All the songs in the lead so far are songs that define 'A BEST' (aside from MY ALL), so I am happy with the selection even if they have been performed time and time again. :heart

what a boring top 10...most of the songs, she already sings it

but yay for JEWEL!!! i hope she will perform it on main part, not on encore part

hoping for more rare song...

This!! JEWEL with bejeweled stage-design and luxurious props would be amazing!! ♥♥

Wait for some reason I though evolution was in the list lol. I'm actually not that annoyed by it.

It would be really nice to hear poker face and JEWEL. :)

\(^o^)/

(But wait - this is in alphabetical order, and not in particular order in terms of actual rankings... We really have to wait and see, but yeah - more JEWEL please!!! This song is so overlooked at too much ever since 2007 after her "Secret" album promotion)

Agreed :yes

is BLUE BIRD a hit song in Japan??? it was voted for A Classical and BEST LIVE :innocent:innocent:innocent

A Song for xx, M, poker face, SEASONS, SURREAL, Who... = we expected these didn't we :p

very glad to see JEWEL and Memorial address

more votes on no more words.
and I'm voting for Startin' as well, need some upbeat songs~

BLUE BIRD is a very popular song among her fans, on her iTunes Japan page, you will find BLUE BIRD ranking high on the popular songs list and music videos in her discography

Does anyone know if tickets are available for purchase for the 7/28 or 7/27 shows yet?

I remember once she asked people on TA Blog is they were sure they weren't tired of evolution and Boys & Girls yet xD

Voting for HANABI~episode II~, Daybreak, and YOU every damn day.

You have to wait until June 29th.

omg yes Daybreak, Daybreak, and more Daybreak. :yes

At least we got JEWEL.


and lol I voted for Daybreak.

You need to cheat :P

Sooo many nice songs to choose

Voted Heartplace, Carol, Surreal during 1st Vote

Nice to see JEWEL and Memorial Address, even BLUE BIRD! But c'mon, SURREAL ?
And wheres no more words ?! Hopefully that can reach the top 10 once the voting ends, that song needs a proper performance

I'm voting for Liar everyday, I don't believe it'll make it, but... lol

Maybe she will sing a lot of medley ?

MY ALL -.- oh why...
Nice that Memorial address is there and M! Just have to keep on voting, if only Connected or monochrome would make it :P

is that A TOUR LOGO ????????

Me too, I even asked several friends, all of us are voting Liar, criminal, it was, everyday! Because really... surreal, M, Song for xxx, etc, they are amazing, I agree, but for heavens sake, they were sung bazilion times while Liar, criminal, it was, guilty, kanariya, still alone and some other were sung like.... 0 times. Come on. I know people think since it's an anniversary she should only sing staples like boys & girls and evolution but come on, we have one time opportunity to vote for songs that are neglected too often. I also get mad when I see people voting for a different song every day, ok, their choice but what's the point? I'm not happy with the voting so far, although Memorial Address is in my top ten Ayu song it already has two breathtaking performances. I'm only happy with Jewel right now.

I voted for Liar a couple of times as well. It's one of my faves. Might be attending the Hiroshima show(s).

i have a question ! can i vote many times or how vote? i hope somebody help me

Just go to this website and choose three of the songs you want. You can vote once a day. =)

Here goes mine (sorry for the bad english)

TOUR 2013

~Introduction Movie~
1. GAME
2. Bye-bye darling
3. is this LOVE?

GAME starts with ayu trapped on a huge spider thread on the main stage. The outfit is a black dress and a black mask. On the last part the thread falls and ayu gets free. Bye-bye darling features ayu and the male choreographers. The male dancers try to capture ayu but she manages to escpae. is this LOVE? features ayu and the band.

~glasses~
4. Sweet Scar

One of the highlights. Ayu is dressed with an extravagant huge dress (like Kohaku 2012 but more kimono-influenced). The performance starts on the left part. Ayu is under a tree with beautiful flower that represents spring. A 6 year old children is under the tree singing the song. Ayu sings the first verse with her. Then she starts walking to the main stage. There is another tree on the way. The tree doesnt have flowers but it has beautiful green leaves. There is a 20 year old woman under the tree singing the song. Ayu sings the first chorus with her. Then she starts heading to the right part of the stage. There is another tree on the way. The tree has orange/brown leaves and there is a 40 year old woman under the tree. Ayu sings the second verse with her. Then she walks to the last tree. The tree has no flowers nor leaves, it represents winter. A 60 year old woman is under the tree singing the song. Ayu sings the second chorus with her. After the chorus the woman starts walking to the main stage. A longer bridge is featured. Ayu walks to the main stage, where a big white tree has "grown". The four woman are under the tree, and ayu sings the last part with them. Note: The women do not actually sing, they just move their lips.

