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Originally Posted by andre2907
^ I agree. Plus, Koda Kumi story is one of the few with a happy ending. Most just work work work and never succeed.
Anyway, I don't think AVEX forcing Ayu to release an "A BEST" is that shocking. And seeing how she agreed to do billions of magazine covers, I think she didn't care as much as she said. And I don't believe at all when she said she tought it was her last album. Hello!? There's no way she would go out of AVEX in 2001, she was half of their profits...
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she said that she did those covers because even though she didn't want to produce the best album, she felt that she had to give it a "presentation" for what it was -- she felt that regardless of whether or not she
wanted to do it, she ought to give the album as much as she could. that was in the NTV interview
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Originally Posted by truehappiness
Well, there's that whole thing where a BEST is probably going to be your last album / will probably signal the end of a career.. She probably wanted to quit singing at the time of A BEST.
I don't find Koda's story at all sad or anything. I think it's mostly HER pushing herself and that's about it. D: I wonder what'd happen if Koda was on toshibaEMI or like Sony...
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If Kuu was at toshibaEMI or Sony, it would probably be the same way...Except they probably would have dropped her a LONG time ago because of her sales. thing is, the whole BEST album thing isn't just with avex. Hikki said that she was pissed off at toshibaEMI because they went ahead and produced her BEST album without even consulting her. It was already ready to go on the market before she even knew about it -- she only had a little bit of time to tack on that silly quote on the front of it...there's a lot of trouble between Hikki and her label right now. They're apparently pissed at her because she doesn't consult them over anything anymore. It's not just avex where artists have problems...it's just avex is the most
public about them. I'm sure if Hikki did an interview and told about toshibaEMI, people would think the same way about them as they do about avex. Avex does seem like quite the ass-kicker, though.
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Originally Posted by *Petit*
Yes,indeed. But sales are still not higher than ayu's. If ayu's sales go down even more and ai's continue growing though, ai might surpass ayu, but as for now she hasen't. A year ago ai seemed like the strongest competitor to ayu, but now Koda is also.
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Quite true, but Kuu is not a competitor for Ayu anymore. Kuu's beat her in every sales aspect right now (with the exception of live concert ticket sales).