Chapter 16: Continuing To Climb The Staircase Of Stardom
 

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alan news:
10th SINGLE: untitled
To Be Released: June 24, 2009
Information:
NHK Tie-In, like Natsukashii Mirai.
Will Include a New Version of Natsukashii Mirai
PREORDER:
CDJapan
Yesasia

Tracklist from mu-mo
［CD］
●タイトル未定1　
●タイトル未定2　
●タイトル未定3　
●懐かしい未来 ～longing future～（新ヴァ－ジョン）　
●懐かしい未来 ～longing future～（新ヴァ－ジョン）（Instrumental）　他　
全4曲8ヴァ－ジョン収録予定

［DVD］
◆PV
全1曲収録予定

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/j...y48/alan-1.jpg

High Quality, 320kbs CD Rips done by me, and links to high quality rips of the elusive cover albums. Please comment if you take anything!
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I fail at collages :3 Here's the new thread =D

haha nice XD if only we had the single title :P, i like the collage! ;)

new thread? oh, good to know xD

wow a new single!! she seems to be getting more fans maybe she will sell over 100 copies this time i know i will support her!

I think you did a great job at making the collage , I probably be never able to do all these kinda graphics stuff at all :p

oh really ? so Natsukashii will be re-recorded or rearranged or is it hard to say for now ?

i want a remix XD

wow alan forums are just popping up like bunnies, you can also add this one to the first post :D

Super Family (alan) Forum

thanks for the link to the pic gallery. i was looking for one forever

Chap 16!!! Already!!!

Nice collage

It's a great idea to put ll interesting links in the first post!

Cool collage! And Ah 10th single... that's fast lol.

I hope it wouldn't take another 8 singles for a 2nd Japanese album to bear fruit -_-'''

then again 8's a lucky no. to the Cantonese so :laugh

Thank you for opening of the new thread GRACE!
I really liked the graphic with the singles' positions it's awesome =D

alan go up up up!
She does great music.

Karen I prefer 8 amazing single than a 2nd bad album XD

Kuon no Kawa is #10 today again :D

yaaay people like my crappy collage =D

I dunno, that's what Kevin@alan-world reported about the single.

Wow, 10th single already? :thud

<3<3<3 yay the single is consistent in its ranking!

I look forward to Alan's Single.
I am glad she got to sell more this time. I hope it will continue. It has been so long so many years and years, not since Ayumi have a real artist gotten popularity :)

So what about YUI and ayaka? Are they not "real artist" who have gain popularity?

^ well everyone have their own opinions about some things~

ah i really want to see the next issue of anecan already *o*

i don't believe so :innocent

ayaka feels like she rise then fall and fade away, but what i like about alan is you always know that after one single, another follows XD

i agree, and to be honest there wasn't a single of alans i was really disappointed with. she's always releasing top quality stuff

<3<3 and it helps that her covers are always gorgeous

anyways, do you guys think these pics will be in her next issue for anecan? it looks very fashion magazineish~

^ I like the second pic so much! :luv2

a japanese magazine that alan will be an exclusive model for

LOL :laugh

hopefully more info about her new single will be added as time goes by :yes

That's true but that is a pretty inaccurate thing to say.

She reminds me of Son Dambi in this picture.

I'm starting to like BRAVE and that one Ultramarine Vally song or whatever xD I know, I'm late on this. But alan songs take some time for me to fully appreciate.

LOL :laugh

that's Gunjou no Tani for you dude

BRAVE's just hot hot hot on all levels :smitten

Does anyone post? The b-side song is gonna be recycled of her old song.

2009/ 6/24 タイトル未定／c/w『懐かしい未来～longing future～ new version(仮)』
テレビ“SAVE THE FUTURE”Image Song

from fan-net

Ugh

^hehhhhhh....zzz

see the 1st post of the thread

ewww what is wrong with her face in the second one? her structure is weird..

her hair looks very nice in the first one though.

Is that the title of the single or does it just read that it's not titled yet?

