i dun think ayu will be selling lower than 500K at least. She should have at least 500K hardcore fans in Japan (judging by the fact that most of her albums sold over 500K on the first week). 700K shouldn't be a problem as well.. hopefully it can get over 800K. Of course, a million seller would be superior :D

so my guess... 500K - 750K overall..

If JEWEL is splendid and two new songs are excellent (well.. let's say there should be 8 songs in total for a mini-album), then the range could shift to 700K to 900K.. :P

sorry can you read katakana?:dead2
read the last line:D

well, personally, i do not want a MINI ALBUM!!!!
maybe AVEX wanna do the MemorialAddress--MyStory sale again?
i remember someone said MA's sale surprised AVEX as 1 million copies.
so Avex wanna do a mini album again and wait for next year?
For..... A BEST2?:thud

This is really going to mess up her schedules.. LOL

Could this mean that she could have like, 4 singles in 2007?
Like, a single in February.. :O

(I think that the album will have JEWEL + 1 LOVE + the songs supposedly done in L.A..)

I hope this is a visual album.
At least there's some news about something.

ok.. may i ask what a visual album is? :P

I seem to be the only one who isn't much surprised by all this. LOL xD I didn't expect a single. I didn't want one, too (at least no Double-A). Because I think less singles is better. So I expected the next release to be an album (or a minialbum).

I was more disappointed when "Memorial address" was announced. (Though in the end I like it. ^_-) Because it had 5 albumtracks released prior to it. For a minialbum it would be enough to release 1 to maybe 3 tracks before...

Visual album would be like Memorial address.

One PV for each song in the album.
I think that by 'mini-album' this time, she might mean it's like 8 - 10 tracks. Anything more is really a full album. I just hope that we get some amazing photoshoots and album PVs :>

Further information on Ayu's new minialbum [2006.11.29]
 

http://www.jbook.co.jp/p/p.aspx/3221167/s/
http://www.jbook.co.jp/p/p.aspx/3221168/s/
http://www.hmv.co.jp/product/detail.asp?sku=1217045
http://www.hmv.co.jp/product/detail.asp?sku=1217040
http://www.neowing.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=AVCD-23157
http://www.neowing.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=AVCD-23158
http://www.towerrecords.co.jp/sitema...DS_SORT_CD=101
http://www.towerrecords.co.jp/sitema...DS_SORT_CD=101

Jbook:
※画像はイメージです。
ファン待望の７曲７ビデオ・クリップ入りALBUMが発売決定！
大ヒットシングルと新曲３曲が収録！DVDにはハイクオリティな映像作品が満載！！
[関連]

'Translation':
- The image is an image.
Sale decision of seven ALBUM with seven video clip by fan expectation.
A single smash hit and three new songs collect. The work of ..high quality..
image is fully loaded to DVD.
Relation

Neowing:
大ヒット作品「Memorial address」に続く2nd Mini Albumを緊急リリース!! 2006年を大きく賑わせたヒットナンバーが満載の収録内容は、いずれもタイアップやテレビ歌番組等で露出 された充実した楽曲ばかり! 「Startin'」(カプコン 新鬼武者 DAWN OF DREAMS テーマソング/日本テレビ系 スポーツうるぐす テーマソング)、「Born To Be…」(日本テレビ系 トリノ2006 テーマソング)、「BLUE BIRD」(ゼスプリ「ゴールドキウイ」CMソング)、「Beautiful Fighters」(Panasonic SDオーディオD-snap Audio TV-CFソング)、「JEWEL」(Panasonic デジタルカメラ LUMIX FX-07 TV-CFソング)、「1 LOVE」(Panasonic SDオーディオD-snap/D-dock Audio TV-CFソング)他、全7曲収録予定!! DVDには全7曲のビデオ・クリップを収録予定。

