can you put those pictures under a spoiler? they're really offensive. :bbarf

omg those earrings, i like :yes

wtf is this: http://yaplog.jp/cv/sma-kuu0424/img/...16190550_p.jpg she looks scary :o

i think it's something from a johnny's photoshoot.

:eyebrow

I think she looks REALLY PRETTY on those :luv2

rly? no surprise lol, johnny's clothes are terrible.

she looks REALLY PRETTY in your avatar.

mte. i think this one looks ok though
http://yaplog.jp/cv/sma-kuu0424/img/...15210029_p.jpg
but i don't like that shirt

Ugh when is she gonna get rid of the black & white & gray tomboy look? We've had way too many photoshoots of her like that already :\

i think she looks really cute here and i want to see her full outfit! not feeling the magazine scans though.

i actually think she looks really pretty in those mag previews :luv2

I think she looks cute in the pics where she's wearing blue.

the blue ones are so cute!

she said in a interview that during this year we would have that tomboy look on her XDD
you know.. Kumi Kuu always changes her style.. I think she is saving the best of them for her tenth anniversary <3 :lech

she said that this year will be full of TRICKS, which extended to her fashion. she'd be very girly at some points and also very tomboy.

omg, the trick tour looks awesome *_*.

I wish she has longer hair, i think it's time for a new hairstyle!
*Hopes for the next single*

^ LOL @ your avatar and sig pictures, Gubsi :roflmao

yuck, i dislike that first picture. the dude on her shirt scares me :scry

anyway, today i got Black Cherry (from karen!) and it has the same cover as the icon of Meat Pao's (travis, right? :) set, lol. sorry for being random!

lol gubsi you have the best av and sig on ahs

LOL Gubsi, you always have the best signatures lol!!!

very nice photos

I like her earrings :D

I really like those photos, especially this.
I think she looks cute.
But I do hope she will have long hair and sexy or lady like clothes again!

^ second that.. the TOKYO ishukan pics :heart

i don't like the blue one.. she looks creepy :roflmao
but i like the necklace

Alive/Physical Thing
2nd day
#1 6,592

:cry

At least she's still No.1.
Means nobody sells more at the moment.

16,246+6,592= 22,828

Umm 3 SPLASH outsold it in one day.
If it will keep dropping like this it won't even reach 3 SPLASH first day's sales tomorrow...
Wow >_<.

very good!! now, live of Physical thing tomorrow :luv2

Hehe yep!! Saw your post in the asian collection thread and Black Cherry is one of my favourite albums of Kuu too <3

:D

it was the 1st record I listened/heard of her so it makes things extra special for me :D

Ah at least it's still #1...

wow that's awful. :( i guess i can understand it not selling good though, since most people think Alive is boring (i disagree) and Japan doesn't seem to like her ****ty songs anymore

hands @ Kingdom Tour 2008

soooo good.. i love her high notes towards the end. which reminds me, is there a thread for audio rips of her tours?

^ this is the reason why I think she's the best performer !!
her voice is always the same as the studio version too.
simply perfect :luv2

^the hand performance from Kingdom Tour is the Killer, i cried like a child when i first saw it, cause it is amazing!

Hmm i don't think we have a Live Audio Rip Thread for Kuu!
Damn the only Audio Rips from her DVD's i don't have:
-BEST ~second session~ Release Party
-Let's Party Vol. 1
Hope someone can upload them one day!

can you upload the ones you do have? :luv2

Sure!
A little moment please! ;)

Edit:
DONE! xD

Here it is:
http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showth...04#post2097804

Woahh. This sucks :/
Does anyone know the 2nd day sales for LAST ANGEL? That had similar first day sales right? I can't remember 2nd day though

anyways.. I loove that performance of hands. It made me fall in love with the song :heart

I don't like those magazine scans, they don't really flatter her at all!

:roflmao @ your new avatar/sig Gubsi :laugh

the pic on the ava scares me a lot though :weep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n64_Z..._embedded#t=74 Is this trailer from Alive DVD?

^ yeah! bonus video from Alive/Physical thing first press edition.
was posted by negi a few pages ago ^_^

guys , in case you missed out cutieismylife's scans for both editions for Alive / Physical thing , you can go to http://jpopcdcovers.wordpress.com/20...hysical-thing/ to download them too

^ aren't the scans there just cutieismylife's? i mean the sizes are exactly the same~

I'm not sure because from the link I provided , it wasn't stated who uploaded them initally

sadly, it probably is. unless you watermark your scans people will take them and redistribute them without credit.. or worse, put their own watermarks on it. i've seen a lot of cutie's scans end up on kumiloves, lol. i don't think he really cares but it's frustrating i know

lol yeah, i've seen them end up on that one, too. i admit it's annoying when there's no credit, but most sites are good about it and i don't want to watermark pictures because people use them for sets and other graphics and i don't want to make removing them a hassle. it is nice to get credit, though. :yes

yeah, IT IS!!
the first two are the UHQ covers posted by Luver too
I deslike when people don't give credits.. because it takes effort and time
but oh well, everyone is conscious of what makes

I can't believe Kumi has another single on the charts! She's such a music machine!

as kuu fans we are very lucky that we don't have to wait too long for new music, and (for me at least) the quality of her music doesn't suffer.

she has released a steady disco since 2006ish and i've loved a lot of it!

