Considering the list is all about sales, and not actually how much …

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Comment on Top 20 Singles of 2012: “Japanese Music = AKB48″ by Anonymous:

Considering the list is all about sales, and not actually how much the population likes them, the whole list is bunk. I mean, come on, how many times on this site have we seen articles about individual otaku buying thousands of dollars of CDs just for AKB’s handshaking event tickets, then throwing the crates of CDs away?

If you want to know what music is ACTUALLY popular in Japan, you can’t, oddly enough, go by CD sales.

Anonymous made other comments on this post:

• Top 20 Singles of 2012: “Japanese Music = AKB48″:
  

  Actually the list isn’t about sales. It’s about shipments.

• Top 20 Singles of 2012: “Japanese Music = AKB48″:
  

  Yep. The photos people trade aren’t the ones from the singles most of the time. Nice try tho.

• Top 20 Singles of 2012: “Japanese Music = AKB48″:
  

  THIS! THANK YOU!

• Top 20 Singles of 2012: “Japanese Music = AKB48″:
  

  Sugar Rush was made for that movie. Made for Disney. Disney planned the stupid video and choreography. Go watch something else.

• Top 20 Singles of 2012: “Japanese Music = AKB48″:
  

  Is anime seriously all you know? Get a fucking life.

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