Kuu's Japonesque Tour is sold out so far.
They promote it like that, here for the last 4 for shows:


And it has 18 dates, 16 normal and 2 additional.

Then it's normal that the 2 last shows aren't sold out yet?
But aren't the osaka ones are still selling tickets?

I didn't check till which date tickets are sold for the last 4 dates
So it can be that those aren't sold out (yet).

If they were sold out there wouldn't be promotion to sell tickets...

The ad is not selling tickets tho, its just promoting the special final.

I think people still mad about her random scandals, people usually prefer going to Best concerts.

"sold out"? i'm sure I could get tickets from a reseller shop...doesn't "sold out" just refer to tickets from official sources...?

^ Of course, it's always like that. It doesn't matter if people buy to resell, she gets the money anyway lol :D

can somebody post how many people attended all ayu's tour??
i know that RnR tour was attended by 400k

ayumi hamasaki ARENA TOUR 2012 A ~HOTEL Love songs~ : 275 000
ayumi hamasaki ～POWER of MUSIC～ 2011 A LIMITED EDITION: 280 000
ayumi hamasaki ARENA TOUR 2010 A – Rock'n'Roll Circus: 400 000
ayumi hamasaki ARENA TOUR 2009 ～NEXT LEVEL～:300 000
ayumi hamasaki ASIA TOUR 2008 ～10th Ａnniversary～ : 230 000
ayumi hamasaki ASIA TOUR 2007 A -Tour of Secret- : 180 000
ayumi hamasaki ARENA TOUR 2006 A ~ (miss) understood~: 260 000
ayumi hamasaki's ARENA Tour 2005 A: My Story: 230 000
ayumi hamasaki STADIUM & ARENA TOUR 2002: 600 000
ayumi hamasaki DOME TOUR 2001 A: 300 000

cant believe Tour of Secret was rly that bad >>' any stronge sources?

Nop it's the true figures ! this tour was quite short^^

^ Maybe since Tour of Secret was the first Asia Tour, it means she performed in smallest places..
I'm not sure, but if I remember right in the documentary some of the Arenas were really small, so less seats means less people could go and see it :)

does anyone how much does ayu ticket cost??

plz dont say 8500 bc my brother told my they cost more he went to an ayu concert

^ Maybe because he bought it from scalpers/resellers? That's the original price you get directly from TA.

Maybe its because Im so sedated due to therapy, but she's so stale show wise!
I love her but change it up, geez.

I know right :no

Is any one going to sit around area E at southside on July 27th? (´・ω・｀)

Those numbers don't prove anything though, they're going by tickets sold from TA and Conveni's which sell them. Those numbers will always match up exactly to how many tickets were available because the resellers empty the kiosks before people planning to attend can get to them. So the only thing it shows is which tours had more concerts.

ayumi hamasaki's ARENA Tour 2005 A: My Story: 230 000

I thought there were more people attending.

ayumi hamasaki ARENA TOUR 2010 A – Rock'n'Roll Circus: 400 000

Another surprises because I didn't think this tour was that good. Perhaps 7 days Final helped.

But there are so many factors involved to attendance, i.e. Tickets in the market, arena available sizes, etc.

I don't understand why AHS members are being so dramatic all the time by small tiny things. This kind of non-scene argument happens all the time.

thanks for the info!!~

Haha your sedation speaks truth.

Because we care. Really, I don't want to be a rational fan, that always praise or at maximus is indifferent. I love being in the meltdowns, giving my opinion and strongly feel for her. I love being passionate about small things.
If these "scenes" aren't happening, it'd probably be a sign of a dying fandom.
Love is dramatic.

^
LOL, spread the LOVE! I'm proud of being passionate. Well, someone around me wispers "crazy", but very lowXD

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http://www.avexnet.or.jp/ayu/jp/news/130617.html

So...no summer release this year.Anyway I'm happy with this DVD!!

Actually, her fandom has been dying since the end of her peak. It's a miracle that the decrease was so slow.

edit: Already a date for the DVD!!! O.O It's so fast. It's like ayu wanted to forget it.

^
O my, slowy decreasing, we're just like her album sellings, aren't we?

