Sales
When the album was released, it debut at the top spot with nearly two millions units purchased in its opening week, which was the largest opening sales for a record at that time.
Sweet 19 Blues reached No. 1 in on the Oricon Album Chart with an amazing 1,921,850 copies sold, which is Namie's best first week sales for an album to date and 9th highest opening sales of all time in Japanese music history. The album was also at No. 1 in its second week on stores, but with only over 300,000 units sold. It stayed in the top 10 for nine consecutive weeks and in the top 20 for twelve weeks, selling over 3,3 millions units in Japan during its original chart run including 3 millions in its first two months and over 4 millions copies in total. Sweet 19 Blues is currently Namie's highest selling album and is the 104th million selling album in Japan.
For a brief period in 1996, the album became the biggest selling album of Japanese music history before being outsold by her own producer. Sweet 19 Blues ranked 2nd in 1996 Oricon Yearly Chart after globe (to which Tetsuya Komuro belongs). This album ranks at 13th for total sales in Japanese music history and 6th best selling album from a Female Solo Artist.
Sweet 19 Blues was the biggest selling album of all time album by a female artist in Japan until the release of First Love, Hikaru Utada's debut album, which is now the best selling album ever in the country.
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