new album "A ONE" 2015.04.08 in stores II
 

ayumi hamasaki『 A ONE 』
in stores 2015.04.08

The 16th original full album will be released on the same day of her debut day April 8th, 2015!
Total 11 songs produced by famous songwriters will be recorded in the album including 3 ballad songs released last year, the classic ballad song "Zutto...", "Last minute" which is the song became a topic of conversation, and "Walk" which is one of fans favorite songs.
The full version of "Zutto..." video clip, which was uploaded only on website when the single was released, is now in the album, new 3 video clips and making scene clips!
17 years from her debut, this is the greatest album she created with her passion and her real life.


=== RELEASE ========================================
「A ONE」CD+DVD | AVCD-93135/B | 3,800yen
<CD content>
01. a Bell
02. WARNING
03. NO FUTURE
04. Anything for You
05. Last minute
06. Zutto...
07. Out of control
08. Story
09. The GIFT
10. The Show Must Go On
11. Walk
<DVD content>
01. Zutto... (video clip)
02. Last minute (video clip)
03. The GIFT (video clip)
04. WARNING (video clip)
05. Zutto... (making clip)
06. Last minute (making clip)
07. The GIFT (making clip)
08. WARNING (making clip)


「A ONE」CD+Blu-ray | AVCD-93136/B | 4,200yen
<CD content>
01. a Bell
02. WARNING
03. NO FUTURE
04. Anything for You
05. Last minute
06. Zutto...
07. Out of control
08. Story
09. The GIFT
10. The Show Must Go On
11. Walk
<Blu-ray content>
01. Zutto... (video clip)
02. Last minute (video clip)
03. The GIFT (video clip)
04. WARNING (video clip)
05. Zutto... (making clip)
06. Last minute (making clip)
07. The GIFT (making clip)
08. WARNING (making clip)


「A ONE」CD | AVCD-93137 | 3,000yen
<CD content>
01. a Bell
02. WARNING
03. NO FUTURE
04. Anything for You
05. Last minute
06. Zutto...
07. Out of control
08. Story
09. The GIFT
10. The Show Must Go On
11. Walk


「A ONE」+ 「Countdown Live 2014-2015 A」 TeamAyu Limited Luxury Boxset
* <DVD version> ALBUM＋DVD＋LIVE DVD＋GOODS | ¥12,000
* <Blu-ray version> ALBUM＋Blu-ray＋LIVE Blu-ray＋GOODS | ¥13,400
<content>
[CD] ALBUM 『A ONE』 + Tell All (2015 mix) - 12 tracks total
[DVD/Blu-ray] ALBUM 『A ONE』DVD/Blu-ray - 8 video total
[LIVE DVD/Blu-ray] ayumi hamasaki COUNTDOWN LIVE 2014-2015 A Cirque de Minuit
[GOODS] Photo frame ＋ LIVE photos (10 photos planned)

=== Prewiew =======================================


=== TA/mu-mo gifts =================================


=== Songs info =====================================


=== SHOP LINKS ====================================
TeamAyu Official shop
TeamAyu Official shop for international shipping
mu-mo shop
mu-mo shop for international shipping
CDJapan. . : CD CD+DVD CD+Blu-ray
Yesasia . . : CD CD+DVD CD+Blu-ray
HMV . . . . : CD CD+DVD CD+Blu-ray

sources:
official site news
"2 title simultaneous purchase set" news

@ayu_19980408:
そしてKO&LICO!!! 2人がいてくれなかったら今日の撮影は出来なかった。3人でガツガツ意見出し合いながら現場を動かして行け た事、感謝しかないm(__)m そんな私達全員の集合写真どん！みんな愛してる〜❤️おいちゃん、ありがと��

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Someone can translate?

THAT MAKES ME REALLY EXCITEDDDDDD O.O
looks like a rock song!!!

oh my god lol it looks like Microphone

Yeah, I smell rock. And S&M.

PVs shooting successfully finished and that's ^ ^ group photo

looks interesting. Rock tune? I hope that's not for Last minute xD

omg KO looks weird as hell with gray hair lol

The pic make me think about Lady Dynamite's pv in a dark version!

Thank you for the enlightenment. Now, I'm a bit afraid because tell all is a masterpiece for me.

Exciteddddddd

Looks indeed really exciting! Can't wait to ear the song!

So the TA box is only different in that it has Tell All mix and 10 photos??

@ that picture:
Oh help. No no no no no. Does someone needs to get whipped again?
Cannot possibly be worse than XOXO, but I wish she could have left the S&M-latexcarnival alone. I mean, look at that dancer up front. All I can see is scrotch.

It's not that I am not interested in the music, or that I am too narrow-minded to like this stuff, but this groupphoto looks tacky as shit. If the PV is not getting its class, like it has in GAME or even my name's WOMEN for that matter, I am getting worried for reals. Crap, I feel so off. Hopefully it will look way better than I'll expect right now.

and box itself
mu-mo don't mention special package

loving the group pic! excited!

I actually thought of BRILLANTE... It does have a Lady Dynamite feeling, but the dark looks get my attention more than the sexy side of it. I can think of a rock medium tempo song for this, I'd love that

It's definitely for a rock song !
I can see a BoY vibe from this pic !

