more total units than Ayu and just barely is behind her in total sales with only 3 releases (Play Tour DVD, Best Fiction, 60s70s80s) compared to Ayumi's 7 releases (Guilty, A Complete, 2 remix albums, Mirrorcle World, 2 concert dvds). All of those things required promotional expenses from Avex and really the only one of the things on Namie's list that much promo expenditure would need to be done is Best Fiction since 60s70s80s bill was pretty much footed by Vidal Sassoon. So yeah, actually I would say that Namie was quite easily the best money maker for Avex this year when you take those factors into account.

Originally Posted by ayu-fan

wonder if she could maintain her position next year.

in the past 2 years ayu's income mostly came from best albums, while in the next year she wouldn't have any more best thingy XD

Watch Avex come up with A Ultimate or something.

[4ever*ayu]

@rio: well, the title is Rule, so it'd be unRule if it's not rules for big hit next year, u knw what i mean lol

BTW, has ayu 's sales surpass 50 mil mark with this 1.8mil addition..?

[rusuke]

bongga!!!
Congrats to ayu!!! Still, the best-selling female artist!!1 Way to go, ayu!!!

Thanks for this news!!!

[ayumisrael]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

I wouldn't really say that since this measures who had the highest sales, not who had the highest profits. (the two are actually different^_^) I would say that Namie was Avex's most profitable female this year (and probably easily so).

She sold more total units than Ayu and just barely is behind her in total sales with only 3 releases (Play Tour DVD, Best Fiction, 60s70s80s) compared to Ayumi's 7 releases (Guilty, A Complete, 2 remix albums, Mirrorcle World, 2 concert dvds). All of those things required promotional expenses from Avex and really the only one of the things on Namie's list that much promo expenditure would need to be done is Best Fiction since 60s70s80s bill was pretty much footed by Vidal Sassoon. So yeah, actually I would say that Namie was quite easily the best money maker for Avex this year when you take those factors into account.



Watch Avex come up with A Ultimate or something.

But still ayu gave them more profit than namie.
And the thing about the compilation albums can be said about other 3 from the list.
EXILE released 3 compilations, B'z released 2 and ayu and namie only 1.
Excluding those compilations non of them would be that high =P

(And for the record AC sold better than EXILE ENTERTAINMENT BEST)..

[rakeru]

i'm super surprised that Namie wasn't higher than Ayu, with BF and all. but yaaaay, Ayu!!!