Reading about it, hm, guess I got too fast too excited, lol.
Nevermind.

I'll help you *fingers crossed* haha.

PS. It might be like A BEST did about the remastered?

Cool I suppose but when the Hell is she going to release a single. I mean seriously this is just getting ridiculous. Ugh, I WANT A SINGLE!!

Anyway... the promo shoot is gorgeous but the look on her face is terrible. Love everything else about it - can't wait to see the covers.

I want the albums to leak already!!! (lol) j/k

But what's the thing about the poster? You get it only if you pre-order from mu-mo on a certain date? I didn't get it.

BORNING BEST!:headache

why don't she just release a new single?

http://lockerz.com/s/218519405


WHAT? BALI ???? D*MN! Ayu go to BALI again ??? Aarrgghhhh.... :tired

Come on CDJapan... I'm ready for preorder links to appear... I hope we get a nice cover for this release!

Kuu VS Ayu..
BEACH MIX vs A SUMMER BEST


wOOw...

You get it if you order from the CD booths at her concert venues starting with Nagoya on 6/30.

Beach Mix is only a remix album not a BEST album.

I'm debating on whether or not to buy this... I have all the songs except for the new one. Like someone said before, if she re-records them that would encourage me to buy it so we'll see. I think this was a good idea, though! Ayu's summer songs are all really good. If anything, I'll put these old songs in a playlist to listen to. I wish she would release the new song as a single...

You guys think this best-of is to try and keep her number one streak? Haha... :P

ok songs like evolution have been on like 4 cds now... milking people for bests is becoming ridiculous. and she needs to stop pouting in pictures LOL
i wanted A BEST 3!! when dammit

OH MY!!! Great! ayu looks so sexy!!! and new song&mv FINALLY!!!!

Should be another new song instead of Happening Here..just total ********.

Oh well. At least I can peacefully order from CDJapan. Thank you.

Shhhh, let "gay, straight" n "queen ayumi hamasaki!" through!

so instead of working and making new music Ayu's releasing old unreleased stuff (ZE photobooks) and a best summer album. FML.

Love how there's SEVERAL never before seen performances on the DVD...the first that come to mind are monochrome, theme of a-nation and Blossom/MOON.

I'm so happy for Happening Here, theme of a-nation '03 and You & Me!!

Wow the beach poster is beautiful. And I don't know why, but I am actually excited for this :) Lots of great summer tracks!

It's gonna be a really bittersweet day for me, this date... August 8th is when my dad passed. At least I'll have the album to cheer me up.

^ Oh, I'm sorry to hear that :( I hope the album will cheer you up, or at least the new song :)

Wowww! You & Me!

Nice~ I wonder if it'll have a STEP you feel? Then again it is on the more melancholy part of the album....

AND THEME OF A-NATION '03 FINALLY....

Thanks. Knowing Ayu, it will, but I also know I'm gonna be crying at a lot of songs and won't enjoy it as much as I would had it been released on a different day. Thank god it's not a whole new album.

I fear this will flop, but we all thought A COMPLETE would and look how that turned out :laugh

Can't say I'm excited for this though, gonna need to see covers & hear a preview for you & me.

haha, i just made almost the exact same thing!

http://i926.photobucket.com/albums/a...ty/trolayu.png

when i saw her mention a new song on twitter i was so excited for a single, only to come to AHS and find out it was this. :dead2

just give us a new single already ayu.

I liked the first one better because her summer songs are anything but bad =P oh well that's all about opinions and how you feel I suppose haha.

We will probably get a new single/album close to ToX2's date anyway.

yeah... i love HANABI ~ep II~ so much, but a lot of her upbeat summer songs are my least favorites.

i'm excited for the new song, but i just want a new single or something. i feel like Ayu is stalling.

Wow I'm totally not looking forward to this. :shakehead
So no A BEST 3 soon?

Wait since when? Hahaha~ I was pretty sure A COMPLETE was going to do pretty well. A shame that it never hit a million though.

Also I think Ayu has some other new songs to be released after this so it's not like this is all she has coming out soon. She has the Tales of Xillia 2 song and some new track that she finished that was 'godly'.

You were one of the few who were right! I remember there was a sales prediction poll and a lottttt of people didn't think it would do well mostly because A BEST 2 was just released the year before.

I just want the Xillia 2 theme RN cause Tales and Ayu...how can you go wrong. can they finally announce that Xillia will be released here too btw...and Vesperia's ps3 port :weep

This is nice, I guess. They should at least give that new song a digital release.

Yay! Preorder links are up on CDJapan! Ordering the 2 CD version :)

yes, it is~
just two possible date, this
http://misachanjpop.wordpress.com/20...ts-2951230512/

or this, but seems like she's taking photo shot again on last week
http://misachanjpop.wordpress.com/20...ts-2061224612/

Well, at least please make a cover superior than the S/S covers xDD

There's a likelihood that people will buy the iTunes Japan version of the track if that releases. Having all of the summer songs in one place is nice though. Very convenient.

