Stats: Top 25: Highest female first week sales in UWC’s history
1. Hikaru Utada – Distance: 3,000,000
2. Ayumi Hamasaki – A Best: 2,880,000
3. Britney Spears – Oops!…I Did It Again: 2,400,000
4. Hikaru Utada – Deep River: 2,400,000
5. Hikaru Utada – First Love: 2,030,000
6. Norah Jones – Feels Like Home: 1,930,000
7. Namie Amuro – Sweet 19 Blues: 1,921,000
8. Lady Gaga – Born This Way: 1,921,000
9. Ayumi Hamasaki – I Am…: 1,751,000
10. Ayumi Hamasaki – Duty: 1,682,000
11. Taylor Swift – 1989: 1,681,000
12. Britney Spears – Britney: 1,625,000
13. Taylor Swift – Red: 1,459,000
14. Mariah Carey – #1′s: 1,430,000
15. Hikaru Utada – Single Collection: 1,403,000
16. Misia – Love Is The Message: 1,349,000
17. Susan Boyle – I Dreamed A Dream: 1,387,000
18. Tomomi Kahala – Love Brace: 1,313,000
19. Ayumi Hamasaki – LOVEppears: 1,200.000
20. Taylor Swift – Speak Now: 1,149,000
21. Britney Spears – In The Zone: 1,110,000
22. Britney Spears – Greatest Hits: My Prerogative: 1,103,000
23. Ami Suzuki – SA: 1.058,000
24. Ayumi Hamasaki – Rainbow: 1,016,000
25. Maki Ohguro – Back Beats #1: 1,030,000
Sources: Mediatraffic, Oricon, UKMix, etc