With about half a month left before the Sept. 16 retirement of pop singer Namie Amuro, a video recording of her last tour, both on DVD and Blu-ray Disc, hit the stores Wednesday, having first drawn more than 1.1 million pre-orders on the internet.
Together with orders from sales at outlets, "namie amuro Final Tour 2018 Finally" has already sold more than 1.7 million copies, which music firms say makes it the first concert video to eclipse the 1 million mark in Japan.
About 20 people lined up to buy the DVD in front of a Tsutaya music shop in Tokyo's Shibuya district before the opening of the store. The first floor was filled with posters of Amuro, who has a strong fan base in Asia. Many fans wrote farewell messages for the music diva on a board there.