2003.

2003
My friend introduced her (got me into jpop :luv2 )...i listened to RAINBOW
and was like @_@ SUCH A HIGH VOICE!
Used to it now...one of the most beautiful albums in my opinion instrumentally and lyrically.
I listened so many times i thought the CD would melt!
Still is the album that makes me <3 Ayu :thumbsup

I started to become a fan of Ayu after hearing her music. At that time, the single has already released. So it's probably early 2001.

wow, time passed by real fast. it's 2006 now @_@" [5 years]

right on! :thumbsup

2002-2003

I inquired about Japanese music on j-fan, and found Ayu! I listening to a clip of fly high, couldn't get enough of the little clip, and was determined on finding the whole song. Her voice didn't really bother me then...i didn't even notice it, until others pointed it out....
i looked up Ayu on bearshare (like limewire) and about a million files turned up...my "downloading 24 hours a day" phase begins...

i've become fan of ayu since the year 2003.. until now..
so it's abou 3-4 years..

I became a fan of hers around last year. I'm so glad that I'm listening to her now. I was getting started listening to one of my favorite bands, Two-Mix. Then, I was chatting to someone about her and I was hooked since.

2003! one of Ayu's best years! ^^ w00t!

I became a fan in 2001 when M, evolution and Dearest, but it wasn't until 2005's STEP you I actually started to follow her career :)

2001 I guess.

I don't remember exactly, it was some time before the release of RAINBOW (the album).

I'm pretty new but the first song I heard was STEP you. I started listening more to her old stuff after that and became a fan!!!!

Around March-April 2004, when a stranger sent me the Evoltion single.

I don't remember but it may be around 2003. It was A BEST or Carols PV. I don't remember which I heard first. Maybe I knew her from the Inuyasha ending (Dearest) but I don't remember the year (2001 or 2002)

I listened her for the first time around 2002,but I became to fan in 2003

I first heard her in 2003, but didn't become a fan until 2005. O__o

when she released ayu-ro mix 1. The eurobeat remixes of trauma, monochrome, and too late got me hooked immediately.

Around 2000-2001...it was before I Am... came out, and Duty was still relatively fresh in my mind.

same here LOL

2003 after she released A Ballads