How is Ayumi Hamasaki perceived in Japan today?

I’m a huge fan of hers and i mean HUGE. But i’m not a huge fan of japanese music or japanese trends in general. The perception i have, as someone who is from another country and don’t feel her impact on entertainment at all, is that she is like madonna/britney spears considering her enormous sales. That said i feel like she isn’t talked much at all on reddit and has somewhat low listeners on spotify (around 600k) while her peers Utada and Namie Amuro have 1kk listeners easily.

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