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Old 9th June 2010, 06:09 AM
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^ Its pretty rare that a j-pop artist releases a single after the album is out. They are called re-cut singles. There are some, but not a lot. Its more of a western music industry thing. In japan, singles before albums 95% of the time.

I like have a whole fresh new album to listen to as well. It adds to the overall feel of the album. Don't like it when the album is full of too many singles that I'm already sick of listening to. And Ayu has been guilty of changing the overall sound/feel from the album between its first single release and album release (NEXT LEVEL is really guilty of this). When you make all the songs at once, it flows better.

With 3 (or 4) singles from Ayu, her next album is shaping up to be a long one.

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