I am SO ADDICTED to Physical thing now... omg! :heart

Yeah she's ridiculous! I love her <3 Namie, Ayu! Take notes!

Omg I just got the download and I can't put it on my Zune D: D: D: D: D:

:weep

I was looking in Oricon and A/Pt sold 16,246 copies on the 15th and 6,592 on the 16th. Is that good?

I'm only used to seeing first week sales and determining if something flops or not but from a first day I don't know///

You have to, asap!!!

It's considered bad to some of us... cos for both days, it doesn't even match up to 3 SPLASH's first day sales (which overall, I was disappointed...)...

^ I'm trying but this new update is not recognizing my player ;_;... I can listen to it on my computer though.

I guess Koda's prime, along with many others, has also officially sunk. I still can't believe that it seems that not even one female solo singer will have a top 10 album this year!! And I thought for sure it would be Koda Kumi to be able to surpass all of the boybands and Johnny's and GreeeeN and all those other mo fos.

@jbrat: Oh dear... at least on the computer it still sounds smexy! :3

Nope :no. It seems girl power has died in Japan lol.

Unfortunately so... I just saw a survey over at the Tohoshinki thread... I think I only saw Ayu there and she's barely making it... :no

:laugh

That made me laugh.

I thought there would be hope because of Namie's bump, but even she's doing moderately well now. Kumi seems to be on the same path as Ayu. D: Sales are going down more and more each year. Luckily their tours are still selling like hotcakes ;D

But I just don't get this... I mean, for so long, all over the world, female singers have always been super popular.

I mean, I guess its only in my mind, but I assumed
(1) Young girls and teenage girls and young women buy music from female singers because they want to be like them and they do serve as role models and give them "girl power" or whatever,
(2) A lot of men and boys are attracted to these singers since they tend to be beautiful/sexy/cute so they too support cause they're horndogs,
(3) The old Japanese aunties want to be and act young so they too support these singers,
(4) They're just overall better anyways!

Because of these things I figure women should be dominating the music industry...

sorry guys but to me , I don't think you should compare 3 SPLASH's sales against Alive / Physical thing

3 SPLASH's a triple A-side while for Alive / Physical thing , it's only a double A-side

so it's quite natural I suppose for Alive / Physical thing to sell worst than 3 SPLASH but still , the so far sales that Alive / Physical thing is getting , it's bad .___.

this is true, but more teenage girls and (older) women seem to be more infatuated with boy bands in japan more than anything else. :tired

It's also only natural, we assume, for a triple a-side single to sell more than a single a-side, but It's all love did surpass 3 SPLASH, so I don't think it matters whether its a single/double/triple a-side release.

*points to self :innocent

but hey I know when to switch on/off my Johnny's moments so it's good :laugh

Yeah but girls like boys more :P

I'm sorry, I'm lazy and don't want to flip through the mountain of pages of this thread, how is Alive/Physical thing selling compared to 3 SPLASH? What are the numbers?

Yes but these boybands, generally, don't have the support from young males and men that female singers do. I'm sure a typical male would rather support Koda Kumi than Arashi.

On the other hand, maybe the amount of females that prefer boybands is larger than the amount of females + males that like female singers ( :dead2 ).

LOL I'm also lazy too -_- but I was told that the 1st 2 days sales of Alive / Physical thing = the 1st day sales of 3 SPLASH or something like that :dead2

if you take into account that a lot of fan girls buy multiple copies of singles and such..

however, if you look at it from a different angle.. it looks like the boybands have dominated sales / made the most money, but you have to remember that they have to split their profits multiple ways. whereas kuu and ayu don't have to split their profits since they are solo singers.

kaori posted that article that showed the boy bands made the most money in japan for 2009 so far, but after dividing up their profits to each member (like 5 for tohoshinki, 5 for arashi), ayu was number one and kuu was second. :P

I thought Kumi had more female fans than males... I thought they typically liked women like Kou... Shiraba.. I can't remember her name, but "plain women" as my friend in Kyoto put it. Girls usually go for the Divas.

