[Polish Article] 31-year-old Japanese woman on top of the charts
 

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31-year-old Japanese woman on top of the charts

In Japan they call her "Empress of pop".
Her latest release is now on top of the world's best-selling charts, the album "Rock'n'Roll Circus"

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Ayumi Hamasaki has sold over 50 millions records - Photo: MN Chan / Getty Images.

She was born 1978 in Fukuoka city. At age 14 she moved to Tokyo to pursue her dream of a career in show business. In 1998, she managed to debut with the single "Poker Face." Since that time, Ayumi is constantly on top of the charts, and has sold as far as 50 million CDs!

Hamasaki is popular not only in Japan but also in China, Singapore and Taiwan.

Each of her 11 albums landed at the first place of the Japanese best-seller list. The latest best-seller, "Rock'n'Roll Circus," is promoted with the single "Sunrise". See the video for this song:

Spoiler:

http://ayu.no/images/news/ayumi_hama...ayu_united.jpg

On the second place, the 16-year-old Canadian Justin Bieber with the album "My Worlds", which includes EP "My World" and the LP "My World 2.0." The young singer quickly made his idol status, now you can even talk about that the frenzy is over - here's proof.

3rd re-occupied the position of Lady GaGa's debut album "The Fame", released in 2008 yet. Just behind the eccentric singer we have two new products - the American duo MGMT from the album "Congratulations".

6th this place this week and publishing Usher "Raymond v. Raymond", and the 7th Slash position was the first solo album in his work, titled simply "Slash".

"Numbers of Slash's solo debut, listen with a smile on his face, but a wide banana came to me really only two songs. The rest of the composition is housed in the foreseeable medium, although a juicy solo bow - we wrote in our review.

Ten leading global overview supplement: Lady Antebellum with 'Need You Now ", Plan B," The Defamation Of Strickland Banks And the Black Eyed Peas and the album" The END ".

Source: INTERIA.PL

Oh sweet international world of recognition.

Thanks for translating!

Oh no.. why sunrise? XD I mean... Microphone is better LOL

Nice! I love that pic, btw. :)

if only japan would count ayu sales outside asia for R&RC aswell as her digital sales :(

a...ha.


I understand it can be kinda cool, because it comes from non-asian or non-american website, but... it is necessary to make thread for it? totally random article, Interia.pl have written about her earlier.

Ah I've seen this chart before, so cool to see Ayumi on it. I think I saw Namie on it when Best Fiction came out.

oh wow that is amazing


where is that picture from?

^ 2007, event for that film where Secret was a tie-in for.

thank you

What article? I'm still staring at that gorgeous pic :thud

great article, ayu's first n uverworld fifth, from poland to other slavic countries please :D

Nice, thanks for sharing ^^ it's nice to see her in western sites like that!
she's really gorgeous in that pic

Thank you for sharing!! :D Yay Ayu~!

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yesssssss take that, crazed Justin Bieber fans!!! :vbhappy Sorry...the fangirls in my school are ridiculous... I'd like to print this out and tape it to their lockers :laugh

*cough* Anyway, YAAAAY go Ayu!!! This is awesome!!!!! :vbhappy Thanks for sharing!!!

wow, thats a good lookin pic of her...

thanks for posting

a... ha. so? i thank the poster b/c i'd like to be informed about articles that give recognition to ayu's work like this. speaking of random and unnecessary, look at... yourself. kyeahah.

anywho, wow... she's before that justin kid and lady gaga! nice to know.

Sunrise is a great song and all, but I'd hate for people who have never listened to her before to hear that ayu song first!

I just love it when ayu gets european recognition

i love the pic that they choose...
thanks for sharing

thanks a lot for sharing, Maxker!

This is awesome... great that european people can notice ayu... specially if it's by such an importante website :luv2 thanks for the translation Maxker!!! :D

thx for the translation. hope to see many other countries report about ayu

Wow.. Glad they used that pic. That pic is so beautiful!

Thanks for the article

congrat to ayu

Wow, awesome! :yes I love the pic they used <3

thanx great to know the european know Ayu ^^

why dont just say all over Asia? XD

Nice to know this thanks :)

Nice! Thank you for sharing!
I always loved that pic! Ayu's smile on it is :heart

don't put Sunrise... better put...................... Lady Dynamite... or Sexy little things~

oh that's nice.... big whoop. you act like she has never been on top of anything.... guess what Poland isn't the only place to know about her... France, Germany, and Spain all know who she is.... she honestly isn't that great. OMG she's on top... OMG OMG~!

AYU is the NO.1 forever~!!

cool!!! lucky they put a pretty pic of ayu.. if not... :grumpy

I'd think that they would choose a more recent photo. Anyway, it's good recognition!

What's up with you..?? :\

That was amusing reading. Did you forget to take your medication today? :bchuck

because asia is not just japan, china, singapore and taiwan

Honestly, I think Sunrise was a great choice because I think it appeals to a more general audience than Sexy Little Things or Microphone...

That's good news!! Happy for her!

Do you realize this is a place for ayu fans? Get a life sweetie :)

THIS is the first time thw world is aware of ayu.
Such a great day!

I only wish GaGa and Bieber weren't in their 20+ week on the charts...

exactly! a lot of people fail to understand this. asia also includes countries like phillipines india thailand, nepal, mongolia, etc.

i think its you that need to get a life for getting offended just because someone doesn't care for ayu's endless achievements.

wooo!!!! go Ayu, smash that Bieber

It's great to know that Ayu hits the No.1 spot again at UWC.

