I hope her 50th single will be something super epic, even grandiose like Mirrorcle World.

Haha, I figured!

win!
In such an international forum, I wonder how many actually know what that is, lol.

Don't worry, Avex will make sure to continue to release her singles in weeks with no competition. The biggest threat is SKE48 with all the popularity AKB48 has been gaining lately, they are a possible dark horse. But with 4 different versions for Ayu's single, I think it will be an easy #1 for her.

NEWS also has a single rumored to be coming out in July, though the date hasn't been announced yet. Perhaps Avex should have waited for that announcement first...

Ayu sure seems to be working so hard again. I hope she's still getting enough rest.

how awful would it be if she tied her and then her 50th single got #2 aha.

but i doubt that'll happen :P

and the TA item is so lame -_-

I think I'd rather buy from Tower Records and get Tower Record points than an uchiwa. haha

Haha. If you don't want it, you could send it my way...

which pv think you was shot in dubai?

^
I think that MOON and Blossom were shot at Dubai, and I hope so. And of course for the PV's of 50th single I'm praying to come her to Spain! XD

She shot in Dubai????
So, the PVs are made???? we need info!!!

Isn't SKE48 new single will be released on July 7 instead..? Or is it moved to July 14?

I dun think Johnny will choose July 14 if avex has already chosen that week...

We think so, she's been in Dubai... Last week? I can't remember, but in the TA~message said that 'we work a bit' or something like this :innocent

You'd like that :P

I haven't decided anything yet. I mean technically it'd be more expensive to get it from Tower, because I'd have to pay for train tickets, haha! :P

^She really shot PVs in Dubai? I think she only went to checked the place out. But i cant believe she'll finish this single before the tour ends...busy busy Ayu.

Maybe she'll return to Dubai again...

Well I think that BLUE BIRD was shot in Dubai (or wasn't it?)
But she said she worked in Dubai in her blog a bit so she did so something there.

^
It was not shot in dubai.

I see, without relation anyway she did do some "work" in Dubai this time as she wrote in her blog. ^^

Hopefully she shot the covers already :)

(well.. her last cover-shoot in Dubai was Sunrise/Sunset if I recall well, so I won't get excited yet :laugh)

But it's quite far away isn't it, 7 weeks to gooo~

S/S was shot in Bali, Indonesia. BLUE BIRD PV was shot in Guam, where ever that is. XD

Well at her blog said that she work in something when she was in Dubai... Maybe she did the covers? Maybe she shoot the PV? We don't know, but we know that the songs are recorder yet...


PD:. It seems like Ayu loves Dubai, LoL XD So I had to say...

AYU, BILBAO IS BETTER!!! xD

hahaha,,, I just remember Mariah Carey shooting one of her videos in Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum right? xD so why not Ayu too? :D

anyway I think she would enjoy soooo much more staying in Barcelona than in Dubai :P

It was shot in Bali in Indonesia which is a different place and she also had a different art director XD.
And maybe kazuyoshi won't shoot this single's covers lol (though maybe he will) but yeah, it will be hard for ayu to beat Sunrise/Sunset's covers badness.

Of course, and me too LOL, but you have to admit that shoot a PV in Bilbao is very original!

AAAAAAAAAAH!!! I will die if something like that happens T_____T


EDIT:.
If she could beat Sunrise/Sunset's covers badness... That could be a sing of the end of the world, LOL

100% true T____T I doubt she shot two PVs in Dubai (though I hope so !), for me she went there to shoot the covers !

I'm just going by what TH said about SKE48 releasing the same day. As for Johnny's I don't think they would care whether they release on the same day as Ayu or not - she is not really a threat to their sales; different audiences.

I hope that SKE48 will go the 7th... it's with Kuu's new single right? I mean... Kuu doesn't has any record to break or anything XDD

SKE48 isn't nearly the strong seller AKB48 is. Now if it were AKB48 she'd be up against ... I'm sure Avex would've moved the release date XD.

