Post by smashers7nisa on Apr 19, 2008 3:46:11 GMT -5
Hamasaki Ayumi is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter under the avex trax label. She made her major debut in 1998 with the single "poker face". Her debut album, "A Song for XX", reached #1 on the Oricon charts and sold over one million copies. Since then Ayumi has released countless number one singles and albums. Ayumi is also the all-time 4th best-selling artist [1] in Japan and the highest selling solo female artist [2] in Japan. She is the only solo artist to have sold 20 million singles in Japan. Ayumi has sold over 45,528,000 copies in Japan [3] alone. She currently has 30 #1 singles (31 including "a song is born" with KEIKO), 18 of which are consecutive and 12 consecutive #1 albums. She was the 39th biggest taxpayer in Japan for 2002 and 37th for 2003. She once accounted for 42.6% of her label's income. She's currently number one at the highest earnings list for female celebreties in Japan for 2007.
Official Japanese website - www.avexnet.or.jp/ayu/
Official Chinese website - www.avex.com.tw/ayu/
Official English website - www.avexnet.or.jp/ayu/en//
