Does Ayu know that she has fans in America?
 

I've been wondering about this recently. There are a lot of Ayu fans here in the states and I'm wondering if she even knows that we exist. I know there are Ayu fans here from other countries, but I'm just curious specifically about the US.

I'm sure she does...I'm sure Ayu knows that she has fans all over the world. Any artist (esp. ones who are really, really popular, and Ayu is huge all over Asia) would probably expect that. Plus, she just has to see how Kumi and everyone else who went to the US to perform was accepted. I don't think she knows exactly how many there may be, but I'm sure she knows we exist. If you're wondering why she doesn't come here to perform or anything, I'm sure she would like to (since she obviously loves the US even for just vacationing/photo opportuniies) but right now she's focusing on appealing towards mainland Asia.

Do you think she also know European fans exist?

And did Kumi perform in the US?

yup, im sure she knows. Ayu definitely know smething: she's famous in this earth :D

She perfromed at a convention, where she was actually encored to sing "real Emotion" twice. I remember those who knew saying that she did perform a ballad that didn't really appeal, I guess causing the encore.

I'm sure she's aware that she has fans all over the world (as like other huge artists, such as Madonna), but I guess the time it would take would be too consuming to visit how she would want to visit. Wasn't there a report about the Asian concerts, and how much they had to ship, which was about 200 tons or something? So try taking that all the way to Europe, the US, or Canada. >.< (Haha, I just read Calico's post. It looks so similar. Gomen!)

See, the only thing is that I don't think the US market is ready for something as foreign as Ayu. Considering her best songs are mostly ALL in Japanese (only three songs from the thirty on A BEST 2 feature more than "la" in the song, which happen to be all on WHITE), it would be hard to get the one-track mind of America to accept something this exotic. Even though the market is actually getting bigger (from what I see), the material being released is declining in my opinion. So if Ayu were to release with translation sheets and get offical subs for her PVs, it could be hard to top her with her lyrics... (meaning she could be a huge threat to American artists in the same market as her)

How exactly is Ayumi supposed to know about worldwide fans when her releases are distributed only in Japan and other parts of East and South-West Asia? Does avex trax find out which countries shops such as HMV and CDJapan send their Ayumi CDs? Or is it just natural that when you're the biggest selling solo artist in a country with a big music market, you have people who like you all over the world? :P

other than real me, what other songs are there?

Humming 7/4 & STEP you.

oh right...forgot about those...

well, maybe the fact that dearest and no more words were in inuyasha that might help people buy her i am.. album?

hope she knows that she has fans in Portugal...


(Ayumi: Where's Portugal??)

XDD

Well. Considering how big she knows she is in Japan and Asia... I would hope she knows she has some form of fans in other countries. Kind of CS.

And... Dreamin Startin... you're in South Carolina?! OMSC. xD

she definitely knows.

oh yeah she knows! I'm not sure how, but she definately knows, as well as avex, they must be aware of Ayu's, and JPops', huge fanbase over the world ^_^

Well, so far a lot of responses have given the answer that I already figured might be true (her being hugely popular means shed know she has fans all over the world), I was just hoping that someone had some kind of info of anything shes ever said or done that indicated she knew about us. As in, some evidence.

o_O What about it?

Well, i think i remember from somewhere Ayu saying that she doesnt' plan to tour in the US or at least not anytime soon. Dont' quote me on it though... one can infer that she knows people want her to come but she doesn't wanna...

Hi, I`m big fan Ayu from Poland, I dreming of Ayu tour in Europe. I know she made single "connected" to reach fans in german

yeah, she has said she doesn't want to expand her career to the US.

i'm sure she knows she has fans here though. she comes to the US often enough that i'm sure she's had fans come up to her. also i remember people yelling to her in the bold and delicious video. i'm assuming they were US fans.

And even when she said in the CNN Interview about that she would "go anywhere in the world," I'm sure she didn't mean it literally (well, within the next few years at least). I'm sure she means it, but... you know?

Even if Ayu were to come over to perform over here (in the US), I think it would just have to be a mini-concert kind of thing. I don't think she should perform at a convention (especially an anime one). I don't really think it would make her look good, you know what I'm saying?

^ I don't care what she performs or where within the US; I can't afford to go to Japan but I want to see her so bad.

T_T

I'm sure she does. One time I was reading an interview of Hyori Lee from a magazine and she was like "I love BJunkyard! there's so many pictures of me on there" and that is an english fansite...so Yeah. more than likely, she knows.

BJunkyard's Hyori Gallery is HUGE. Like couple hundred pages HUGE.

She defenitly knows ...

She really does have a lot of fans. (There were 8 in my grade including me ...) and my class was only 100 people or so. Thats a huge number, really. (On the last day of school we were all in my teacher Mrs. Bayard's room singing 'Secret' and 'ever free') :D

She must know she has a lot of fans in Hawaii though, cause when she came down and shopped at Ala Moana, she was surrounded by bodyguards. Not just that one or two you saw in the "off my day" photobook, but literally fortressed by them. To have security like that must mean that you know SOMETHING.

i doubt if she knows....unless she comes to AHS to find out!

Well, if she's working, she always has bodyguards no matter what city or country she is in.

Still, yeah she knows about her international fanbase. Seeing as how she seems pretty aware of most aspects in her career, I'd be surprised if she didn't know.

I'm sure she knows! And probably she's registered here with a misterious nick like "my name's not ayu" or something like that XD in the shadows reading our opinions :D

of course! she has fans in almost every country, but right now she's focusing on Asia, and pretty soon she'll venture out. I'm sure when she was in NYC for (miss)understood there were fans too

There WERE fans in NYC .. didn;t she sign autographs and stuff .. people waved to her and everything .. you can see it in the B&D video ...

i'm sure she knows you exsists.

video? or making of? I want to see it now :o

Video ... you can see people wave and stuff remember? just watch the video and keep a close eye out for fans :)

Ayu knows for sure. But she doesn't plan to tour the US, since she's focusing on the Asian market. I'm pretty sure she likes being unknown in the U.S. She can shop around as much as she pleases without being interupted by rabid fans asking for her autograph.

I'm sure she knows she has fans here in the US
she does know English ^^

^ I forgot about that! She talks cute. lol I wonder where she learns "so cool" and "no doubt" though? Maybe she has English friends? lol

I'm sure she knows, and Avex knows... Just look at Youtube...all her videos are getting deleted there.. and most of the users are American..real stupid actually, it's a great form for promotion. (damn Avex..)

avex should upload maybe like every Ayumi video over like 4 years old or something ... to youtube, that is. i mean, those singles and albums probably arent selling anymore much anyway ..