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Originally posted by Hugamari
And yet they stay getting snubbed when this website talks about musical acts with amazing album sales. Just goes to so show how Eurocentric musical discussion on this site is.
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Their album sales are horrendous.
Set List: Greatest Songs 2006-2007 (+ Kazenban) - 169,730
Masterpieces - 564,298
We Were Here - 883,267
1830m - 1,042,879
Next Footprint - 1,041,951
Koko ga Rhodes da, Koko de Tobe! - 780,591
0 to 1 no Aida - 715,109
I mean, they're amazing especially for when they debuted in Japan, but they're able to easily pull 1M in single sales thanks to general elections (basically, you get to cast a vote for every copy you buy and guys buy their singles over and over again to get their fave in to the next single). They need to do something like that for their albums because they've got some 30M single sales, 15M(?) digital single sales (their digital singles cost $4.99) and probably 7M album sales WW
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Originally posted by Letters From Adi
biggest girl group atm.
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They're a rotation group. AKB48 is a brand and not a musical entity. That's why they have like a Theater team you get to meet that puts on shows all the time in Akihibara (where they get their name from) and three different recording teams (and a million sub-units).