Thursday, May 11, 2006
::ayu::
Suddenly I have the urge to create a skin dedicated to Ayumi and buy all her previous albums. Was surfing
Oricon's site yesterday and I realised her latest album (miss)understood didn't do as well as her previous albums. Ranked at no. 18, it's even lower than some of her remix albums. I guess I was really disappointed? On the other hand, Koda Kumi's kind of like the most popular female soloist in Japan now. Frankly speaking, I didn't hear of her until FFX-2 invaded my world. Her songs [real emotion and 1000 words, currently her best selling single] featured in the game was the IT that propelled her to fame. Her album sales for Ｂｅｓｔ～ｆｉｒｓｔ ｔｈｉｎｇｓ～ [released last year] surpassed ayu's My Story by 1 rank and still charting [ranked no. 26 this week] and her ＢＥＳＴ～ｓｅｃｏｎｄ ｓｅｓｓｉｏｎ～ＬＩＭＩＴＥＤ ＥＤＩＴＩＯＮ [released this year] is no. 9 on this week's Oricon charts.
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I guess it's understandable that this is happening because people do get tired of seeing the same person [ayu] for 7 years. But I suppose it's a cycle of ups and downs that all artistes have to go through. Koda has been around for quite some time but only got famous recently [2003, debuted in 2000]. Think she's entering the period that ayu was going through during the release of her A Best album. But anyways, ayu's still the no. 1 artiste to me. ^~^
