New mini album 'sixxxxxx' out August 5th, 2015 VI
 

ayumi hamasaki『sixxxxxx』
album in stores 2015.08.05

"I hope that, one day, the voice of ayu will bring you memories of this summer."

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Ayumi Hamasaki brings new mini album! Among the songs are 「Step by step」 which is being used as the theme song for NHK Drama "Boys and fellows" starring actress Nakama Yukie,「Sayonara feat. SpeXial」 (Produced by DAISHI DANCE) the song collaborated with SpeXial, one of popular artists in Taiwan! Total 6 songs that feature on the album with good variety! DVD/Blu-ray includes three video clips and three making clips!

=== RELEASE ========================================
「sixxxxxx」CD+DVD | AVCD-93157/B | ¥2,800
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<CD content>
01. Step by step
02. Sayonara feat. SpeXial
03. Summer diary
04. Sorrows
05. Shape of love
06. Sky high
<DVD content>
01. Step by step (video clip)
02. Sayonara feat. SpeXial (video clip)
03. Summer diary (video clip)
04. Step by step (making clip)
05. Sayonara feat. SpeXial (making clip)
06. Summer diary (making clip)

「sixxxxxx」CD+Blu-ray | AVCD-93158/B | ¥3,200
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<CD content>
01. Step by step
02. Sayonara feat. SpeXial
03. Summer diary
04. Sorrows
05. Shape of love
06. Sky high
<Blu-ray content>
01. Step by step (video clip)
02. Sayonara feat. SpeXial (video clip)
03. Summer diary (video clip)
04. Step by step (making clip)
05. Sayonara feat. SpeXial (making clip)
06. Summer diary (making clip)

「sixxxxxx」CD | AVCD-93159 | ¥1,800
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<CD content>
01. Step by step
02. Sayonara feat. SpeXial
03. Summer diary
04. Sorrows
05. Shape of love
06. Sky high

「sixxxxxx」CD+GOODS *Limited to 300
￥33,200 **Sold out
album CD + V-MODE Limited Headphone
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「sixxxxxx」analog record(12 inches) | AVJ1-93305 | ¥3,240 *「TA LIMITED LIVE TOUR」 venue Limited Edition
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A-Side
01. Step by step
02. Summer diary
03. Sayonara feat. SpeXial
B-Side
01. Sorrows
02. Shape of love
03. Sky high

=== DIGITAL RELEASE ================================
「Step by step」 2015.07.01
「Sayonara feat. SpeXial」 2015.07.20

=== COVERS ========================================
1654x1654
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=== TeamAyu / mu-mo goods ============================
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Metallic stickers OR Original mirror
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=== Songs preview =================================



=== TV-CM ======================================





=== TRANSLATION ==================================
Step by step: http://ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=121708
Summer diary: http://ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=121907
Sayonara: http://ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=121928
Sorrows : http://ahsforum.com/forum/showpost.p...&postcount=173
Shape of love: http://ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=121961
Sky high: http://ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=121966

=== Songs info ==================================
Step by Step [04:35]
words : ayumi hamasaki
music : Tetsuya Yukumi
arrangement : Yuta Nakano

Summer diary [04:46]
words : ayumi hamasaki
music : Tetsuya Yukumi
arrangement : Yuta Nakano

Sayonara feat. SpeXial [05:41]
words : ayumi hamasaki
music & Produced : DAISHI DANCE
featured vocal : SpeXial

Sorrows [04:03]
words : ayumi hamasaki
music : Tetsuya Yukumi
arrangement : tasuku

Shape of love [04:24]
words : ayumi hamasaki
music : Tetsuya Yukumi
arrangement : Yuta Nakano

Sky high [03:59]
words : ayumi hamasaki
music : Tetsuya Yukumi
arrangement : Yuta Nakano

Just noticed how Sky High's chorus is exactly how Negaigoto by Ami Suzuki sounds... its just the latter is a Ballad XD

^Is this the first time the CM guy was speaking Japanese at the end?