OUCH :shakehead

so far it's 16,246+6,592= 22,828

in the long run i think it'll make it to 50-60k

Thanks babe <3

I checked Oricon before reading your post and forgetting what day it was, I saw 6,592 and almost jumped out my chair thinking it was the first day sales LOL. I said to myself, "Daaaaaaaaaaaaang, Karen was not joking!!!"

LOL. This. :yes The worst has to be EXILE... how many members do they have? Splitting 1 million among 5 people, and having 650k for yourself makes yourself have close to 3 times the $$$ of the 1 person in the 5 people group.

I think they're not known as EXILE anymore but rather J Soul Brothers ?

they have 13 members in the group if I'm not wrong @_@

I thought Hey ! Say ! JUMP's rooster of 10 members was bad but .__.

She's only sold 20,000 copies?

When I first saw it I thought I read 65,920 or something and I was like "Daaaaaaaang!!". I misread.

Kou Shibasaki.

I don't think it matters if they have to split the money into so many parts since that's not what the fans are thinking; they are simply preferring the music. I'm not talking about how much money they make, but the popularity they have.

i understand what you meant, that's why i said to look at it at a different angle. ;) sales don't necessarily equal popularity either, though. excluding the stans who buy everything just to support their idols, usually people buy music based on whether or not they like the sound and not the artist. kind of like how i don't really care for boa but i bought her debut album because i liked the music.

however being unpopular in the public's eye really can hurt your sales, regardless of how catchy your music is.

i knew the 2nd day sales would do that...

although personally I thought they'd be at least 7k :(

I have Kingdom Tour 2008 and Dirty Ballroom audio, also Ima Sugu Hoshii from Best second session Tour.
And a fan made compilation from live collaborations.
Should I upload the compilation?

OMG 93rd thread coming soon.. :P

I want to see Physical thing performances and I want to know the setlist for Taiwan concerts so bad :weep

I think you guys will be shooting darts at my Taiwanese friend Cliff in due time :laugh because from what I know , I have a feeling he's going for her maiden Taiwan concert gigs in due time :grumpy

^ so jealous :weep


OH GOSH! my kuuchan looks awful here :thud



you guys think JUICY is her best PV ???

ya I sometimes wish that I was living in Taiwan .___. . All the Jpop bands go there to perform BUT NOT in Singapore grrr :weep :grumpy

JUICY - HAHAHAHA

All I can say's that , that PV ... I cannot watch it if my parents are around :mischief :innocent

it's just too naughty alongside with the epic Shake It :laugh

Yeah, I'm still a bit jealous of your taiwanese friend, but I'm watching the live stream on the 3rd or 4th Octobre, that makes up for it! :heart

amen :heart

@Corvina: woot? you can watch the live stream?? how????

i'm not corvina, but..

if you ordered the first press of A/PT, you got a code that you can use on a special website to stream the tour.

Exactly, I preordered both first press.
I'm really looking forward to it.
Fortunately it isn't in the middle of the night for me, but about midday here, it's perfect. :laugh

oh!! I ENVY U!!

btw, Alive/Physical thing
3rd day
#1 3,425

so.. uhm.. idk :(

At least she's still #1

Sad that her sales for Alive/ Physical thing are that bad! :(
I wonder what her next single will be!?
I wish an upbeat song or what i really want, if the song is a ballad, i want a RnB Ballad again like Always, Himitsu or hands!
That would be perfect!

I already preorderd the TRICK Tour Book FC Version with DVD and the 2010 Calender (with the stunning cover in the temple in Kyoto) and get a free FC Sticker Calender! :D



No MU doesn't hate you!
It's only you can download 100 or 150 MB per day!
BUT you can be a member there (you know the free member, that you don't have to pay for that)
Then upload 2-4 songs (i upload 2 ringtones and 1 song xD) on MU and then you can download more!
For me it works, i can download so much i want per day!
And then you don't need to upload things anymore
I don't know if it works now, BUT last year i do it, it works!

3425 on third day?
thats pretty bad...

the taiwan concerts aren't going to be streamed live. on the site it says 10/21-11/04.

That's right, but it says on her official site that the code is for the streaming of these live shows. I don't know, whe have to wait and see I guess. :shrug

:laugh that's the spirit Marika xD

well I haven't really asked my friend on whether is he going for it or not , I'm asuming he's since he listens to her music & all

This tour is gonna be like the best ever....oh my gawd...I'm gonna cry LOL

does anyone know what the theatrical mix of Alive sounds like? it's on the kamui gaiden soundtrack and i want to hear it!

^ for some reason I think this will be an instrumental. I may be wrong though =/
btw, the intrumental for Alive is B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L, when I listen it I want to cry :weep
the best instrumental evaaa!!! :heart

so who's going to make thread 93th ? :innocent