Ayu in Oriental Daily 20/9/05

[extepan]

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The first time to appear on a public radio show to promote the new single
Hamasaki Ayumi attracts 5000 fans
making the venue super crowded

the japanese pop queen hamasaki ayumi has become less popular in recent years. in order to boost the sales of the new single 'heaven', she put down her pride, going to tokyo, osaka & nagoya etc to promote the new single. she appears in a public radio show for the first time since she entered the showbiz in 1998. she is so hardworking!

the day before yesterday, ayu went to sapporo, hokkaido. she requested to go to sapporo on her own initiative, because she was absent from the performance in 'a nation' last month due to sickness. she fulfilled her promise that she would be back in sapporo, and throughout the show, she repeatedly apologised to fans for making them worry. she was cheerful throughout, and said hi to the fans with a friendly attitude. this improved the image of ayu for (the author), and (the author) almost wanted to go and buy her new cd immediately!

this is the first time that ayu goes to hokkaido to do promotion, apart from her tours. in order to see ayu, 5000 fans aggregated outside the radio station. compared to the previous record of 1200 fans gathreing to see GLAY, ayu had many times more fans. the authority had to especially deploy over 60 security guards to maintain order. the crowding of the situation is definitely even more than the snow festival in hokkaido. ayu's charm is certainly irresistable!

ayu's tactic to be close to fans is working very well indeed. despite the fact that she lost the #1 spot in the daily oricon's single chart to Johnny8, she easily claimed back the throne on the second day. (the author) says, it doesnt matter if a tactic is old, it is more important that the tactic works!

[Raleigh]

Good for Ayu! I hope she continues this way in order to get down to the level of her fans!

I swear I remember her doing several radio shows between 1998 and now.

[ohsixthirty]

Oriental Daily is saying GOOD things about Ayumi!? whoa...that's a little unexpected! its really nice though to hear some positive reports coming out though. i'm glad they didn't find some way to portray her radio appearances negatively. anyhow, i certainly hope that this will boost ayu's image a bit, seems like the japanese public is a tad disenchanted by her.

[extepan]

hi //hikari!
i also remember her doing a few radio shows before, but i think they mean that this is the first time they do it in front of a public audience

I think she did one like this with fans walking by the glass window when she was promoting A BALLADS

[extepan]

ummm i didnt know that. anyway it isnt really important whether this is the first radio show or not. the fact that she is doing it is good news!

wow, this is a lot better than the usual trash that the oriental daily usually spurts out about Ayu, alot better. But it still seems that they are having a slight dig at her in the start "put down her pride" ? hmm.
anyway thanks alot for posting ^___^

oh. and i was sure that she had done radio shows before.. im sure ive seen pictures of her doing it O__o? hmm nevermind

thanks again

[Jennie Mae]

Wow, it's weird to read a good article for once. Hopefully it'll boost a lot more sales...

[Raleigh]

Maybe they meant because she doesn't usually get to meet her fans to promote her releases?

[Cyria]

Nice to see they said something good!

[AyuGAME]

nice article

[extepan]

Originally Posted by Demure_Dusk

Maybe they meant because she doesn't usually get to meet her fans to promote her releases?

indeed i think she does not meet her fans as often as she could!

[Mad_Cactuar]

Wow, they said good stuff? o_O Thats shocking! They finally realise that Ayu is a good person.. Ayu beat GLAY!! YAY!!!

[AyuRlz]

finally what oriental daily is saying pleases us. but i am quite happy for ayu for her own performance as an artiste

[extepan]

i guess we are hard to please

[Raleigh]

Originally Posted by extepan

indeed i think she does not meet her fans as often as she could!

Mhmmm.. yes. I think she should try to meet her fans more especially since there was such a warm response to her meeting her fans. It makes her fans feel that they can relate more to her.

[Qt Mashi]

Originally Posted by extepan

hi //hikari!
i also remember her doing a few radio shows before, but i think they mean that this is the first time they do it in front of a public audience

oh icic

ayu should appear on radio station more often~ she'd get a lot more fans and it's also for free

[Rebirthia]

i just can believe it... when i tryied five or six times, to get to the pic, i pasted the url in a new mozilla window, and repeatedly, this web appears:


http://www.elpais.es/

it is redirecting AUTOMATICALLY!!! the web is from a spanish newspaper..

then i tried in explorer, and i got to teh pic!!! but well, does anyone know why this strange things happen??? it's not the firts time i go to see an extepan pic like this, and anything had happened before... O_o O_o O_o

btw, i like ayu go and see fans, she should do it more, and alas!!! te pic in the newspaper is recent!!! and even related to te event!!!!!! LOL LOL

[Zeke.]

I am happy that so many fans had come to see little ol' AYU! This shows that she is still #1 after all of these years.

Question: Is this the most amount of people to ever show up to see a popstar at a radio interview in JAPAN?

Question 2: Has Ayu's #1 single debut streak been ended due to HEAVEN debuting at #2??? If so, I am VERY SAD!!!