This is not the first time, right?

Oh this is a nice article :) Thanks for sharing

yay, i'm so happy for her ^^

Whats wrong with people? This isn't an accomplishment ^^ the other releases in top 3 have been charting for months, Rock'n'Roll Circus will never last 22 weeks on Oricon, let alone the United Charts. In other words I don't see a point of posting this at all. In fact this just shows how weak the Japanese market currently is ^^

DONT MAKE FUN OF JUSTIN BIEBER!

it's not her fault she isn't as developed as other 16 year old singers :D

But yeah great to see Ayu getting attention in Europe. I think seh'd do well there if she realesed something there.

i love this article! :luv2

thanks maxker! :)

EXACTLY.

some people like identity and maxker obviously think its worth falling over. ;) boosting post count maybe?

if i started a thread for every article published on ayumi... :roflmao i think i will do that soon.

well it's cool that she's on a Polish article; never mind that she's well known everywhere, or that R'n'R C will never last for 22 weeks like Gaga or Beiber....

OT~yeah i know that of course,i mean shes also popular in Malaysia,in philippines and several other countries,well maybe its just me because we always read the article about they mentioning her popular all over Asia(like a standard format to state Asia haha),otherwise the tittle Asia Tour doesnt make sense either :P

:sarclap

The article is just another way to tell people that Rock'n'Roll Circus reached the top of the United World Album Charts, instead of just posting it in a separate thread. It could just as well be written in Chinese, Japanese, Russian or American. It had not bothered me, it's the content that counts, not what country it is from. It's just a fun addition that it is from a Polish source.

And it has really nothing to do with my post count. If I was interested in something so stupid, then I would have posted a lot and been very active in the random chat-room thread. I've been a member since 2005 and has not even reached 1000 posts. Do you really think I care about such things as post-counts?

There are actually many people who think it's fun to see her being mentioned in Western media, but that does not meen that we fall off our chair for that reason. It's just fun.

Israel, Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine...

Oh, my tiny country :D I don't read these portals very often~ One polish singer must read that cause she named her tour "Rock'n'Roll Palace" -____________- and she got... 100 people on the audience and they started to get people without a ticket LOL - music in Poland it's just patethic. (XD)


And wow, they choosed a gorgeous pic.

lol if they wanted to use a single song pv...they should have used BALLAD~~~

anyways glad to see she is being recognized out of asia xD

cool Ayu and Uverworld :D

SWEET

ok,dont need to make a list i know that :cool

Just because someone likes Ayu a lot and thinks of her as goddess, doesn't mean they are sexually attracted to her :rolleyes

Waaaa Ayumi is world number one... thumbs up ('_')b
Thanks for sharing article!

picture is from Japan premiere of HK movie Confession of Pain (good movie btw)
more pics
http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/9...emiere2.th.jpg http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/7...emiere1.th.jpg http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/3...emiere3.th.jpg

handsome guy is Takeshi Kaneshiro... Ayu & Kaneshiro together, my screen is about to blow up from beauty overload lol

^ i love Ayu and Takeshi Kaneshiro,why not hes acting with Ayu in her latest PV? damn that'd be awesome <333

:yes You know me too well. :lech
I could PM you more details about my dreams if you'd like? They're too explicit and unforgivable to post on the forum. :o

Gosh.. I never noticed how gorgeous she was in these pics until now.

i wonder why they have to highlight ayu's age in the title.

HAHAHA. You guys really make me laugh!! There's nothing about the main post that can make a fight.. LOL

@AyuWorld, Asia Tour doesn't make sense >:(

What's wrong with her age?

The top 3 is ruled by younger people I guess? GaGa is 23 and Justin is like 15?

I think that is very nice that 31's star can be 1st, not just only the "young , new and fresh".

it will last more than 22 weeks if stu**d oricon also counting the world wide sales just like US artists....at least asian sales,,,:innocent

why do you feel the need to censor "stupid"? Which country are you from??

i'm indonesian,,,,,:D

wow,, thats good!!
are u have any pic? ^^

How cool! I'll be going to Poland later this year ^_^. Any tips from people who live there/have been there are much appreciated! XD (selfless plug)

As always, much love for Ayu.

Then you should definitely check out Krakow or Gdansk. It's my favorite cities in Poland, cheap food, nice hotels, good servicie, and not so dirty and criminalized as in Warszawa.

she is not popular in korea, unfortunately...

really,,,
i always think she's popular in korea,,,
becuz,,,every i read a korean comic the character always say ayu is one of their fav artist,,,
lol,,,,

Go to Łódź, lol :D sorry for off!

Third picture link broken...

LMAO at 31-year-old-Japanese-woman. :rolleyes

Seriously....could they have said it in a more derogatory manner? So rude.

^Well, she IS 31, she IS a woman and she IS japanese... I really can't see what's the big deal

It's like saying..."Hey! You wouldn't expect this kind of person to be on top....but she is! A 31 year old Japanese woman tops the charts! Can you believe it?"

if only japan would count digital and the rest of asia all together, but sadly it doesnt.
and i think the amaericans also count radio air play as sales xD :P


i also agree ayu looks nice with Takeshi Kaneshiro(samanosuke- onimusha) :D