Nevermind, fouond out myself

XD lol natsukashii's title just seems to get longer and longer...

her new single's untitled as of now judging from the chinese words 未定

I do hope that the new version of 懐かしい未来～longing future～ will be something good

Imagine if this new single will hit #1 weekly O_O

:roflmao i hope it does....but maybe not...though it have a tie-in, but not as big as RED CLIFF

I think what alan needs is to get a drama tie-in with a drama that doesn't tank

yeah! look at how ayaka's okaeri did with absolute boyfriend

dramas are a great way to get into people's heart

though i can imagine alan's song as the theme song for a historical drama~ but then that'll just attract more middle aged men :roflmao

:roflmao

she needs to start attracting new & YOUNG male fans to her fanbase

something's not right man with her attracting middle aged men , it's just @_@

lol i know XD it's just rather creepy...>_> like you get an alan concert dvd, and all you see is shiny bald heads in the crowd XD

but alan is more directing toward the more mature audience....

it's @_@

then again I don't want her to start doing stuff like sexing up her image just to be more mass accessible

it's a sell out thing to do

totally, i don't want her giving up her image just to sell more, but maybe a cutesy video would be fine :D

:yes if she starts doing the whole sexed up kitten image I will be very worried

haha i would be too, but i don't think she will!

ah >_> grr copyrights, seems like they're deleting alan videos, they won't even approve mine, but only the TVrip ones, the DVDrips are still approved :D ah i'm bored, so i think i'll upload all of the PVs GRACE provided for us~

this's so stupid :grumpy

at this rate more people cannot find out more about her on the net :eviltongu

Kuon no Kawa is on avex's official youtube page, that's getting somewhere I think =D

It's the movie ver. though

^ oh it is? what's the link to that channel? @_@

ok never mind, it's 2 AM, i'm bored, so i'm making a montage video of alan's wailing XD that ought to keep me up

KnK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Oc0tBsc91s
avex youtube page: http://www.youtube.com/user/avexnetwork

i don't really see alan as doing that at all.. she'd have to change her whole musical style to match with the sexy image. it'd be so strange. i'm not sure i'd like that!

ah thanks for those links, seem to be mostly maki~~

but boo! they put the movie version PV >_>

yeah & then her music & image wouldn't go in synch together at all

yeah it's so boring

thank goodness the movie versions of RED CLIFF & KnK weren't included in her album & singles

haha yes! though the movie version is kinda ok, at least it's like 9/10 of alan and 1/10 of some movie clips :D

but people at alan-china talked about how ayu's rule didn't have movie clips~

lol that's interesting but of course I definitely want to see more of alan & not the case where the movie footages outweight her even though I know by right both songs were used to promote RED CLIFF

oh yeah you're right O_O

maybe the director for Rule already had foresight that the movie would tank in US ? I don't know but he/she did a wise move NOT to include any of the movie's footages in the PV :laugh

lol but i think avex just want people to notice alan more by putting scenes of the movie in the PV, and since everyone already know ayu, so it wouldn't really do anything if they put dragonball scenes in it

or probably avex knew the DBZ was gonna fail, so no point in putting scenes in the PV :roflmao

:yes alan's still relatively new as compared to what ayumi has accomplished

:roflmao

my thoughts exactly lmao

oo my montage is done :D

^favorited! :D

its soo true that middle-aged men like historical stuff, since thats the case for my dad -,-

I think another reason the middle aged men like her is because she looks like an extremely pretty H!P girl. So if she did a cutesy video it would probably attract even more of that kind.

Wow the pics are not really good. Hope they'll be better if it's or a mag!

Really nice montage pommy^^

Where does the first part come from?

great montage jasmine

Anyone knows Kuon no Kawa today's position at daily chaty?
I hope it gets back to the top 10

By the way, great title & first post grace

^It's at #16.

thanks for the compliments on my video!!!!

and the first part is the "-intro-", from Voice of EARTH DVDrip

Ok, 'cause if you did it yourself, I was thinking you're damn good.

:roflmao never in my life will i ever be able to do something like that :roflmao

but i'm glad that the interlude got a mini PV

i remember reading somewhere where alan explained why it's called interlude and not an intro

^
Interlude is usually contrasting, introduction uses elements of the music coming after it, thus being more closely related and preparing the listenener.
Not sure if that's what she ment though...

When is alan going to be on Music Station?
(random question)

^ May 1st I believe :).

:yes

her 1st apperance on the show somemore :luv2

Thank you!!
I'm so excited....
Will someone have uploaded it by my birthday (May 3) ??

^ They should. Reasonable amount of time.

omg @_@ a full performance of AENS!!! *gasps* lol, i've been in a searching/uploading mood

WEE! wailing <3



this is my favorite performance of AENS ever! even better than that one on music fighter or japan!

It's a wonderful performace *.*
thanks for sharing pommy!

