Why I think Ayumi's sales have fallen...

[truehappiness]

The only reason I said what I did was because there are some things that just don't make sense in the post, haha. Specifically the "Americanized" thing. She's worked with some musicians who are American, but that's about it, haha.

If what Ayu's doing isn't J-Pop, then what is it? Do you want her to start singing enka and kayokyoku?

Edit: (hpg23, I think I love you.)

From the first post:

2009's NEXT LEVEL has to be Ayu's least Ayumi work. I think the fact that only 2 threads were made for it in the Ayu Music News forum shows how bad this one ultimately was.

You shouldn't count that since there was a pretty big single that came out just a month before NEXT LEVEL, so there was no real need for more threads, I suppose, since people had been talking about R/S AND NEXT LEVEL for a while at the time as opposed to the 2-3 months we were able to talk about Rock'n'Roll Circus.