You forget that 2008 was her 10th anniversy year. You can't compare this special year to another. Morevoer I don't think that she's in the black list. After so many years appearing in several TV show, I think Ayu want to do other things that always release a cd, go to TV to singing & so. It's why the number decreases year after year. I have the same view that Aderianu.

In parallell with that, Ayu is more in Europe & US to see her fans. She produced a single too. She designed contact lenses & false lashes. I really think she has other ideas in her head for the future.

yay!!! at least one peformance !!!

Thx god. Ayu confirmed that she will sing on Kouhaku....
I guess kouhaku will be the last tv performance for Ayu this year...

Hope for more tv performances next year...

Ayu may still perform at the CDTV Special no?

The list of songs that the NHK Kouhaku performers are going to sing has just came out...

Yay, good choice! has she ever performed this song live?

Progress is a hard song to sing
she struggle to sing it on her POM tour...but YAY!!! CAN'T WAIT!
i hope she will sing full version of it..

this is pre-recorded show and TA always receive invites
since it was not announced, I'm sure Ayu not going to participate

at POWER of MUSIC ^_^

for sure
she said this song cannot be cut to TV-size

Uhh...not on TV.

I'm not sure about if this will go full or not... For sure this is the live TV performance debut, but I don't know how it will go...

yey! i knew it that she's gonna sing progress!
it's a great song for opening act of the show =))
so can't wait!

I actually didn't think she did a bad job of it during PoM, so I'm excited to hear her sing Progress live :)

I can't wait to hear "progress" live! I LOVE this song! :smitten

yaay! finally we'll see progress on tv! I'm quite excited :D

progress was expected XD nice!

I wonder if it's also the performers list?
ayu's opening the shows was great but she will have more ratings if it's really the list.
On the other hand shouldn't she be performing in CDL around the same hours?

thanks! hope she delivers an awesome performance… really hope she could perform on MSSP but oh well…at least I have gaga to look forward to.

Cool! (I feel like it's been a while since she's performed an upbeat song on Kouhaku, but she did Rule... haha)

I'm glad it's progress.

progress is cool! i still hope she 'll sing beloved on another music show!~~!

can't wait to watch progress live on tv!! :D

Yay ! One of my fav songs in FIVE ! I can't wait !

progress has a hard opening but the high belt at the end is her best high note nowadays (she used to excel at D5s but now her C5s are her best...and really powerful at times) and the song is perfectly in her range, looking forward to a HQ recording. PoM sounded a little bad at times because of the recording quality(the video rip sounded just completely off, the better quality audio rip sounded MUCH better and I'm sure her real vocals sounded even better)
Also it's just epic.