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Hi! Ayumi4u

I need your help, I don't speak Japanese I guess you do, so I was wondering if you could tell me the peak positions of singles and albums by Britney Spears on the Oricon Charts (the main Japanese chart, I know foreing artists may not be that successful in Japan) but since Japan is the 2nd biggest market, it'd be useful to know about Britney does in that country and I'll added to her discography... also I know Britney Spears debuted Greatest Hits: My Prerogative at number-one and In the Zone at number-three. Thanks in advance, send me a message if you could find them. Kraft. 02:45, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.oricon.co.jp/

Hi! I'd love to help. Here is all the information I believe you want for Britney: [title, date in stores, peak pos., # weeks altogether, total sales, debut sales, certification]

Baby One More Time 03/08/99 #9, 21weeks, 279,740 (20,270 ) (platinum)

Oops!...I Did It Again 5/15/00 #67, 1week, 3,350 (3,350) (not certified)

Britney 11/12/01 #4, 18weeks, 191,130 (66,860) (platinum)

In the Zone 11/24/03 #3, 49weeks, 406,716 (59,128) (platinum)

Greatest Hits:My Prerogativeup to 10/3/05 11/15/04 #1, 47weeks, 705,177 (173,145) (double platinum)

I also have chart runs but wikipedia doesn't seem to allow them. I can look up the year-end position for Great Hits if you would like. Ayumi4u 12:04, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, thank you so much! I'll add it to her discography soon. Kraft. 03:36, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thriller Sales

Thanks for your efforts on this and other sites you have been correcting. Overall our goals are the same, but you will find wikipedia's own policies will soon cause you to not be able to correct facts. Insane as it is, the simple fact that GWR gave this award has already set it into stone. And if you now try amending it - you will have scores of fans who will keep reversing. Some battles you win, some you do not. Just do not give up hope. 60.234.242.196 21:54, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, you have no idea how much I appriciate that! I'm sorry if I came off rough I just can't believe the 103 million is still up there. I don't think I can find any other way to prove that wrong besides certifications and other fansites. I have written a complaint to GWR about it and we'll see if they update it in there next version. Hopefully they will update or fix so it will be more believeable. I am a fan of MJ myself, but I just don't want people to get the image that we need to inflate his sales to make him better than any other artist, and that goes for all the other artists I have fixed. Ayumi4u 19:27, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

=Ayumi Sales

It would be appreciated if you could look into this on the net, especially the Japanese websites. Everyone knows she has sold over 50m, but we need a website to support he claim, so we can add her to the best-sellers list. Can you assist? Actually any Japanese artist who has surpassed 50m - I believe there are 3 60.234.242.196 21:54, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I will do that. She is right on the 50 million mark is the problem (thanks to the sales of her recent album A-best 2 which sold about 1.4 million combined, bringing her total sales to 50.4 million), so the site would have to been updated recently. They will most likely give her some sort of award this year as a tribute for that to set it in stone. Besides that I don't know how else to prove it besides giving them the total sales of every album and single according to oricon (including remixed albums and singles, which help her total a lot). Oh and to answer your other question, there are 3 exactly: Ayumi Hamasaki (solo/female), B'z (group), and Mr. Children (group). Mr Children's sales are 50.6 million, and B'z's are 75 million. I will try to find an award given by oricon (because surely they did give one out) to confirm those figures. Ayumi4u 19:32, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]