Adele need to get her lazy ass to japan, she always complain its to far. bitch you only need to go there once or twice per album,that is like two time every 4/5 year.
Omg she's such a flop!11!1 Local!11!!1 Poor ha!!11!!
Who cares about Japan though? The queen is SNATCHING everywhere else, but watch her getting dragged here. Poor haters.
It's the second biggest music market in the world. It's difficult for Western artists to break through there, yes, but don't dismiss it because your fave isn't succeeding there in comparison to other markets.
Watch mother Adele get 3.2million in the US and snatch this record too
I think Adele can do 3.5 million, but we'll see. 25's US total should become the new record for the biggest sales week ever in any country, at least for an album. 3.5 million would break the record for both albums and singles.
To be fair, Japanese acts don't succeed in the US/North America either, and I have my doubts about Europe and/or South America. I'm not sure how far their popularity spreads beyond Japan, but I imagine Japanese artists are popular through much of South and East Asia. So if Western acts can't break through in Japan, it's probably because Japanese acts can't break into Western markets. For that to change, the West will need to embrace Japanese artists. So far only Korea has had any real luck cracking the Western markets, and that is very limited. Maybe there is/are some artist(s) from the Philippines I'm forgetting, but since that country speaks English it's less of a barrier to the West.