How did people outside of Asia find out about Ayumi
 

I searched for a thread like this (well, sort of) and did'nt find anything.

I am just curious to know how people outside of Asia found out about Ayumi.

I heard of her from downloading the DDR song "Butterfly" a few years ago because my friend told me that's an Ayu song and all over the internet it says Ayumi Hamasaki is the singer of that song even though it's Dj Mystik (I think) anyway I kept on thinking it was Ayumi's song for a while and I liked that song so much that I started downloading her other songs and finding out about her. So long story short, I downloaded all her song's, fell in love and now she is one of my favourite artists.

BTW: Her voice does sound kind of the same as the singer in DDR's Butterfly, to me anyway.

Um. My tv. I was flipping through the channels, landed on Cartoon Network, and Inuyasha was going off. Turned out it was Ayu's Dearest ending theme. Although at the time I was all like, "ew" (oh yeah, it was 2003). Way later I kind of warmed up to it and looked up her stuff. I downloaded fairyland because it had just come out and fell in love. <3

well im asian living in America so i no alot about whats going on in Asia right now.
but the story is i found a AMV playing evolution and had to find the rest of her songs.i found the PV Fly High and HAD to get the rest :yes :D

I actually can't remember ._.

I found out about her searching for Every heart...then I found Kuu..then its all downhill from there haah ^^.. I love the internet

(In case you didn't know, there really are similar threads-tons of them- in the Chatroom).

Most people, I guess, were introduced to Ayu by friends.

I actually heard Independent on a J-pop internet music station, and it just went on from there. It took me months for me to like Ayu though.

I don't think that it sounds anything like her. Plus, Ayumi's English pronunciation is not that good.

I originally heard Japanese music through anime themes and found that Ayu was quite popular among J-Pop fans, so I listened to INSPIRE and immediately fell in love with it. After that, I purchased MY STORY on the internet and eventually every other one of her albums as well.

Well, yes the pronunciations is completely different but the tone and the high pitch/squealy voice sonuds the same to me like when you campare it to her older song's such as "you"

Back then, when "quizzes" started to become really popular, I did a quiz from hamazaki.net (Angela's site is closed now though...). Her quiz banners featured Ayu. Both me and my sister were interesting in knowing more about her because we thought she was sooooo beautiful. We started downloading songs from her. And I became a fan. (Not my sister though)

>>> http://mai.deep-ice.com/quiz.html

My friend sent me Ayu Trance 3. I loved the songs, but not Ayumi herself. As days passed, I grew to love her.

Back in 2002 or something, I got ahold of teddy bear via a friend and was hooked.

I wasn't able to get much in terms of Ayu music until 2003, when & revitalized my love <3

I was showing around a Japanese exchange student in '01 or '02 and we swapped CDs. She gave me A Best and Mai Kuraki's first. It got me started on JPop :)

I met this guy in a chatroom in May of 2005, and he said to join his Ayumi forum, and I joined, and I've been a fan ever since!

piracy!

By doing a project about music in English for class =)
I knew J-Pop by ending & opening of animations, and by looking around on the net, I discovered this "queen" of J-Pop, Ayumi Hamasaki!
my first song was Still alone... It was in 2004 ^o^

Through Japanese Exchange Program.
When my Japanese student arrived, he gave me Ayu's single, 'Voyage' as a gift (such a meaningful present). Basically after that, I got hooked onto Ayu.

i went to china during one of my summer vacations and saw "free & easy" on tv. on the way back to the states, i bought the single in narita airport, and ever since then i've been hooked :D .

back in 2003...I saw an episode of Inuyasha...the ending song then was "fukai mori" and I wanted it...so I searched for it...

I came across the site J-fan...and I was looking at their artists. They have a list, and one way it can be sorted is by popularity...and at the time, Ayu had the highest number of votes...so I was like....okay let's see what's so great about her...I listened to a little clip of Fly High...and...was...seriously hooked...I HAD to have the song...then I just started downloading random stuff for while, until I decided that I had to have EVERYTHING by her...and there was SO much...omg...took me a while to finally get all the songs...I was downloading like 24/7...

then I found out about all her remixes...oh god...I still don't have them all...

Almost as everyone, watching Inuyasha I heard Dearest, but sung in Spanish, time passed and one day my japanese teacher brought a vhs with a concert taped from Japanese tv, then I saw the CM that uses Will as a background, my friend told me who she was, and I remembered my exboyfriend telling me about her but never payed attention so I started searching and now I'm a fan.