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Title: Suzuki Ami spends over 100m yen on promotion

Text: suzuki ami finally nullified the contract between sony. she joined avex, and the first single 'delightful' is released on 24th of march. Since avex is very serious about the comeback, there will be a photo album, picture collection and a dvd etc released together with the new single. this week, ami will be in many magazines as the cover girl.

it is said that avex spent over 100m yen to promote ami, hoping to resurrect her failing career avex plans to promote ami to the point of replacing ayu as the pop queen. the media in japan criticised the plan of resurrecting ami's career as unrealistic, and it is speculated that ayu will not like ami either.

Added: the caption next to the pic says 'who would have thought, when ami was still famous, it would be ayu who became the superstar?'