'Translation':
2nd Mini Album following blockbuster "Memorial address" is : and only the enhanced music that can be exposed ..urgent release.. : the content of the collection of full loading greatly in the tie-up and both television song programs, etc. in 2006 ..the enlivened hit number... "Startin'" (Capcom new demon warrior DAWN OF DREAMS theme song/Nippon Television Network Corporation-affiliated sports theme song), "Born To Be…" (Turin 2006 Nippon Television Network Corporation-affiliated theme song), "BLUE BIRD" (Zespri "Gold kiwi" CM song), and "Beautiful Fighters" (Panasonic SD audio D-snap Audio TV-CF song), "JEWEL" Collection schedule of seven all video clips to DVD (Panasonic digital camera LUMIX FX-07 TV-CF song) "1 LOVE" (Panasonic SD audio D-snap/D-dock Audio TV-CF song) another and collection schedule of seven all


Three new songs with seven PVs.. :| THAT MEANS.. OMG ONE PV FOR EACH SONG <3
Release date is '11/29' so far. :D
Source: CAROLS-san@ALA


edit: CDJapan has posted the preorder links:
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=AVCD-23157
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=AVCD-23158

http://www.shinseido.co.jp/cgi-bin/W...AVCD-23157%2FB
スペシャル特典ポスター

At the bottom of the page, it says:
Special privilege poster

I'm disappointed since I don't think this is going to be as strong a mini as Memorial address. Ah well, I hope we get at least two new songs in addition to the two that have been previewed and PVs that don't look rushed.

And good covers! That's a bonus. The covers can't be worse than (miss) understood's, I hope they're as good as BLUE BIRD's.

SEVEN TRACKS TOTAL!! XD wow, that's little o-o...

that's...less than eight... o-o...

ah well~ 1 pv for every track is cool XD

Well, as long as Leslie Kee does everything, it should be fine. I think if he photographed (m)u, it'd be really amazing, rather than the grainy.. STUFF it came out like.. :<


Apparently we're getting three new tracks a la Memorial address with Because of You / ANGEL'S SONG / Memorial address.. but this time we might get PVs for each of them o_O~

Actually I sort of think this will be Memorial address all over again with 7 PVs and a 'bonus' album track.. :|

XDI hope there will be!! XD

hey~ at least is appears that your wish is granted XD

Wow, so it means... There are like one track (perhaps two) we do not know of yeat, probably mostly ballads ( considering most of the songs released thus far are somewhat upbeat). Well.. To me Memorial Address was never all that great, I have few favourite songs on that album I guess this'll be the same. I'll get it anyways though. Ayu's albums are usually better to get than any other full albums even though they're not as good as her earlier work.

I'm wondering if this was planned or a last minute decision kind of like sweetbox songs?

Oh good ^^

1 new track with a PV *exciting*

Thanks for info!

I think it was planned. She did the recording all recently.. I think that it probably was decided waaay back during her 'drought' in July / August.

11/29 浜崎あゆみ(ﾐﾆ/+DVD)､一青窈(Best)､ｽｷﾏｽｲｯﾁ(+DVD)､玉置成実(Best/+DVD)､RIP SLYME､橘慶太(w-inds./+DVD)､
　　　　森山直太朗､松浦亜弥(+DVD)､Buzz72+､ﾃﾞｰﾓﾝ小暮(+DVD)

There's not much competition.. other than a Hitoto Yo BEST, Nami Tamaki BEST, and some Sukima Switch album.

wahh XD crossfingers for another very good album >w> if not good XD >w>

according to these articles, there are 7 songs on the album in total. there are only 3 new wongs not released on the singles!! i want more songs!

Wow! A lot of PVs? :) Waiting for 29.11. :D

Omg high quality! <333

Yay Thanks for the information

Hmm, I guess this makes sense. The non-exsistant triple-a side would have been released to promote the mini album; like & was to Memorial Address. Hopefully there'll be a secret track. :D But seriously, seems so sudden. :shakehead

Huh? Where did you get 12 from?

We have the singles which are:
Startin'
Born to Be..
BLUE BIRD
Beautiful Fighters

And that's four, and then counting JEWEL and 1 LOVE, that's six. With an unnamed song, that's seven..

Did you add seven to the 'five' tracks we have [if you include teens..]?

Thanks for the up date.I do like the 7 PV's for 7 songs.

