He was most likely aware that she was having appointments with physicians because her hearing was troubled. I find it unlikely that a couple wouldn't really share their healthy problem with each other :shrug

Ayumi will always b #1 in book

Interesting article - GUILTY didn't reach No1?

I laugh at stuff like this, and then feel bad for Ayu. She must feel a lot of emotions inside that she never shows to her fans.

Oh, and so what if GUILTY didn't hit #1? It's still a damn good album, so I don't really care. XD

Aww what a sad article. They should stop releasing depressing news @_@! how about some good news for once!

It's amazing the coverage this is getting. I mean, of course she's the face of Japan, but the overall coverage is just amazing.

Although this'll make everyone wonder why she sounds so great in her recordings, and contemplate large mixing, there's no way she's letting up her singles streak at least. As long as she's able to make it appealing to buyers, it'll be a hard to stop her.

seriously... i don't think Ayu HAD to reveal this problem unless she wanted to...
The author was liek "WHY DIDNT SHE??"... I mean she doesn't ave to, its a personal ordeal..
Each person has their own way to deal with things..
Personally I think Ayu kept it to herself.. and expressed her emotions through her music like she always does...

thanks for the article

I feel sorry for Ayu!
But still; she'll always be my queen and no one can defeat her!

While I have to agree, her disease is not diabetes or something else unrelated to singing. Her disability actually has an impact over her career. She has every right to hide it as much as she wants but fame still does have its price. You never know, maybe some of her fans that aren't members of TeamAyu could feel ignored when she told a secret only for those who pay a fee to maintain her fan club.

With the whole ear thing, you wonder if Secret was about this condition..

[highly unlikely, but still possible.]

--until that Day...

:( sad

that's not good because guilty cant reach #1 weekly..
and now is the 1st time..
guuilty make me disapointed

They're still talking about this in Japan? :/ They should just let it be, Ayu might be angry already about how the media keeps talking and writing articles on her hearing loss. It's not nice. This is one of the reasons I really hate media, they never let anything go so easily (someone even made a in memoriam speech for Britney Spears, I don't remember where this was, but it's true). Stupid.

And GUILTY is only punch of **** because it didn't get the top spot? I think #2 is awesome and good thing. I really don't see any reason why media should give a picture like this about the album. I mean, I loved GUILTY more than I ever loved Secret or (miss)understood, because there's so many songs that are like me. GUILTY is my new favourite album, and that media fools can't make me think otherwise.

And I don't really think Ayu even cares about her career so much she would start thinking of a suicide now that GUILTY didn't get the top spot. I knew there will be competition Ayu possibly won't ever win. And Koda Kumi... Well, I don't think she is going to be a long time popularity. Ayu's popularity can start rising again someday, maybe this year, who knows? And Utada Hikaru. She could sell more than Ayu, but she hasn't really released anything so crazily like Ayu has for years. And Utada's popularity really seems to be on rising point again (and I really think it's because of Flavor of Life and Hana Yori Dango 2, because Flavor of Life sold over 600,000 copies.).

I believe Koda's popularity will decrease soon more than it has (comparing to this year single sales to last year I'd say she's not as popular as before), and even if Ayu's popularity would decrease and she looses her #1 single streak, I bet people will still respect her. I do respect her a lot, not just because of her music and everything. I admire her because of how she can be so happy. Of course I love her amazing music too, but her lyrics are what I love most about Ayumi Hamasaki. :>

And now it seems to me that I'm going to start talk about why I'm into Ayu's music, I'm gonna stop right here and now about my babbling. :3

You are right.

If you don't want to be a target from media, don't become famous. If you want to be famous, get prepared to lose part of your privacy. It's not only the media that devoid artists from their privacy. The fans also do it. Tabloids and papparazzi exist because there are people who buy what they publish. This is how the celebrity world works, and, unfortunately, we can't change that. :(

In all honesty, I think GUILTY was a little mediocre album. Nothing new, and after a week listening to it, my interest in listening to the album completely faded out. And I'm a very hardcore ayu fan. They weren't directly criticizing the album though, but just trying to prove thast ayu is gradually losing popularity (we can't really compasre her popularity these days to the one she had in A BEST era, so the article points that after a long streak of #1 she's finally gotten a #2)

She doesn't care for her career? :eek Wow, if she doesn't, fans shouldn't care for it either, and move on to another artist. I still think she does, and would rather believe she still does care for her career, specially after she mentioned she would still work despite her hearing loss :shrug I don't think she's obsessed for the #1 spots though, but being obsessed about it doesn't necessarily implies you're really caring for your careeer imo.

^I think she was talking about ayu don't care she didn't get #1 rather than don't acre about her career...

The writer doesn't sound like an ayumi fan to me & the writer should note that ayumi's pre Avex mini album & A BEST 2 -BLACK- did not debuted at the no.1 spot on the Oricon weekly chart .

Then again , everyone's a critic . Usually when I come across such articles , I just take it with a pinch of salt .

I think I ow in the stage - don't be bothered by these articles afterall they are just the writers' own opinions, unless you are telling me the entire Japan / world wrote in their ideas -