Originally Posted by
Albator
I'm not sure even if the charts have the appearances. These are not the real figures but statistical projections from a network of shops. It is unclear how much, or how it has evolved through the time. These figures allowed to make a classification, often a top 100.
If you are lucky to have the Oricon book, which is my case, you'll see that sometimes there was a top 300 [[2003 and 2005). So I can see a 300th sells about 850 copies while a 95th sells in 1000, a 80th in 1500 approximatively. Once again 1970 is not 1985 and not 2005, but sales are remarkably stable.
I see an artist charting 11 weeks in 2003 ranked the best at 175 sold 13,000 CDs. If there had been only the top 100, he would have gone unnoticed .
Japanese figures are from cumulative sales while the record is in the rankings and when it comes out, it is no longer counted.
For example "Working Overtime" is # 98, one week with 1040 sales . If it has sold 30 weeks [[which is the average time), it would have sold 31,040 copies minimum.
In 2005, Olivia Newton-John sold 3524 cd in four weeks at # 251.
Even more amazing, some disc that does not appear in the top 100 are gold. Presumably they are not returned in the top 100 but they sold a long time.
Being reasonable, we can add 30,000 sales for each album. This is why, Japan is her third market in terms of selling records and why she did special projects for Japan or she can fill the Nippon Budokan last year.
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