New album 'Party Queen' out 03/21 information thread [X]

[Earth_maiden]

Originally Posted by ExodusUK

She deserves to have sales this low, she doesn't take her career seriously anymore. She really needs to bring her **** next year for her 15th anniversary. Her work ethic sucks now and her team seems to take ages to pull stuff out of their ass like these M.I.A photobooks. It's sad what her career has become.

Then why are you bothering to be her fan if all you do is complain? Go listen to someone else then. I can understand not liking her music, but saying she "deserves" low sales and she doesn't take her career seriously? How the **** do you know that? And how can you claim that her work ethic sucks? Ayu works herself to the bone for her fans, to the point that she went deaf in one of her ears, and she barely sleeps. And you have the nerve the say **** like that.

Just gtfo. Seriously.

[tenshi no hane]

Foyuki: ah okay, thanks for uploading!

[ExodusUK]

Originally Posted by Earth_maiden

Then why are you bothering to be her fan if all you do is complain? Go listen to someone else then. I can understand not liking her music, but saying she "deserves" low sales and she doesn't take her career seriously? How the **** do you know that? And how can you claim that her work ethic sucks? Ayu works herself to the bone for her fans, to the point that she went deaf in one of her ears, and she barely sleeps. And you have the nerve the say **** like that.

Just gtfo. Seriously.

Chill out, anyone would have thought I just killed your puppy or something. Can you stop attacking me? I love Ayu but it's so frustrating sometimes because she doesn't fullfil her potential like she did in the past IMO but it's her career, her life..she can do what she wants..don't really care as long as she keeps making music, for every five average/bad songs, there's usually a good one.

[Earth_maiden]

Originally Posted by ExodusUK

Chill out, anyone would have thought I just killed your puppy or something. Can you stop attacking me? I love Ayu but it's so frustrating sometimes because she doesn't fullfil her potential like she did in the past IMO but it's her career, her life..she can do what she wants..don't really care as long as she keeps making music, for every five average/bad songs, there's usually a good one.

What do you expect when you post stuff like that? There's expressing your opinion, then there's posting obnoxious comments and highly opinionated claims that are based on nothing. Maybe if you'd said "I feel Ayu doesn't reach her full potential anymore like she used to" instead of saying she deserves low sales and claiming she doesn't give a damn about her career, people wouldn't get worked up. Like I said, what do you expect?

And I don't own a puppy.

[ayu_ready?]

ExodusUK comment is actually logical, you know. and the reasons he has stated are actually quite rational.
he simply pointed out what he feels like a 'let it be' Ayuteam attitude now, if I got it right. and avex attitude is unexplainable to me.

but what could we expect with so little promotion?
'ayumi hamasaki' is a brand, but you still need to remind people 'I'm still here', you know, you cannot fully rely on the old fanbase or old brand reputation/luck...like in fashion industry

Originally Posted by MissElin_

I don't remember the first day for JAPONESQUE but the first week was over 93k. I wouldn't compare these two albums though since JAPONESQUE was 19 tracks long, had PV's for all songs and had Kuu's 50th single in it. Big celebration there~ I actually didn't think PQ would sell better than JAPONESQUE but only future will tell.

yes it did sell more, but you know, the promo for it did suck a lot too!

avex just decided to get profit from YGEX, it seems?

avex is much to blame as they do it to many artists, look at ICONIQ even, or Ami Suzuki?

to me sales are very low, unexpectable. I too, though, thought it wouldn't sell more than JAPONESQUE somehow, and JAPONESQUE didn't deserve such sales also