How popular is Ayu around where u live?

[hiroshi_ben]

I'm pretty sure that every people(mostly chinese) here know her~and her mag,cds etc. can be easily found in here too~Almost all of my friends had heard of her songs before~

[Eu-Kun]

people here only like Utada and BoA -_- my friends that like ayu; i only introduced them to ayu

im from philippines

[evilkittygrahhh]

i am a very very recent ayu fan. ^^
and i dunno really whether a lot of ppl here where i live (in china) like her. i go to an international school. most of the students are korean and chinese.

maybe some of the koreans like her? i know some koreans that like jpop. i only know one japanese student in my school... and a few americans... (i'm originally korean-american).

k-pop and chinese pop is really popular here. i haven't found a lot of chinese pop that i liked so far...

[qwerty]

No one here knows who in the world she is. But at least I have a place to talk about her and a place where she's popular. *coughsAHScoughs*

[cybermoomba]

ayu is very popular in hell (winks at immel)

[BraiNz]

She's the most popular japanese artist of all where I live (Russia). Some anime/japanese culture magazines even put her PVs on their monthly DVDs sometimes. That's actually how I saw "evolution" and "GAME" at the first time when I wasn't into Ayu yet. It was 2004 or so. She has some really nice fansites in Russia too. We love Ayu!!!!!

[Mad_Cactuar]

Quite unpopular. Almost everyone knows her name though. "Oh, that Japanese singer?" but that's it. There's a few fans in my school though.

I'm sure she's far more popular here than she seems. The CD shop owner has like a box of (m)u CD's in January and when I wanted one she said "Oh, these are other people's orders. You can place an order, it will arrive in two weeks." Like, what the heck?

[truehappiness]

I think 'popular'..

Has to do with exposure.

a.k.a.
Hikki. And her.. Kingdom Hearts x 2 songs >< And soon to be third one >>

If only Onimusha told you how to get to the Ayu songs.. :< It's pretty hard to do so unless you like GO BACK and listen..

[Happii]

Bah! We're talking about Turkey here. No one here even believe that there can be such artists as Ayu in Japan Though I recently discovered a Turkish J-Pop board

[immel]

Originally Posted by cybermoomba

ayu is very popular in hell (winks at immel)

Moombie is too sweet.

You're gonna lure me all the way down there one day.

Yes you are.

[BabyUtada]

Where I live, no one doesn't even know that J-pop exist....*sigh* I do know many people who knows who Utada is but not Ayumi. Majority of the people in Memphis thinks that listening to music that you don't understand is very very weird......

[Kikaru]

I seriously did not know that other people (beside my friends) listen to jpop...so when I was reading this issue of my school's paper, I was very surprised to find Memorial Address in the "recommend CDs" section. It was wierd...

Here's the pictures I took

The newspaper


the article

[immel]

Haha, if I'd have seen something like that in my school I wouldprobably have flipped out.

Love your signature.

[Qt Mashi]

Originally Posted by Kikaru

I seriously did not know that other people (beside my friends) listen to jpop...so when I was reading this issue of my school's paper, I was very surprised to find Memorial Address in the "recommend CDs" section. It was wierd...

Here's the pictures I took


the article

omg! that's awesome~~

did they feature any other asian artist on there?

[aqua_crystal]

I know I'm not, but I feel like I'm the only one in my entire country wo actually knows who Ayu is....

[pommy48]

i think not even 1% popular since i think no one knows about ayu!

[Minttulatte]

Hmm... I don't know what I should say, but I think Ayu is popular in Finland. It's like every time I search something from finnish sites or just read what people say at forums, Ayu is always mentioned somewhere. And then there's that finnish Ayu forum called Ayu Moments. :3 It's a big forum.

She's not here like a "goddess" but I think that her fans in Finland would go crazy if Ayu said she's coming here tomorrow.

[majrakun]

Not REALLY popular. But I have many friends who knows her. Heck, this must probably be because I spend too much time with fellow j-nerds. XD

[Lora-Ayu]

Originally Posted by Eu-Kun

people here only like Utada and BoA -_- my friends that like ayu; i only introduced them to ayu

im from philippines

Same with him. I'm from the Philippines too, and goodness... Ayu lovers/admirers/ fans here are very very RARE~

Some of my Ayu fan friends of mine were just influenced by me that's why they now know about Ayu.

In other words, she's not famous here. But some of us will try to change that. Including me.

[Lanz16]

^ Like Lora-Ayu said, Ayu wasn't that very famous in my country.

They all know was all crappy western music or ballads or thrashy Rnb & Rap which I don't like the most nowadays.

When someone talk about my favorite music artist, I really proudly say "AYUMI HAMASAKI" but I ended by the question like this: "Who is she? Is she famous?"

Whenever I heared those words, I become pissed-off and I just wanted to scream and answering like this:
"YESSS!!! SHEISREALLYHUGELLYFAMOUSONTHEWHOLEWIDEWORLD!!!
SHE'SAMUSICICONOFJAPAN!!!UTADAandBOAISNOTONLYFAMOU STHERE!!!!! *pants*

Oh well, I had nothing to do but accept the very VERY harsh reality that Ayu isn't really famous in the Philippines.

There are few people here who can REALLY recognize the genuine and honest music of our beloved Ayu-chan.