Amuro Namie becomes the first music artist in Japan with a million copies of an album sold in her teens, 20s and 30s

Amuro Namie has become the first artist in Japan to achieve over a million copies sold in Japan as a teenager, in her 20’s and in her 30’s.

Amuro’s “BEST FICTION” has sold over a million copies in three weeks and continues to be the #1 artist on the Oricon Daily and Weekly charts.

Amuro accomplished her first million seller as a teenager with “DANCE TRACKS VOL. 1″ and the next following years with million sellers with the following albums “SWEET 19 BLUES”, “Concentration 20″ and 18920.

Three artists that have accomplished two age periods with a million copies sold are Utada Hikaru (25), Nakashima Mika (23) and Inoue Akimi (59).

In other Amuro Namie news, her concert schedule has been announced for 16 cities and 40 concerts total.

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