I guess it's just been a timebomb waiting to go off.

I personally think it was all planned from the start, with no one other than Ayu really knowing.

I'm not surprised, I bet we will see another Best-album in 2007... :yes

7 tracks?
oh no~~~

It's probably going to be all:
7 PVs, 8 songs. :3

I expect that the 'new' track we don't know about other than 1 LOVE/JEWEL to be some ballad or rock track and the 'album title track' be a bonus one..

Bit of a disappointment, but it was becoming less likely there would be a single release before the next album anyway. I wasn't really expecting much from a full new album, but I suppose this means she can get a shorter one out now and work on more new material for next year. Who knows, next year could be a year for better material.

Perhaps :

8 tracks
- Startin'
- Born To Be...
- Blue Bird
- Beautiful Fighters
- JEWEL
- 1LOVE
- New song
- New song

7 PV
- Startin'
- Born To Be...
- Blue Bird
- Beautiful Fighters
- JEWEL
- 1LOVE
- New PV

:D

Yeah, that's what I speculate as well, with the 8th track being a 'bonus' like M.A..

I don't want to ruin anyone's remaining hopes, but wasn't the bonus track in "Memorial address" announced along with the initial album announcement?

http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11091

Sorry.

Nice, more PVs to come :yes Looking forward to seeing those :) Thanks for the info.

I think that there will still be a chance that they'll stick a song at the end.
There will most likely be one, as seven is a very lonely number.

basically it's Memorial Address; except that the single-songs aren't as good of quality as in 2003... Hopefully it DOES still have a bonus track, REALLY good covers (this is REALY necessary) and good quality PVs.

NO!!!!!!!! i dont want any mini album!!! why??? i guess i share the same sentiments as many of you guys here.. i would rather wait for a full length album. (m)u was quite a disappointment to me. i would thought that ayu will come back with something better.. and................................. :(

Oh! She'a a REAL STUPID!
Now she won't reach the million, I think she will have problems to reach 500,000... I am always supporting ayu everytime, even if are true the things i don't like to know. But this is too much, with Memorial Adress she was critizised so much, and she reach the million, but compearing with Rainbow her sales were so low. With 876,000 of (m)u what does she think she will sell. Maybe 475,000? I have most of this mini album in my ipod, I only need Jewel and 1love and i'll have the whole album. Does she think i'm going to buy this **** of minialbum?

hope there is a bonus track!! there has to be 7 PVs compliment to the 7 songs to compensate the amount of songs! :( i cant believe Startin' and Born To Be... are gonna be in a mini album.. they are so powerful. and so far, 6 songs are already made known to us... wats the surprise? crap.

We don't know the full 1 LOVE / JEWEL-ness. lol
I want this now. Someone go into the future.

This is so gonna have a hot title.

...

I don't think that was a good way of disagreeing with this album.. o_o

Awh sweet! A new mini album! I wish it was a full album tho :(

Dude, There are 3 new songs! 3 new PV's! She always leaves the best to the album in the end. (Ladies Night, my names WOMEN, rainy day)

Don't you? This album is going to be the destruction of her carrer!!

Ayu! Are you mad? I want an album as long as MY STORY!

but i am glad they shoot 7 pvs for it

Oh yes, just because you want it then Ayu must do it. :rolleyes

I personally think that Ayu shouldn't give a hoot about what the heck we want LOL

She's the artist, she's making the decisions. If you don't like it, deal with it.

Ok...
Everybody is happy with this mini album?
Everybody wants a mini album?

I think I'm not the only one that want an album...

I'd rather wait 6 months for a new album than a mini album. XD Oh well. XDDD

Everyone is happy because something will be released.
Do you want to wait 3 months more for an album?
I DON'T. I'm freaking tired of waiting. :wtf

actually i totally agree with hilarydufffanboy in the first page... with this mini album, it would not drag down the quality of the next album...

OMG!!!!

But what are you waiting for? Everybody have more than the half of the mini album!

I prefer wait more and have a DECENT album than have a mini album that I have the 90% of it!

I think you should stop trying to cause chaos.