... you know I wonder if she'll do a secret track for this like she did A BEST 2?

As for sales of A COMPLETE, I don't think people were that far off.

http://puu.sh/E7mU

Maybe 100k or so? (regarding A COMPLETE)

You don't think it will outsell Party Queen?

I pre-ordered the 2CD+DVD first press from CDJapan!

I think it might sell 60,000-85,000 in total.

Gosh. Just the other day I was dying for an ayu release... but I don't think I can afford this AND the books!

I can't afford this and the books and Imma still buy them :(
I won't be in minus but I need to control myself.

Well, I still buy both releases lol.

I haven't bought anything ayu since Love songs (or ayu-mi-x whichever last).... I am going through withdraw! First paycheck I get is going towards this!

I was like: oh, now summer best from Ayu - nice. New song - Great and then I read this
OH MAH GAWD now this is just epic'n'awesome!:thud

That number has nothing to do with A SUMMER BEST.

I was talking about the A COMPLETE 'prediction'.

cover
Best summer??? o.o really???

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...44293463_n.jpg

I don't believe xDD

^
lol no it's the face from A BEST 2 -WHITE-

exactly i don't quite undertsand why we should be excited about the remastering thing, now if she re-recorded them in somehow different arrangements AND new vocals, THAT is something :lech but i doubt ...>_>

lol A BEST 2 face on a random model :laugh

WOW thanks ^_^
I was afraid:thud

I'd like to think Ayu's team would photoshop her boobs better than that, but we've been proven wrong before... :innocent

Remastered or re-recorded? Which one? I would be excited if they were re-recorded, but I don't think that'll happen.

I'm curious to know what they'll do to evolution. Maybe something really special because of Helter Skelter? I want them to make the drums a bit more aggressive (more kick)!

I'm longing for "You & Me" as well!

Where is it stated that anything might be re-recorded?

i'm not sure, people say "remastered or re-recorded" but those are two VERY different things. honestly, i don't care about remastering, but re-recording would be phenomenal. like i said though, there's about a 1% chance that she would re-record. :(

It was pretty obvious when Party Queen didn't get #1 they were going to bring out a new BEST album.

I thought an A BEST 3 would do quite well but a I have no idea how this will do. Hopefully it's a dead week for releases lol.

SMAP is releasing their new album same day.

Remastered usually just means that they make it sound better.

They usually specify if new vocals are involved.

preordered CD+DVD :)

JEALOUS

I just knew they were going to pull a stunt like this, this year -.-
Not overly excited about it, having all the songs anyway >.< a side from the new one. If it was going to be re-recorded, it might interest me. However... that poster is HOT HOT HOT! love it. Pray to god the album cover is along the same lines as that.

Well I don't usually get too excited about bests but I love the concept. And that poster picture is free of all flaws.. I hope the covers are that stunning!
I hope the new song (I'm assuming it's a ballad?) is good too, less vibrato and engrish this time around please ayu ;)

What? There's special editions with bra and underwear?

I'm pretty sure it's not re-recorded, since htye just put up that poll not to long ago, Ayu wouldn't have time to re-record unless they've been thinking of doing a summer best all this time, and already knew what songs fans would choose.

Is that lindsay lohan's body lol

Are people really wishing she re-recorded all those songs? :innocent
I'm positive the whole will just be remastered à la A COMPLETE. Don't expect too much from avex.

The picture promo looks beautiful. The only song I need is that new one, dont care bout the others so Im not buying it. Guess its gonna leak less than a week from the release date.

I WANT!!!! but what i most want it that new song!! and the DVD S:
And I'm out of money ;~;
A single would have been much affordable than this... (so sad)
Haven't bought anything from her since... Love songs

Geeeez!!!!! Yes!!!!! I love summer <3

Looks like I'm buying two summer best albums this year. Kuu and now Ayu.

I think this is so unnecesary, I have all of the songs in albums, best, etc..
and what the hell is this?: blossom, MOON, ANother song feat. URATA NAOYA D: and the tracklist of ''Beach Mix'' are terrible.

Namie it's doing much better, she releases a brilliant album, much better than this ''Summer releases''.

omg this forum, I can't sometimes..just..

ermm what else did u expect? ayu just release a brand new album without any singles and u expect her to release a new album in less than 6 mths?
Best albums aren't targeted at hardcore fans, it's more for those who doesnt buy all her albums as they only like specific songs/no money etc...
bringing namie in this conversation is a bit of redundant.
if u don't like about 1 release, so be it. comparing a singers album with another is just an insult to both artist. I mean, do ayu have to follow namie by releasing an album just bcos namie did?
ayu fans are so freaking hard to please. and I even wonder sometimes that whether these unhappy fans actually do support her release when they like the release.

