[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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[Ranking] 15.06.2011 Oricon: Karaoke Request Artist Ranking!

Oricon is not just revealing the ranking of the most popular karaoke songs for the first half of 2011, but also the ranking for the most popular artist whose songs are oftenly requested for karaoke.

Here's the ranking:

Ayu is TOP 5! Congrats!

Karaoke Request Artist Ranking
1. AKB48
2. EXILE
3. Arashi
4. Koda Kumi
5. Hamasaki Ayumi
6. Ikimonogakari
7. Nishino Kana
8. Mr.Children
9. Kobukuro
10. Kitajima Saburo
11. Ishikawa Sayuri
12. Misora Hibari
13. L’Arc~en~Ciel
14. Ishihara Yujiro
15. BUMP OF CHICKEN
16. GReeeeN
17. Fukuyama Masaharu
18. Southern All Stars
19. RADWIMPS
20. KARA

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[Oricon] 22.12.2010 "Love songs" 12th New Album Ranks no. 1 At Oricon Chart!

Love songs 12th New album Ranks no. 1 at Oricon Chart on its first day sales with total sale 70609.

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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[Oricon] 09.12.2010 Oricon Style Ranking: Best News On Oricon Style

Recently, Oricon created a ranking based on news on Oricon Style, Sales Figures & artists' popularity.

and the news that gave Ayu ranks no. 1 is about taking over Seiko Matsuda's singles sales records with her latest 50th single that resulted her to the only female celebrity to have the 25th consecutive single to win no. 1 at Oricon Chart.

Congrats Ayu!


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[Ranking] 02.12.2010 Ranking Of Most Popular Songs For Karaoke 2010 By Artist!

Oricon recently listed a ranking of Most Popular Songs For Karaoke in the year 2010 by artists, here's the list:

Ayu ranks no. 3!


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