so by encore we are talking about a 2nd edition... nothing really different... no content changes or anything?

encore press? that's ********. lol

Avex probably hoping it will make more people buy the album or need to cover their asses for not making enough, thus being unable to fill pre-orders.

They almost always do an encore press of the boxes. They actually did it for the last 3 albums' limited edition versions.

Party Queen's screensaver is up!

hasn't it been up for a while?

man, high hopes for sales this weekend...

no, he is not in reminds me.

maybe after ayus interviews start airing, her sales for the album will pick up. It could of been the iTunes early release which has interfered with the physical sale numbers.

No not really. The difference with NEXT LEVELs USB was that the first press had a yellow case and the encore press just had a regular non-coloured case. See here.

CD Japan has just shipped my box... there better be no differences between original and encore press. I placed my order on March 9th, so hopefully it's not encore press.

I don't remember R'n'R box encore press having any differences. I got mine from yahoo auctions, NEXT LEVEL USB FP as well.

EDIT: oh wait, I believe encore press of Rock'n'Roll Circus box was coming without photobook. Which means encore press of PQ will probably have no "Ayupan AR" app. btw there's one more box w/blu-ray left at CDJ and it's First Press.

RnRC Encore press didn´t include the First Press CD+DVD with the photobook, as I know the encore press came without the photobook.

Well, my Limited Box is basically here now, but I can't get it today, because Fedex wants some extra information about my package from the importer D 8 So, I'll have to wait 'til Monday it seems..

Well, at least I can listen to MDNA...~

Hmmm something weird happened XD

A couple of hours ago I was upset because of today's sales, and I said in twitter some things about Avex bad management of PQ's promotion. I said the best way nowadays to let people know there's actually a new album coming out is, after TV, through internet. I said Avex is a lazy-ass because they havent uploaded PQ's PV at ayu's youtube channel yet, and I also said they should upload them in full version, because that's the best way for them to promotion the album: getting milions of views.

Well as some of you know Ayu follows me on twitter through one list, and I dont know if it's related or not, but after that she tweeted this:

３日間限定であの感動作品「how beautiful you are」と、超最新テクノロジー満載の「 NaNaNa」「 Shake it♥」あんど何もかもが衝撃的すぎる「 Return road」のPV4曲がYou Tubeのayuチャンネルにてフルで観れるらしす♪( ´θ｀)ノ

Which says they will upload full versions of the PV's for a limited period of time of 3 days.

^Wow, impressive! Too bad it's only for three days but, better than nothing I guess.

^ cool!!! you're a genius!

omg that is weird but SO DAMN COOL!!! miki u can totally change things around from time to time :) kudos to u!!!

edit: OMG THEY JUST UPLOADED IT

Three days? Really avex, really?

man... amazon screwed me! now my album is being delayed...
I'm gonna sue.

mikku, go work at avex now. :laugh

can someone scan the bonus stage paper in HQ quality? I wanna make the real stage not from the pic that you give :)
thanks

I hope this doesn't mean that my amazon order, which i placed right when the album was announced and it is now delayed, will end up being the encore version:shakehead

ugh three days.. why not forever

Miku! Great job!

I hate how they allowed people to express their opinions on the videos though. I HATE the ****ing nostalgia freaks who keep complaining about how trashy everything is and how it's totally not like A Song for XX or whatever album that was cute and successful.

I'd like ayu to return to release songs like SURREAL, M, evolution and so on but you don't see me *****ing about it...

i was thinking the same thing.. the encore better be the same... i preordered months ago!

I saw that the BLU-RAY PQ box was back in stock at YA - now sitting at about $300 - a bit of a price hike!!

Btw, i need some NaNaNa and Shake It romanji!! >.<

Haha they need someone to pay them back for the free shipping which they've lost to those who preordered it.

NaNaNa:

tick tick tick tick tock tick
tick tick tick tick tock tick

tick tock tock don’t stop
Oh let’s go (coz) Life is short

Atama n naka dake de kangaete bakari
inai de Jinsei wa totemo mijikai wadakara
kiss me kiss me

Walking down the street
Come on, move your feet
Feelings going deep
Every kiss is sweet (mwah)

All the gorgeous boiz
Come and make some noise
Listen to my voice
You don’t have no choice

We can run
Crazy girl! na-na-na-na-na
Fun fun No.1
Uh- We’re done...

