I found out about Ayumi from an Australian singers forum and in the Off Topic section Ayumi was mentioned so many times that i wanted to check Ayumi out.I went to youtube and the first video i watched was INSPIRE(My favrotie Ayumi song),and i have been a fan ever since.

for me it was really a matter of coincidence, one day i was looking for wallpapers and i saw one of Ayu i thought she was cute. Fast forward 3 years i am sick of american music, go look for asian music, recognize Ayu's name and here i am.

from a friend then from a CD store when my sister went to hong kong

A few years ago, when I first started downloading JPop, I looked for places to buy CDs and came across yesasia.com. Ayu was constantly on their top sellers list, and curious about her, I downloaded some of her songs from kazaa.

From playing a video game that featured Depend on you. Oh darn whats that game called...????

edit: Thousand arms, that's it!!! what a crap game.

It's all thanks to the Internet.

All.

searching for Nmaie found STEP you and AHS^^

Well, I had seen her name in lists of most-selling singers all the time and so, one day, I listened to a full length preview of SURREAL at Last.fm and it was love at first hearing.

I belive at most like 3 or 4 of the 11,000 members who are here would maybe have heard about Ay-uh-me if the Internet didn't exist.

Back in 2001, my friend got a late birthday present from her cousins in Japan. It turned out to be A BEST. My friend had me borrow it, and I was hooked.

i used to be really into remixes and club music, so in searching napster and other services for remixes i ran into some jpop remixes by western remixers like hex hector, thunderpuss, and etc...i found ayumi soon after and the rest is history. :yes

My Japanese penpal sent me ayus "UNITE!" single as a Christmas present. :heart This was end of November 2001. ^^

I found this site called Akatsuki that held alot of Jpop artists like, BoA, Chrystal Kay, melody. etc. (I think it was back in spring/summer of 2005, maybe earlier)
They had MY STORY tracks for download and I downloaded Moments, (I remember thinking how that lipstick, hair, dress, and posture looked kinda weird :P) I fell in love with that song. After that it was HAPPY ENDING, Hope or Pain, no more words, and some other odd ballads that got me hooked. I found Baernash's thread on AYUNITE! and it was just awhole bunch of downloading, and experimenting from there. :D I didn't really like her upbeat, songs because her voice would be too much for me, and the pop made my head want to explode (:OMG), but over time, I grew into her and loved/respected all aspects of her music. So the internet was how I learned about Ayu, and AHS has been so, so good to me that its dug its claws into my life to the point where I can't function without going on atleast 2xs a day. Yeah.

How true it is.

I am Asian, but I only knew about what was going on in my home country, Philippines.

My sister complained that I bought a Sweetbox & Koda Kumi CD's and told me I should have bought something from Ayumi Hamasaki. (Obviously, she had NO IDEA who Ayu was. She just typed Asian Music on the internet. LOL.)

So I did go check for this.. "Ayumi" lady's music. I came accross about 8 songs, the first one being "evolution" and I really liked her.

I burnt the songs and then a year or two later I became addicted to her, I was surfing SongJapan and found a download link for INSPIRE leading to this forum.

Yeeep. That's what I remember anyways XD

I post at a music forum, and we all make personal charts. Someone had Ayumi with "INSPIRE" in his chart, and it sparked my interest. Not so long after that, he sent me also "CAROLS" and I LOOOOVED that song, and that was the moment I became addicted to Ayumi Hamasaki

I used to adore Koda Kumi. I loved all her songs and things. I had heard people talking about ayu but from the pics I'd seen of her I thought that she was some girly pop singer. So I was on Soundclick one day and I was looking for fans versions of Ku songs when I stumbled arcoss a singer called Sou-hime. I listened to her Koda songs and they were cool and I noticed that she had done INSPIRE so I listened too it. I thought it was great so I went to look for ayu's version and I downloaded it. I feel in love! Within 24 hours I had downloaded every ayu album from A Song for XX to MY STORY ((miss)understood wasn't released yet). I wasn't sure which songs to download so I only dled a few until eventually I just said "Awh quack it" and downloaded them all XD

well, i just downloaded a song when I saw her hame in an article so yeah, heh.

It started out with liking anime for me and then that drifted over to liking Jpop and then that went over to liking Ayu!