(miss)understood is the best selling album in Taiwan
 

No sure why, but the Sponichi is reporting that "(miss)understood" is the best selling album in Taiwan. Apparently Ayu was quoted as wanting to go to Taiwan. :shrug

Here's the link: http://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainm.../01/21/02.html

Well, I guess that's good. Thanks for the news.

Awesome, thanks for the news!

thx for the info ^^

Neat, thanks for the news!

thats good, thx for the update

hrm...well that is cool. thanks for the news.

Great indeed. I'm happy Ayu's being popular overseas :D

Amazing for Ayu!

can somebody translate it please...

Woah, I'm glad to hear it...

wow that's awesome!! i'm glad because my sister is in Taiwan now :)

Ayu wants to go to Taiwan? o_O that's kool but i don't relli think AYu said that

i just got my (miss) understood + on my way yesterday! i think its the best selling album everywhere!!

My translation (fixes appreciated, the sentences are long, so my sentences are choppy at best):

Hamasaki Ayumi places at the top on Taiwanese Charts

Hamasaki Ayumi's (27) new album "(miss) understood" didn't just place first in Japan, it also did so in the Taiwanese charts.

According to Avex, on the charts of the 2 major record stores, TCR and ROSE RECORDS, her record placed first amongst domestic Taiwanese acts. In 2002 (prior data is unavailable) Utada Hikaru (23) and w-inds had reached #1, Hamasaki's "My Story" did the same in 2004.

In 2002, Hamasaki promoted her photo book "uraayu" in other Asian countries. At the airport, she was greeted by about 500 ardent female fans. Her popularity is high and magazines with her on the cover continue to sell well.

About her #1 position in both Japan and Taiwan, Hamasaki said, "I'm surprised. In the future, I will strive to extend my presence to Asia. I would like to go to Taiwan again soon."


In case you don't remember, Ayumi has been to Taiwan before when she was promoting "uraayu" (as hinted in the article)

YYAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY...she should be proud that she has more loyal non-japanese fans

Thanks for the translation.

yay, good for her, i am surprised she beat some chinese artists

thx for the translation
happy to know her new album sell well outside japan

ooh that's good for Ayu! Surprised that she is so popular in Taiwan though, I thought her popularity kinda died down in Asia (maybe I got confused by the tabloids) but anyways, that's great! XD

Yes I've heard of it before! I feel so great for her! In fact she won just a little. Anyway she was No.1 haha.

WAAAAAAAAAA great news. Although her fan base in Japan is shrinking, she has gained more overseas fans. Oh yar, she is currently fifth on CD-Rama's chart in Singapore! Recently released japanese CDs such as Mika Nakashima's BEST and Ai Otsuka's LOVE COOK failed to make it to the chart. Yet Ayu made it without advertisement, showing her popularity overseas!!!!!!!

^ awesome!!

thanks for the translation i will be going to Taiwana next year~~

if ayu really come
this time i wanna know who gonna get to see her...i wanna know if jolin change her style soon or not....hahahahhaaha

Perhaps she could accomplish what BoA dreams to do in the future, become a pan-asian queen of music. ;) I think she'd have to do at least some more promotion overseas though.

^I think she used to be one at her heyday :)

yeah she have had that position at 2002
remember when she sings M at MTV asian awards
and thats looks so COOL!!!

yah. ayu is still popular in many other asian countries, probably especially taiwan cos they love japanese things.

She never did anything particular to become popular in other countries (except for that trip to taiwn or wherever it was :headache ) though. Her being famous in other countries is first of all because of Avex and because of the general popularity of japanese music, not her own effort. Perhaps if she continue to decline in the japanese industry, she could move to China :P It's a potentially growing market at least. :innocent The problem about the japanese scene seems to be that it's so fast so if an artist is on a break for some time from public activities, he or she is "gone". :(

Great news! ^^ Thanks for the info & translation.

ohh that super ^___^ thanks for the news

Nice! It's good to hear she's still popular in other countries.

that's great!

yeah you see ALOT of japanese food and resturaunts around

SERIOUSLY? XD
I'm glad to hear that it's a best selling album in Taiwan!

I think what Ayu means is that she wants to hold a concert in Taiwan? That's great to hear, since a lot of J-Artists are holding concerts outside of Japan.

Thanks for the news and the translation.

And it's not that easy to have a #1 album in Taiwan for a japanese artist, the article only mention w-inds, Utada Hikaru and Ayu doing that.

Thank you,very cool,Go Ayumi.

actually, ayu is the most popular Japanese singer in Taiwan
the sales of her album is the top

Go Ayu!

wow, Taiwan loves Ayu that much??

Go Ayu!! #1 alot of places :yes

how many copies sold in singapore ????

:laugh I read this in the HK newspaper am730 today!! good for ayu!!!

well maybe her popularity has declined in asia, but she has still a lot of die ard fans to propel her to the top of the charts!

^ Yes that's true. Most of her fans have gone a long way - they've been around for years and they're pretty much die hard XD

haha thats so cool.
Regardless of randomness or not. :)

It's always nice to have random fans though, don't you think? :D

Actually I haven't been around for long...But I'm definitely trying to make up for lost time!

^Me too, me too... I've only been liking her since late 2004 :(

Sometimes, I wish Japanese music is as influential here in Singapore as Taiwan. The J-music level in Singapore now is falling and falling. You know what some of my friends say, "Japanese music is outdated. Korean music is the trend now"

~_~

I can't stand ppl who treat music as a trend, it's not about fashion pls.

I think I went off-point. What I mean is I just wish more ppl here can appreciate Japanese music so that Japanese artists like ayu will ever plan to have a concert live here (I missed her during mtv asia awards 2002 >.<) Japanese artists often go to Taiwan and Hong Kong but never Singapore -__-

yar, i agree with u. Of all the people i noe, very few listen to Japanese music (the only japanese singer they listen to is BoA and most of they feel that ayumi is outdated). Sometimes i really wish that Ayu can hold a concert in Singapore though i noe that it is impossible. However, i still hope that this will happens :(

Cool news!! Unfortunately, they don't include this in Oricon...

Seriously, they treat it like a trend? I hate that. A lot.

It's like, when one person does it, the rest have to also and when the trend dies, they go follow each other to another 'hot' trend at the moment :no

I like Ayu, because I do. She'll never be 'outdated' to me :D

Yay for Ayu! (I'm glad to say I contributed--my mom is in Taiwan and bought me the CD+DVD with the photobook! I can't wait until she comes back with it!)

way to go, ayu!

Sometimes I wonder if I'd ever be able to focus solely on her talent rather than being a trend-follower if I had gotten to know her earlier.

I guess most of us here aren't a big fan of trends then. "Me too" is not our style! :D

wow.. she wants to go taiwan! O.O

I am Taiwanese~~~
I can't wait to see Ayu's coming!!!! Haha..........

ayu's still got it! I'm glad she's doing good outside of japan too. thx for the info and the article translation!