RnRC is a great album. It has so many amazing songs, and they're all different and unique :shrug I never got the hate for this album, it has better variety than MY STORY imo.

Party Queen had great potential, but the finished result was poorly executed. It needed more and better pvs, less Timmy (pv-wise), more promotion, the stunning covers and artwork from the photobook they released, and singles! :thud

um i've got this comparison.... with for example fashion designers they are usually praised at their peak and pretty much try to please the audience they got, but eventually with years, they get themselves a name and they don't need to try to be at the top anymore and they get borred with usual fields, so because everyone knows the name/brand and will buy it because it's their work good or bad, experimental or general stuff they will always get some sort of an audience for it. in other words Ayu has a name made for herself she doesn't need to please the audience anymore. She still gather thousands at her lives and on her sales. I think if she drops down to 1000 it would be like, REALLY BAD and i'd say her carreer is over. But right now i also don't really see anything that needs to be cured.

as of right now I believe she still sales out most of her concerts, which that is a good thing and I think shows just how popular someone is besides general music sales.
As long as she is still making money touring then she will continue to make music.
Although as her album sales continue to decrease so does the production value.
But she is sales tons of albums at her concerts and we never know about it because their are no real numbers, then she could still be making avex tons of money.

i just hope her tours are still awesome next year if i decide to go T....T

For future single releases she should do some AKB or Super Junior gimmicks. Super Junior's single is probably going to sell 130k+ this week because they have fanmeet tickets that come with the single.

If Ayu wants to, she has to completely change her music. She uses a lot of the same sounds and instruments from when she first started. If she did a complete image change, I think she would see a surge in sales.

promotion isn't all of it, and can only help so much.

It's the music at the end of the day that matters.

^^
ayu is ayu
i hope she never changes her base music to something auto-tune cheesy beat boring music which is everywhere right now

i love her because of her real music wise not computerized music

she needs good tie-ins and more performances
progress could be a single with more than 100k