[Koda Kumi] The 200th thread for 20 years in her career

[kaled kalil]

All gorgeous pics! Can't wait to see more.

I'm happy to see that GOLDFINGER'19 went to #1 on LINE, the campaign worked like a charm.

Interesting to see that Merry Go Round was composed by a Brazilian-Swedish composer, Julimar Santos (J-Son). I wonder if it could be one of the re(FERENCES) of past things in here career, and in this case a connection with her time in here. This song gives me Babado Novo vibes for sure. lol

[KarenPang]

Kuu has provided lyrics for FAKY's new song NEW AGE

https://twitter.com/FAKYjp/status/1195169084200996864

[KarenPang]

Autographed re(CORD) poster & CD Kuu gifted to HMV Narita





https://twitter.com/HMV_Narita/statu...39637028990976

Video of Kuu signing the poster

https://twitter.com/KODAKUMINET/stat...70982245601280

[Corvina]

I'm so happy for the staff of HMV Narita that Kuu visited them and even brought gifts!

Originally Posted by KarenPang

Kuu has provided lyrics for FAKY's new song NEW AGE

https://twitter.com/FAKYjp/status/1195169084200996864

That fits to something else she said in the modelpress interview.
She talked about how young artists are coming to her lives seeing her perform and when they visit her backstage and they talk about work, it happens she has the thought "why not produce them?".
But then she has ideas and her next thought is "I wanna do that myself".
I guess we can see her becoming a producer for other artists in due time, but for the time being, maybe the next 5-10 years, she's going to be active herself, probably occasionally doing writing like this for others.
She did say in the MC of re(LIVE), that she's going to continue as long as she has fans supporting her.

Something else interesting from the re(LIVE) MC to share just came to my mind.
The Black Cherry pirate outfit is made of real crystals, so it's pretty heavy, about 5 kg, and stiff.
That's why it's not so easy moving around with it and e.g. doing the cocktail shaking moves.

[Ayu_Love]

^Wow, 5KG of crystals, no wonder it looks so pretty! Also it's lovely that she did some writing for FAKY, I love FAKY so i'll have to check out their new songs Antidote and New age. I read that the reason Lil' Fang from FAKY got into music was because of Kuu, because she was inspired by her 12 singles project.

I keep having thoughts, and I might be the only one, but does anyone hope that Kuu might go back to having black hair again? Or having the black with blonde highlights like in 2005-2006? I always thought she looked so fierce with that hair. But maybe just that I am partial to dark hair, lol.
I do like the almost ash-silver she's been sporting recently though.

[thinkingoutloud89]

^tho I love that hair, it’s so 2005 snookie and not on trend

[KarenPang]

Kuu was featured on today's Trendy Angel PePePe Radio radio broadcast that's hosted by comedian duo Trendy Angel



https://twitter.com/KODAKUMINET/stat...83342936084480

Another re(CORD) offshot picture , not sure if it's included in the standard versions of the album booklet wise or the fanclub version photobook ?



https://twitter.com/KODAKUMINET/stat...13098036408321

[Corvina]

Yesterday re(CORD) was #4 again with around 1000 copies sold (the day before also #4 and around 1300 copies sold - Billboard confirmed this number).
Today it's at #12.
Ugh, I hope it stays around 800 copies sold the next two days to get to the 15k first week.

GOLDFINGER was #4 daily on LINE Music yesterday.

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With the birthday gifts for members of the Japanese Koda Gumi starting this November they finish the revamp of it.
Members now not get a simple birthday card anymore, but a small gift with a message from Kuu.

The first gift is a card holder.







Don't know if I mentioned this before, but if you're continuing your membership you always get a small present as well.
This won't change, but now the present for it will be in the new colour of your membership.
So e.g. for me it's going to be purple (yay) in February and then the year after gold. Wonder what it's going to be.
In recent years it was something like a carabiner keychain or a small blackboard with a pen e.g., usually simply in black & white.

[KarenPang]

More photos of Kuu from today's Trendy Angel PePePe Radio radio broadcast

Kuu's Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/B46yAgfAgup/

https://twitter.com/pe_joqr/status/1195610002783784960

https://twitter.com/pe_joqr/status/1195585897233649664

Love the solo shot of Kuu she posted via her Instagram

[Corvina]

re(CORD) stays at #12 for its 5th day.
That's good, cause the top spots all sold a bunch more, so that means it's stable.

GOLDFINGER 2019 stays at #4 on the daily LINE Music charts for November 16.

Kuu shared a new shirt design yesterday and asked how we like it.
She said laughing she's waiting for our messages.

[KarenPang]

Stills of Kuu from this week's Premium MelodiX!

Kuu's Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/B4_Eyk5ARDk/







https://twitter.com/KODAKUMINET/stat...89527754571781

[Gustavopc]

^ She looks soooo gorgeous. And I gotta say, the first pic has strong Ariana Grande vibes

Kuu shared pics of a new t-shirt for her 20th anniv (or maybe just for the 19>20th event?), and as much as I like the print, I'm not into the fact it's an oversized tee again lol But I should be expecting that. Let's wait and see if it's indeed an oversized model or just her wearing a bigger shirt.

[KarenPang]

re(CORD) 1st week position & sales - #4 ; 13,533

http://tieba.baidu.com/p/6347742478

[lovethatkuu&ayu]

If I'm not mistaken, this is Kumi's 30th top ten album.

[Gustavopc]

Wow, congrats to Kuu! Glad it's first week outsold AND and DNA's And 30th overall is an amazing number, omg

[Cahz-]

Originally Posted by Gustavopc

Wow, congrats to Kuu! Glad it's first week outsold AND and DNA's And 30th overall is an amazing number, omg

Actually AND and DNA sold more on their first week.

AND: 14,538
DNA: 15,814

[Gustavopc]

Oh, I thought they did 9k and 11k, guess I mixed it up with the first day sales my bads

[Ayu_Love]

Can anyone tell me where I can possibly get some a past edition of the DNA tour fanclub edition? I couldn't really afford it at the time. Is it just the global fanclub you can order fanclub editions from?

[Party_King]

^ I saw a lot of them for a few €/$/¥ on http://fromjapan.co.jp.

[Corvina]

Billboard repors 1st week sales of 13,768 for re(CORD).

GOLDFINGER 2019 is weekly #2 on LINE Music!
https://music.line.me/rankings/W

Kuu apparently did something with some artists (collabo?).
Amongst others there were Exile Atsushi, Kira (yay) and Jay'ed.



And that FC birthday present I posted?
It's not only a card holder, the card in is actually a mirror.