Wasn't it like that a decade ago :yconfused:yconfused

It's funny though how he only says the date in Japanese haha

CDJapan has shipped my sixxxxxx :love yay!

I forgot to mention previously that I absolutely loved Shape of love, it sounds very A Song for xx / LOVEppears to me ♡ There's something 'classic' about it. I hope she performs this song during the TA Tour :)

Really? How come I have never noticed it before? Didn't the guy always just say "Ayumi Hamasaki", the album/single title and "Now on sale"?

he says "new album" tho. They keep marketing this as a new album, but isn't it strange? I thought it was a MINI album.

I went to look for the CM of five, which you can find here, and they say "new mini album"
I am perplexed.

as long as they dun expand the album, i fine. LOL don't need another LOVE again saga.

Apparently the ads are on 3 Tokyo metro lines: Ginza, Marunouchi and Hibiya. Source

AAAAAA i cant remember :roflmao:roflmao

Could you imagine the meltdowns though if it happens, biggest ones coming from me. :faint:faint

Even if they say "album" it's still a mini-album they can't change facts just by saying something...

Nice! :D

It's 6 tracks though and the length is long enough for the album...

I got some SCAR like vibes from it, I think if she performs them live, they'd mesh well together.

great coverage (I think) :D

Okay, I can finally hear the Shape of love ending~Summer diary intro thing. But had to make the volume extremely loud, otherwise it's not really noticeable.

sell sell sell sell please
please get a well sell Sixxxxxxx...

Sayonara finally reached 500k view, Looks like Sayonara and Summer diary will be another million youtube viewer video as well.

Dreams come true best album selling like a hot cake...It's already three weeks in a row that they got number one. I think this week they will get number one as well. Looks like DCT best album will be another tough competition for Ayu.

Not only that but if you look at the stickers for LOVE and again, they say "NEW MINI ALBUM" (in English). FIVE's and Memorial Address' stickers both says "'mini album" in Japanese. If you look at the sticker for Sixxxxxx it just says "new album". On Avex's discography page they call it the second ALBUM released in 2015 (no mention of it being a mini). Ayu's official page calls it a new album. There's like no official mention of it being a mini at all anymore.

Curiouser and curiouser. The thread title should be changed to just "new album". All signs really point to it. To be fair ayu's website DID call it a mini album on July 1st but on July 9 they dropped the "mini" from the description and it hasn't been called a "mini" since.

I think it might reach 46k ~ 50k

Cdjapan shipped my copy today! Can't wait to receive it and finally listen to it. I really hope this mini album manage to sell well, it seems this release it is really on point and Ayu is working hard to show everyone the "real ayu" is back.
It is kind of weird they marketed this as an album, but it isn't that upsetting as the thing they did with the "minis" Love and again...

Mine too :luv2 . I am so excited.

Reffering to Fedex I already should receive it on wednesday.

Then all evidence seems to point towards the "album" direction, and that would be the most obvious way to see it but there's a major turn-off: the title.
If it is a new album, why is it called six? the title made sense with it being her 6th mini album but this way?

My idea is that these songs are left-overs (although really good ones) from A ONE. This mini probably started off as a continuation of A ONE and then evolved its way into a "full" album. Or it's just that they are marketing it like that hoping to sell more, we all know avex's unfair moves when it comes to mini albums.

I don't think that Sayonara is a leftover but the rest probably are (since they probably recorded Sayonara just a little while before the PV and the PV was shot not long ago).

Btw if anything sixxxxxx is the 5th mini album, since for avex and ayu NOTHING FROM NOTHING is of no existence.
The six stands for 6 songs that start with an S and maybe other hidden stuff if at all.

Well, I hope it can sell 30,000-35,000. I hope it will reach even that.

