2. Pingcheng Geji stage: In 2000-200 1 year, with the rise of Ayumi Hamasaki, Kuraki Mai and Morning Musume, Utada's dominance in the music world was threatened. Ayumi Hamasaki not only replaced Namie Amuro as the new pop leader, but also increased the record sales, and the total sales exceeded Utada. However, the average sales volume of Guangguang was much higher than that of Ayumi Hamasaki and several other singers, and it finally won the head-on record confrontation with Ayumi Hamasaki. In the first week, DISTANCE became the highest-selling album in Japan, with a total sales volume of 4.4 million copies, becoming the champion of Japanese album sales in 20001year! The single can you keep a secret also topped the singles list with1480,000 copies! In 2002, Utada's third album, DEEP RIVER, sold 2.3 million copies in the first week and 3.6 million copies by the end of the year, rankingNO. 1! It sold1300,000 copies more than Ayumi Hamasaki's I AM, and all three singles reached the TOP 10 of ORICON's annual singles list! In 2003, Utada released only one single colors, which sold 890,000 copies. Female singerNO. 1! Utada won the Japanese Golden Record Award in 2000 and 2003 respectively, only three times after Ayumi Hamasaki. In 2004, the sales volume of her selected works exceeded 2.4 million, and she was also the champion of the album list of the year. In addition, the English album EXODUS sold/kloc-0.07 million copies in Japan, which is a veritable sales day! The budokan concert actually has1050,000 reserved tickets, setting a new record! In the "My Favorite Singer" contest held by ORICON that year, Utada won the championship with overwhelming votes! In 2000-2004, Utada was still beautiful, and it was a singer with the name of Ayumi Hamasaki!
3. Depression: In 2004, Utada was defeated in Europe and America. After that, HIKKI disappeared in a year, and no Japanese record was released. Coupled with the rise of married titles, Ai Otsuka, Mika Nakashima, Kumi Kouda and others, and the increase in Ayumi Hamasaki's film release rate, its popularity dropped sharply, and it was defeated by rivals in various competitions. In September 2005, the comeback single be my last sold only120,000 copies, ranking 70th in the annual list, and the subsequent singles passion and keep tryin' also sold poorly. Utada's position in the music scene was relatively low from the end of 2005 to the middle of 2006, but she was still a first-line singer.
4. Pick-up stage: In June 2006, Utada sold 500,000 copies of Japanese album ULTRA BLUE in the first week, reaching 880,000 copies (now it has reached 9 1 10,000 copies), ranking seventh in the annual list and third among female singers, higher than Ayumi Hamasaki and Ai Otsuka. Although not as good as that year, it indicates a rebound in popularity. HIKKI's advertising value rose to 1 billion yen that year, ranking first among actresses! In 2007, the single "flavor of life" won the championship for three consecutive weeks, with a cumulative sales volume of 640,000, ranking NO.2 in the annual list, and being downloaded for 8 million times, ranking second in the world and first in Japan! In that year's ORICON "my favorite singer", I won the championship again (NO.2 and NO.4 in 2005 and 2006 respectively). The cumulative sales of the subsequent single beautiful world exceeded 230,000. Although she only released two singles that year, the sales volume was the highest among female singersNO. 1 and NO.2, far higher than that of Ayumi Hamasaki and Kumi Kouda.
5. The Day After Tomorrow: This year, Utada's two singles, flavor of life and beautiful world, both won the Japanese Golden Record Awards. The latest album HEART STATION sold 480,000 copies in the first week, and now it has accumulated to 980,000 copies, which is likely to exceed one million. It is the album sales NO.4 in the first half of 2008, and the female singerNO. 1! The new album has been downloaded13 million times, and the sales volume has brought its company an amazing income of 6.2 billion yen, avoiding the crisis that its company Toshiba -EMI was acquired. Although she is not as good as she was in her heyday, she still has a very high status. However, HIKKI intends to release her second English album in the United States, and there is no activity in Japan for the time being. Moreover, the sales volume of Namie Amuro's selected works reached 68. 1 10,000 in the first week, and it will soon exceed110,000, which is more powerful than HIKKI. It remains to be seen whether Utada can once again become the number one singer or even the number one selling singer in Japanese music.
Utada has three albums that rank top10 in Japanese album sales; There are four singles that rank TOP 100 in Japan's past single sales. The total sales volume of her records has reached 37 million, and now it is the total sales volume of Japanese singers' records NO.7, and female singers are the third! The average sales volume is the first in Japan! The single final distance has been incorporated into Japanese textbooks, which is the first and only case that the songs of contemporary pop singers have been incorporated into Japanese textbooks.