Anyway, I'm happy for the announcement of the DVD, I can't wait to watch this tour, 'cause I love the setlist and, well, there's this pool performance of SAKURA that must be really something!
But, God, the prices...

Might consider picking up the CD.

mi|kshake~

aint that the truth lol

The pool was for JEWEL and HEAVEN, SAKURA was performed like Together when... at CDL but in the main stage, not in the center of the arena :D

It was awesome. I cried the whole HEAVEN performance, the dance was really beautiful. The light effects in JEWEL where like the water was diamonds, just like in the PV!! ^^

For Sakura they used blurred screens of cherry blossom, very beautiful too.

spanishfan, concert at which venue did you attend? :-)

This sounds so nice! <3 Can't wait to watch this tour. I'm wondering which performances they'll decide to keep for the DVD...

I can't wait to watch this tour too, even though I expected a little more, but well... maybe she has a surprise for us, who knows?

The first one in Saitama 04.13 ^^

I hope the put every song of this tour, with every song that change of the setlist.

According to AyuAngel's translation from TA, she'll be working on her new album after a-nation.

^ oh it's an album? not a single?
but, yeahh bring it on ayu!!

^^Yayness!! I hope it'll kick ass!

HOW DID YOU GUYS GET THE TICKETS CAN YOU GUYS PM meeeeeeeeeeeee?????????? I am planning to go to the Tokyo one.

for the first time i dont feel any excitment about a new album =\ dont know how to explain... maybe because it's still faraway... i hope for one digital single at least =) like Party Queen did

Awesome. Don't care about the format as long as she keeps releasing stuff :D

really! can't wait to her new music from her!!

O MY GOD, yesss!!

i thought as much when she said no to an extended tour!
YES!

i'm hoping they will throw out a single or two from it.
i need new music from Ayu lol

is she gonna keep one album once a year format now?

Yeah, I was going to bring up Gackt as well. He obviously has no problem with stripping down his shows and just playing. He has played all over the world now. But, the sad truth is that there is a difference between him and Ayumi - Gackt is a musician.

Gackt is hardly a musician and more like a hack. lol.. I like what I did there.

Ayumi has already demonstrated she can do a stripped down tour. It was called Power of Music. The first round of shows were incredibility minimalistic.
There is a reason why she doesnt go over seas, because she doesnt want too. She has already said she has no desire to do it so why?
Her main audience is in Japan. Thats it. Theres not reason for her to go to Europe or america for her MAYBE 100's of fans.
She might to do another asia tour one day, who knows. But the way she is being hated by her international 'fans' why bother?

Gackt is a musician. The man writes his lyrics, composes music and plays a couple of instruments.

A tour with so many dancers, center stage and a couple of nice costumes can hardly be called stripped down you know. It was not minimalistic at all, just stripped down compared to her regular tours. Ayumi Hamasaki has more than 100 fans in Europe and the States and she could easily sing in front of prolly as many people as Gackt did.

Where did you get the idea that she doesn't want to go anywhere else? She's never said it.

Power of Music stripped down?!?! OMG you gotta be kidding me: full orchestra, more than 20 dancers, full band, 7 costume changes...

I guess I could have said stripped down compared to her other concerts. But the first half of her tour had none of the costume changes, or the wild things that she does for concerts. The DVD we got and the final was basically a completely different show.

Oh and she has said on several occasions she has no desire to come to america (dont now about Europe but I well lump all western speaking countries together because i can)

he said, the FIRST ROUND, she wore only one costume or two, and didnt have as many dancers until the second round

Even on the first round she had three costumes (same pattern but three models), a full orchestra, a full band, dancers, and she performed in arenas. Doesnt sound too stripped down

not at first. You are thinking towards the middle and end. When she started the concert and for a few shows it was BARE MINIMUM.

And quite frankly just because its in an arena doesnt mean squat.

Please refresh my memory. Because I only remember her saying that she would go anywhere where people listen to her...

