Ayu Schedule #10 [2008-2011] - TV Appearances, Magazines, etc.
 

If you have any new appearances / magazine news, feel free to post it here.

This thread is a source with information on all of Ayumi Hamasaki's Japanese (with a few international exceptions) TV & Magazine appearances together with some miscellaneous items.

2012
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COUNTDOWN LIVE 2011-2012 A ~HOTEL Love songs~


ARENA TOUR 2012 A ~HOTEL Love songs~

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ViVi Deji Deji Diary 2012 Summary


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2011


2010


2009

2008

Sources:
http://avexnet.or.jp/ayu/jp/schedule/
AyuLoveAyu
OnlyAyu Blog
AHS
zoominayu
evolution
MY HONEY
2ch
- and more

Thanks to everyone who is helping me keep the list up to date and to everyone who uploads anything on this schedule. All credit goes to you.

yay, new thread!! I didn't realize she had only 2 tv lives this year :/

btw, add BRILLANTE music.jp to tie-ins please ;)

To respond to roanmy, the photoshoot went over by a day and since the entire thing was happening RIGHT after Fashion Week and 9/11, there were basically no flights.

It was just a lot of things going wrong by coincidence. I hope she can perform next week or something to make up for it.

Yeah, maybe I'm sure there might be some PR from Japan who might have attended Fashion Week and the 9/11 celebrations...

wew reading misa-chan's translation of some fans' tweets to ayu..
gosh some are so harsh and not being understanding..

^I suppose there is no use in crying over spilled milk. But yeah, ultimately the responsibility was Ayu's and her staffs. This could have been avoided with proper planning. They knew they had a commitment and cut it way too close. Forget not being able to get a ticket, what if the flight had to be delayed because of adverse weather or something? It isn't really the best idea to be in a different country the day before a scheduled live tv performance. Negative tweets about this do not surprise me because in Japan honoring commitments is a big deal.

^ yeah, it's just like a national feature of Japanese people. I guess, they can't understand HOW ayus staff and ayu couldn't plan it well, how she couldn't appear at a scheduled event.

though it seems like media makes big accent on ayu's health, not her poorly organized schedule :rolleyes

I'm pretty sure she was supposed to leave a few days ago but they had to postpone a photo shoot because of the weather, then it was 9/11 and all that. From what I've read it seems like she was supposed to be back in Japan a few days before the performance.

Ayu has said that of course they did have tickets booked but one of her staff mixed up the actual flight time so they ended up missing their booked flight, and then not being able to get another one.

If you've got a flight booked, your sorted, nothing else needs to be done. just a shame that staff member cocked up the time.

It seems the MSta drama didn't really affect the sales negatively, but more the opposite...

^ the only benefit of what happened :D

lol, then ayu should make dramas every day :laugh

What I'll say, could sound weird but I'm glad to see that event!
At least, Ayu is not as such kind of starlet who have a lot of money & seems to be a god. She takes the same plane (not private jet) than us & have the same problem than we can meet. It's like if another gate between her & us fell! I feel more close to her now!

Reading some articles on http://misachanjpop.wordpress.com/ I am so stressed out..seems like this is a big deal and Ayu is going to be punished, I am praying and thinking of Ayu 24/7 that this illness doesn't cost her career or life

im really thinking what type of punishment she will get

I'm really worried what happens next..

The boost in sales wasn't due to the drama, cause yesterday sales are those from Friday and general public didn't know about it till the evening.
Probably the ToX game helped. If the drama helped or effected her negatively can be seen just today with sales for Saturday.

I really don't care what they'll do.

I just want ayu to be healthy, nothing else matters really.


And if she gets banned, good, she can get better with her vocals and come back later stronger than ever.


This is great promotion btw LOL Gotta love what they so call "dramas" :laugh

OMG she may be forced to take a break :thud

They could only ban her from performing on their program, and that's about it.