Right or Wrong?
The night is long
We be strong
Go, go, go – c’mon!!

Anata ga anata de ite kurete ureshī
Sore wa anata ni shika dekinai kotodakara

Kyō no shippai o hikizuranai no yo
Ashita wa ma~tsu sara de subete atarashī no yo

Ima o mei ippai tanoshinde sugosu koto yori
Taisetsuna koto tte nani?
tell me tell me

Go on a date
Stay up late
No heartbreak
So we shake shake shake

Let’s stay out
Crazy and proud
Love the sound
Play the music loud!!!

Club goes boom
Sing it girl na-na-na-na-na
Everybody swoon
Hot in the room

You’re the Party Queen
And you’re the Dancing Queen
I’m a Lonely Queen
Life is just a dream!

Anata ga anata de ite kurete ureshī
Sore wa anata ni shika dekinai kotodakara

Kinō no kōkaisakinitatazu yo
Katta jiman wa maketa kōkai yo

tick tick tick tick tock tick
tick tick tick tick tock tick

tick tock tock
5,4,3,2,1

I haven't seen a translation of Shake it <3 though.

AHH thanks so much!!
cant wait for Shake It

wow, ayu's channel now with the full versions of Party Queen's PV's, and you can comment
O_O i can't believe it

^but only for a limited time.
when i read through the comments below, people are asking avex to put it permanently. wonder avex will just ignore them...

these full versions have already more views than the short versions of the same pvs... I hope they realize they should upload them all in full again!!!!

I :heart you :D

unfortunately, i dont think they will :( if they upload them in full no one will buy products like "a clip box" or the cd plus dvd versions of albums.:no

I don't think all her PVs should just be available in full on YouTube. Maybe once year of her PVs per month. Like for the month of April, they could upload every PV made in 2008 in full. Just an idea.

I DO think that three days is too short...they should do five or seven.

Hey anyone notice distortions in some of the songs like "tell me why" at 2.48 when Ayu sing "yeah.. eh.." ? This album seems to have some recording problem where the studio did not hear it... Anyone know which studio she make this album at?

^ no?

Here are some of the photos of my box set...

http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/5...020302q.th.jpghttp://img69.imageshack.us/img69/6959/p1020309x.th.jpghttp://img803.imageshack.us/img803/1...020311g.th.jpg

lol.. its nice to know someone got their box set!
Still waiting for mine to ship!

I want my box too, the bonus goods look really good. Urgh, I have to wait till mon or tue to arrive.

Wish my boxset would get here already. hm. lol

I got my boxset today, I'm pretty satisfied, it's huge! haha.

Will watch the DVD of CDL and blu-ray of PoM through the week.

Too bad CDL's dvd doesn't have a booklet, just a paper with the tracklist, but it's the DVD that matters anyway :D

Hopefully i'll get my cd either on friday 30th or monday 2nd, it's getting tougher and tougher not to listen to the album as days go by, i hope i won't end up being disappointed haha it would be embarassing but i doubt i will anyway (:

My boxset just came! YA upgraded to DHL for free =) Took 6 days to reach though ^^

^^So jealous of you guys! Glad to hear that it's pretty big though ;)

Ah i guess mine will be upgraded too then.
Hope to recive it next week, hopefully it´s not at custom <.<

Wonder why there was a delay though...I mean I ordered the first few days that it was available for preorder lol

Yep, same here. In for a bit of a wait too! And I'll prob have to get it a day later as there will be no one in the house to take the package.

mi|kshake~

still waiting for mine to ship too :eviltongu this happened before with a clip box deluxe version and i eventually got an email saying they cancelled my order because it was sold out... but i preordered it. i hope that doesn't happen again! :no

my CD+2DVD version arrived today! and yesasia only sent it last week :thud so quick this time wtf lol

I wonder if anyones from Amazon has shipped?

^^mine certainly hasn't.

