German Singles

[Picaflor 7/4]

I'd like to know too. Why did she randomly decide to release a few songs as singles in germany?

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

Originally Posted by Picaflor 7/4

I'd like to know too. Why did she randomly decide to release a few songs as singles in germany?

I doubt it was ayu who decided this...

[hsienko]

Originally Posted by Picaflor 7/4

I'd like to know too. Why did she randomly decide to release a few songs as singles in germany?

Well like if you look at who remixed the tracks on Cyber trance its all western DJs like Above & Beyond/Dirt Devils is British and they've done remixes for big western artists like B.Spears and Madonna. Ferry Corsten and Armin Van Buuren are both dutch and DuMonde is german.

So someone probably got the bright idea that since these were western remixes and Ayu had a big international following they'd see how she'd fair in the west.

That's just my theory tho.

[AngelSenshi]

Originally Posted by Picaflor 7/4

I'd like to know too. Why did she randomly decide to release a few songs as singles in germany?

Germany is like a music capital. It also has very strong ties with Japan.

Taking Jrock bands as an example, a lot of bands, when starting to move to Europem and to want to release in Europe, they usually go to German labels. A popular one; CLJ Records, who has 9GOATS BLACK OUT, alice nine, Ayabie, Moran, Plastic Tree, the GazettE, Versailles and plenty more.

Actually more and more Japanese artists sign up with German music labels every year. Four years ago, CLJ Records had maybe five bands five years ago, they now have 20 or 20+.

Germany was always big on music, loads of popular, even 'controversial' bands of years and years ago made it big in Germany, and in actual fact, most of the time, Germany was one of the first countries to open their arms to the music and thus, it only makes sense now, and especially years ago, for foreign music to be spread through such a country who had labels ready to sign foreign artists.