Unless AVEX wants to go further and ban her releases, promotion, tour, etc... but that would be a huge loss for them, they just can't afford it LOL They need the Queen, like it or not.

Hm, no, I think they don't need her anymore, they have some other all time favourite artists like Exile under their label. But I agree with you that Avex won't go that far, that's out of proportion loosing so much money, though it will be interesting to see what they will do.

hope it's only promotion and avex is not serious about punishment and break

Her tours = they really need them.

That's just a gossip post. Avex wouldn't really dare do a thing to her as they are supposed to manage her, so they are at fault and not her. Ayu is still their #1 female artist and every year she is in top 5 over-all yearly sales. Last year her total sales were bigger than Nishino Kana's. So you're completely wrong as along with EXILE and DBSK Ayu is still avex's piggy bank.

It's just what I'm thinking, I mean, yeah she still is one of the biggest artists, but they don't need her to make enough profit and being one of the biggest companies.

I guess now we'll see her only at PoM, then may be at Christmas/New Year TV-shows, CDL and no news till spring or summer

oh maaan, I really wanted to see her on TV and now we've ended with ONE and ONLY performance for FIVE :( I'm just speechless..

But that's just common sense. All these companies need their best artists to be working (releasing, promoting, touring) 24/7 if possible and at their best.


It seems to be though that AVEX is always getting into trouble or dramas with their artists, which is their fault as njanjayrp said. AVEX is mostly known nowadays for their dramas, other companies just go under all the crap and dedicate to support their artists. I don't even know much about the other companies really lol

Their management is really bad... they seem to be just really stubborn and proud.

That's why I agree with you that they won't ban her or something like that, cause that's just stupid and out of proportion.

Don't she already said that Matsuura always protect her? So I don't think Avex'll do something. It's the first time that kind of thing happen. & It can happen to everyone!

Yeah, really, what's going on? First earlier the Max Matsuura scandal that forced him to give up on Twitter, now this travel dilemma?

My minds over the past day or two have been this: "Who should blame for Ayu's MS absence? Ayu herself? No - it should be her staff surrounding Ayu!"

nobody should be blamed. Ayu is human, she can get sick like any of us.
She couldn't get on board for her scheduled flight and then all the followings didn't have enough seats available for her to come back home.. And I guess she's certainly not going to travel in eco.. Buisiness & first class seats are very limited so yeah. I can understand why it was so hard to find a flight.
All I can say is that this article is ********.. I mean is it the first time an artist cancel her/his appearance on the show because they are sick or unavailable? NO. Even though she would have made it back home, then what? She couldn't have sang anyway.

I just hope MS won't be a ***** and keep inviting her...

All the Max Matsuura dramas happened thanks to one and only JYJ drama queens and their fans.

I know this will sound a bit...mean, but it's Ayu's responsibility to be back in time for things.

And she failed to hold up her end of the deal. I understand she couldn't do anything about it, but considering she already knew she -had- to be back in Japan for Music Station, why didn't they just book a round trip ticket to begin with? It's weird to me. It'd be different if she didn't know when she had to be back, but she already had prior arrangements that needed to be fulfilled and booking a ticket back guaranteeing her a spot would have been a much more responsible thing to do, even if up until now she's always booked tickets last minute.

Also, if the problem with her not coming home in time is because her team couldn't come with her, that's really ridiculous. Ayu doesn't need her entire team to be there in order for her to make a TV appearance.

If she was banned or whatever, I hope she learns something from it. And if not, I still hope she's learned something from all of this.

edit: so they had tickets booked and someone messed up? Whatever the case is, that staff best be fired.

And yeah it is a big deal, especially because she's seen as this huge diva. Even if she was in NY for work and not play, people will say "Why don't you stay in Japan for once?" and stuff like that.

