Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-163.153.180.20-20170601185045/@comment-53539-20170602142414

When you consider she still sells a lot more units then then her next closet competitors, its safe to say she'll be on top for a while. :-/

To make the situation most notable, CFM is constantly coming up with methods of maintaining this popularity... Like adding English and now Chinese. This allows her to be sold into English and Chinese markets and establish herself a hold. Even though her English vocal isn't the best on the market, due to her popularity she sells well.

The wikia uses the term "Big 8", these are the first 8 Japanese vocaloid who have high popularity. Besides them, Ia and Yukari also have high popularity and VY1. Overall though, the next nearest Vocaloid in terms of sales to Miku tends to only have 1/3 the number of sales at best. As once was asked in V3 in the Japnese fandom, far fewer vocaloid users will use non-CFM vocaloid then those that do. Loyalty toward the company is just that strong.

Also bare in mind that Miku's strength lead to Internet co., Ltd loosing their status as the no.1 distributor for music software/sources on the internet for Japan. This is why they were forced to enter Vocaloid. She turned a company from a unknown library distributor + retailer into the no.1 company for its coverage. failure in Miku's popularity may have consequences for Vocaloid and CFM. :-/