No one really WANTS this mini-album. It's happening. Deal with it.

awww. Never mind!! I really hope it'll sell well!

I hope she'll leave out a b-side and put in a new song instead, along with 1LOVE and JEWEL. Tho that's gonna be released as single too, right? ... T^T;; I don't like this~

The songs that are out so far have been 'announced'-ish.

New mini-album from Ayumi Hamasaki features seven songs including her singles "Startin'," "Born To Be . . .," "BLUE BIRD," "Beautiful Fighters," "Jewel," and "1 Love" (details subject to change). This version includes bonus DVD with the music videos for each of the seven songs (subject to change)! *Unless otherwise indicated, DVDs are region-2 encoded (Japan, Europe, and Middle East), and carry no subtitles.

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=AVCD-23157

it's already confirmed that all second A-sides will be on the album released on 11/29, along with 3 new tracks

...I think that this will be a big problem...

I don't really see what the problem is with this mini-album.

I think it'll be fantastic. :>

So it'll be like this:

- Startin'
- Born to Be...
- BLUE BIRD
- Beautiful Fighters

and 3 new ones, including JEWEL and 1LOVE? ^^ well that's nice I guess. I hope the new songs will be awesome then. ^_^ and the covers and booklet :D I have Memorial address and it had a snippet of the A Museum concert! Maybe the DVD [if released with DVD?] will have a preview of an Ayu concert as well :D or a nice booklet such as Memorial address had.

teens is not included. so yeah:

- Startin' +PV
- Born to Be... + PV
- BLUE BIRD + PV
- Beautiful Fighters + PV
- JEWEL + PV
- 1LOVE + PV
- NEW + PV

NO.

She will probably never include a rerecording / cover on an official album. And no remixes either.. That'd just be idiotic. :D

I'm not saying that it will be a bad album, I love of her songs so far, But i thought she learnt when a lot of people complained about Memorial Address not about it songs. It was because of the lack of new material, and then she released MY STORY. Sorry but when i've seen here that she will release a mini album, it has been a shock for me...

People loved Memorial address. o_o

524k first week sort of says a lot about it -cough-

More people hate MY STORY than Memorial address anyway. So more songs =/= good.

I was just thinking about that actually... what if she'd do a rerecording of an older hitsong XD that'd be awesome tho. Rody whatdya think about this mini album. Promising? Cause personally I've not liked the BLUE BIRD and Startin' singles much. But maybe the versions are slightly different on this new album.

I wonder if next year she'd release a new album in summer o_O I don't think she ever did that. Only Duty I think.

I wonder why Duty and LOVEppears were released at such odd points.. o_o

Oh really?
And why MY STORY has sold more than Memorial Address?
Why did she sell a million in the first week with RAINBOW and then with Memorial Address was a half?

^ Memorial Address was a mini album, remember?

Oh noes. :no That means it will never sell a million and there'll be hardly anything new for all of us. Hopes the DVD's good.

But somehow, I'M SO HAPPY!!

Because Memorial address had like half the tracks..?
Ayu isn't going to continually sell more than her last albums.
I don't think you understand how the sales work.. o_o Then you could ask like "Oh why did Duty sell so much and I am.. sell so much less!" Which in my opinion is one of the dumbest ways to 'compare' sales. o-o

I think i know how sales work and that's why i don'y like that she releases a mini album!

Then you wouldn't compare the sales of an album that has 8 tracks to an album that has 15.

but um just a question, is this a rumour now or is it confirmed? Cause nothing has changed on Ayu's website.

It's not on Ayu's site because they never announce it on the site first.

http://www.jbook.co.jp/p/p.aspx/3221167/s/
http://www.jbook.co.jp/p/p.aspx/3221168/s/
http://www.hmv.co.jp/product/detail.asp?sku=1217045
http://www.hmv.co.jp/product/detail.asp?sku=1217040
http://www.neowing.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=AVCD-23157
http://www.neowing.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=AVCD-23158
It's all over now LOL

A-tti-tude


Of course a mini album won't sell more.

THIS IS A NIGHTMARE!