Of course it was in arenas, because it was planned in arenas, and all the tickets were allready sold. she could have done the same show in a small venue too.
And also in "stripped down" shows she needs a band just as Gackt (to continue the example taht was given before) even if he can play several instruments, he can´t play them all at once.
And I am not gettimg tired in bringing on Limited TA Live Tour, she had 3 costumes, a small stage, her band, i think 2 or 3 dancers and 2 background singers.
So she CAN if she wants to ;)

if she is able to release it by next april, it will be her 15th studio album in her 15th anniversary!! quite meaningful.

I read it's an album, but well, we should wait for further news lol In any case, I'm quite excited. Hoping to see a rockish Ayu.

I never heard or read anything about her not wanting to go overseas. In fact, there's this interview from CNN, I guess, when she was working on Secret, and she said she would go anywhere in the world if her fans wanted her to.

Next April will be her 16th.

^7th of April is still her 15th xD

Actually I'm quite excited because in this TA message she said that she discussed a lot with her staff about this future album and that she will put all her time for it !

I'm really interested to see what direction this album will take ? Something completely new or something similar to her past work ?

In this message she give me the feeling that she questions herself a lot !

i hope it'll be really something awesome.
so we gonna have an album earlier than before this year?

I'm excited for a new album!
Hopefully a lot more creativity and effort goes into it than went into "LOVE again" :\

Ayu said once that she doesn't want to start a career overseas, like releasing CDs. I guess he is just assuming from that Ayu also doesn't want to tour overseas....

You've gotta be kidding about the Gackt comment. He writes his own lyrics, music, often times arrangements as well, plays several instruments botg live and on his albums etc. If he isnt a musician then i dont know who is. Also, Power of Music was a far cry from a band in a hall or club.

Don't get me wrong, my favorite ayu show ever is the TA limited live. But it's as you said, if she wanted to do that kind of show again she would, but clearly she doesn't. Or at least doesn't think it's worth doing - as you put it for a few hundred fans. Gackt and Hyde as well do think its worth it however and I think them being actual musicians probably is a factor. Hyde could be selling out stadiums with l'arc yet he chooses to spend a lot of his time solo touring small venues around the world. That says to me that they are more concerned with their music being heard by as many people as possible, rather than going only where it will be most profitable for them, their companies etc. and I'm not saying one is bad, but it's just obviously a very different way of doing things that I'm not sure ayu is willing to do.

it could be 5 mini albums before we get a full album :P

hell yeah she will!! :)

Sigh, I don't know, but I really do miss singles.

Here's some info for you: he' plays around 10 instruments - piano, bass, drums,guitar, shamisen, violin, trumpet, tuba, horn, trombone; is a trained min'yō singer (traditional type of japanese singing); composes 99% of his music as well as writes lyrics and also does arangements. SERIOUSLY, NOW.

Also you are probably only one TRUE FAN WHO LOVES AYU UNCONDITIONALY around the world i asume?.... :innocent And PoM? Really? the only concert u can call REALLY stripped down to almost nothing is a limited TA one, THAT was stripped down. Sure PoM was quite simple compared to her usual pompastic stuff but nowhere near as stripped down as TA limited one. She could take TA limited one overseas, no way PoM...That would be wayyyyy too expensive.

Well i think for GACKT it was easier because he's in a rock/VK world and lots of VK/rock bands went overseas so he had a bit of an idea what to expect. I franckly dunno how j-pop does overseas. And fact is that yeah they are very different.

Gackt a hack and Ayu a musician? If Ayu was on Gackts level, no one would need to plead for the return of CREA because CREA would compose all her music. She lets her music be dumbed down by the Avex way of doing things. Her music now is getting a bunch of demos, picking 5-18 out depending on if its a single or album and then trying to make some lyrics conform to demos that have been around for who knows how long. Gackt writes his own music and lyrics exactly how he chooses as each recording session comes around and doesn't need to add or remove things from lyrics to make it look like the song is written about some love in his life created for publicity. I would place Ayumi's voice at #1 & Gackt's in the top 10 all time I want to hear over and over again on CDs, but for Gackt I would place him top 5 in talent among all celebrities, while Ayumi presently I wouldn't place in the top 100. Her voice is great, her lyrics conform to whatever the current image is Avex wants her to portray and her music writing has disappeared & publicly she's made herself look like a joke/***** for publicity the last 3-4 years instead of the very endearing sweet image she once had.