5. Dolls

Ayu removes the "kimono" part of the dress for this song. Performed under the white tree. Special effects are performed on the tree.

6. Voyage

Ayu removes the big skirt and walks to the circle stage while singing

~task'n'bass~
7. Because of You

Ayu and her boyfriend are on a "room" on the left part of the stage. They have fights. The song ends with ayu shooting at her boyfriend.

8. criminal

Ayu is desesperate after killing her boyfriend. There are some dancers with cape that represent judgement and torment ayu. On the last part they take her.

9. GUILTY

Ayu is in the main stage. She wears a big dress, and is surrounded by various TV screens. The dress is "connected" to the screens with links. Ayu's eyes are covered. The screens show images of ayu's eyes, mouth, hands... (kinda like Arena Tour 2010). In the last part ayu breaks the links. Black ink starts falling from Ayu's bell to the dress. The TV screens also make the "black ink" effect and they turn off.

~DISCO-mmunication~

10. evolution

Ayu wears a very futuristic outfit with cool sunglasses. She makes the entrance on a big ball like in Dome Tour 2001. She starts singing the first chorus a capella.

11. Trauma~Fly High~poker face

Ayu performs on a futuristic car acorss the venue (like she does on a-nation)

12. SURREAL

Usual performance

~LABYRINTH~

13. petal

Ayu wears a ballerina outfit with a beautiful white skirt. She performs with the dancers, also dressed on ballet outfits. The choreography is very magestic. it ends with Ayu and shu-ya on the main stage hugging each other.

14. Ivy

Typical AyuXShuya performance, with some cool water effects

15. No way to say~CAROLS~You Were...

Ballad medley performed on the main stage

16. JEWEL

~Video Interlude~

17. Endless Sorrow

Ayu is in a huge cage on the main stage. She wears a beautiful hairdo of butterflies. She sings the first part inside the cage. On the bridge she opens the door. On the last part ayu appears floating over the stage with beautiful butterfly wings.

~Video Interlude~

18. Song 4 u

Ayu sings on the main stage dressed with a "medieval warrior queen" outfit. Ayu's outfit is golden. The dancers have black and white medieval outfits. Flags are used.

18. M

Performance starts with ayu on the left part of the stage, under a big cross. Then she moves to the main stage where she meets her lover, a "black warrior". On the bridge ayu and her lover hug each other. But the rest of the dancers discover them and they separate them. Ayu sings the last part while being carried by shoulders, while she tries to escape. The last sentence is sung under the big cross.

19. STEP you

Ayu removes the "armor part" of the outfit and performs on a blue dress.

20. BLUE BIRD

Uplifting and funny performance

~Video Interlude~

21. ever free

Performed on a white outfit similar to the one in the Daybreak PV. There are five coffins vertically displayed on the main stage. The coffins have inscriptions: Love, Music, Freedom, Happiness and A. All of them are closed, expect for the one with the "A" inscription. Ayu opens the coffins one by one. When she opens the Love Coffin many photographs come out of the coffin. When she opens the Music Coffin some broken CDs come out. When she opens the Freedom Coffin some chains come out. And when she opens the Happiness Coffin some "sad masks" come out. On the last part she opens the "A" coffin, but she is trapped inside.

22. A Song for XX

Rock performance

23. Memorial Adress

~Video Interlude~

24. SAKURA

Performed in a cute pink dress

25. fairyland~glitter~Greatful Days

Summer medley performed cheerfully

26. MY ALL

ENCORE

27. untitled for her~story 2~

Super touching performance

28. SEASONS
29.Boys & Girls
30. Dearest
31. independent~Humming 7/4
32. Who...

Man, I would love another ballad medley like she did at CDL 10-11 :luv2

In most of the fan-voting scenarios I've seen, they usually tend to show the results halfway through just so people know what is on top and then from there, the votes change slightly, haha.

Maybe now the Japanese fans will get in gear and vote for some stuff that isn't on POWER of MUSIC or A Classical?

hahaha, Well at least we got JEWEL, so hopefully ayu will perform it!

Come on Japanese people, vote for ever free! Return Road! even FRIEND & FRIEND II medley LOL. XD

omg i'm not into medleys >>" one with summer songs is fine, but more than one... plz dont

HEAVEN needs to be performed in the main section like JEWEL once too!!!!!!!

^AGREE!!! we need grand edition of HEAVEN performance

Omg, ever free! Yes!!! ;___;

I've voted for WHATEVER, Will and Like a doll

Still voting for an epic performance of crossroad... x.x

lol I know everyone loves SURREAL but it seems like a wasted opportunity to vote for a song she plays at literally every show.

