why only 2 singles??

[BigAyuFan]

why did Ayu only make 2 singles this year?? all the other years she had more than just 2. does anyone have a guess??

[realize_!]

question?

why would we want more single releases I honestly think this is a good move. It leaves the album more... .secretive

[alt.total-loser]

Maybe she wants the album to more 'fresh'.

[Dustie]

It's obvious she was going to have a third single with JEWEL or 1LOVE, but due to health problems she couldn't wrap it all up. In the end, we'll just get the song(s) later, with the full album, so there'll be more new stuff to listen to.

[immel]

^Not too obvious in my eyes, it might also be a new tactic from avex. I think it'll work pretty well, we'll know in one and a half month .

Who knows... they might be preparing a new single to release with the album.

[alt.total-loser]

Kind of like how they did with Duty and SURREAL?

[immel]

Yeah, or (m)u and B&D.

[*Petit*]

She already had one too much released for (m) u.

Seriously, I think it might be many reasons. But perhaps they try to promote more tracks off the album, and thus hope for more sales.

[Diana]

I think this way is more interesting, because there are more new songs. It`s better that way. I know I will enjoy this album cuz I didn`t hear a bunch of singles

[Coelacanth]

Avex obviously likes to experiment with Ayu's releases lately - It's pointless to ponder anyway, we'll probably never know why things were changed.

[..:Hot:Like:Wow:..]

Maybe she's going American style and releaseing the remaining singles after the album release. lol

[DerrickRocks]

Ayu has done that before during her early days release singles off the album with remixes it could happen that be so awesome and this way the album would appeal more to people maybe getting her crown back?

[immel]

^I don't remember her ever releasing remix tracks on a studio album? Eh? With the exception of LOVEppears disc 2.

Originally Posted by Phantoma

Avex obviously likes to experiment with Ayu's releases lately - It's pointless to ponder anyway, we'll probably never know why things were changed.

I'm so happy that the word pointless doesn't mean we can't, because that's more or less what a discussion board is for, speculating, that's where all the fun is, to me. .

[bluegie]

Originally Posted by Kingofpop

Maybe she's going American style and releaseing the remaining singles after the album release. lol

I doubt that. I think consecutive No.1s is an important factor Japan music industry, esp with big artists. If ayu's no. 1 streak has been broken, probly they will make album cuts. But right now ayu's no. 1 streak still exists so avex will try to make it stays as long as possible. Releasing album cuts meaning the risk of not gettin no.1.. so no, I dun think avex will do that (at least to ayu... they wanna make her grab as many no. 1 singles as possible before she can't make it eventually)

Secret will be a number one, for sure.

So will all of her singles next year.

She's too popular to just DROP. Even if she gets a number two single, she's probably just going to go back up to number one.

[truehappiness]

I say the reason is because:
Ayu can.


And that is all.

It's not like there's any complicated reasoning behind it.. :p

[immel]

Yeah, now that it's a full lenght album I don't think it'll be any problem to get over 350-400k first week sales, which will beat all possible competition on that date by far.

[truehappiness]

I have my sights on 500k+ first week.. :B It's a 20% guaranteed million then..

[bluegie]

i never doubt about the album sales... i just hope she's not doing something like releasing a single on the same day, or making album cut singles afterwards..

[immel]

Well, first two week sales of (m)u was 650(?)k, so 500k for first week on this album shouldn't be impossible, but I see that as highly unlikely. And with her recent, pretty linear, drop rate in sales, selling 500k first week would land her album on around 900k copies, in total.

The drop for her 2nd week sales is like... 70%.