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Old 20th May 2009, 09:23 AM
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^ Like I said countless of times, how is the USB any indication of promotion when it's more like a collectors item? Did they sample her songs in the USB tv, no... As pop stars, you have to be in the lime light, which ayu hasn't been in it for a while. I guess everyone says shes overexposed. And concerts are not promotion, the album is the promotion for the concerts. SHE MADE BOTH the concerts before Next level. And she did way more promotion in her I am... Rainbow period, where she both did concerts and still perform and release singles inbetween.

Secret and Guilty still fare better than Next Level. She didn't do anything to promote this album. What you're saying is all promotion coming indirectly. What I am saying is how can an artist not promote her album directly to the public? Which Ayu did only a few directly. Direct promotion > Indirect promotion.

Although Next level is better charting now, but before, it was not. But like Secret and Guilty, Next Level is rushed. Ayu needs to make a fuller length album with no interludes. Because these interludes (Guilty and NL) would have been such awesome songs. -____-