While I slightly agree about SURREAL, the moment that intro starts (when performed in full), it's magical. I'd love the full song to be performed again, seems like it's been sandwiched in evolution for a while. I'd take SURREAL over evolution any day haha.

But I'd also love HEAVEN to be performed! Voted a few times for it

Agree!!! SURREAL is her BEST SONG:thud

Memorial address, JEWEL, M, A song for xx and SURREAL are pretty good for me

we need to vote more for kanariya T_T

Apart from JEWEL, the rest were so predictable .-. seriously, what's wrong with the japanese people? :laugh jk

I'm hoping (although it's not likely going to happen) she sings ever free, kanariya and monochrome. ><'

Great choice!

This. I'd deffo like to hear SURREAL live again.

Glad to see BLUE BIRD and JEWEL there, but MA and MY ALL as well.

im kinda happy with that top 10!

I laughed when I see the list, it is heavily predictable. Japanese fans sure love the same ol' same ol' I hope some other great underperformed songs aside from JEWEL and Memorial address would make it into the final set list.

I hope ayu thinks like that XD

AMEN to this! HEAVEN needs a proper main set list treatment as well as JEWEL :yes

The only song that surprised me a bit was "JEWEL". I know it's a loved song, but it's nice to see that with the predictability that is the rest of that list.

I've seen a few other artists with polls like this put up the results halfway through and have always seen the list change, so I'm almost sure this won't be the top 10. I'm very excited to see the final results!

Yeah, that's what I'm concerned... :no

Much like horse racing when the early front-runner of the race isn't the favorite to win, while the favorite may be behind before catching up in the final stretch...

I believe this kinda proves it wouldn't matter all that much to specify the A Classical poll :P

I wish the tour logo was the A symbol wearing a blue BEST OF blue ribbon.

i went with" I am...", "GUILTY" and "Heartplace"

I wonder if this going to be the logo for this tour...

http://i49.tinypic.com/35c330i.jpg

For the JEWEL performance she needs the frozen over tree from the PV at the end of the catwalk, maybe she can be sitting on a branch??? With snow falling down and no one else on stage :love Then she can perform No Way To Say :love

/\ PERFECT! :love

But knowing Ayu, she'd probably sing with that 'I'm-a-heart-breaked-girl' face with Shu-ya doing that ridiculous dance that he always does on ballads. :rolleyes

And lots of diamonds.

Dancing? I thought he span around in circles...

On a serious note though, I love Shu-ya, really good looking too, but way to over used. Takes a lot away from Ayu's presence

LOL indeed, I am really kind of sick of those "heart-breaking" performances :yes

Good one. :laugh

Who... to end the concert would be fantastic. Hope she does that. Glad to see JEWEL, Memorial Address and A Song for XX on there as well. Definitely not as bad of a list so far as I expected.

^ Who... would be nice for me too~
And the idea of a JEWEL performance the way ExodusUK said would be amazing and unforgettable~ :heart
I think I'll keep on voting for Heartplace and no more words now.
I absolutely need a performance of those! :yes

i'd love to see her performing A Song for ×× "030213 Session #2" from A BALLADS <3

And underneath the tree, sits a grand piano, and TIMMY is playing it, wearing a hideous outfit and with makeup

Sounds perfect, and PECO pops up at the end to shock everyone :love

Yeah, I really think Surreal might overall be her best song. She certainly has more popular songs, but something about Surreal has always really stood out. It has a lot of originality for a pop song. It sucks that about 8/10 times it is performed with evolution.

She pops out from under the piano bench then high kicks him off the stage just as Ayu hits the last note. Perfection

/\ LOL, DEAD :laugh I'd love that!

The logo is out!

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...type=1&theater

Woaaah

I really like it! Similar to 10th but still nice! I like the one wing theme she uses haha

I like it too! I was somehow expecting 2 wings but I guess that'll be for the 20th anni. :lech

I like the shield, I don't understand what's happening on the top right though lol

I'm speechless...

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.n...05037337_n.jpg

Strangely the first thing I thought of was Ivy...
Like, it kind of reminded me of vines? Especially the left hand side of the A symbol, it has that little nub on it haha.

omg, loveitloveitloveit! :heart

+1


I like it...except for the random flourish connecting at the top....I guess it's supposed to be like...Ivy....or something...

