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Old 8th December 2017, 03:44 PM
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Mao Asada collaborated with "million singer"
https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2101910/full/

some say it might be ayu
Sadly it says that she (Mao) will challenge singing a "million selling artist's" song live. \

So at best, it will be Mao covering an Ayu song.
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Old 8th December 2017, 04:08 PM
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You're way too optimistic :-p
As far as I can see, she's been losing her fanbase. I doubt it'll change.
Some arena shows were a stretch.
Honestly, she's been losing her fanbase for over ten years now. It dwindles more every year, but what she is great at is maintaining that bond with her core fanbase at least.

Unfortunately, she's just never had any years with an upswing; it's just been a downward trend for a long, long time now.

Only hope of changing that is to do a complete overhaul of her image, get a new team, and then do a huge promotional blitz afterwards. All things that I'm very doubtful will happen, but am still holding out hope.
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Old 8th December 2017, 04:47 PM
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Unless Avex were to really pull out some big promotional tie ins, and get huge billboards and tv appearances, I doubt any hype will happen.

At this point, a smaller, intimate "thank you" tour could be really great.

This current tour is trying to be large scale on a small scale budget. I think if she continues to do these smaller venues, An "unplugged" tour would be fantastic. Without any big over the top anything.

She rarely gives us top quality (I.e. Fleshed out, completed concepts) anymore. I don't think it's intentional but her themes have been all over the place. And her tours have been copy and paste and copy and copy.

Despite still going to every tour, I can't say I'm as excited as I used to be. Because empty promises or missed opportunities seem to be a very common thing for her now...

I wish she'd get back a team that believes in her, or pushes her. Because her own ideas don't seem to be pushing any boundaries anymore.



I believe she -can- give us greatness, but for one reason or another she's not.
And her *rumored* diva-ness and apparent bad attitude at her past two tv variety shows certainly didn't win her any favor. (Apparently she refused to do certain requests from the comedian guests and stalled filming and required them to rent out a pent house suite at a nearby hotel just to have for her standby time and stuff...)

So there's my semi-rant lol.
Tour-wise, At15 and At16 had fuller concepts than most of the tours she did during her whole career. But I would agree her latest album with a full concept was LOVE again.. But it's not like her albums from MY STORY to RnRC had much concept to them either.
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Old 8th December 2017, 05:27 PM
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I think that ayu will release a new best, like an A COMPLETE 2 and do the final part of this "just the beginning" tour. The concept of sacrifice ~ ressurection is really great, unfortunately i can't expect this from Ayu now Let's hope that she remember who she was and do something goog.
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Old 8th December 2017, 05:33 PM
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Ayu doing aerial stuff was also smth new and exciting, let's give her that.
Watching Game performance from CDL in person was freaking amazing,
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ARENA TOUR 2012 ~HOTEL Love songs~ (11.08, 12.08 (Fukuoka)
COUNTDOWN LIVE 2012-2013 ~WAKE UP~ (29.12, 30.12, 31.12)
15th Anniversary TOUR ~A BEST LIVE~ (11.05, 12.05 (Yokohama), 15.05, 16.05 (Osaka)
COUNTDOWN LIVE 2013-2014 A (29.12, 30.12, 31.12)
COUNTDOWN LIVE 2014-2015 A, Cirque de Minuit (29.12, 30.12, 31.12)
ARENA TOUR 2015 Cirque de Minuit ~真夜中のサーカス~(11.04, 12.04 Saitama)
COUNTDOWN LIVE 2015-2016 A ~MADE IN TOKYO~ (29.12, 30.12, 31.12)
COUNTDOWN LIVE 2016-2017 A『Just the beginning -20-』(29.12, 30.12)
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Old 8th December 2017, 05:42 PM
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Ayu doing aerial stuff was also smth new and exciting, let's give her that.
Watching Game performance from CDL in person was freaking amazing,
It blew my mind when she performed Game and I got to see it firsthand. Then we got to meet after it and the rest is history haha.
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Old 8th December 2017, 07:00 PM
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Any update on yesterday/today's live? Pictures from IG looks promising
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Old 9th December 2017, 02:58 AM
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^She also went with her sister to an Ayu concert this year, can't remember if it was the first or second chapter tho.
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Old 9th December 2017, 04:49 AM
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I sadly don´t think her ear will make to her 25th Anniversary :/
At least if she continues with this much concerts like she has done over the past 3 years.
I'm thinking maybe that's why an album announcement has been delayed. She's just going to focus on one thing at a time and enjoy herself more. It has starting in her other ear so she would have to change something, if she didn't want the problem to fully take her other ear. And she doesn't want to stop, so she would have to slow down and take her time
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I wonder if they'll sneak something out like the A WINTER SELECTION or w/e but physically.
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Old 9th December 2017, 02:05 PM
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I wonder if they'll sneak something out like the A WINTER SELECTION or w/e but physically.
Hasn't she done that already? It was not a physical release, but aside from Winter Diary, all of her winter songs were included...
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Old 9th December 2017, 04:57 PM
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Yes, that was the point. WINTER BEST SELECTION or w/e it was was sort of just released without warning. A physical one would have PVs and so on.

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Old 10th December 2017, 07:57 AM
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Hasn't she done that already? It was not a physical release, but aside from Winter Diary, all of her winter songs were included...
Winter diary is awful. It is one of her worse releases. Have PV, but no physical DVD release. It is not in a regular album but in a "remix album".

The song is extremely underrated.
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Old 10th December 2017, 11:50 AM
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Ayumi has sold 105 million records WW?! Is this true? O.o

I'm not sure about the sources.

https://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtop...?f=24&t=121422
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Old 10th December 2017, 02:15 PM
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'Winter+Summer diary' is amazing. One of her best release. Thx God CDL 1516 performances do a justice for those songs.
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Old 10th December 2017, 03:24 PM
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hmm Winter Diary is forgettable =_=
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Old 10th December 2017, 03:25 PM
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I think now I really appreciate Together When... lol

Watching Kouhaku 2007 and omg how beautiful is the black and white dress for Together When... <33333
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Old 10th December 2017, 04:37 PM
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hmm Winter Diary is forgettable =_=
I think it's a wonderful song. When I sing it. LOL
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Old 10th December 2017, 04:47 PM
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It kills me that Together When has no physical release. It's one of Ayu's songs I love the most and I would love to have it in my collection.
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Old 10th December 2017, 05:22 PM
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Together When... is one of my absolute favorites. The cover is beautiful too; I agree it's a shame it never got a physical release.
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