It's sad when you actually pity an artist.
:/ I pity Thelma.

Do they even promote her stuffs? Seriously most of her stuffs are awesome, but then again awesome songs doesn't always mean awesome sales.

she was on MUSIC STATION before here & there & let alone HEYx3 some 2 years back or so

but her recent releases , I really don't see any form of promo going on which's very sad :(

it's as if Universal has already given up on her or something

I don't blame Thelma I think her lack of success is Universal and her management teams fault. I think it is time for a change in scenary, Thelma.

I got bored with her a long while ago but still kept hoping for the best. Last song I really liked was Suki desu.

They shouldn't have tried to base her whole career around one song.

A shame really, as I think Emotions is a much better album than Diary.

yeah I agree with what you said & it make it sound/look like as if she's a 1 hit wonder

people down the road unfortunately will know best about her cos of Soba ni Iru ne :( & yup I also feel that Emotions is way much better than DIARY

I can already see it : This is going to be one of those cases where, ten years into the future, EVERYONE will remember or know the song Soba ni Iru ne, but no one will be able to remember who the singer is.

harsh but I agree with you on that

it's not as if Aoyama doesn't have other good songs in her discography other than Soba ni Iru ne (which's honestly a song that I only find it OK . ONE WAY was for starters fantastic)

even her album tracks like I'm Sorry is so single worthy material but it's just that factors are not working in her favour big time .__.

LOVE ! 2 –THELMA BEST COLLABORATIONS- is up for download here

I'm surprised this's 1 release people either don't know it's already released or can't be bothered about o_O until I had to nudge someone to upload it for me haha

Hate to say it, but she's even worse than Yuna Ito on the I had a hit single but now no one remembers me list. :/

ah yeah what to do T_T

I'm listening to the compilation album & I found out some interesting things

Dreamlover (DJ MAKIDAI Feat Aoyama Thelma) - it's a cover of Mariah Carey's 1993 hit which was taken from her 3rd album Music Box

Yakusoku no Hi (Dohzi-T Feat Aoyama Thelma) - answer call song to Futari no Yakusoku no Hi which's track #4 in Aoyama's 2nd album Emotions

Aoyama sure loves doing answer call songs eh o_O

Yuna Ito at least gets recognized for having a pimply back or w/e from the proactive commercials, Thelma doesn't have pimples :(

I think Thelma is very talented but she needs new producers, new marketing, new everything. And to stop releasing Best albums that no one clearly wants.

I was hoping the second collab with SoulJa might bring things back for her but no... SoulJa's career needs to be buried anyhow.

yeah that's quite ironic if not sad

it's as if they have to rely on each other to boost their popularity somewhat or another but it backfired big time D:

no ballad! :P i hope it's a good party tune!

hoorah no ballad xD xD

I can't wait & my copy of LOVE 2 was just shipped out earlier on this afternoon from HMV Japan *__*

Ah, good. :)

Let's hope for a good tie-in and some good promotion. Or else she's gonna end up charting at like, #100.

I collected my copy of LOVE ! 2 (CD + DVD) earlier on from the post office

I did scans of it , well just only for those that contained pics of Aoyama in the booklet . If anyone wants me to scan everything of LOVE ! 2 , then please ask me , don't be shy :laugh xD

here're the pics of Aoyama -> http://img201.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=40553500.jpg

the one with the pink borders on the sides is the insert back pic of her

I like this shot of Aoyama

http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/6127/50654593.jpg

<3