[News] 02.08.2011 Ayu's Total Sales Top 3 as Best-Selling Artist in Oricon

Today, Official Oricon News released an article talking about the Best-selling artists in the Oricon History. B'z who just released the new album "C'mon" has reached to the 1st place of the ranking.

Ayu is mentioned on the article as the third Best-selling artist with 49.577 million units sold overall.

1.B'z: 80,046 million copies
2.Mr.Children: 54,979 million copies
3. Ayumi Hamasaki: 49,577 million copies (album "A BEST")

Congrats Ayu!!

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[Oricon] 11.12.2010 Ayu Ranks No. 7th In Total Sales For 2010

Values are in millions of yen.

Ayu sold about 2.83 billion yen worth of CDs/DVDs this year. 678 million yen came from singles, 1.3 billion yen from albums, and 866 million yen from live DVD sales.

Ayu placed 7th for the year. Arashi was 1st with a whopping 16.8 billion yen in sales! I think she counts as the top solo female artist if Ikimonogakari is counted as a female-led band. Not sure. Pretty impressive considering she's been around the longest out of most of these acts

Past rankings:
2009 - 9th - 3.436 billion
2008 - 2nd - 7.188 billion
2007 - 2nd - 7.057 billion
2006 - 5th - 6.893 billion
2005 - 4th - 6.908 billion
2004 - 5th - 5.4 billion
2003 - 1st - 10.5 billion
2002 - 2nd - 11.5 billion
2001 - 1st - 24.5 billion
2000 - 1st - 21.7 billion
1999 - 5th - 19.7 billion

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