That's what I think too (and I've said it before lol). I'm 99% positive that the original plan was to have the 48th and 49th singles over the summer, have Ayu promote them like crazy and then have the big tour final to further milk/promote the 50th single that would've been released the week of or a week prior. But AVEX didn't take her schedule nor the summer competition into account and I bet they didn't expect Ayu to make the decision to sacrifice promo for her other responsibilities neither. What I think is going to happen now, is that Crossroad is going to be released some time in September and the 50th will be performed at the final but will be released in the winter. Or that could've been the plan along but I seriously doubt it.

Good news everyone~~
New 49th Single is『travelin' / crossroad』, the release date has not confirmed yet[2010.08.xx]

*original source from: http://wiki.jpopstop.com/wiki/Hamasaki_Ayumi

^Wasn't this just a rumor from a Chinese site? Besides, an august release does seem rather unlikely as it has not yet been announced, doesn't it?

travelin' reminds me of startin'.... but if those are the true names, I like the combination of names for a single. :)

For some reason, I would prefer "traveling."

I think they go good together too. We'll just have to see if they're real or not now :).

I have even better news for everyone, the title travelin' is fake and the release date is confirmed to be [never]

Well, it's even too late for an August release announcement...

is that for real?? "travelin'"? hmmmmm...

wikipedia is so unreliable. I wouldn't take it for certain unless it's from ayuchina (MAYBE) or avex

:thud

This is just a rumor, but i hope another song better than crossroad, the previw is boring

LOL true facts babe <3

travelin' has to be fake.
probably some idiot hikki fan.

LOL Wow I didn't even think of that....

You can usually tell when titles are made up by people...because they suck. lol

^ no Hikki fan would ever give the title "travelin' ", to another artist. the ' looks horrible, and traveling is too epic to ever be outdone.

but it's fake anyway.

Well you never know, they could fart it out really quickly. Like announce it beginning of august and release it at the very end.

I still think September 1st would be a cool release date!

Lol fart it out made me laugh. Who knows i think it'll be september or early october :P