[rumor] The title of Ayu's new single...
 

is "&".

At least according to hmv.co.jp: http://www.hmv.co.jp/product/detail.asp?sku=1977052

I'll consider it a rumor until I see it at avex though.

&? just &? :P

&??? OMG that sounds so crazy hahahahahah:laugh :roflmao :laugh

That's kinda funky. hahaha. "+" was cool, but "&" might be a little much for me. :P Thanks for the info!

sample dialogue:

Person 1: Do you hear the new Ayu single?
Person 2: And?
Person 1: And.... what?
Person 2: That's what I'm telling you
Person 1: You didn't tell me anything!

hahaha :laugh ... I was a bit surprised to hear that + was a possible title, but &? I really don't get song titles nowadays.. :roflmao

I guess the song has a lot of ands in it? :P

LOL that might be just the title of the single not the song....like }{ and A LOL

"&"

gives me a feelin of continuation yet without and end...maybe ayu wanna say sth

...& what huh u punk ??? sounds gangsta ... lolss

Sounds weird... but thanx for the info

& ive said it so manyt times that the word has lost all meaning. & is unconventional. & is thought provoking. & is making me think too much.

hhe... "and" then!

nice wan Unimatrix Zero!
you are so funnY! :evillaugh

plain "&" simple title :) :) :)

hehe i like it a lot! & =)!! i cannot wait to get it. i gusse i need to preorder it already... i'm just going to wait for yesasia.

I'm guessing it's because (as I mentioned before, lol) she has no initials left for a multiple-track single. I think "&" is a great title. I bet this is the true title of the single, considering how late avex announces release information. And I highly doubt she'd title the single after one of the songs on the single, it's unlikely.

omg..lol i doubt it that it would be called that:P

With titles like + , you never know with Ayu :roflmao ... but really, it is quite the odd title... :laugh

hehehe... thanks ;) . I try to make a joke every now and then :)

20 years from now, all those single lettered songs and symbols are going to make sense. But for now, I have no clue what they are doing.

Matte, that's reasonable.
Somebody combined the A and H using photoshop in a HK newsgroup before, and that become something like a &.

I like it!

oh !! & ??? then what's next ???.........[?]

do ya think this single will break the 2million???? or even more ..cause everyone is waiting for this single in japan after 9months ????

According to speciation, the 3 new songs might starts with A, N and D, thus the & for the name of single.

Source:http://tw.club.yahoo.com/clubs/ayumisewebs

(D should be Drift in my opinion)

i dont think "&" is a rumor...drift on the other hand prolly is one

that would conflict with the [Grateful Days] title theory..
& is such a weird title, ayu is crazy

it's .... funny .....

interesting
A+n+d=&

well. keeping fingers crossed

strange title.... i wonder what is the concept behind it...

hmmm i can actually see "a" title like "&" being used "+" you can tell it didnt take "H" (hamasaki?) long to think up a title o_O;

the "rumor" portion of this thread's title can be removed now. The latest ayu ready? episode has confirmed that the single will be named "&". If you see the credits of ayu ready? #35, it shows "& [Greatful days] / ayumi hamasaki" ayu ready? is enough proof, we don't need the endless "I won't believe it until it's on her official site" replies.

i think its a shame that shes not doing that a / n / d thing... i thought that was creative, like shes copying shiina ringo with art and stuff, just using english instead of japanese

I don't get what you mean about copying Shiina Ringo? Can you explain?

Copying? Only 2 of her songs are actually titled in Japanese. "Kanariya" (which is just Engrish for "Canary"), and "HANABI". The rest are in English.

Anyway, for some reason, I don't see the title "Greatful days" as a very Ayumi-ish title, but maybe she's changing her style a bit? I really hope it's upbeat though. Enough ballads already!

well she does have that shos?XXX (graduation photo)
not realli her song though..

how is she copying shina ringo??

Hmm...I didn't really like the name "Greatful days" and with the mistake and all....:P -_- ;........... and the short part I listened to sounded too OK for me...something below average, too anime styled for my tastes...it didn't seem to have the special touch you can actually feel in most of her songs.....But well there's still the long version of the song and the other 2 so I still have a lot of expectation of course.

there's [Hana] (Flower) as well from [A Song for XX]

i didnt mean that ayu copied shiina about using japanese titles... if anyone's seen [karuki sa-men kurinohana] shiinas used all the japanese as a kind of art... and doing the a + n + d - & thing reminded me of that but using english instead..

I don't want to go around telling people the new single is called ampersand. That's weird. I don't like it.

Ashley

is 1 of the tracks supposedly called [ampersand]?? thats weird ~

this "&" is an ampersand.

Ashley

lol too much confusion here :P

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-thank you-

I like '&' as a title, but I have no clue about what it's supposed to mean. Erm, maybe, since we already had H, A and M we should expect some singles named E, GG and S. So that in the end it will spell:

HAM & EGGS.

Of course this does not make sense. I just noticed it's a possibility :laugh .

lol ham and eggs? :evillaugh

You never know with Ayu's wordplays :laugh

wow tat's cool of ayu naming her single &