Shipping Estimate Saturday 2012/3/24
Delivery Estimate: Monday 2012/3/26 - Thursday 2012/3/29
Shipping Soon

real nice, amazon.

Yes. "Party Queen" is not really well produced. If you are using High End headphones (or maybe even cheaper ones) you can clearly hear those "distortions" in some tracks.

I am just too lazy, to listen to this album right now or I would list any tracks with distortions just like you did with "Tell me why".

I tried FLAC and iTunes Plus version, both have the problems you mentioned. "Love songs" had similar problems (for example "MOON". Quite terrible distortions in the refrain).

Just another evidence that the producers start to get lazy. I have never had any quality problems with previously released, older Ayu albums.

Haha thanks for the confirmation :) I thought my hi-end equipments have problems. Hope Ayu will choose a better studio for next album...

^ I do hear that. It's more of the mixing and/or mastering engineer's problem; its something they should have easily noticed or picked up on (I work as a sound engineer) so that's poor work on their part.

Yeah, definitely! It's so simple to avoid. They just need to listen to the full album carefully before they finish their work so that they can alter such flaws.

My Amazon order (Blu-ray box set) was shipped on March 24, and I just checked DHL that it's already reached the States, so I guess it will probably get here on Monday or Tuesday.

TeamAyu2004, you ordered from Amazon as well?

SO EXCITED yayyyy watching POWER of MUSIC tour right now. I hate the long interludes where her band just plays and plays. I'm sure it's for outfit changes and whatnot, and I'm sure it'd be cool if I were actually at the concert, but on the blu ray it's just like...OK, can these two *****es peco and princess shut the hell up and can ayu come back out now...LOL

so party queen is flop. omg.

^^May not be up to her usual standards, but I don't think that means it has flopped by any means.

hey guys! since we have the love/hate of Ayu collabs with other artists, would it be okay for us to send her message via twitter to ask her to do a collab with the artists that WE want? example...we want her to collab with Namie or other Avex artists?

^ OMG no. Please dont give her ideas like that. Imagine BEST collab album. OMG no. And imagine if she goes crazy about that too like timmy obsession so we have BEST collab album ~episode II~

there was never a BEST collab album ~episode I~ before...so chill out~~not to worry..thats why I stated "what [U]WE[U] want" :)

well, I said IMAGiNE THAT. LOL.

LOL.. I think I missed out the "IMAGINE" word!! LOL!

I dunno if I'd like any more collabs tbh

I just hope she releases at least 2 new singles this year and a new album too

I actually think some of her collabs are pretty decent. I wouldn't mind a fair share of them, just as long as she also releases really good solo efforts. Which she's done this year already, just 4 months in.

That would actually be pretty awesome in my opinion. There are some people I'd like to see her collaborate with like AILI and MONKEY MAJIK (And solo with both Blaise and Maynard).

I'd die for a Kumi collab. lol

I'd like that too, but I think that wouldn't benefit ayu at all. People really don't like kuu in Japan, and I'm sure more people would hate ayu if she collaborates with her :shrug

I love kuu, but many Japanese hate her, so yeah...


I'll probably get bashed because of this comment, but meh





EDIT: And oh I should mention this as well. I got a haircut yesterday by a Japanese girl and we started speaking in Japanese, she asked me what music I was into so I told her I liked ayumi, and she was like, "oohhh you know she got married and got divorced in less than a year?!" She was dissin' ayu sooo hard XD I bet if she looked at Party Queen's covers she would be like... "****!!!"

Guys, we get a lot of collabs with Timmy in party queen, why do you want more collabs, XD, lol.

I don't want mini-albums or collabs, or bests, i want singles, that's all

Collabs and collabs...I wouldn't refer to half of those songs as collabs, rather arranged by Timmy and with back-up vocals.

One tweet wouldn't set anything in action from ayu or avex. It would be a number of tweets/requests from many fans. Saying this is like saying like how that one person was claiming they alone set ayu-mi-x 7 into action from a tweet and ayu only has 5 people she follows

^He wasn't saying that they uploaded the videos to YT because of his tweet. But it was a strange coincidence.

And as far as I know there wasn't much more people saying anything of YT to her or avex...

