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Old 13th November 2009, 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Coelacanth View Post
I just don't see the point if she's going to play it safe and avoid competition... I mean, it's fine to take advantage of a weak market, but when you're moving the initial release date around just because competition comes along.. That's ridiculous imo.
It's not our point, it's the Japanese point. If they dun really care about the no. 1 streak, B'z or Mr. Children or KinKi Kids or ayu will not try to avoid each other and other strong competitors to maintain their own streaks. Have you ever seen B'z releases a single to battle, let's say, Arashi? No way they will do it. Does Mr. Children (or their company) decides to battle KinKi Kids? Not that we've seen so far.

So I can tell you that it's definitely not ridiculous at all. If avex didn't really care about ayu's no. 1 streak, it would not use so much power to keep MW being no. 1 from SCS. I have no idea why Universal would put Fukuyama Masaharu there but I think avex will really move the release date up or further. If not, I think avex is going crazy.

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Originally Posted by Rody! View Post
the last time she was up against fukuyama, she won... But... this time it may be too difficult :/

Last time she won Fukuyama because the single he released (虹 〜もうひとつの夏〜) was kinda like a remix of the prevous single 虹, which was released a year ago. Of course that time people thought he would win the battle because 虹 was very popular in 2003. But ayu's INSPIRE won in the end, and at that point no one really thought about no. 1 streak from ayu, so it's ok to see her losing no. 1 anywayz.
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Last edited by bluegie; 13th November 2009 at 10:57 AM.