YAY!! I'm so glad the song might have a chance with a broader audience (IF) the drama will have good ratings :)

^ i was thinking the same think... from the article i couldn't gather if the two actors are popular or not??

Anyone know?

THis is great or Ayumi... and game OST lasst year and a drama this year... lets hope for a movie too! Heaven....

Too bad this is adult love story...

I guess not many young people will watch this drama, but another tie in will be better than nothing, right?

dying of excitement!

Kyoko Koizumi is increidbly famous. She used to be a super popular idol in the 80s and is now a really popular actress (and has won a lot of awards, iirc). this is a great tie-up for Ayu, regardless of the targeted demographic.

and I'm excited for this drama! I love the premise and I love Kyoko, and with Ayu doing the theme I might give it a shot. (I prefer "mature" dramas way more than the cookie-cutter first love stuff they always otherwise show.)

i actually think its exciting that she is doing an "adult" drama. ayu's audience is aging too you know, and eventually (if not already) her listeners are not going to be as young as they once were. i think its good to broaden your scope. :yes

That really sounds good for me. A Ballad... I really love her ballads.
And the titel sounds really nice.
Can't wait to listen to that song!

yeah, this clearly shows her audience. nothing we can do with it.

I hope the drama will have good ratings! Ganbatte! :D

I feel like this song will be a single. And she'll be promoting it on TV... awww will be great if she really does it and comes back on TV...

either way, with timmy composing this ballad, i'm really very confident that it will be amazing!!! i don't expect it to be anything like the medium-tempo ballads she's been doing.

I know!!! If it's a timmy ballad i have NO idea what to expect of this midtempo song! X)

I don't know why people assume stories for the older audience are bad for Ayu promotion wise. I'm an avid drama watcher and I can tell you that often the teen dramas are the worst of the bunch. It's a great honor to have a theme song for a drama that is for an older audience. Nakai Kiichi is a famous actor and I think this will probably help the sales a lot more than that failure of a drama that was Dandy Daddy. I love that this is a more serious plot and really look forward to the song.

I just hope it'll be a boost for album sales...

Great news! I'm really really excited for this one! ^^

So that means either February single adn March or April album or February album!!! :D

When will the drama broadcast?

Hope it's something cool and fresh! :P

I love the title. :) I cannot wait to hear the song.

I concur with Calico and Mai82Go, great posts. Both of the main lead are famous and won lots of awards for their acting. In fact, I have been anticipating this drama from the moment it was announced, long before the news about Ayu singing the theme song. Her singing it is a positive add-on, definitely a brilliant tie-in and now anxious to hear how it will sound. I like Koizumi and Nakai in previous dramas I've watched.

Yeah, the majority of Ayu's male fans have aged, as you can see in the graph below. Women of age group 20~34 are still most dominant though.
http://i.imgur.com/yXWoY.jpg
(graph source: NTV Best Artist 2010)

The drama premieres in mid-January. We can probably expect a preview around then.

oh wow, thanks for the pie chart! are the green titles for male listeners and pink for female? if so it seems that her largest bases are females age 20-34 and males age 50 to 64. is that right??? seems strange she would have such an older male following... o_0

either way it shows that her fan base definitely has a LOT of people in it who are a bit older, people who might actually appreciate an adult drama. so yeah, great move all around! :yes