She's a strong seller, but that doesn't mean everybody in japan knows she's #1 on the chakuuta charts or something. Just an example, yesterday my friend told me this Dutch artist has been #1 on the album charts for months and I'd never heard about her. Can't even remember her name. Chart position doesn't equal actual fame, I think.

I'm not saying everybody should know, I'm just saying if they're J-pop fans and follow popular music in Japan they should at least know she's alive.

Yeah that's true, if they really follow music they should know :yes

I guess "I didn't know she's still alive" is just a turn of phrase. They probably noticed she's still around, but without all the mad promotion from past years, it does seem as if she's toned down lots.

XD can't wait for the rips
reli reli can't wait
and PV
XD

^ayuchina didnt get the single earlier this time?? XDD its already sunday night,i hope there'll be any leak soon >.>

I'm feeling tomorrow Monday we are gonna get something :/ hopefully xD or maybe even tonight!

i think they will leak it on around 9th july since the release date is on 14th.

In view of promotion done for the past 2-3 years, I doubt AVEX will be even doing something substantial for the 50th single, and maybe it will be on par with the level of promo done for RnRC i.e. Random big billboard on top of a random building :laugh

Anyway I'm definitely looking forward to Blossom's leak!

XD of course AC & AMF
but I really don't like this single
so I just wanna watch the PV :grumpy

Well, they are not hardcore listeners. They are just normal Japanese lol



THAT's the point. ☆
Here, most of the people tend to think that the artist the see the most (TV shows, CMs, billboard, radio etc...) IS the MOST popular and the BEST seller, even if it sometimes it could be the contrary. For some cases there having not so much sales doesn't reflects a bad level of popularity (at some extends of course)



Oh, and as Misa-chan said, the "she is still alive part" is just a turn of phrase. It's just figurative, don't worry ('_^) Everyone knows that she is alive lol

I think the Dutch artist were you are talking about is Caro Emerald, she became really famous with her single ''Back it up'' and her single ''A night like this''. Her CD ''Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor'' was 18 weeks at nr 1 at the Dutch album top 100. I know it is offtopic but now you know who she is:)

Namie's new PV airs tomorrow, and her single doesn't get released until the 28th.

W.T.F.

Maybe I'm overreacting, but...damn.

Well, I also think that we are some kind of exception (foreign J-Pop fans...) We care a lot about sales, about chart positions, chaku-uta's, her promotion, streaks to beat Seiko... I wonder if Ayu's japanese fan-base care about that as much as we do... Maybe they don't even know she's gonna break that streak or maybe they don't care...

I mean... I know all that about Ayu, because we follow her like crazy here... But I never did that whan I just knew Spanish artists and my non-jpop-fans friends don't knwo anything about sales, promotion or rankings about their fav. artists...

So maybe is that we give more importance than we should?? XD

Who knows.. but I also feel this time things are working later than normal XDD

^^I think you have a point.

Also, they haven't even added the CM video to her official site yet!

Ooh yes, that's her! totally off-topic but thanks for reminding me :)

Ayu is always causing her fans to panic LOL!
but this is really taking far too long

No one read my post :scry

Can anyone tell me why I only saw Jackets A, B, and D on CDJ's site and Jacket C said "canceled"? Anyone know what happened?

^because they cancelled Blossom PV, so there was a CD+DVD version extra for nothing~ But Ayu said there will be PV for blossom, but that we will see it later and we'll understand why...