Well I know another female artist who will sell more than erashi or arashi on her first week and she will not be blocked by any local act cause guess why. SHE IS NOT LOCAL HERSELF,SHE SELLS ALBUMS and let's face it, SHE IS STILL THE QUEEN!
Is this artist you know of a single/album artist but she has the edge on the ALBUMS department right?
Japanese first week sales are always huge. It's like comparing present-day sales to sales from the 90's.
Not numbers to outdo American acts. It's very hit or miss actually. However, when an album/single is huge in Japan, it can double, sometimes triple American numbers. I know there was a single this year that sold 1 million in its first week in Japan and debuted #1 WW. And there have been a few Japanese albums that have debuted at #1 as well
Looks like it's time for Leona to go K-Pop for those album sales.
Mariah better hold her wig tight
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Yeah but Katy has access to music markets at pretty much the entire world, equating more than Japan's music industry, so it's still impressive that they sold this much. Also Japan's charts don't include digital album sales
But still its not really that hard to look at how her previous albums have done and know that she wouldn't have been able to outsell them .Its just simple logic .....or at least to me it is.
This is a local boy band in a country with 3x less people than America (also one whose population is 1/3 made up of senior citizens) selling more worldwide than Katy Perry
These local japanese acts are frontloaded though. They sell almost their total albums in the first weeks and they probably will be out of the top 40 in 4 weeks.
Please don't discuss Gaga or her albums in this thread.
Anyway, I don't get what people are really kii-ing at when she could very well remain #1 next week if there aren't massive releases, and she'll sell very well in the end anyway.
I'm not really surprised, I mean I remember when Circus debuted with over 800k and ended up being blocked by some japanese act (although the former climbed to #1 the following week) so Katy may get the #1 next week if she holds well on sales and if AF doesn't do that great.