Uhm, then log off of AHS and go take a nap.

If only i was tanking a nap right now and then, when i wake up all it's wonderful and this minialbum dissapears of ayu's mind...:thud

I honestly think you're overreacting a bit too much.

maybe Ayu wanna do high quality music rather than crap
lol

I think so, but this has made me angry...and sad...

If she did something new...

Agh instead of sales, everyone should be thinking of quality. Seriously. An album with 15% of the CD playing Startin' and another 15% of it occupied by BLUE BIRD is generally not so good. There's only so much chances for a new track or a mind-blowing one.

I feel so sad.

Well, just know that in January / February, we'll get a new single :D

A new minialbum :thud

The only think i want if all about this mini album it's true is she releases a WONDERFUL, GREAT. COVER!!! And an amazing boocket!

It is true though.

Well, it IS real. I just received an Artist Newsmail from CDJapan and here's what it says:

AVCD-23157
Ayumi Hamasaki/UNTITLED[Jacket A / CD+DVD] CDA
3300 yen US$28/118.75 Release Date:2006/11/29
Description:New mini-album from Ayumi Hamasaki features seven songs
including her singles "Startin'," "Born To Be . . .," "BLUE BIRD,"
"Beautiful Fighters," "Jewel," and "1 Love" (details subject to change). This
version includes bonus DVD with the music videos for each of the seven
songs (subject to change)! *Unless otherwise indicated, DVDs are
region-2 encoded (Japan, Europe, and Middle East), and carry no subtitles.

AVCD-23158
Ayumi Hamasaki/UNTITLED[Jacket B] CDA
2000 yen US$17/118.75 Release Date:2006/11/29
Description:New mini-album from Ayumi Hamasaki features seven songs
including her singles "Startin'," "Born To Be . . .," "BLUE BIRD,"
"Beautiful Fighters," "Jewel," and "1 Love" (details subject to change).

3 new songs huh.. Well, atleast 7 PVs, that's good.

Yeah, there are links to all the sites with it up for preorder in the other thread :>

I can't believe 2006 just passed by with so little Ayu or Mika and so much Koda. It's a bad year for J-POP. *sigh* Even Otsuka only managed to score 2 out of 3 for me.

2006 was a bad year for everyone. :B

i'm not dissapointed with these decision...
REALLY WANT TO BUY IT NOW!!!
hope this album can sales REALLY well

YAY 7 PV!!!
i just have blue birds single...so still looking forward for startin and born to be...hope there will be bonus stuff!!! CANT WAIT!!!
after a long wait of ayu stuff i will buy anything that she release

LOL this mini-album is even shorter than Memorial address! Such amazing news!!!!

ayuchina never publishes fake news well from 2004.

I hope they add an extra track or something :)
There's still 1 month+ to change things!


edit: Cloud, I think now that CDJapan, neowing, Shinseido, HMV, and jbook all say the date / information for this mini album, it's safe to say that it's DEFINITELY true. Plus that post was from hours ago..

Wow. Sounds like 1 track's extra.

I find it odd that they mention "singles" and 1 LOVE and JEWEL are present. D:

God please no same-day single. :< :<
But yeah. <3 Ayu.

Basically JEWEL / 1 LOVE / new song are album tracks + PVs.
I hope they add an album title track and the 'new song' is some experimental alterna filler <3

i really confident that this album still can sale more than 500k...
maybe about 600k-700k base on M(U) sales...
it's really ashamed for me that we are here ayu fans really doubt her ability to sales a lot of stuff..what we are doing, always complaining about her action

I'm not complaining. I'm sure that this will sell a lot of copies. People were just expecting a full-length album because we haven't heard from Ayu for a long while.. :shrug

would she still release JEWEL/1LOVE as a single and then release a mini album after, or on the same day, that would even INCLUDE those? o_O then there'd only be 1 new song on the album... and then either the single or the album wouldn't sell well, unless they put a MUST HAVE-something on both the single and album XD and assume people have enough money to buy both. I know I don't have it xD;

They probably just mistranslated ;D

I hope that would be true : D