^ I find that ridicilous as well. After all her band was in Japan and she only needs herself to actually sing. Anyone could've done her make-up >_>

This. I mean, if someone is at fault it is avex' people/ Ayu staff. What's that talk about punishment? Are they stupid? If you want to punish someone they should punish themselves for not being able to plan properly. It is not Ayus responsibility. Time to reduce her staff and find some more capable people to look after her. And that AKB talk is the most ridicilous thing ever. Especially since Ayu is not always the last artist on Music Station. She usually performs somewhere in the middle. :no I hate those articles. They blow things out of proportion.

I think Ayu needs at least her bodyguards and one manager with her so maybe around 5 people? I thought she could go alone, but I guess it is impossible if you think about it. She needs her bodyguards.

From the news articles, I think the reason why she couldn't get back was not because she couldn't find a replacement ticket, but because she was ill, and she was not allowed on her flight. Not sure how this stuff works, but I know that people who are sick get quarantined for checks before they can leave/enter a country, which may result in them missing their flight.

I agree that it's her responsibility, but she had booked return tickets this time, just that she had to miss that flight because she couldn't finish the calendar shoot. After that, they couldn't get anymore tickets because of the post 9/11 rush + Fashion Week. Then she got sick and fainted, which probably added to the delay. Plus the probable quarantine issue mentioned above... So there are many factors which unfortunately came together at the wrong time to create this mess. And as ayu herself has said on Twitter, no matter who or what is truly to blame, in the end, she knows that she alone is the person who has to face the consequences.

Was Fashion Week starting or ending?

If it was starting, most people would be flying into JFK, not out haha. Right?

But yeah, I know there were a lot of things combined. I didn't know she said she had tickets booked and someone messed up, I thought she just went to buy tickets and they were all sold out.

^ There are so many conflicting versions of what the cause was. I agree with you though, no matter what the circumstances, it is ultimately Ayu and her staffs responsibility to be back on time.

There have been several times where she has song sick on tv shows. In Japan, artists canceling a show like this at the last minute is quite rare. To address your other points, if she isn't willing to travel economy class when she knows she needs to get to Japan because of this commitment...that's bad. Who knows though if she was willing to travel economy or not. What I find strange is that they didn't hire a private plane. If memory serves me correct, she has done that before. It's strange that there wouldn't be any private jets available out of both NYC and LA. Anyways, yes I think there is likely to be some consequences from this, but the degree of which I'm not sure.

I don't know about the inner workings of Ayus management, but I still think Ayu herself is not to blame for this. Ayu has a lot of staff people. She is not responsible for booking tickets, it is not her job. Other people do it for her. The problem is, she is Ayumi Hamasaki - a brand. And she is Ayumi Hamasaki as a person. The staff are also Ayumi Hamasaki. And if something goes wrong not only Ayumi Hamasaki - the brand is blamed no Ayumi Hamaski the person has to take responsibility, it seems. Unfair to me but that's the way it works, I suppose.

I do not believe for one second that Ayu didn't fly because she didn't want to fly economy. I don't think that matters to her.

I'm pretty sure she's taking it super personal anyway, blaming herself for it.

And I totally agree tokyoxjapanxfan, but as Misa-chan said, I think one of the reasons she couldn't fly was because she got sick.

Oh well... we can't do anything about this, just wait and see if anything will happen. Plus, the tabloids always need these kind of stories, and they always make them sound bigger lol

I hope everything will be OK, it's not the end of the world.

^^I wonder if the critics would be more understanding if Ayu cancelled because she was sick? But then people would complain that she is traveling around while being sick. I think there is always something that makes people complain. To be honest, I don't think this will affect her career in any way. It'll be forgotten soon enough and is not really that important anyway.

I hope all the rumors is just a rumor. And not more than that.

who really likes the ayu, knows that this is merely an attempt to tarnish his image by the media that feeds on lies and scandals.

whatever with those articles...
the only thing i care about is Ayu's health.
hope she's back to be good again.

While I do agree that it was her and her staff's responsibility to get back on time and I particularly agree that she could have gone back with as few people as possible, if she was as sick as they claim in the Yahoo Japan article with acute pharyngitis I wouldn't want her to perform anyway. At some point, your health has to come first.

