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Old 16th February 2007, 10:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Demure_Dusk View Post
How is it just as 'bad'? Her last best album was years ago. It's due to a new best album and a reasonable choice for Ayu while Kumi has been releasing best albums like there's no tomorrow.
If you'd read on I pointed out A BEST 2 is being released with near no competition. Also, I know no one's going to hear any bad, but Kuu's new BEST is really just a themed compilation album in the same way as Ayu's 'A Ballad's', and A BEST 2 is practically 2 albums. Instead of making one double album avex is really all about the money with A BEST 2. Not to mention all the remix albums which is a strategy Kumi hasn't employed.

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Originally Posted by Demure_Dusk View Post
She is avex because she actually made them big and was the source of affluence for them for eight years. If it wasn't for her probably avex wouldn't have all this money to promote artists like Kumi, Ai-chin and many others. I think that a person who made avex so rich deserves some extra rights. You have to give recognition for who has worked so much for a company for so many years. That's why avex still supports artists like TRF and Namie and promote them well, because in their era they gave a lot to avex.
Their not going to put money into an artist unless they expect to get it back. Kumi did have 4 albums before all the huge promotion started, slowly earning avex enough money to give her a bigger budget for tour's and PV's etc.
And like you said, in Namie's and TRF's era they generated a large amount for avex but no one is saying they are avex.
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