true, I can put your info in my first post, if you like...

I'm disappointed in the album name and the songs in it (I mean like, I already got "crossroad, MOON x blossom and L their albums). And the collaboration thing just ain't right. I hope the album has a nice cover art :D. Well I'm still waiting for AYU TRANCE 4.

The USB edition is too expensive!!!

exciting news :D I'm glad she's left out SEVEN DAYS WAR as well.

Dunno about the album title though. I really hope she doesn't create a whole album of sappy ballads. I want some rock/electro tracks in there.

director's cut.... probably a longer version from what we've got, ie... we'll get the full dialogues without JJ being cut off hahaha Hm~~~

this is exciting news!

I'm looking forward for her collaboration single with Urata!!!

"Produced by ayumi hamasaki" finally!!!

I am SO excited to hear that Ayu will be producing for another artist! Can't wait to see how it sounds!

I so want that Last Angel video clip :luv2

The more I read about this, in fact, the more excited I am! At first I was like "Oh heck, love songs..."

But that collaboration has really set my expectations much higher now, and...oh how I've been punised SO many times for just having the slightest doubts about an Ayu release...

Finally I understand~XD~~Really looking forward to it, especially the pv for Last Angel~

We actually don't know that...

They said that there's only 8 new songs, and they only listed 6 old tracks, so if we do the math, that's 14. The only thing that could be explained is if Seven Days War is truly being included, but is not written because it's not an A side...

o dear, now i am really tempted to buy that version. What are the chances for a OS version coz the Japan press is way too ex:(

If they put SEVEN DAYS WAR on this album, I'm going to sell my Crossroad CD+DVD single. I really only bought Crossroad and L to support Ayu going number one but if all the songs are going to be available on the album, then I'm going to sell both of them.

Crazy! Dec 22nd is going to awesome <3

Oh wow at the single. Looking forward to URATA NAYOA's new release lol. This will be interesting.

Oh Ayu you're sooo sweet! Really looking forward to the Christmas album (present)! :p

i think the two brand new videos will be a rock video and (im afraid) a ballad video,
the only new pop video will be last angel

I hope ayu goes crazy and decides to add another 3 or 4 new songs and 2 other new pvs too ^_^

Maybe Ayu will release Love Songs now...

and then come out with a whole new album by the end of avex's fiscal year!

muahahaha fat chance though.

I seriously can't see next year's tour being called Arena Tour 2011 -Love songs- :thud

plus, she already performed all of the single tracks this year :shrug


I'm thinking that she might release another 2 singles (between January and April) and then new album in May so the 2011 tour is based on it lol

maybe she gonna called it:
ayumi hamasaki - Arena Tour 2011 "L"

or Arena tour 2011 "13th anniversary" XD

and for the 2012..."10th Anniversary of Arena" (her first arena was in 2002)

^That actually wouldn't be a bad name for it. :)

No photobook for the CD+DVD and CD versions? Meh much?

^Well I've never heard of her having a PB for CD only, so I can understand that...but the CD+DVD with no PB is just really annoying. >.<

ooo!!

i think it would have made sense if she just had the LP size photobook for the limited edition, and then a normal sized one for the CD+DVD version.

but i guess it makes the limited edition more...special? :-\

It's probably unfitting to go with the CD only and CD+DVD considering how large it is, so they bundled all the weirdly shaped things in one set. (the 12 page nature of the photobook probably doesn't translate into much of a "photobook" in a smaller size too...)

I wonder how the package will look since it's two tiny things (microSD+USB), a normal DVD, and a giant photobook. Maybe it'll just all be shrinkwrapped together?

I'm thinking they might put it all in a nice box or something. At least that's what I would hope for, some kind of special packaging.

^ Yes I am guessing there will be a special box for it like the last album. Makes sense since it's so pricey :)

^ i hope that the packing of the SD+USB+... don't have the same packing as rock n roll circus >_<,i hope something like a complete all singles box but a little more bigger,i don't like the package of the rock n roll circus special limited box set...