Oh, alan. Sixteen threads later and I still adore you. That AenS performance is wonderful! Thanks pommy! She's just amazing.

I'm also excited for the May performance ^_^ I hope she wears some epically gorgeous clothes.

Kuon no Kawa climbed to #3 today!
alan is finally getting some cool chart life

that's fantastic :D , guess sales might have picked up over the weekend

Whoa... that's so cool!

Yay!!! Another #3 daily =DDD that's awesome!!

wth makes this single back to top 3???
the sales is 3,287

this single definately reach 20K

Best-selling single so far for alan, definitely.

And oh off-topic, but a classmate of mine looks like alan! I've not told her she looks like alan (lest she freaks out cos of the name), but I've just only known her, so I'm sure I'll be telling her soon~

:roflmao

By the way (and also very off-topic), we are lucky this single was released just this week... By next week, any chance of charting as high as it did would have been killed by NEWS' new single :dead2 -and if it was released exactly one year before, It would have been killed by Mirrorcle World-

lmao I love it when you brought NEWS's Koi no ABO into the pic :lmfao

but jokes aside , it was pretty something when Kuon no Kawa was released on the same week as other strong competitors like Tsuyoshi's new solo single (1 1/2 of KinKi Kids) & BREAKERZ & for her to rank 3rd behind these 2 artistes who charted at #1 & #2 respectively , it's no laughing matter at all

I wish alan was half as popular as Tohoshinki because then she'd probably stand a chance at number-one.

Congrats to alan this is her best-selling anything. She already outsold mostly all of her singles (maybe she out sold RED CLIFF this week but I doubt it) and she already out sold voice of EARTH's first week sales. I pray that her next single does as well. That will show alan is gaining recognition in Japan.

mu-mo has listed the new single.

There are FOUR total songs including the Natsukashii remix =D not including the instrumentals

http://shop.mu-mo.net/avx/sv/item1?j...7649&categ_id=

with her just one #3 she sold 3,287 that makes last week's sales + one day = 15,243 and RED CLIFF sold 15,642 so yeah, i think it did...

Wow so I'm listening to my Gaijin Kanpai podcast, and they mentioned that alan was going to be a model for anecan, and I think thats really awesome!

so I'm gonna look for the thread, and see where ever you guys posted that...

and gonna watch the thread for scans :)

Oh yeah. I never though of add the today's dailies with last week sales. Wow so she outsold her whole discography.

<3<3<3<3 i sense big success for the next single, it's great that RED CLIFF really boosted KnK...what was wrong with Heart War? @_@ was the second RED CLIFF movie better or something?

anecan should come out may 7th..grr >_> so far away
i hope the pictures that i posted will be part of the scans!

ah emiko :D it's great that you post in this thread, i thought you didn't like alan?

new single and a remix!!im excited 'bout this

She probably gave Kuon no Kawa a chance. I didn't like it when I first heard it but after giving it a couple of more listens it's my favorite. I just listen to the Chinese version and I noticed she didn't do her wailing in that one. I wonder why, I think it would have fit the Chinese one more than the Japanese one.

because she always saves the wailing for her japanese versions, same thing with heart war, but at least the chinese version had the higher key

its really weird that her saturday sales is so BIG!!!

XD lol well the weekends do help~

SWEET :D

hopefully it will mark the return of more b-sides in her next single

I was missing that with regards to her 2nd single

OMG! I saw alan on TV last night! I was screaming my ____ off!!! XD
She appeared in the 28th Hong Kong Film awards.
the first red cliff song was nominated for best movie song, but it didnt win! (this japanese producer or smthin won) T_______T
but.. the Red Cliff movie (1st movie) was nominated for the best movie music, and it won! to my surprise, alan went on stage to accept the award!! :O
i was screaming so much I couldnt hear wat she said, but her acceptance speech was pretty short. alan wore this white outfit, and her hairdo looked kinda short...
other info: Red Cliff won a total of 5 whopping awards! (best art direction or smthin, best costume design, best sound effects, best visual effects, and best movie music) :)

ah May 7th will come in no time :)

I actually...well...I don't like a lot of her music, because it's just not stuff I enjoy as much as other things...she has quite a bit of ballads as well lol

but she does have an interesting style you don't find too much in really any industry, and her voice is just...perfect and beautiful.

I really only love Xin Zhan lol of which I'm looking for lives (if anyone has any lol)