Which Ayu Cd's are rare ?
 

Does anyone know which Cd's seldom are ??

Except the first press ...

I'm sorry I don't understand your question..could you expand please?

I'm sorry my english ist not so good ...

Yes I want to know Ayu Cd's which are rarely...

Like the A Cd in Gold or so on ....

check this thread Limited Edition / 1st Press Guide ;)

heheh very good german ;) :)

So ... Some Ayu CD's are no longer on the market or not many which are these ...

hope you can understand me

Bumps this post. :D

Just a fast list of the ones I'm sure about:

NOTHING FROM NOTHING (single)
NOTHING FROM NOTHING (album)
poker face
YOU
Trust
For My Dear...
Depend on you
WHATEVER
LOVE ~Destiny~
TO BE
Boys & Girls
A (colored versions)
appears
kanariya
vogue
SURREAL
AUDIENCE
Some of the 3'' re-releases
Daybreak
H (colored versions)
NEXT LEVEL (2CD+DVD) - not really yet, but it is limited
NEXT LEVEL (USB)
NEXT LEVEL (USB encore edition)

And off course a lot of remix singles and albums ^^

^You missed fly high also.


The remix singles like excerpts from ayu-mi-x III, previously unreleased series, and the german singles are all rare/limited edition.

But yeah pretty much anything that's first press is considered limited edition i.e.

(miss)understood with photobook
GUILTY with photobook
the large Days/Green and Mirrorcle World singles


and definitely check out that First Press/Limited Edition thread in the Ayu Chat room.

Thank You guys !!!!!!!

The snowflake CD of No way to say would probably be the rarest CD. I don't think that anyone's even confirmed that it actually exists.. :(

...Ich spreche Deutsch nicht... =_=

anyways, I'd imagine that the excerpts from ayu-mi-x 2 & 3 are limited (as in, hard to get), aren't they? and then there's her 3" releases, and if you wanna go by groups, I also imagine that it'd be difficult to get all the versions of A BEST, A BALLADS, and A.

And all of Ayu's vinyl analog releases with the label Rhythm Republic and the precious few US vinyl analogs. And her German releases.

The rest (If these aren't there) should be listed in the First Press/Limited release Guide.

i think MY STORY CLASSICAL is also rare
and also the 8cm singles

^I never heard that MY STORY Classical was rare... I mean, how rare can it be if iTunes US has it? :rolleyes (that was a stab at iTunes, not you, btw) I know that it has a box, but I don't think It was particularly limited in release, but I could always be wrong.

i see...because i see yesasia and playasia is not selling JP version anymore.so i thought this should be rare....hmm,maybe i should call it hard to find :dead2

You're right, if it actually exists, it is really rare. So rare that we have no idea if it's real or not :laugh

the 8cm singles yes but MY STORY CLASSICAL ?

it's not dubbed a limited edition album & I still saw a copy or 2 being sold in some CD shops here

^ Nah, you're right, MY STORY Classical isn't rare. :)

opsss...my mistake...sorry,guys :D

^ It's okay! http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs32/f/20...y_XaXushqa.gif

But at least you were right about the 8cm singles. :D

hmmm..the other side of Ayu?
i don't know if its considered rare..

isn't RAINBOW considered rare too?

All ayu CDs are considered rare to me. :P

RAINBOW is rare?
its still selling out there...the only rare is the RAINBOW 41 second instrumental

The Limited Editions of MY STORY are rare if you want to buy'em selead and japanese press.

the limited editions of my story?
is it the 4 first press covers?

^ That would be correct.

Over in UK all Ayu CDs are rare. :laugh

Back in the day they weren't rare but now the 8CM singles are VERY rare.

And about RAINBOW, the only rare copies are the 1st press versions, with a 41 second instrumental of 'RAINBOW' and you went to this site and sent Ayu your lyrics to the song. The website is dead now (well, closed) and Ayu used her own lyrics. And if you want the 41 sec instrumental (me)JackieRos has uploaded it in RAINBOW FIRST PRESS QUESTON thread.

