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maybe Ayu wants to reach more fans all over the country? if you go to arenas you can only go to the big citys, with hall tour you can come to more places and reach more fans. not every fan can travel far to go to a concert.
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That's a very interesting take on it. Perhaps that makes sense looking at the lyrics, I don't know, but Love Songs, Party Queen and Love again are very different musically within the context of her discography. Love Songs also is a very particular album musically because it has a cohesive concept much more so than most of the albums she released since MY STORY. Almost all the songs are written by the same person and the arrangement of almost all the tracks is based on a similar take "what if we mixed tetsyua's electronic music and added classical instruments and acoustic elements". It's also a departure from the formula with a summer song and winter ballad etc. The promotion and commerical performance of Love Songs is more similar to the albums before it than PQ and later albums. LS had singles leading up to it and performed relatively well. Ayu always had a drop in sales from one album to the next, but the drop from RnRC to LS is much lower than from LS to PQ and lower than many of her other drops in terms of %. Also Five was a relatively big success for her. Something really changed with PQ. I would probably agree that her "golden time" could be set from 2000 to 2006, although I think you could also say it's from 2000 - 2004 (ending with MY STORY) or from 2000 until the release of FIVE. |
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No matter the intentions, it's a business. Small stars start from Halls and make their way to Dome. That's how they satisfy the demand and earn more. If you're big enough, there'll be enough fans coming to you even if they have to travel. You don't go backwards out of courtesy so often. Ayu can't fill a Dome now even if she is just do a day. There just aren't enough fans anymore. Her music also to be blamed apart from avex's management. Being long in the game isn't an excuse. Look at Arashi and Namie. It's just obvious how bad she is doing overall with comparable talent and avex's market share.
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Would you like to link a source? For mine it's also the IFPI data, it's also nicely summarized by someone on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global...ket_share_data And the RIAJ also supported that with their numbers, here's a small English summary: https://rainnews.com/japanese-music-...inues-to-grow/ The yearly concert ranking only counts the full capacity of each listed show for every artist, not the actual tickets sold (or the actual capacity used of a venue). It would be far more revealing to have a list with sold tickets for everyone. Tho sure Ayu can't live up with the pouplar artists nowadays, especially not with idols. Female solos have it hard except for some few exceptions. It is hardly predictable , what or who is going to be popular. Ayu could tour arenas instead of halls, but she already scaled down her shows at Osaka Jo Hall from this past 20th Anniversary Tour to half its size. There are some big halls at least in the big cities like Tokyo and some small arenas having about the same capacity as big halls. It is all about planning tho and I agree with you, that neither Ayu nor her team seem to plan long ahead.
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I am sure Ayu earns enough. When I see the big lines of ppl at the Goodies both and the amount of stuff they purchase I think this alone will cover all costs xD
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^she earns the most with her goods.
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Here Oricon quotes the 2018 report from IFPI. Sorry digital sales still under Physical. and yes, the market share within Japan is still Physical driven. Thanks for clarifying that. That being said, the reason of their strategy of releasing on streamings ahead of physical, and limiting salespoints of more profitable DVD/BD versions is left unsolved.
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Did she just posted about coming back from the studio?
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Think she means the dance studio
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I'm not saying her marketing team is superb, but for me it's the first time they are using contemporary strategies to promote her and I don't it's so messy how people are picturing here. P.S.: yes, physical market is still strong in Japan, but most of these sales are a) best-of compilations (Japanese people love it) b) idol groups. So, I guess the future for soloists is investing efforts in digital platforms, 'cause they're growing in Japan.
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In addition to this point, I would also add that Mu-Mo is owned by AVEX - so this super expensive box (that only hardcore fans are going to want to buy), is actually going to be more profitable by keeping all of the revenue "in the family" in all likelihood.
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But I do agree that avex needs to have more effort in the marketing. It's been needed for a long time but sadly I don't think that will change any time soon. |
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And by the way, those copies are not gonna be part of the oricon ranking system, because FC and mu-mo only copies are not part of sales chart. So basically this album only has a CD only version available.
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^Well, they are making money the same without Oricon counting...
Oricon doesn't give Ayu much more than braging rights nowadays. |
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Official site updated tracklist https://avex.jp/ayu/discography/ Both CD is the same
My last hope is in two different hidden tracks
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The tracks are in different order on the two versions. That's so weird, I wonder if it's a mistake.
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#299
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So the print of the tracklist of the B Type box set is shown wrong, but not in the way we hoped for <.<
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They are in opposite order Jacket A CD: 01 We are the QUEENS 02 æternal 03 WORDS 04 W 05 The way I am Jacket B CD: 01 The way I am 02 W 03 WORDS 04 æternal 05 We are the QUEENS
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