[Raleigh]

I don't think Ayu had her time. She's still producing quality releases no? And her singles still go straight to #1. She's still a top artist and thus I don't see why avex shouldn't concentrate on her. I still see her high on Oricon popularity charts and she's still one of the most loved artists of all time. I don't see why we shouldn't see Ayu all the time. I enjoy seeing her and I'm pretty disappointed when I don't. Some artists are made to shine for a very long time and Ayu certainly is one of those people.

Hikki has been with Toshiba Emi for ages yet they don't just dump her for the latest artist and give her low promotion even if she's not as huge as she was before.

I don't know why avex is doing this, evolution. Maybe because they just want to focus on another artist because at some point Ayu became huge and that scared avex. We can only speculate. Guess avex wants somebody to make much more money than Ayu but to be honest I can't see Kumi selling too much unless she keeps up with releasing like crazy...