It's not worth pushing yourself over the limit for one out of a million TV performances. Has she sung sick during the past, yes. Has she sung with broken bones, yes. But even still, the idea that just because you can means you should is ridiculous. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do and some times you have to put yourself first. People are just going to have to get over it to be honest.

^can't agree more!

Agreed too :yes

I think Ayu and her staff can learn lessons from these setbacks and mistakes that we saw and apply it to her, to them, and even to us for our lives.

You guys are talking like she was going to face death penalty or something like that...

They messed it up, it gone wrong, **** happens....

^


i second that

We don't have a lot of tv performances, and she will be banned !!
i'm dead XD
i hope they are just rumors

Ayu Music Station - campaign

We, fans, can feel what is being powerless to confort our idol's feelings now.

Ayu taught everyone of us the power to get strenght to surpass obstacles, always suporting us by the music, but this time she is the one who needs us.

You may be thinking "what can I do in my fan's condition?".

Well, I feel that some fans are still blaming Ayu by not coming to MSTA on September 16, that doesn't happend just whith japanese fans, but whith many international fans. First step is to understand that it's not her fault (She is not responsible about her flight tickets and other stuff, there's someone in charge of that), second step, even if it wasn't her fault, all the guilty falls over her, because Ayumi Hamasaki is an "icon", and because of that, many people think negative things about that failure, that is being even more distorted by the media, that always lives on lies and scandals.

This issue is nothing more than a great gossip for the media, and tends to get even worse until some other slip from another celebrity. So we can just ask for you to send positive messages, not about that matter, she suffered a lot, and is still suffering whith that. The last thing she needs is to remember that, so write about how much you love her and believe in her work, ask abaout her future plans too.

To end this I wish to share a tought I had, but I would like your opinion if that's apropriate.

Would it be possible to fans mobilize themselves to ask her a new presentation date on Music Station? (Lots of fan's requests would show that we understand her situation and nothing has changed about the fact that we want to see her singing Beloved) I know, the presentation she lost wont come back, it's gone (the past won't come back...) and can't be fixed, but i believe that if Music Station calls her back, it would be good, it would mean that the Music Station crew has not recentments or blame her about the situation, so this would give credibility for her, that would return quickly to TV shows, and reduce the impact of the current situation, wich would get easier about that scandal. For that becoming possible, all japanese and international fans should use their social networks to spread this and ask for sending messages to Music Station mostly via Twitter.




So please, as a fan, my only wish is "LET'S HELP AYU NOW", it's our time to return all the love and effort she had with us over the years.
Please use the hash tag: #AyuMStation


If you don't have Music Station's twitter, follow it: http://twitter.com/#!/Mst_com

Are people in Japan really that anal about their celebrities...

Miss one show; get banned. :rolleyes

^^ I think sending messages to MSta is a good idea. I'll join it :ysmile

she has time for that?
two weeks before PoM, she's in the rehearsal now

I think Ayu should stop performing on tv after this year, she can't win with these people. Do a MISIA and just retire from it...she's above it.

Try putting your shoes in the producers of the show and you should know why.
Imagine you guest never come to perform. What are you going to do for the loss time? extra 5mins of advertisments? 1 artist missing in a huge event, MANY people's job is on the line. This is no joke. It's an anniversary, aka big event for the company. 1 thing goes wrong, alot of people will be involved.

I believe that yes
is just a presentation of a song, no?

I really don't get why they're stressing her so much..I agree she should quit TV shows forever

^I'll die if it happens :dead2

but considering that this year she has had only 2 TV-lives, it seems like she's almost over with it.

thats ridiculous...

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Never quit Kouhaku until she retires :p

It's just the news....
I don't even know why Ayumi would be bothered by this... they have been talking about her ever since she came out with if first album.
Everyone just needs to move on.

And i hope everyone realizes that the news articles are contradicting themselves.
THis is nothing, it just proves that Ayumi can sale newspapers and articles, not just music

^Well said :yes

yea guess that they just want to sell stories..
and it works maybe!

