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[ExodusUK]

What can she put on A BEST 3 though? Has she really legitimately had a hit or a popular song with the general masses since BLUE BIRD or Mirrorcle World?

[Heavenly]

Originally Posted by ExodusUK

What can she put on A BEST 3 though? Has she really legitimately had a hit or a popular song with the general masses since BLUE BIRD or Mirrorcle World?

I don't think so...

[ayumisrael]

Originally Posted by ExodusUK

What can she put on A BEST 3 though? Has she really legitimately had a hit or a popular song with the general masses since BLUE BIRD or Mirrorcle World?

Days, Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~ (did almost million digital downloads), Together When... You were..., JEWEL and to some extent how beautiful you are, MOON, crossroad, Virgin Road, You & Me. The main hits are Days, Sunrise and Together When... but then before hand it's not like each single/promo song she had sold million legal downloads or 500,000s+ physically.
This number of hits are more than most would have in a best album, that doesn't mean it will be successful though. It could go BoA way (and BoA had Everlasting, Do The Motion and Winter Love on it) ayu has a more solid fanbase though but it might interest mainly the fanbase rather than other general public like the 2 first A BESTs and A COMPLETEs that all sold more than the original albums of the respective years, hell A COMPLETE did better than the album of its year and the one a year and a half before and that's after ayu's biggest hits were used on the A BESTs and A BALLADS. With A BEST 3 though, avex will have to make people's interest raise, ayu will have to work on another hit if it will be possible for her to buy some public interest again or they will just have to do something that will make it work and ayu needs to do her own music-wise (if she even cares... it seems like she likes original albums way more herself lol), if not then A BEST 3 sales will just be lower or close to around 100,000 or LOVE again's sales tops of the tops.

[A Loon]

Originally Posted by ExodusUK

What can she put on A BEST 3 though? Has she really legitimately had a hit or a popular song with the general masses since BLUE BIRD or Mirrorcle World?

I'd rather have A Ballads 2. New arrangements would be awesome. And imagine it including Haru yo, koi. Instant million-seller

[thatstacey]

Originally Posted by A Loon

I'd rather have A Ballads 2. New arrangements would be awesome. And imagine it including Haru yo, koi. Instant million-seller

Maybe ayumisreal will have a definitive answer for this, but, if I remember correctly, the original A BALLADS underperformed in sales, right?

That said, I was totally down for A BALLADS II when she released Love songs. Who knows? maybe another ballad collection (complete with TK compositions!) will hit the right nostalgia beats and rebuild some goodwill between the Ayu brand and the average J-pop consumer?

I also really, really want a studio cover of "haru yo koi." I'd be down for a cover album, too.

(and back to the shadows I go)

[kotora]

Originally Posted by ExodusUK

What can she put on A BEST 3 though? Has she really legitimately had a hit or a popular song with the general masses since BLUE BIRD or Mirrorcle World?

Rule - International movie leading song
meaning of Love - a hit for digital download in Japan
Love Song - Another Milestone in Japan
JEWEL - another milestone
Secret - a movie tile-in
Together When... - first digital download in her discography and got over million download


I literally laugh out loud of how people ignore all these.

Originally Posted by A Loon

I'd rather have A Ballads 2. New arrangements would be awesome. And imagine it including Haru yo, koi. Instant million-seller

I didn't know what Haru yo, koi until I google search on Images.

[Bigtop]

Originally Posted by kotora

Rule - International movie leading song
meaning of Love - a hit for digital download in Japan
Love Song - Another Milestone in Japan
JEWEL - another milestone
Secret - a movie tile-in
Together When... - first digital download in her discography and got over million download


I literally laugh out loud of how people ignore all these.

How is JEWEL "another milestone"?

[A Loon]

Originally Posted by Bigtop

How is JEWEL "another milestone"?

Didn't it get multiple platinum certifications for digital downloads?

[mizuki-7]

Originally Posted by A Loon

Didn't it get multiple platinum certifications for digital downloads?

Yes 3 x platinum

[douggn]

Originally Posted by Bigtop

How is JEWEL "another milestone"?

It also put her in the top 5 most expensive PV's of all time worldwide

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by douggn

It also put her in the top 5 most expensive PV's of all time worldwide

No, it doesn't. It's not even her most expensive PV (that would be fairyland). Fairyland isn't one of the top 5 most expensive PVs either... Madonna and Michael Jackson take the whole top 5 themselves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_ex...e_music_videos

[douggn]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

No, it doesn't. It's not even her most expensive PV (that would be fairyland). Fairyland isn't one of the top 5 most expensive PVs either... Madonna and Michael Jackson take the whole top 5 themselves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_ex...e_music_videos

woops, I was going on memory from old articles, which your right, got mixed up with most expensive of all time vs her most expensive pvs shes done. out of all i never knew My Name's Women cost $2,000,000

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by douggn

woops, I was going on memory from old articles, which your right, got mixed up with most expensive of all time vs her most expensive pvs shes done. out of all i never knew My Name's Women cost $2,000,000

Just being longer (what means the team needed to put more time on it) already makes it costier... ^^ Also, it seens like the club scenary was constructed for the pv or something like that.

[Meat Pao]

Originally Posted by kotora

I didn't know what Haru yo, koi until I google search on Images.

I literally google'd that and died. You're hilarious

Ayu should put Bold & Delicious on A BEST 3 and spark another ~*Bold & Delicious scare*~ again or wtv they called it back then lmao

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by ExodusUK

What can she put on A BEST 3 though? Has she really legitimately had a hit or a popular song with the general masses since BLUE BIRD or Mirrorcle World?

Considering A Best 3 would cover from (miss)understood album tracks onwards, those tracks either had strong sales, became concert staples, are always requested or had strong tie-ins (bolded ones are alread on compilations):

Ladies Night
Startin
1 LOVE
JEWEL
BLUE BIRD
Together When...
glitter
MY ALL
NEXT LEVEL
EnergizE
Sparkle
Rule
Days
Microphone
Sunrise ~LOVE is ALL~
Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~
meaning of Love
Blossom
MOON
Love song
crossroad
Last angel
Virgin Road
progress
ANother song
beloved
how beautiful you are
Song 4 u
Wake me up
SAKURA
You & Me