Step by step [04:35]
words : ayumi hamasaki
music : Tetsuya Yukumi
arrangement : Yuta Nakano

Summer diary [04:46]
words : ayumi hamasaki
music : Tetsuya Yukumi
arrangement : Yuta Nakano

Sayonara feat. SpeXial [05:41]
words : ayumi hamasaki
music & Produced : DAISHI DANCE
featured vocal : SpeXial

Sorrows [04:03]
words : ayumi hamasaki
music : Tetsuya Yukumi
arrangement : tasuku

Shape of love [04:24]
words : ayumi hamasaki
music : Tetsuya Yukumi
arrangement : Yuta Nakano

Sky high [03:59]
words : ayumi hamasaki
music : Tetsuya Yukumi
arrangement : Yuta Nakano

official lyrics

Memorial address has a longer track list than sixxxxxx though. I think they're just saying "New album" because mini album is still technically an album, but shorter and it's not a really big deal.

minis always chart on oricon with full albums. so who care?

I think it would have been worth the fuss if it was priced like a full album, but it's not, so it shouldn't really matter in my opinion

Looks like tasuku is the weak link on this album.

This is the same guy who arranged About You, HANABI ep. II, reminds me... Poor guy needs to do some soul searching.

FIngers crossed for high sales !

Yeah, the sixxxxxx will chart on the album's chart, so not really a big deal to not include "mini" on the description.

If anything, it's good it's being called a "new album". This way it becomes much less likely that she would put those songs in another album like LOVE again.

Honestly, it's gotta be the mixing! The difference in quality is huge between the pieces from yesteryear composed and arranged by the same people. You don't just get worse over time. Or they are just really amateur with the new programs they are using. Either that or avex has decreased the amount of sound banks they have to choose from (although I would think as arrangers they would have access to their own).

Oh yeah, that actually crossed my mind, too! Maybe they're afraid that if they label sixxxxxx as a mini people will relate it to the LOVE again "fiasco" (as some people have actually already done here on AHS), and avex doesn't want this to hurt the sales.

I'm surprised by how much i'm loving this mini, her best work since FIVE or even Rock 'N Roll Circus imo.
Although i did like A ONE it was just listenable and a minor step up from LOVE Again, which was a snoozefest all around.

I can see myself listening to all of the songs on here in the future, Shape of Love and Summer Diary are so incredible!

Got my cd+dvd today.. Time to listen ayu's new songs...

From Yahoo Japan Auction

http://i61.tinypic.com/35cihld.jpg

Step by step is still my favourite track, it is a very j-pop song, and the lyrics are great. Sayonara is great but some of SpeXial are terrible at singing... Urata Naoya would have been much better. Hope there's a solo version as a bonus track on the next single/album.

NINKI for this week

01 42.25 Hamasaki Ayumi - sixxxxxx
02 31.25 Straightener - Behind The Tokyo
03 23.76 androp - androp
04 21.60 Sungmo from Choshinsei - Tiramisu love
05 17.78 Sakanaction - Natsukashii Tsuki wa Atarashii Tsuki ~Coupling&Remix Works~
06 16.61 Pitbull - Dale
07 15.22 globe - Remode1
08 14.01 SUGAR BABE - SONGS -40th Anniversary Ultimate Edition-
09 12.56 ONE☆DRAFT - ALL FOR ONE
10 12.48 Wakadanna - WAKADANNA 4 ~Otoko wa Tsuraiyo, Naite Tamaruka~

:)

Thanks for the NINKI info @Cahz-
I wonder what the NINKI was like for A ONE, if there was one.. hopefully sixxxxxx does really. Ayu deserves a big turn around.

#WhyNotUs???

I think she has got a shot here. The album competition is pretty weak among this week's releases. 42.25, though, is a bit low compared to the past...

My main concern is if DREAMS COME TRUE can disrupt Ayu's sales, although V6 (a Johnny's group, also releasing a best album, 20th anniversary) just got #1 last week...

I'm mostly positive Ayu's going to get #1 here. DCT craze might have died down.

Nice... I hope it will sell better for this album... The songs is pretty good...