LOL whats up with those really random and alike "band names" or whatever they are?? xD soo funny




and omg who's actually gonna buy all versions of this single?? :O

I probably will lol

I just wanted to point out which city I prefer...: Ayu, shoot your next PV in Hamburg, Germany! Hamburg will be the most beautiful city you've ever seen!

I have a friend who is really into AKB48's activities and he said that SKE48 was releasing same day. -shrug-

Did she really shot in Dubai? I thought she was just scouting for possible places to shot in.

It doesn't appear that she did anything related to a single in Dubai since she was only there for a few days before a tour. (She was probably scouting the area though for future work there, I think. That's why she had Stan, after all.)

She had Stan and her makeup people, but she brings them everywhere she goes regardless of whether or not she'd be doing anything. When the dancers are with her... that's when we'll know she's filming.

Vi Vi Dairy didn't mention it too
I think next month we will have PV shooting photos
really curious XD
how will MOON become a PV

http://oops-music.com/info/view_news_rss.html?nid=56540

This place seems to state that the 3 singles will be released a month apart.

she didn't have enough time for PV filming
but I thinks he could make cover

She should release with 2 months space, and a mini-album in december

One month apart?? I wonder how much quality these 4-6 A-sides will have.. Maybe some of it was recorded with R'n'RC?

Might as well have been shot in a backyard with a cheap paper background, cause that's what it looked like..

I think she has already recorded all of the single tracks. It certainly explains why she was in the studio for so long while doing Rock'n'Roll Circus.

AVEX is pretty flexible when a #1 could be potentially hanging in the air :innocent

Now the only thing right now is if they'll all be double a-sides. That'll be kind of crazy! To release 6 a-sides in 3 months!

How can avex find a no. 1 slot for her if she wanna release 3 singles in July - Sep? It's kinda hard... Oh well..

I just saw what it was said on JPN wiki about SKE48.. Probly I'm wrong (or at least the wiki is wrong.. but usually they dun put fake info in JPN wiki). But njanjarp is right.. avex is pretty flexible :P.

It'd be even scarier if one of the singles was a 3A! AHAHA.

or... how about 4A? :P Her last 4A was A. I think it's kinda good to release 4A again :D.

Ha, I was just daydreaming that there would be MOON/blossom, then a 3A, then a 4A!!

Or each single should have a re-recording of one of the a-sides from }{, and an accompanying music video :Q____________________ I think I'm getting delusional..

omg! but somehow i don't approve the remixes...

I'm even more excited now, woot.

I hope the cover be fresh and summer but no dark with moon >_<

LOL I'm kinda excited but 1 month apart is a bit scary and besides it'll burn a huge hole on my pocket, it's summer so budget's a bit tight!

Mmh... I just hope these songs won't be rushed.

Maybe they'll made light cover for blossom/MOON & dark cover for MOON/blossom

PLEASE NO SUMMER COVERS, if so let it be at least that pretty as BB/fairyland. Or at least let's have an oriental feel there or something not so "beachy summer" :D
Dark ones would be so cool~
Im just tired of blondy locky hairy ayu under the beach, yeah~ Let's be creative!

1st single - MOON/blossom
2nd single - 3A
3rd single - 4A

THAT WOULD BE CRAZY XD

wow wow wow i just read your post, wow THIS IS AWESOME <3.

These news makes me feel "omg Ayu will appear in so many magazines i hope.." (XD yes, im visual and graphic junkie so this would make me happy even more for graphics <3) I hope that she would go crazy with promotion, not only "summer glamour diva shoots and under the sea with flowers in her head" (im boring, i know. :D)

As we've seen in the past, she never has two alternate (standard) covers a la BoA's Nanairo no Ashita / Your Color -sigh-. You were.../BALLAD did have a switch-cover thing, but that was it.

I'm kind of expecting her usual summer stuff, so anything else would be a surprise.

