looks her forehead in this cover, is there something wrong in her forehead?
looks like a photoshop effect with 'clone stamp tool', isn't it??

looks this :

Hello new me is doing well digitally, then?

#1 on iTunes Japan J-Pop Chart and #2 on General Chart behind Let It Go (Japanese version)

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Thanks for the info, I'm so happy!

Is "Let It Go" originally K-pop music? Or western music?

Let It Go is a song from the Disney's movie: Frozen.

I'm tired of that song in any language.

#4 on recochoku =)

Why isn't this song available on US iTunes??
Both Pray and Feel the love are...

Or internationally at all, I haven't seen any sign of it on the Swedish iTunes though "Pray" is there (which I was very happy to buy as soon as it was released). I'd really like to buy it and have a legitimate copy of it rather than download it from somewhere else, and the same goes for the "Together When..." and "How beautiful you are" digital singles but it seems like "Hello new me" will be just another single missing from my collection. For now at least.(avex get your shit together! :eviltongu)

I remember Pray showed up a few days later on the international iTunes stores after the Japanese release. I suspect the same will be true of Hello new me.

The textless ver !


I never get tired of this photo ♥


http://i57.servimg.com/u/f57/11/00/64/98/ayumi110.jpg

strange phenomenom

really like this song!
Hope it does well! along with the drama!!

Thanks!
It's much better without the title.

it gained one position and was #3 today on recochoku =)

Well today the drama aired so maybe it helped =)

yay i'm so glad that hello new me is doing fine.
it's kind of a song that japanese love ;)

http://i.imgur.com/YNgm8LA.jpg

dat newspaper promo

Happy to see actual promo, but "Degital release" :shakehead... Reminds me of that time I walked past a local restaurant and saw them advertising their "ala carté". If one is going to write in another language, perhaps one should take the time to also do basic spell-check in that language, even Google Translate is good enough to sniff this one out. But then again, I'm a so-called "Grammar Nazi" so I obviously care more about these things than the average person would. :P
Still no sign of an international release for "Hello new me", and it's not likely to be released over a weekend, is it?

Love the cover and the song *O*

When people talk about her voice changing, or her vibrato or her falsetto or whatever, I'm just like.... :yconfused

This song is probably not the best one that demonstrates different vocal technique since it sounds exactly like she did years ago, haha.

the cover tone reminds me of endless sorrow.. love it!

For me, the song wore out after a handful of listens. Far too generic and cookie-cutter for Ayu, the "LOVE again" nostalgic era needs to end right now.

'Generic' and 'cookie cutter' are pretty normal for her TV/movie tie-in tracks. The drama is pretty popular, so the song has been doing okay, I think.

The album should be rather different unless she took the producers' compositions and had Yuta arrange everything like Hello new me. Even Ayu herself wanted to go in a completely new direction with this album and then something made her want to reel it in so it wasn't TOO far outside the 'Ayu' feel.

LOVE again was enough for me of the nostalic stuff. this one sounds like it came out from the "not used" folder. lol it's not bad but i am not a fan of her voice there and well it's kind of like everythign else she's done.

Compare HANABI 2003 a-nation to HANABI Asia Tour 2008. There you go, lol.

Is it? She hardly ever has happy, breezy songs like this. It's usually emo music or over-the-top happy like Beautiful Fighters.

side-note: BF actually has pretty sad lyrics, totally surprising. <3

The song is doing real good on Recochoku :heart

^ can you share numbers?

There are no numbers for Recochoku until it gets certified. How's it doing on iTunes now?

Yeah, no numbers, only daily and weekly positions. It was #5 yesterday, you check it on their page, it's updated everyday around 6AM (Tokyo Time). I was updating its positions on the single's generasia page too but I'm not having much time for it right now, so if someone can do that, it would be pretty helpful. Unfortunatelly Recochoku doesn't archive their ranking positions, so a day missed is a day that will lack forever.. :(

It was number one on one of the days this week. I think it was on the day after the drama aired. It's doing well on both the singles chart and the Uta chart.

Truck promoting "Hello new me" in Tokyo! :)

its weird that they promote Hello New Me for promoting the album...
Hello New Me is so different material from the rest of the album content...
but Hey...promotion is promotion, better than nothing at all...

Recochoku uta ranking: #12
Recochoku single ranking: #24

I'm truly surprised about Hello new me chart performance, at this point Pray was out of the top 100 on both charts lol

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My baby rainbow song doing so well digitally, I'm so happy!
And this makes me slighly less anxious about how much Colours will be able to sell. Because I'm scared about that. Really scared.