Kumi debuted in 2000 and she has only 1 million-seller studio-album in her entire discography
While Mika Nakashima debuted in 2002 and she has 2 million-seller studio-albums

Also

Kumi's best-selling single sold 390,000 copies
While Mika -who debuted 2 years later- has 2 singles selling over 440,000 copies

Kumi is big just not THAT big

Mika debuted in 2001 and went big from the start, while Kuu wasn't big before 2004.
If you're comparing single sales of albums and singles, of course it will look different in certain aspects for every artist.

Showtime PV

http://pv755.com/showtime

lol hands down 1 if not the funniest PV that Namie has made

^OMG I love it. Its so great, her looks is so cool (again, she hinted for it with the picture of the shoes) and the ending is so sad.

Is the Okinawa special show going to be aired on WOWOW?

^it already did. you can find a streaming link on the last page.

It was aired already oO

The Showtime PV is so funny & I notice the number 9225 on the jail tagcard Namie hold in the beginning of the PV

92 - her debut year & 25 - her 25th anniversary this year

It can't be a concidence isn't it ?

Wtf she copied my work outfit style lol The PV seems cool, its nice they're experimenting new hairstyles too, though I'll always be a fan of her classic one.

Without her heels she looks surprisingly short :shakehead

the link is broken!! ><

yeah, couldn't watch it :(

I don't like Showtime :-/
The jazzy? Brassy? Big band pop hybrid type songs have never been my cup of tea.

She looks cute in the video at least :-p

Full Finally, Do It For Love and Showtime PVs:
http://www.dailymotion.com/Limited_yan/videos

Do it full love FULL http://www.bilibili.com/video/av15898825/
Showtime full http://www.bilibili.com/video/av15891841/
Finally full <3 http://www.bilibili.com/video/av15900581/

I love everything about Showtime! the song, dance chero and her looks in the PV

I didn't like Showtime either :( Let's see if I change my mind once the full song is out, but I don't think I'll be watching the PV more than once, sadly.

EDIT: Just saw that the full videos were posted, I'll give them a look! :)

I love Showtime. It's a cute song.
So far Do It For Love is the only new song i don't really care.

The PVs are okay. I like Finally's
I would love to hear longer previews of her recorded old songs. Also i'm curious about In Two and How do you feel now? sound like.


Finally release make me rediscover Damage. Never cared about it at its release but after hearing the song in Okinawa live, i love it now!

I can't believe she didn't even lipsyncing Finally in the video hahahahah "Finally I can stop giving a f*ck"

^I guess it was on purpose for giving it more weight and I think it works pretty well. What exactly what have the inclusion of her lip-synching giving you? If you don't have a good reason, stop complaining.

http://www.vh1.com/news/wp-content/u...15/03/vngl.gif

Yeah, it bothers me a lot, makes it look recycled to me, like they shot a Visee CM and decided to reuse it putting a song over it and applying slow motion to the shots. But that's my perception and I'm sorry if somehow it offended you, but to me it looked that way, not to say lazy.