My album has officially been shipped. Just got the e-mail from mu-mo! :luv2

Nah this week V6 will get the #1 spot but that's beside the point, it really annoys me how that DCT album is doing IMO they're overrated AF, but I honestly can't see them get less sales than Ayu -_____-

Thanks for posting~

I updated all the lyrics with the official ones. Only Summer diary's translation need one change.

wow the songs mostly done by tetsuya yukumi and yuta nakano
nice nice..
thanks for sharing the info

Guys can we talk about how GOOD her english has became. I can actually make out every single word, and it sounds fluent. those years in LA did her good :)

There are currently 4 best albums in Oricon's Top 10. I think it's good enough if sixxxxxx managed to sell the most out of the original albums released today/tomorrow.

Yeah you better 'bilieve' it

^ I was eating a grape when I read that and I laughed so hard it flew out.

Honestly though, her English has gotten very good. I watched a performance she did with JJ Lin where she spoke in English for the crowd and I was pretty impressed!!! It's awesome!

Dunno, no matter how many times I listened, I could not understand that she was saying "believe" because of her pronunciation.

Just listened to the whole mini in full. Sky high sounds exactly like an ELT song circa 1999 or something. It's nice but unexciting. Shape of love is nice too in that languid Far Away kind of way. I can probably also enjoy Summer diary in some situations, like My all in concert encores.

I thought step by step was a bad song but Sorrows might just be even worse.

It's kind of disappointing to me that the bright points of her music these days are throwbacks to nostalgia and 90s pop. It's nice for a while but beyond that it's like, why do we even need these songs? They add absolutely nothing to her repertoire.

Anyway, still holding out for her to actually try and make more interesting music ala Colours and Party Queen.

My Album has been shipped :luv2 can't wait to hold it in my hands

Pics from the booklet



https://twitter.com/tommyRen4/status/628517946185269248

I don't know if there's more

OMG thank you :luv2 these pics are wonderful. She looks gorgeous, beautiful, stunning...now I'm more excited to get my copy

No more pic.. That is all..
Why they don't use the last pic for the cover?

Lol the first 2 pics are the exact copy of the Numero Tokyo shoot. And the only difference on the third pic is that she's not looking directly at the camera haha

I wish they used the pics where she's wearing the dress, too

After reading the oricon thread at JPC and OH I'm like 99.9% sure Ayu won't be #1 unless a miracle happens..

I'll be happy if she manages to get the top 3 next week :yes

so actually we already saw all those pics in numero tokyo, except for the last one..sigh..
i thought we gonna see more different pics..

did something change about orison? didn't we get new release sales on tuesday? '-'

^ We get new releases at wednesday, so next week we will have week sales of Ayu, and tomorrow daily sales

Yeah i completely forgot about how that works haha

OMG I always cringe whenever I remember this line. And during a-nation Singapore when she said "You are all beautiful" with her dramatic action and voice I just can't LOL

It's ok, she'll definitely get a top 10 smash hit with the new mini album.

Today I was in Osaka and I bought sixxxxxx! Here some picture of stands and my copy:

Shelf in Osaka

Stand in Osaka - 2

My copy


It's weird. Seemes that sixxxxxx is having more advertisment than A ONE. I barely could find any stand of A ONE but here, just walking around, ayu was all of over the records shop. (In that one where I took the pics there were even Hanabi going through the speakers!)

Speaking about the album, I'm a little bit disappointed that the picutres from the booklet were revealed some days ago. There is only one new pic... I just finished to watch the making of and, oh god, Ayu is so funny and she seems so happy and relaxed! She has a new energy, she has renewed passion! The dramatic scene in the water of Summer Diary is even more sad in the making of. I literally cried...

lol the booklet pics are the same from the NT... they used the SAME... not even the diffrent poses..

Thank you for the pics, is fun to see _genic and summer of love with sixxxxxx xD

A Walk Of My Life 'photobook' tea. Ayu taking notes from her bff Kumi.

Just curious if anyone knows of a connection between Summer dairy and Shape of love? I just noticed today that Shape of love ends with the same outdoorsy sounds that Summer dairy starts with.