That thing on the right looks like an eggplant...

the logo reminds me of Ivy (= i hope she releases her 15th album in a USB version with this format like she did with NEXT LEVEL

Omg, it looks just like a fanart from a few weeks ago!! WTH

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...type=1&theater

i really don't care for it, it looks out of place to me, the shield is really not working here at all, and that swirl doesn't do anything either...It's literally like the wing is just glued there because they needed to glue something, it doesn't work as a whole to me. They could have done better. That fan logo isn't good either, there's too much detail on it, logos are usually very simplistic. Avex needs new people....

It's the official logo, it's on Team Ayu and official website
http://www.avexnet.or.jp/ayu/jp/live/tour2013.html

wow the logo is the continuation of the 10th anniversary logo haha XD~ i like 10th anniv more than the 15th anniv, it looks just not completed yet..something is missing on the right side.

wowwww did avex steal a fanart for ayu's a best live tour? it looks exactly the same!

^ yep agree, i love that one better than the new one.

On her official site, they said they used a fan's inspiration for the logo in light of Ayu's 15th anniversary....

So they really did use that fan's logo lol

^ wow they did user the fan's logo, but did they credit the fan or not? if not, they really should~ haha.

I think I'd die if I made a fan art logo and it became real

fan's "inspiration"

They straight up stole that **** lol How could they think it was good in the first place? :shakehead

I hope they aren't dicks and compensate that person. I don't think there's any legal precedence since the fan doesn't own the "A" logo to begin with...but still. It'd be nice of them.

I'm sure the glory is enough for the fan though lol

Thats my thought too, when the fanart logo came out I thought it was ... not so pretty. And the ayu version is maybe even worse. Ayu usually has a theme on her logos which are reflected somehow through the concert, but I don't see how a wing and a swirl has anything to do with 15th ani. REALLY glad they dropped the witch hat, but wish they had done more out of the wine. Its just bland and looks random.

Ayu just needs to fire whoever is in charge of her vis comm stuff. Everything about this--the actual logo, the possibility that a fan might not be compensated for his/her work--is really awful. It's like, after years of being stuck in a downward spiral, her visual brand has finally hit the nadir of cumulative awfulness.

Yeah the fan opened a topic on baidu: some people told him that they stole his work and so on and the fan answered that he was just really happy and that he didn't want to "blackmail" anyone.
http://tieba.baidu.com/p/2218442351

Here's his username on baidu: PrinceSam_3
And his site: http://www.teampsw.com/
He's from Malaysia.

do not like

I really like this logo. :)

So they didn't pay him then? That's a pretty **** move. As long as he's ok with it, I guess.

Well, he doesn't even own the "A" logo so I don't think they need to pay him lol.

I like the gold scheme and leaves anyway.

lazy lazy lazy
the first logo we saw was better

The first one was better. The actual logo looks a bit... Cheap.

god this forum takes the joy out of everything.

Ayu and her team were inspired by what a fan did, why would that -ever- be a bad thing? that means they actual care about what fans do.

i'd be elated if Ayu were to use something or be inspired by something I made (not that I make things haha). They acknowledged that they were inspired, the fan who made it is ok with it.

This.

Since they acknowledged the fan's work I think it's fine, and I would be so happy if it was my work!

I guess people in here are way too worried about people giving them credit for their works, so they freak out with things such as this one lol

The logo is ayu's and there are thousands of fanwork made from it, she might as well ban people from even using it, but things don't work like that.

And who knows, maybe they payed him, or maybe they talked to him and asked him not to tell, we don't know what happens behind, and omg how many other artists have used fanwork before? Are you guys serious? This happens all the time.

You should at least see the positive side, they might use your own fanwork someday, they are opening to new options and that's great.

And it's just a logo, but I guess that's all it takes to shake fandom and life decisions in this forum :laugh Another day another drama.

I quite like this logo but compared to the one we have in the top 10 ranking songs this one looks a bit cheap :/ It would be better with gold in it !

I think it's fitting really; Ayu has continued her career this far because of her fans, so a fan inspired art-work is appropriate/a homage to those people that allowed her to live her dream. :heart

It does look good. I'm sure ayu really liked it. XD

Where did avex actually acknowledge that they used that fan's art for the logo, though? I think that's the whole problem--it's blatantly ripped off, with no mention of the original artist whatsoever (at least, from where I'm sitting).

under the logo it says this: ※今年のTOURロゴは、10周年のロゴマークをベースに、ファンの方のアイディアからヒントを得てデザイ ンしました。

Nowhere, they just stated this:
It seems to say that they got "inspired" by "fans".

Phew. That's enough then. I would have been ripshit angry if they'd tried to pass it off as their own.

Seriously though, they could have found a better "fan idea" than this one. >__>

Ivy?
How so? Could you explain?:(

The new logo is hideous! It's so... awkward.

i like it ^^