MADE IN JAPAN song titles + lyric teasers on social media

[mizuki-7]

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Maybe the AWA thing is a a decision of last minute making the countdown completely useless ?? lol we will be fixed really soon anyway =)

[//ABEST]

Originally Posted by mizuki-7

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Maybe the AWA thing is a a decision of last minute making the countdown completely useless ?? lol we will be fixed really soon anyway =)

i doubt they'd do something this big as last minute decision since avex get $ if ayu sells well. this kinda sucks tho that first we got awesome lyrics and then nothing oh avex!

[truehappiness]

Just a few more days~

This is getting crazy~

[oaristos]

Maybe it's going to be exclusive on AWA for a while, then released physically? I don't really see she releasing an album only digitally. Even though she's not a top seller anymore, her sales have been pretty steady and that's money for avex... I would love some exclusive bonus for the physical version!

[attractive nausea]

^^ Dunno if posting lyrics snippets or not is avex's decision though? Posting songs previews is with no doubt avex's decision, but for lyrics i would have said it was ayu's own initiative.

[Baernash]

I'm starting to think that lyrics snippets we got will be the songs released on AWA as digital mini album and than few months later we'll get proper full physical album.

[kotora]

Originally Posted by Baernash

I'm starting to think that lyrics snippets we got will be the songs released on AWA as digital mini album and than few months later we'll get proper full physical album.

That is not a clever way to promote the album. Maybe she provide few songs for steaming but not the full album.

[attractive nausea]

^ That would be a very messy way to promote the new album, i think she has recorded everything already so why wait?

[Baernash]

We don't know if she recorded anything yet (at least I can't rememeber that she posted anything about it).

[rainbow_smile]

Originally Posted by Baernash

We don't know if she recorded anything yet (at least I can't rememeber that she posted anything about it).

She said that she was recording a few times on instegram. She also said that she was making the last song back on the day of her anniversary here

She also said she finished recording here, but I'm not sure if meant that she was just done for the day or finished recording all the songs.

[Next_Level29]

maybe we didnt get any new lyrics because its weekend?? hahahah

[truehappiness]

I think she said she was still working on new songs in Numero but that interview may have been done before. She finished some work in the studio not too long ago.

[truehappiness]

That's the thing though, this sort of release does not rely on promotion. It's just the shock value of dropping the album out of nowhere that promotes itself.

[Zeke.]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

That's the thing though, this sort of release does not rely on promotion. It's just the shock value of dropping the album out of nowhere that promotes itself.

The thing is, I don't think it will generate enough shock. It's something that would make sense to do if Ayu's peak were happening right now, in this day and age, but we all know that's not the case. It can be argued that Beyonce is having a peak, hence why the strategy works for her.

This strategy would be better suited for Hikki's current situation; hiatus for 1500 years and then drop an album out of nowhere. I don't think it makes much sense for Ayu to do this at all really.

[truehappiness]

I think in the Japanese market, it's too hard to do this sort of thing unless you're like digital only.

Personally, it would be nice since it's something new for Ayu and Japan in general. We've had the "album with 100% new tracks" but never the "album released completely new before physical release", I believe.

[Cahz-]

^If I recall correcty, Party queen was released 2 weeks before on iTunes

[truehappiness]

http://ahsforum.com/forum/showthread...ighlight=queen

I think it was an accidental week-ahead-of-time release. But by then we had the previews and the early listening session. For this we have... nothing!

[truehappiness]

It would be very odd if this was a mini but I guess we'll see what comes of it.

[freedreamer]

maybe ALBUM part 1 digital release at the start of the tour
ALBUM part 2 full physical release towards the end of the tour

its kinda like a K-pop marketing pattern. So that every song in each half will get a good enough attention from those who bought the album.

After all, she did say she recorded 9 songs back then and now she has teased 5 of them

[rainbow_smile]

Originally Posted by freedreamer

After all, she did say she recorded 9 songs back then and now she has teased 5 of them

She didn't record them, she only wrote the lyrics at that point.

I don't have a feeling it's a mini though. Unless it's one song per season and she makes 7 seasons like the chapters she posted on TA.