New - Music Station 24/12:

Ayumi Hamasaki
Tohoshinki
Arashi
SNSD
Kara
Koda Kumi
Mika Nakashima
Koda kumi
Gackt
GLAY
Kanjani8
SMAP
L’Arc~en~Ciel
TOKIO
HSJ
2ne1
Superfly
V6
Fukuyama Masaharu
KAT-TUN
JUJU
tegomass
Perfume
Exile
Nashino Kana

It's not official...

Yeah, it's the end of September/almost the start of October, and it's too early to talk about this...

LOL someone's wishful thinking. I hope not.

what is the source of this list?

it looks more like a fan wishlist lol

I cannot believe we only had one single performance for "FIVE" till now :(

You could say that a-nation was the second performance for the new album, but it's not the same for me. There are enough music shows on japanese television and she only went with Music Station... and then even cancelled her appearance at Music Station Special...

I wish she'd release a new single soon and then do 4 to 6 pretty performances on TV for promotion! <3

^ me too! though she focuses more on concerts :(

I think that Ayu can manage her career as she wants! She already did so much TV live in the past! If she want to sing more in concert than in tv, why not?

I raise hell in that spoiler:

Her schedule looks far simpler than it used to be and she could handle a few performances on TV every few months. And please don't give me "she is older..." crap cuz she isn't 60 ^^

Ayu used to do like 40 magazine shoots for an album release..now we're lucky if we even get 6. Ayu simply isn't interested in promotion at this stage in her career, why should you...it's not like she gets paid per appearance.

With this I agree...About my sentence i was just caught by the frustration of the moment although we're talking of nothing since last years she had just a couple of performances per year so

There is a lot of hidden things in her schedule that you don't see. The pachinko's promo & duty pv's stuff is good example. Fans only see what she wants to show us. Usually, we only see the outcome of stuff, but do you know how many time take the preparation of one thing? So stop to say that "her schedule looks simpler than" naively! It's not if she has 5 days of holidays per week & you know it!

Imagine how many things did she do that we didn't know about before. The Pachinko stuff was prolly done years ago...The fact is she did do more promo and was busier a few years ago,

Yeah, but you forget that she got depressed at different moments of her career because she had to do more woks because of avex who considered her to be The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs! Moreover, Ayu is a human & not a singing machine. When I read you, I feel like you're the bad man in alterna pv! If she wants to stop live tv to have more moment for herself she's right because she has a life & she already worked so much in her life!

Sometimes, the fans think she is doing "nothing", because she isn't releasing music like before and she isn't on TV doing promotion.
Ayu isn't just a singer, she is a business woman and obviously a human.
This is just my opinion

I think we all know she is human. She can do whatever she wants to, but I don't have to be happy about it.

:yes

Assuming she's not doing anything because we can't see it is just plain stupid and thoughtless.

Though, it would be awesome if we could see/know everything she does every single day *scary stalker mode on* :innocent jks lol

But yeh, Twitter was a great way to get to know what she's doing right on time...



I'm still hoping for a new live soon :(:weep maybe we can get a Christmas special or something :cry

She is married after all and ayu do need some alone time with her hubby and we fans can't be selfish to see her perform more just because we want to....Although it'd be great if she does the same kind of promo activities as she did back few years ago.

So just because she worked herself to death before she has to continue to do it throughout her career? She's not the It-girl any more, she's an established legend. She doesn't have to do **** but put out music.