No Shimoko please.

very risky for her to release it in 3 consecutive mths.....even her trilogy singles which were released in 2000 couldnt even get no 1 except for seasons....scary to think of it

Im thinkin of theory that she was recording more stuff for R'n'C and they thought that they are TOO GOOD to be album tracks so they moved them to singles :D Oh, what an amazing theory...

So there's a good chance they are gonna be one month apart and not two or more months? Oooh, I wonder if she'll be able to maintain the number one spot if they do that!

I hope she sticks with the photographers she's been using lately for the covers. ND CHOW or Kazutaka Nakamura.. they're really great and successfully showed how much Shimoko limited her.

Im scared about that!

I hope all the singles are going to be perfect... but not too much time to compose/arrange/prepare the songs and im sure that they are not going to be charting too much...

SHIMOKO!!! =D

I have an assumption that each single will be representing spring, summer and autumn. And then followed by an album over winter.

:'( not one month apart! please!!!!

my wallet would suffer so much...Im still hoping for at least a 1 1/2- 2 months apart

Ooooh I hope you're right actually!

whoa.. one month apart. it feels kinda rushed, but I hope they're all good!

Why would it seem rushed? (Especially when all of the songs are likely to be finished already in the month or so of recording she was doing in Japan.)

IMO, whether something is rushed or not is not indicative of anything when it comes to Ayu. A lot of people love Secret and that was probably her most rushed album ever.

It's rushed to me because the 3 singles are apparently gonna be released one month after another. I think I've used the wrong phrasing, but I don't think I'll be worried about the quality of the songs.

But still, 3 singles in 3 months; Ayu isn't the trendiest thing in Japan now, so I wonder how would the general public respond to this... it might even be a case of saturation of Ayu...

lol, ayu's whole discography is "rushed" if you think about it.

It's kinda scary to think that within six months there might be another album :laugh.

She's totally spoiling us this year. I have no complaints lol.

she never had 3 consecutive singles released in 3 consecutive months though. I'm not trying to say it's bad that it's rushed or anything, but I don't want the response to the singles to be negative.

It's something like, say MOON hasn't even sunk in well with the listeners, and then suddenly there's another single... O_o personally I feel it's a risky move, and inappropriate for Ayu at this point of time in her career.

But that's just my opinion, so...

^ Well I'm sure if all of the songs are A sides, at least one or two of them will strike a cord with the public and the project will be a success :D

Tad toooo fast for me :no

Would very much prefer her to release a mini album, or some sort of singles collection thingy (A ROCK or smt?).

But it's already summer now. A bit too late i guess?

vogue - Released April 26, 2000
far away - Released May 17, 2000
SEASONS - Released June 7, 2000

Did you forget about vogue / Far away / SEASONS?

She's had plenty of occasions where she's had two consecutive singles too... three is a bit rare and any more than that... yeah, I don't think she's done that since the re-release thing in Feb 2001.

This is awesome !!! :heart
I honestly think with this Asia Tour 2010 sounded impossible but I'm positive that she'll do one on 2011 for 50th single anniversary :heart

I just really wish she would take a break already! I understand that music is her life, but she can still make music, she just doesn't have to release it immediately, especially like crazy... I agree with waterballoon, it's risky. It's great and I can't wait for the singles, but it's like, take it down a notch. She just released an album and there will be three new singles in the next couple of months. I think I just fully comprehended this. It ain't 2001, Ayu.

Ah yes, my bad. Still, 2000 was Ayu's peak year (or in that era), so it's still okay.

BUT either way, no complains about getting a slew of quality Ayu songs :D

Honestly, I think it's about time she started putting out a lot of material again. The whole 2 singles a year + an album with 4 interludes (GUILTY and NL) did not leave me satisfied. I mean yeah, I loved the albums but I ended up wanting more. Now we're finally getting more, and I love it.

