This song came on while at was at work and it brought back so many memories lol.
lmfao! yes! I totally remember her! She was my jam back then. And this local music channel ran a poll between her and Hilary Duff once, but of course Hil won that easily. Her debut album sold more than 500K copies in Japan alone.
Do you guys remember when BoA was just starting and everybody was claiming her to be Asia's Britney. lol old times then we have Jolin Tsai as Taiwan's Britney and Tata Young in Thailand.....how about Japan? who was publicly associated as their local Britney?
Fun fact: Both Only Girl and WMN failed to match first week sales of 3 and debut at #1 despite an extra day of sales and more airplay + promo.
Only Girl: 249,000 (lead single)
WMN: 239,000 (SNL the Saturday before)
3: 255,000 (GH single with no promo, only 1 week of airplay, debuted #1, did not have an extra day of sales)
In terms of overall success Utada or Ayu is probably the Britney of Japan.
Utada, definitely. She exploded out of the gate like Britney. She was actually really annoyed that she was called the "Britney of Japan" all the time during her TITO radio tour (no shade)
her vocals were on point
old times then we have Jolin Tsai as Taiwan's Britney and Tata Young in Thailand.....how about Japan? who was publicly associated as their local Britney? 
