wow... thx for the news

i dont know who is TiA either, i have never heard of her

and Oriental Daily often has positive things about ayu. people just selectively remember the negative articles. that's how the mind works.

and asongforxx, i love your avatar!!!!!

oooh...that pic of her in the red dresss is hot.,.o.o..anyone have the original?

thanks for the new & translation

I sorta doubt how accurate these results are , I can't believe how such a new artist like TiA (debuted last year , at least i think so) could be in such a high ranking. seems weird that a new artist can suddenly surpass long time favorites that much

TiA sung some ending-song on the anime "Naruto" and released her album "humming" last year.

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Some artists just happen to have more fans that are into these sort of things.

It's from Vivi magazine March 2005 version. PM me if you want the picture. :shimmy

Is the pink dress with the corset what (the newspapers) they're refering to be S&M... nothing looks like S&M from all the pics so far..

ayu is one of them :D

It's great for Ayu, but as others have pointed out, that article is exaggerated. One example is them saying Ayu's tour is sold out, which can't even be possible since some of the dates haven't gone on sale yet. :) Though I'm sure they will sell out when they do go on sale.

thanks

the dates that are on sale are sold out, which means that the tour is sold out :D

it's nice to see oriental daily say something good abt ayu and thanks for the info

geez you all get mad when they say bad things about her and then when they say really good things about her, uplifting things, you say they're over exaggerating .... *rolls eyes* make up your minds in what you want .. cause its not always going to be bland

for all the 50 people who posted several times asking about TiA

she's a new singer with a really good voice .. she has a powerful presence in her ballads ... especially "be fulfilled"

thanks for the unbiased opinion, hikari :)

ayu is the best, but in the books, she's still second in # of albums that sold over a million, shes needs 2 more...so i read. I'd be happy for her if she wants to retire after, japanese are all about going out while at they're peak... like samuri ! but then again who knows where the peak is with a sold out tour and platnum album...

I don't see what's wrong with saying it's exaggerated. Whenever they write something good OR bad about Ayu it seems to be exaggerated or just plain wrong. They are journalists, so I don't see the problem with people thinking that they should be good and accurate journalists.

Well people here complain about things too much .... This article is praising Ayu .. be happy.

No Ai Otsuka...:(

why would you expected to see Ai Otsuka?

ok you will see otsuka ai in oriental daily really soon, i am gonna post it up now