I wonder... :) I'm curious to see what avex will come up with. I am guessing the SD+USB will be packaged in a case.

^^No? I thought it was awesome! :D

I was also thinking it should be something like AC~AS~, a big box and it better be pretty! XD Not that it matters to me, I can't afford it anyway.

Wow o_o I love the album title!! And I hope it's gonna be good one.. and not just full of ballads because it's called "Love songs" xD
Thank you so much for the info~

OMG I am sooo HAPPY *_____________*
That´s realy AWESOME *___*
And the title is perfect :DDD
I am sooo excited 8D

If all of the contents of the microSD edition were to be packaged in a large "special" box, I think they'd have mentioned that in the initial release information. With that said, I think it'd probably end up being like an LP, with the photobook sliding into a slipcase a bit bigger than an LP but thicker with the other goodies slid in as well. (I can't really see them shrinkwrapping this since that would be incredibly ghetto...)

It seems that the JYJ English album is also doing a CD+LP sized photobook thing, but that isn't coming out for a while. Most of the goods out there with "LPサイズ" are usually CDs -only- with the LP being a special jacket or something... never with a CD+USB or microSD. We'll see when they put photos up, I guess~

EDIT:
Scratch that. Looks like the set will be packaged in a three-fold analog LP-sized case.

^ Hmm... how does that look like TH? :)

http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/9634/p1030020f.jpg

Like this, but LP-sized.

I imagine that they will have a sleeve for the photobook and lyric booklet on one side, a space for the USB/microSD, and one for the DVD.

Oooh very cool looking :) I like!

that is going to be hugeeeee D:

I don't like it D:

LOL Its gonna look a million times better obviously :P I think is gonna look kakkoii :luv2

^ haha i hope ^^

great! this will be an awesome birthday gift for me!

I like the idea. That might come out pretty cool. So it will be like "The Other Side" remix singles kind of? But in three layers.

She's the producer of the single?
Is she also singing in the song? Do we know more?

Didn't it say "ft. Ayumi Hamasaki"? Generally speaking this means the featuring artist also performs, but in some cases it's just to pay respect to the producer. (Timbaland often appears as "featured" and in the PV without actually being heard in the song : /)

That's what I wonder.
Guess we have to wait and see.

I hope she does appear singing T_T ayu hardly ever has any featuring songs/singles...

No gift for CD/DVD version??? -____- disappointed

I need to know if she's going to sing in Dream ON or not... 'cause I'll buy it only if she's singing too ;_;


haha.. ok, she just replied to me on twitter saying she will sing in Dream ON!! ^o^

@mamichan84: are you going to sing in "Dream ON"??
@ayu_19980408: Yap♬RT

best post ever :thud

Goooooooooood news!!!

thats sooo cool XD

now I'm trying to ask her to see what kind of song it is :P I'm asking if its a ballad, with the hope that she might reply it isnt :lech

Thank you for asking mami-chan =D

I'm sure it's ballad
what else they might release at winter

yay! her first official duet!

^Her second I believe? After A song is born with KEIKO.

Lol at people still posting in this thread... :P

But it's great to hear that she is in fact singing in it. I thought she was from the beginning, but there is always a chance that she wouldn't be :P good to see it's confirmed!

her third with LOVE ~since 1999~.

Mika Nakashima has a song called "Memory (feat. DAISHI DANCE)" but he doesn't sing at all (even though he produced it). So I wouldn't be surprised if she didn't sing. But I hope she doesn't do that annoying thing Timbaland always does ~.~ to let people know he produced the song *EHH EHH EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH~~~~~~~~~~~* oh god the terror.

yes..but the case of nakashima is different because DAISHI DANCE is not a singer. is a famous remixer, DJ, producer of Dance music.

you guys there's another thread, this thread is four pages over the end limit

thx ^^

The news articles have mentioned that it's a cool R&B-ish song.