I just hope they keep updating her website/youtube/whatever at the same time, if not it would be like the web/yt/whatever was abandonned, and that's not cool -_-

Eh. A lot of people have the same view you do. I'm sure a lot people think it wouldn't be of help to Kuu to collab with Ayu for similar reasons as well due to her marriage and "washed up" image people have but oh well. Not likely to happen anyway but as a fan it would be nice.

I feel like Kuu isn't as respected as Ayu, Namie and Hikki; but I wouldn't say that she's hated. (She is pretty big in the gay/les districts though) Her "hip-hop style" is a huge trend; a lot of japanese girls dress up like her. This style in particular:

And hoodies.

She's not the rolemodel the Japanese want; but she got the style they love

CDjapan is terrible. they just postpone the shipment again.
Due to unexpected box size, they have to create and another box for shipment.

Right? I wonder if their voices would blend well?

I don't feel like Ayu's or Koda's voice goes with anyone...

Only males...and even then :laugh

idk if I want them to collab...though I imagine it would be a sweet, girl power song or something.

I was hoping for Shake It meets Sparkle...

Got my CD+2DVD today. Its blowing my mind. :thud

That would be the ideal...but idk I don't see it happening lol

The Oricon thread is closed so I'll just post this here for those who want to know.

Today's sales:
7,948　いきものがかり
5,970　Acid Black Cherry
5,592　浜崎あゆみ

NEXT LE Rock'n' Love so FIVE Party
--------------------------------------------
月 ******* ******* ******* ***** *27,338
火 *99,200 *85,142 *70,669 *56,258 *20,037
水 *48,318 *42,288 *36,911 *27,004 *18,115
木 *24,935 *19,693 *21,854 *13,008 **8,828
金 *17,208 *15,297 *14,303 **9,235 **6,897
土 *18,089 *16,737 *12,729 **8,161 **6,321
日 *20,167 *14,841 *10,981 **9,078 **5,592
------------------------------------------------
计 227,917 193,998 167,387 122,744 93,128　
初 240,810 205,058 180,048 127,024 *******
累 379,989 318,454 272,653 213,495 *******

Final numbers should be about 95k. Not bad.

number 3 (T_T)
so sad...
hope for steady sales from now on...
she will promo this locally right?
hope it works

I think the local promo will help push it towards 140k.

just when I thought she totally could clinch a number 1 even on the last day LOL!
i guess its not too bad..very very steady. People are finally knowing the existance of the album maybe

Come on Japanese people~
At least go watch YouTube..

I'd say let's all unite and plead Ayu to bring CREA back!

I miss CREA so much…

The YouTube videos are already gone lol They're now private.

UGH who is THAT?

Right when the race is getting good, someone else has to barge in. whatever.

lol Sabrina that's Ikimonogakari that unexpectedly zoom to #1 yesterday :3

Better than koda 1st week
Ok la

She has an extra day of sales. We'll see what happens in the long run.

I forced my western friends to listen to PQ and reactions are funny. They are obsessed with Shake it <3

song I ignore the most on the album LOL.

I played the album using my phone today while my mom and I were driving, and she liked NaNaNa and Shake it XD Also, I showed her the ayupan AR and she found it so cool :love

Probly because it's more poppy and mainstream...? And not so ayu-ish...? :P I dunno. Pq is the only dancing track I like in the album. :)

I started liking NaNaNa the most of that first chapter. Its insanely catchy, now when I wake up I NEED to hear 'tick tick tick tock' part. Its drug.

Ayu did outdor promotion today???!!!

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...59598472_n.jpg
taken from an Ayu fansite on FB

YAY OMG I HOPE THIS BOOST TOMORROW'S SALES THEN!!! :D


Thanks for sharing :)

From schedule thread
I saw some pics on Weibo (see below) but this one is the best so far! Thanks!!!
http://ww4.sinaimg.cn/large/6aacb2eagw1drd9cxst5uj.jpg
http://ww3.sinaimg.cn/large/946aa7b3gw1drd9rkrwj4j.jpg
http://ww2.sinaimg.cn/large/946aa7b3gw1drdazqrkhvj.jpg

WOOOOOOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LIVE PERFORMANCES AND PROMOTION!!! :)