You know if these songs were EPIC, this project would be so remarkable. I'm just hoping the best but trying to get that hope TOO high. Maybe I should stay away for a month and come back. Lol.

Stay away! -shoos you away-

I somehow hopes that this 50th single project will blow her sales sky high...

Well there are four versions and the only ones to have done that were the 10th anniversary singles MW and G/D. So maybe they'll make a big deal out of these too and they'll do better than previous singles just like those did better than GUILTY's.

I understand your fears, but people have been BEGGING Ayu to step out of her usual release pattern for ages and this year she seems to finally be doing so. I mean think about it, RnRC came out after the tour started. There were 4 brand new PVs. A free song preview (for the fan club) coupled with the album. Now the song is apart of this massive single project. She's taking risks and I would think the majority would find it refreshing. :laugh But like you I hope she doesn't fail. However, I really do feel like the public interest in her is moderately well enough to prompt success with this project.

Stay away baby! Didn't you say no listening to singles until the album so it would all feel brand new to you?

well, time to have some faith, I guess~ xD

@ストロボ・EdGE : I think this 3 single project is a big deal :yes

Ayu's being so different this year (which is a good thing, for me), I can only hope she's not overdoing this, gets tired, and ruined her voice >.>

We can start a prayer circle. :grouphug














Oh, and buy the singles. That would probably help too! :roflmao

Yeah I was debating it but I listened to the clip of MOON and the clip of Blossom 4 times maybe. So I somewhat know the sound of these songs - but now that I know it's a 3 single project, I'm debating if I might wait until the release date of the 50th single and listen to them all that day. But I don't want to hear an amazing fresh Summer song when Summer is over. I'll be sad I didn't get to enjoy it that Summer. Lol.

Yeah, I hate being the last to hear something well after the hype is over lol.

I'll cry if she does HANABI~episode III~ in one of the other singles :weep :weep
I have no idea what to expect..

AHS would literally freak if there was another HANABI. Everyone is obsessed with them (although they are good songs). I just think the whole community would blow up with anticipation and reviews! I think I'm up for the idea.

HANABI~episode II~ might be one my favorite songs, like, ever. Out of the whole medium of music, not just Ayu or Jpop-wise. And I know that may sound like an exaggeration, but it's the only song I've ever been able to listen to without tiring for pretty constantly, (for me at least), a long period of time, which is two years and still have an emotional pull and connection on me. /shrugs/

So I'd love another Hanabi! Ep. 1 was amazing, ep. 2 was, well I already talked about it, so I think a third might blow my brains out.

It really took me a long time to appreciate Episode II actually. But now I like it, so I'd like another one if it was done right! I think it's very possible that she'd do this. It'd be great marketing.

I love HANABI series but HANABI ~episode III~ surely sounded surreal xD

Maybe with Yasuhiko Hoshino's comeback this trilogy means something like back to the way she used to be ? But well Don't Look Back sounded like she don't care with the past that much.. I don't know what to expect too :thud

I want it so bad. Aghh now I'm getting hopeful.. Maybe, just maybe, if she does do a 3A single, she'll have Ep. III. It would only be proper, at least I think//

Surreal is the perfect way to describe it, ha. It's been 7 years since Ep. II after all.

Lol, don't torture yourself that way. If it's true that all these songs are done (or at least planned) and are all linked in some way, the point of releasing in 3 different consecutive singles is for you to listen to the first one and think about how the second one will be. Or at least that's what I feel ayu may be doing, since she likes to make her fans think about her works. So won't collecting all 3 and listening at one go sort of ruin the fun and possible deeper understanding of those songs? Like knowing the ending of a story before even starting the book?

I don't know, ayu is so philosophical and deep at times, I can't help but think this way. :P

@ストロボ・EdGE : but well, seing another ~episode II~ from newer songs looks so uncreative.. :(

considering she recorded many songs in April....They've been working on the songs for a good 3-4 months...Im expecting good stuff