You guys are forgetting that an intimate live (which TA Live was) is more about the vocals than the whole production, maybe that's why Ayu doesn't wanna do this anymore.

It has been a long time since Ayu's concert aren't "Ayumi Hamasaki - the singer", but "Ayumi Hamasaki - the show", with a lot of thing going on around her. I mean, she doesn't dance anymore (not that this was her thing, but at least she danced one song per concert, like Inspire, Real me, appears @ AT07...), and she's almost never alone on stage...

I know her vocals are getting better, but I think she's not confortable enought to focus a whole concert around that.

Gackt's music has sucks since REDEMPTION and that was released in 2006. Ayu didn't even begin to stumble until 2009.

Well, to be fair they are BOTH musicians. the defiantion of musician is:

The bolded is for ayumi. As for who is the 'better' musician, thats a matter of personal preference and I think I made it clear where GACKT stands in my book. (Also just to point out, just because someone can do something doesnt mean they should, or that they are any good at it).

I hope not lol I'd rather a new single than another mini. :innocent

^
If the minis would be anything like LOVE or again, they'd pratically be singles anyway, lol.

She isn't dancing because she is singing live...

^
She dancing during AT 2010 and this one was full live too ! She also dancing a little during AT 2012 but the general theme of this show was not into this at all but it's not like if her recent songs were oriented dance ...

i agree.

and i also wish that ayu'd do another limited TA tour in small halls, just her, live band, back up vocals and few female dancers.

For people who have been to the tour already, how early would you recommend getting there before the goods stands open?

With a more positive note she sings teddy bear today =)

wow she sang teddy bear? i hope we gonna get the footage of it.
i miss her singing that song.

yay for teddy bear! :heart

Finally some update TT^TT I was waiting all week just for the 22nd. It's really great that she changed the encore song into something different.. Teddy bear sounds great too.

To avoid big crowds just buy goods inside the venue. I easily bought mine 30 minutes before the show. Endless lines are usually outside. Although I don't know if all arenas sell goods inside as well.

Btw talking about the back to the basics performances~ how come I've never seen these 2 before:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=618337824850755

You could tell that she was really enjoying it. Her voice was perfect, cuz she wasn't distracted by anything <3

Loved that she sang teddy bear. Does anyone knows how were her vocals today?

wow! thanks for these! she's in great shape here, her voice is really GOOD!

Ah~
If only she sang GAME and INSPIRE during next CDL.. :luv2

@mizuki It has nothing to do with how fluent she is. The stupid sounding lines on the Party Queen album and on Happening Here, don't sound like any english lines she's ever written and came at times when he posted he was working on lyrics for someone. Since I only see his work showing up in her work, it just makes sense.

^FYI, ayu didn't write Happening Here. :P It's a cover of TRF's song of the same name (hence, she didn't write the lyrics). That and the English on Party Queen isn't as bad as you think it is. You, sir, are over-exaggerating.

"...I'm a lonely queen, life is just a dream" :yconfused

If it was the case she would have put him in the credits without problem ... She said in interview that they created together these two jazz songs and she only put him in the credit so she is not eager ... and yeah Happening here is not her song so that's not her lyrics !

After all it's not a big deal I stop this debate :D

mini-album/digital single/album/single >>>>>>>>>>> nothing at all. grow up.

although it's stupid to release a "mini album" with instrumentals of the songs on it. that's MISREPRESENTATION! lol

Oh yay, teddy bear! I like when it's just her and the bear on stage :)

that was from the CDL special live after her CDL 2004-2005! :)

I was referring to the lines added to Happening Here which it would have been better and by TRF is better without. And it's a matter of opinion on both that and Party Queen. And both ZEKE about the IN MY OPINION and another post above about allowing others to speak a different opinion other than your own without bashing are very correct. Often I get people who decide to report me for my opinion and get an infraction and my posts deleted for having one. Hardly a way to run a forum.

Agree 100%. Even if things run off topic now and again it still stemmed from a discussion. In real life you can't just "trash" conversations that got out of hand and throw a smile on it.

how lovely

this. many of you I like, and many more of you are ridiculous and it's just...like wtf.

teddy bear <3