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Great article, thanks for sharing!
I've had jury duty this week (for the first time I might add) so I'm still catching up with the little bit of news we got this week.
Getting back to the point, IDK if Ayumi will come over to the US at all anytime in the near future. If I were her producer, I would advise against it because part of the main reason why BoA and Hikki...oh and lets not forget SE7EN, can't get the exposure they need is because of the STATE of the American music industry. Compared to Japan, we (the US) no longer have the television outlets for music anymore. If you wanna look at music videos on MTV, you'd have to wake up at 5/6 am, while on VH1 3 am-10am (I think) is the slot for their videos. BET is just a hot mess, FUSE mostly caters to rock music (not that it's not a good thing), and CMT is for country music.
Things have changed so much here that is difficult for a debuting artist that comes from this country to get a kick start. Sure promotion has to be a little more creative these days (Hell, Taylor Swift used her MySpace to generate her career). But it's nowhere near as simple as it used to be, nor does that same creativity guarantee the necessary exposure needed to sell. Look at how famous Shakira became after her US-debut, but look at the amount of exposure and video rotations she received from MTV and VH1. So far to my knowledge, she is the only foreign act in modern music to establish a successful career in the US with English as a second or third language.
Europe would be a much better area for Ayumi to start in. From what I have seen, their music scene is much more open to new and innovative products (musicians). If she arms herself with the right producers, learns to control her accent a little, and comes out with the right song she'll find a great amount of success in EU.
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