That descriptions is so funny!

Um no dude that would be p0rn.

Welcome back sexy kuu-chan :)

my kingdom tour dvd is in shipping process also!
i'm mostly excited for the second disc, i wanna see the bonus footage!

hopefully the whole integration with the dvd and the single will be explained soon.

Wow, I don't even like KK, but TABOO just impressed me. It's the best PV of the year so far!

they are used for the scrolling effect^^ you know when you scroll on a page that kumi is over the text xD

YA! I definetely think ero-kakkoi kuu is back!

The sales don't matter so much. I actually don't think that statement affected her sales really, because the main people who were offended by it, were not people who are interested in her or her music. They wouldn't have purchased the album anyway so it makes no difference.

Is there really any point in thinking about it? We can't know if she would be selling really well if she hadn't said her bad joke because she did it =/...

It's a real shame she suicide bombed her career like that, I really hope that with TABOO she can pull herself back up again.

Honestly her statement earlier this year had a small impact on her career when it happened, but she bounced back pretty quickly. Her sales and everything else have been going downhill for almost a year before that. What Kumi did was blown way out of proportion by everyone. Think about someone like Erika Sawajiri or Ami Suzuki, their scandals were things that really ruined their careers.

^True, but I think the Media of Japan made too big a deal out of it. Seriously, who else would care if some older women where offended by her statement other than the media?

They're always to blame =/

TABOO will probably do better than MOON, but it's not 2006 anymore where it was almost guaranteed that she'd have great sales for her singles, she's past her peak. Even though I think what she's been releasing more recently is better, it probably won't sell as well as it would've if she was still at the peak of her career. I think a lot of people have gotten sick of her in the past few years, she's been too overexposed.

Grace, her career really didn't suffer that much. I agree with ahnsohee that the scandal really didn't effect her sales. =/ As of ow, Kingdom is still charting and not only that her DVD sold well and because of popular demand, she added a few extra dates to her Kingdom tour. =/ That scandal was only a tecnically to get folks to focus off Kingdom which is a shame because it was a really good album with a nice concept.

As for you question Celaphorce, I was expecting Kingdom to get 500k her first week which she only fell 75k short but overall I thought Kingdom would finish around the 800k-850k area. Hikki had LF to help keep the sales steady while live promotion was over with. So eventually Hikki was going to surpass her. (IMO)

The whole 3 best albums in like what, two years, didn't help either. Avex put her too much out there imo. But, maybe if they pull her into the background for a time, and then let her bang again, she'll have a second peak, kinda like Namie right now

I think more and more Kumi is slowly doing less work. A lot of artists with Avex are doing a bit better than she is right now, and I think they'll want to focus more on that, since they're all about money I wouldn't be surprised if they completely put her on the backburner to focus on someone else more successful. They did it with Ayumi once Kumi's popularity began to rise and I can see them doing it to her very soon.

Her releasing 3 Best albums isn't any different than Exile and Ayu releasing 3 albums in one year. =/ Kumi is still on the top of her game. Her popularity (public and musical wise) is still high in demand. TABOO was just released digitally and it's already at #1 on rechoku (Forgive me, I can't spell it!:P) charts. IMO, chic isn't losing nothing at all. I'm expecting TABOO get 130k-150k total. :)

^Hopefully, people get sick of Exile, just offtopic.

Kuu's popularity ain't what it used to be, but then again, if you aren't Hikki, your popularity tends to wave back and forth. I'm sure TABOO will start to push her towards popularity again, it's that good, and the b-side is pretty strong for once

I think she just needs to do something original. I feel like for the past 2-3 years she's been releasing the same thing over and over. Her singles come out in the same pattern and everything. I think she should take a break for a while like Namie did and come back with something to blow everyone away.