Ayu and Prince

[Faiza]

I was on wikipedia looking at Prince's entry (I don't even know how I got to it xD) and I was reading about his name change when it said

Originally Posted by Prince's Wikipedia entry

He is the first of two international musicians to have a personalized symbol, the other being Japanese pop star Ayumi Hamasaki.

I thought that was quite cool that; 1# Ayu and Prince are the only two artists to have personalized symbols and 2# that Ayu was mentioned on a non-Jpop topic which means people might go "Oooh who's that?" -clicks on Ayu's link-

[minna]

go ayu! that is cool!!!

thanks for pointing out!

[alternarist]

wat is prince's symbol?

[U-GO-BOY]

[Chibi_Venus]

I completely forgot that Prince has a personalized symbol. I didn't even think of Ayu's symbol as a "personalized symbol."

Thanks for sharing~

[Yoake]

who is Prince? Oo

Originally Posted by Yoake

who is Prince? Oo

He's a famous singer,he sings Purple Rain.And other stuff!

[AyUta]

That's cool! I didn't know that they were the only two artists o.o

^Me neither!Ayu's so special!

[Yoake]

Originally Posted by Lee_410

He's a famous singer,he sings Purple Rain.And other stuff!

thanks for info

I think it's really great for Ayu.

[pommy48]

lol yeah, i read that~ ayu's A is famous!

[Delirium-Zer0]

Ugh.... no.

That symbol was used as Prince's actual stage name for a time. That was when he was called "the artist formerly known as Prince" or, sometimes just "the artist".

Ayu's A symbol is not her stage name, it's just her logo. PLENTY of other artists have logos.

Hanson (their name in a circle pattern), Dream Theater (pretty intricate letter symbol), Alisha's Attic ("Aa" in a circle), The Rolling Stones (mouth), The Ramones (presidential-seal style logo), HIM (the heartagram... thanks to tasking for reminding me of that one ^^).... ALL these groups have logos and there are tons more bands who stylized their name to make a logo (like Kiss and The Pillows).

A logo is just a marketing symbol. Prince's symbol was his actual NAME.

Ayu & Prince have nothing in common (aside, of course, from making some epic pop music over the years), whoever wrote that in wikipedia was very confused (and not particularly educated about other music artists with logos).

[4ever*ayu]

nice, Faiza, thx for pointing this out!1


eh...but what Deli's said is all true, many other artist has their own logo to simplified their name for marketing and other purposes...

But yea, ayu's is the best logo that ever exist!!

[RadnasticReggie]

I'm guessing. It's solo artist.
Because of the above.
A lot of those are bands.
And Ayu and Prince are both solo.

[Ayumi27]

Well, as said above, they are not the only ones... The Rolling Stones have their iconic symbol too... But apart from them, not many singers/band

[U-GO-BOY]

Koda Kumi had her own symbol too lol

[Ayunk]

I think i've seen prince's logo before. Don't know much abt him though.. Ayu's A Symbol is so cool Avril Lavigne's symbol which is mainly the skull is also not bad.

Koda?Really?I never saw it!

[v3lun420]

Ayu is unique, that's all

[Delirium-Zer0]

Yeah, it's definitely not just for solo artists, KK and Avril's logos were mentioned.... alanis morissette used to have that AM in the circle which she only uses sporadically these days. Mika Nakashima has her lotus flower too.

So yeah.

They're just logos. Prince's symbol was his stage name.