The relevance of the oldest songs

[ComatoseBunnySnatcher]

What I mean are, how relevant are the songs off the first album a song for xx.
I was thinking of this since a while, and I have some thoughts.


Let's start with some single songs.

poker face is ayu's debut single. I was looking at the single sales, which were 40,000 ( I think). I'm not sure how good sales were back then, but seeing as the highest position it had was around 20, I'm guessing it was'nt that popular.

Next comes YOU. YOU sold around 100,000 units or so, which shows an increase. I'm guessing this song was one that may have attracted more attention to her.

Now, we move ahead to Depend on You. It shows that Ayu had gained a steady fanbase.

Next, the radio single songs. I'm pretty certain that a song for xx and POWDER SNOW gathered more attention, and maybe they were the reason the album did so well. We all know a song for xx was pretty important for her, but POWDER SNOW... hm. I was reading in masa's site that she had been forced to create happy songs back then. POWDER SNOW is pretty negative, even questioning the negativity issue.

What do you think?

[Melrose]

So, what is the question exactly? How important her older songs are compared to the rest of her discography? Not much I think. They're not really known, nor have they been performed much before. The order from most to least known/important in my opinion:

A Song for XX => Depend on you => YOU => poker face => Trust => POWDER SNOW => the others.~

[Catzi]

She didn't start becoming super popular until around Boys & Girls/ LOVE~Destiny~

It would make sense for her older songs to not too popular, so that's why she doesn't perform them often. A Song for XX is very special to her and also the title track for her debut album, so it's really one of the only songs from then that have really made it to now.

[alternarist]

older songs relevant to what? i dont understand lol.

[sugarbasil]

Yeah, I'm not sure I quite understand the question...

[ComatoseBunnySnatcher]

^ TO HER POPULARITY.

But, I mean, they must've been liked, if she sold 1,000,000+ copies of the debut.