But the 1st press 'Free & Easy' is quite rare too.

All the versions of 'A' & 'H'.

And the rarest is 'No way to say' Snowflake Disc. I don't think that it's even been confirmed to say it's real.

And 'Free & Easy' 1st press with different disc and 'Hamasaki Republic' photobook is rare too.

But I would say that the Snowflake Disc 'No way to say' is the rarest.

http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs32/f/20...y_XaXushqa.gif

I can consider these singles rare:

SURREAL (500K copies Limited edition)
AUDIENCE (300k copies Limited edition)
Free & Easy and Rule/Sparkle (The one with picture label disc)
]-[ (The one with 4 colors and all-in-one combo)
A (Colored discs and alternate tracks)
appears (300k copies Limited edition)
kanariya (300k copies Limited edition)
Fly high (300k copies Limited edition)
The first 8 singles in 8cm format including NOTHING FROM NOTHING

yeah, idk. i just thought RAINBOW album was a little rare because my best friend so it was.

oh how is free and easy rare?

^ Just on the first press of Free & Easy a picture of ayu is printed on the CD

wait, with her like in the clouds and eyes closed?

cause if there's the case, i saw an OS press of it sitting on a shelf for 2 years in a music store and I never brought it @_@

^ That one was limited. So rare I guess xD

I think its safe to say the snowflake CD of No Way To Say exists:
http://eneabba.net/ayu/disco/singles...way_to_say.htm

there's a pic of it. And I think I saw it on eBay. If I had known it was so rare, I would've bought it.:thud

ack, pommy @_@

I won´t consider as rare, as I see the version with Ayu on the disc more often than the one without.

This is not the disc actually where is printed the snowflake. It's a transparent insert.
And i never saw it wherever on the Net... =(

First, it's not the disc ;) lol

And second, eneabba has has bootlegs up before (NOTHING FROM NOTHING). I know it's a very trustful site, but as the information is given by some random guy, it doesn't make it any credible.

O.o
Must I understand your comment?

nothing from nothing is rare. prob. as rare as the snowflake nwts cd single.

What about A-Best 2 White 2nd Press? I dont see that around a lot (maybe once on yahoo auctions)

i saw once a guy who's sold a lot of 2nd press booklets of BEST 2 white XD
i guess that he would have sold at a very high price lol

But I don't understand with YesAsia is they still stock out of print stuff, like Kuu's CD+2DVD Kingdom/TRICK/Black Cherry (:)) but on CD japan they do not @_@

In Ayu's context they still have appears single and A single on there @_@ and CD Japan do not ;___;

There's a picture of the 'snowflake' no way to say version here:

http://eneabba.net/ayu/disco/singles...way_to_say.htm

It is real but very very rare, also this is a good website to see other versions/covers/firstpress etc. Well I think so anyways :P

definitely since it's totally out of print. now if you find one, they sell for well over $500 x_x.

SURREAL, AUDIENCE are rare. SURREAL was limited to 500,000 copies and AUDIENCE 300,000

I remember that Daybreak's also a limited single with only 200k ! right ?

^

Yeah, Daybreak is also a limited single... and even though "&" isn't a limited single, it's already out of print in most of online music stores like HMV and CDJapan.

It's an insert, like in a album. The snowflake aren't at the disc, but in the case insert. ^_^ Like ayu-mi-x III (I think) and Fly high/kanariya (the front of those), it has a transparent insert.

That was soooo a bad way to say it :roflmao I hope you did understand it XD

^No its not. I own the CD. The snowflake is printed on the case.

the snow flake is PRINTED PERMANANTELY on the casing?i wonder how many copies they print @@

What are you talking about?
I am talking about the the Free & Easy single, there Ayu´s face IS printed on the disc.

A BEST -first press- brand new sealed is also pretty rare. The only one I found on Yahoo Auction is about USD200.

xDeepRiver's copy of the snowflake edition. I believe they're here as well.. under the same name?

I wonder if this was a first press-thing.

And eneabba is not updated by 'some random guy'. He's nick, and he's here at AHS. Jeez, yo.