I think she needs to rest for a year, maybe visit some countries all over the world and come back next winter

You don't say :P She doesn't have to do anything, but that's beyond the point. I didn't say she should go perform in every show on every Japanese TV station, but 1-2 additional TV appearances wouldn't over-work nor kill her...as her schedule isn't really that tight as it used to be. And compared to 5 years ago I do think she is doing less work, though that doesn't really concern us~

I don't think at all that she's doing any less work now than she was five years ago. Look at the other 'smaller' projects she's got going; a lot of them take time. She's 'producing' for artists like Nao, she's got the recent eyelashes and contact lenses (she's said often she's worked very hard with her make up artist to make the best for both, especially the eyelashes), there are all the endorsements she's taking on before we even realize, like Rimmel London, Lands of Eden and that takes a lot of time, especially the latter because there are photoshoots to do as well as live appearances. She's also got the lives in 3D; keep in mind Ayu watches and chooses the footage herself to make sure it's to her liking and as great as she wants it, and this goes with all her DVD releases from CDLs to tour finals. She had LOVE&HOPE to work on also and even though that wasn't a huge shoot there were two live events to move around for. There are tons of photoshoots for magazines and for other material; not as much as there used to be but a lot still. There's also the pachinko footage which was probably done at the end of 2010.

All that amongst more common things like sound-only rehearsals, dance rehearsals, stage rehearsals and then costume rehearsals, there's stage planning, costume planning, sifting through melodies for future releases, writing lyrics, working out/training, staff meetings, vocal lessons.

As it is, it's any wonder how she manages to have time for herself, if she does at all. Well, I'm sure she does, but I'm sure it's very little.

If she only has 1 or 2 TV performances for every release then I'll be satisfied anyway as long as she's in good health. She already does a gazillion other things and more TV performances would only add to the load; a TV performance isn't just a TV performance. You have to cut the song down to a TV size while retaining the meaning of the song, and then you need to work out how that'll be fixed wiht the music as well as the lyrics, you've got to then have rehearsals with the band members to practice this new shorter version, and if dancers are involved you'll need to monitor/instruct their rehearsals also, and then incorporate them into your own rehearsals. It's honestly not as straightforward as people think.

she needs to take a 1 year holiday ala beyonce, get an inspiration and release an album LOL (but then again beyonce's 4 was a letdown so...)

If she takes one year to rest, she just need return with a song by Naoym't
It could be interesting, XD

With Meisa Kuroki (who I like btw) is there a need for another Amuro clone? No please. Ayu should start composing by herself again.

You summarize my view perfectly!

You people are talking as if Ayu doesn't have a team of 100+ people and as if she does everything by herself especially when we know how dedicated her manager is to making her life as easy as he can...but oh well to each his own. I think there is a lot more she could do when it comes to promotion without getting on anyone's nerves. Ayu isn't some poor tortured soul who never rests up...jeez.

to be honest, i'm happy that she's now involving in producing stylish stuff, like those eyelashes, contact lenses, trench coats, and the last LANDS of eden, soon, the life style book. those things are quite enough to make her busy already.
she didn't do that kind of thing for so long, right?

oh forgot about her involvement in Hanabi store too.

she's a business woman now too~
guess that she's now more into a business than entertainment.

^ yeah it seems so

I'm glad she's doing lots of activities now. It would be worse if she did only 1 tv-live, 7 (or so) magazine shoots and only PoM final chapter. so I'm happy to see her in LANDS of eden ads etc.

Yeah but she's beyond the point where she even has to do a lot of promotion, so why add the stress? She has other projects she'd rather focus on now than doing a TV performance which may not even help sales. As others have said she's transforming into a businesswoman and she is not just an entertainer anymore. She's trying out lots of different things and doing personal appearances for some of them. It may not be promoting FIVE per se but it is still promoting her. Now she is putting more of herself forward and not just her music. I understand some fans still want her to do TV, but it's probably just not a priority for her anymore. She's doing TV performances less and less and even opted out of being the last act at a-nation to stand up for what she believes it. She has her music, she has her tours, other performances... Does it really matter? :shrug

I really have no use of her photo books nor her eye lashes...so yeah it actually does matter as I couldn't care less for any of those things. I am simply trying to say that I would prefer if she'd drop all the extra stuff and concentrate on her music, videos and the tours and the promotion of those as after all those are all that matter at least to me.