^More often than with her other releases, Ayu mini albums tend to shape a whole coherent text with the lyrics of the songs on the official order...

http://i.imgur.com/ruSX0pc.jpg

https://twitter.com/A_world_ayu/stat...00054635343872

Today my creative headphones returned from fixing and i gave this album a listen with them instead of laptop speakers and i must say "Shape of love" has such a beautiful instrumental that i wanted to cry, "Sky high" sounds fantastic too. Sayonara has nice depth in it even though it's repetitive. Also i am a sucker for Step by step cheap jumpy songs so i like it here :D Really solid release.

that is SO COOL.

I WANT THE HEADPHONES
i wonder if anyone will sell them

So far I only see the goods that come with the headphone set selling for 5000yen buy it now.

Absolutely gooorgeous pictures for the booklet! :love I especially love these last two. :heart :heart

Was looking up details for Sayonara and it looks like the guy who directed all of Namie's FEEL PVs did Sayonara! He's never worked with Ayu before.

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA...A4%A7%E8%BC%94

Lots of JE work though.

The headphones are so cool!

Thr booklet is beautiful :heart

sell sell sell sell sell please...

It's time to pray then. :D

If you realize..on her youtube cm there is hashtag #ayu_summer
maybe she want to promote her by giving #ayu_summer on our social media posting???

Praying~ sell sell sell sell sell sellllllllllll.........

I dreamt this morning she reached #1 on the daily charts with only 12k sold. Mess.

SELL SELL SELLLLLLLL PUHHHLEASESEEEEEE

Wait, what?!

Why would Ayu NOT be #1??? Dreams Come True??? V6?

Oh wait a minute...who is this Korean guy??? Sungmo??? I've never head of them!!!

http://postimg.org/image/bzaplewa3/

No way Ayu's going to get a #1 with a Korean trying to get #1...with a release day ONE DAY EARLIER! :O We've only started the week, and this???

Oh great. Ayu's NOT getting #1 after all... #WhyNotAyu??? WHY??? Koda Kumi can get #1, Namie Amuro can get #1...but not Ayu in 2015??? What has happened???

I love Sky High so much these days :D i never thought i'd be spamming that song but ahh, its just so refreshing! Love the sparkling sounds

I think Ayu can get number one...
Sungmo release in one day earlier but I don't think it has longevity to have stable sales towards the end of the week...
Hopefully Sixxxxxxx can sell more than Colours...even if just 4-5k but it's significant...(base on the containt I have faith that Sixxxxxxx can sold very well..we will see)

I really do hope Ayu can get number one with sixxxxxx too!! or Top 3 for the least!! I can see they're on it promoting this album cuz I also see ayu everywhere in the internet the past two days!! m-station performance is all I need :((

Yeah, I definitely close to hedging my bet that this will have bigger first week sales than A ONE.

No worries for top 3, she will...but I want her to get number one

A #1 it's possible.
I saw this hapenning before. Summergic single from KARA was #1 with almost 25k copies until V6 outsold them with 60k. KARA sold 30k in two days. I don't know this korean artist Sungmo.

I have to say, sixxxxxx is the most consistent AYU album release in years.

I really LOVE Sayonara feat. SpeXial.

♪ I know that you never ever loved me like I still do.
And I also know that I should have never ever believed what YOU promised me.
How stupid I am!

Epic intro (sound).
Also, Those lines (lyrics) are kinda me. It's A thing called LOVE. It happens!

Ayumi really deserves #1 this time.

yeah yeah yeah pleaseee...

I really love that acoustic guitar session on SOL, the feelings kinda reminds me of Will. Jeez, she maybe should put a lot more of acoustic instruments than too loud drums -more like messy- and electric guitar.

You need to chill. No need to panic. The position means very little when you aren't selling that much.

on a side note, sixxxxxx is #1 on iTunes Japan !

Summer Diary is at # 46
Step by Step is at # 84
Sorrows is at #85
Sayonara at #89
Sky High at # 90
Shape of love at #97

^ NICE! It was #6 yesterday evening and i was so disappointed lol The thing is idk how much DCT will sell this week and how much V6 will drop since it's their "super best" they usually have only 10% of their first week sales in the second week but it might be different because it's a super best.. Hopefully Sixxxxxx will be #1 on recochoku albums as well