Party Queen just came out a little over 3 months ago. Duuude... seriously...

I hope You & Me is a bitter-sweet ballad. Any information on the composer? (Probably too soon to know...)

yess!! remastering!!
but where's Evolution?!

ZzzzZZZzzzzz.

I am not even pirating this. Let's wait for a new single. Maybe in 2013? =)

You and me is a shinkyoku!
OMG I AM SO ORDERING THIS! *fan explosion*
It's a good purchase since I don't have any albums but Love songs and Party Queen!
I need DIS!

*calmer*
I wonder if the first press is even worth it? I guess I'll buy it when I get a bit of money. Lol contradicting myself above XD

Im happy and sad.. happy that we get new stuff, but sad that it is only a new song...
NEED single!!

Yeah I feel the same way. I love her voice now but I think if she re-recorded all of her older songs she would ruin them. :no Those songs were written for voice at that time, not now! lol

she is re-recording them... I thought it said remaster...
Anyways.... I hate she copied Kuu... (although this is not a new concept...)
I wonder if this will be like A BEST 3... or if she will even have one now...

LOL getting back for snatching her RnRC swag for Koda's Dejavu XD.
So she is 100% re-recording the songs? 100% sure? Just making sure lol.

I wonder what the covers will look like..

^ I meant it as a question? I thought it just said remaster not rerecord.
Also I want to point out that on cdjapan right now, Ayumi is number 1 and AKB is number 2, lol. EAT IT!! (joking.... but am I??? lol)

^Oh i see. Oh well...
What does remaster mean? I have no idea :P
Which version should I get? The CD or CD/DVD? Im stuck...

It only comes in one version doesnt it??
Remaster usually means that the go back and fix all the "bad" things... stuff like sound and what not... Im pretty sure they still have the vocals tracks and separate music tracks so they can do all sorts of stuff to it,

It comes in a CD and CD/DVD version.
CD/DVD has this first press card that I won't be able to use...

I still think that M 'remaster' from A Complete was more of a 'ruining' lol

It looks like Avex thinks that it's not worth it for ayu to release a single. (I hope they prove me wrong on that!)
I am excited to hear you & me!!

I wonder if Timmy wrote the song?
He said he was working on new music??
its summer... it better be freakin dance dance dance!

EDIT:
Which i just noticed she is doing a day/night kinda thing.
The first cd is all the upbeat songs and the second one is all the slower songs...
which means it looks like You and Me is going to be a slower song.

Well i'm excited for the new song at least...and Happening Here on CD! Yay! (finally HQ enough to put on my ipod).

And I guess I'm the only one weirded out by the promo poster...she kinda looks like a washed up (literally, lol) mannequin.

I hope You & Me won't be ANother Song pt. 2! God, please :thud

^ Another song was part 2 of their first song together... so it will be part 3.

It would be beyond amazing if re-recorded also included re-arranged...but prob not.

And well, they are not re-recorded or re-arranged. They are re-mastered. Like A BEST 2 & A COMPLETE ~ALL SINGLES~.

I only wish some of these songs could be re-recorded and arranged.

But I guess, I'm at least happy for a new song, even if its potentially slower and stuff

What you just said...not a #1 for Ayu. Uhh...NO. :no

I'm not going to care still about the charts, but the fact that you just said that SMAP is going torelease their new album on the SAME day as Ayu's, and the fact that SMAP is a STUDIO album, and NOT some compilation like this, NO WAY Ayu's going to get #1, just to be honest, and you should already know my prediction - SMAP, a Johnny's, despite older than Ayu their fanbase is, I think, stronger than Ayu, and it's at a time that Ayu's fanbase (particularly the newcomers' fanbase) is kind of declining...

So strange, I am not a fan of singles, but somehow I prefer a single over this...

best albums usually sell like crazy when it's released by major acts

So, it's just another plain old BEST. :/
Really, aside from the new song, most of us could probably just make this a playlist on iTunes, so kind of disappointed with it already.
Hoping for great covers and promotion though. :)

Looks like avex needs more money :rolleyes

In this age of digital media, I have no idea why albums like this get released. If you want a summer best tracklist, just make your own on iTunes or whatever. Most of those songs have been on multiple albums already.

BEST albums are a way for a new fan to get all the most popular hits of an artist on one album, but themed ones like this just seem silly.

my statement before is just sarcasm anyway :innocent

Good point. Maybe the new "Who..."-esque song

Reallyyy, another best?! Well at least it comes with a new song. Hoping it'll be good. Though judging from that promo pic, I suspect we're gunna have some GREAT covers.

A BEST 3 will most likely come out next year, since it'll be ayu's 15th. Kinda hoping she'll at least come out with a few singles and/or an album before then though x_x.

mhhh.... not going to pre-order this for now, as there is no 1st press or something (yes I know there is a stupid serial number card again)
Let´s wait what TA extras it will have ^_^