Even though her album that wasn't a best that was released just a few months ago reached 900,000+. Thank goodness for smart people like you~!

I agree. If avex can force Ayu to release A BEST, then avex can also force Kuu to release ~BOUNCE & LOVERS~.

At least it didn't reached #1 and the sales are like Ayu's 3rd week ones :yes
I think Kuu's 2006 year was like Ayu's 2001 year

Shouldn't that go for the other two bests too then? lol

So Avex can force Ayu to release A BEST but Ayu can tell the president of Aves to go **** himself... yeah, ok, she was forced.

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Spark: She did release an album with BEST on it and it flopped. So putiing a label on it of BEST did'nt work this time around.

*sigh* You know what? It's not even worth discussing anymore.

I'm just going to edit my post and leave this place.

I'm Out.

sales is so bad for a best 2, eventho its a greatets hitls

Dropped to #18/19 today with the 10 new releases.

I guess. It could also be the fact that she didn't release a BEST album in her 1st contract and now they are 'making up' for the lost BEST album now by releasing 3 in a row.

Weren't these events 2 different time periods?

Oh my...

Oh well, I think it might climb back to 13-14 this week.

Go Ai!

pretty much. The "ayu can kick avex" came up when she threatened to leave back in 2004.

Ayu would have got her way about anything from 2000-2007+ so thats why I don't think they can really force her to release A best album if she did'nt want to.

selling the most or not Ayu is the queen-bee of the japanese music industry, she's in a "Beatles" level, she can sell 500 copies with her next release she still going to be the queen, even Namie on her top couldn't have as many #1s as ayu has.

Koda is the top-dog. not the queen-bee, it will take at least some sell out arena/stadiums/dome tours, and something like 25 #1 singles.
but with the way she releases she could have that in two weeks, but it seems to me that she can only debut at #2

Ayu only got the power to stick it to the avex execs after the Matsuura incident in 2004, and that was really only because she had made so much money and generated so much publicity for the company by then that they couldn't refuse her anymore. Koda doesn't have nearly that much power, especially since she was a minor artist for such a long time before getting popular in 05. While artist can play a big part in producing their music, they usually don't decide what they release, when, etc. That's their label's prerogative.

^ Besides all that too, she was thinking of quitting after A Best. When everything happened with AVEX and the president, it was more complicated. Her message made clear that she had the support of many other AVEX artists in choosing to leave if MAX were to leave. So they'd be losing money from their biggest artist, and many of their other ones. I mean, Ayu is friends with BoA, Misono, probably Koda Kumi, and many other artists...that's a lot of power.

03/27 - #19 --- #18

ouch

If it's written in the artist's contract, they are really forced to release it. It's either you release it or you don't sing for the rest of your life kind of thing.

Well, Ayumi was originally going to quit after A BEST if im correct, but 9/11 is what kept her to keep singing.

And Kuu was only popular for a period. Her terms over know. Ayumi is probably going to take 2007 as top-dog i she releases a triple a side in july ...

Oh yeah, even if Ayu is friends with misono, dosentmatter too much. misonos sales are hardly anything ... i think never + land only sold 10,000 if im correct. Although, can't be sure with the validity if wikipedia ...

Ayumi is ALWAYS going to be "queen-bee". I'm hoping [This will NEVERRRR happen] for sales of at LEAST 500,000+ if she realeses a quadruple A side [unlikely]. 400,000 if shes releases a triple a side [still unlikely XD] 300,000 for a double a side [possible] and 200,000 if she realese only an a side [extremely likely]

I don't think she's going to quit. Well @ least not willingly. There's rumors that avex forced ayu to release the best album as her last album and seeing how well the album sold, they kept her and continue to sell 'her'.
A BEST were released during MARCH while 9/11 was during sept of cos =.=" quite a long period so I don't think so...