So this is the official covers ?




http://i58.tinypic.com/1fzqll.jpg

^no

anything rocky but not as bad as Lady Dynamite and I will be pleased :D

Is anyone from Singapore getting the TeamAyu box set? I have intentions on getting one but I do not have a membership.

When I saw the pic of the PV shooting at fb, I got all excited about it! Can't wait!

I agree I think it looks super tacky. It's so weird that to her this is something that could be creative and innovative. It just seems like she's throwing herself into the gay-queen s&m subculture again instead of thinking outside the box

I really don't see what's wrong with Ayu having some fun and playing around with the S&M theme lol Unless y'all just wanna keep seeing her sing in nicely decorated bedrooms that happen to be located in the freezer.

^LOL I agree with you.

I think when it all comes down to it...Ayu is really kinky... At least that's the vibe I get. And it's like it just keeps coming out more and more. XD

I have mixed feelings about the photo. I'm almost neutral about it, though. In my head, if it's terrible then I won't be surprised at least. But if it's actually good, then bravo. I just hope she doesn't do anything similar to XOXO. That was tasteless in my eyes, and I wish I could unsee the shot of her humping the guy on the floor. UGH D:

I'm considering not putting much stock into her PVs and fairly well pretending they don't exist since they actually managed to make her songs on Colours less enjoyable for me.

Ok thank you ^^

Excited for the new PV - looks interesting!!

Nah that is not the reason why I reacted that way. On that note Sparkle and 1 LOVE must be shocking as well, but I truely love those videos. But when I see a zoo of peacocks dressed in a material that either could be latex or ducktape I am not convinched. Of course I have to see the video first to admit my comment has been very exaggerating, but this theme is so overdone and I just hope she will add a different twist and uses it more, well, artistically. (After XOXO I have fear and comparing this to Lady Dynamite does also not seem to be very exciting)

Like I said I am not too narrow-minded to like kinky/BDSM but I must defend whatever I am seeing right there what is supposed to represent that culture. When they were dressed in lingery like she was wearing in Mirrorcle World, you would have me heard rooting here like the rest. Sadly, it is only the costumes which really "turns off" my excitement.
Oh and if you want to execute this idea, then do it well. Because it should not be tacky; it should be erousing in a way. After all it is just taste but, come on... sorry

This essay is literally based off a single picture where you can only see part of the costumes for part of the cast. Take a deep breath, honey.

at first i thought it looks like lady dynamite or somethign along the lines, but really it could be anything. And all the costumes? well the half naked guys in skimpy leather outfits? her dancers come off pretty close in some of her concerts lol She had like 30 practicaly naked dudes in Brilliante....the only shocking thing in my eyes that she could do is film herself having fake sex lol That's the only thing that would make me flip the table with my laptop lol

From this picture it could be an aggressive song !!!
We see some guys in SM costumes but we also see punk/gothic inspired costumes so I don't see something like XOXO or Lady Dynamite at all but yeah only one picture ... we don't even see Ayu correctly but if the song fits the picture I'm excited because it implies that the album will not contains only ballads or mid-tempo songs !!

I'm a little put off by the background. This makes me think it's going to be some BDSM version of how beautiful you are.

Oh, You donno, You donno, how Fifty Shades you awwwww.

EDIT: Can I have one of the guys at the front? I like the one with the sparklies on his crotch. :3

I second that :yes

^^lol i think those are studs rather than sparkles. ANd he's not the only one with that lol there's a dude on the right as well a bit higher up.

I just now noticed that she has 3 black dudes in the group at the top of the pic.....they look quite different compared to the rest of the black dressed folks, they're wearing red.

From that photo it could still be a jazzy song, ya neva kno

This kinda reminded me of how beautiful you are PV
You can see all kinds of different people and what are they into since the cast is kinda similar,no?

*yawn*

It doesn't look exactly like any one PV ayu has done in the past, but it does just look like a bunch of stuff ayu has done. I'm not offended or disturbed or upset by this photo at all, but I'm certainly not excited.

Hearing about the freezer for Zutto...? THAT was indeed exciting. Last music video I can think of that did that was Nine Inch Nails' "The Perfect Drug" and that was almost 20 years ago. It's rare and creative and interesting. But I can think of myriad music videos - half a dozen are from Ayu - where there's leather and sexy dancers and goth/punk looking people, you know?

I feel like Ayu just needs to look more places for inspiration for things, I feel like she's getting it from all the same places over and over.

LOL thinking about her needing to find more places for inspiration, maybe this PV will take place under water. I mean those costumes TOTALLY are suited to that!!

lmfao AHS will hate the PV..I can just see the scene where Timmy struts out and goes full on diva in my head..AHS will cry.

Now that you mentioned it, seems like the guys on top are a rock band? They don't look like wearing leather or latex outfits :P I guess the PV will feature different groups of people or these are just the PV band

No please!

YES please!!!! :luv2

The look of the crew for the music video has me very excited

We should be getting some of the song titles and impressions by early Friday, no?Depending on whether or not the fans attending the event want to share...

Come on, Ayu has ALWAYS used the bondage theme! Or at least she has for a long time! It feel like it has been a staple outfit for her male dancers for at least one portion of her concert since MY STORY era.

no please Timmy not again ayu have mercy of your fans

I like that it also contains other women.

For awhile the stranger, more out-there tours and videos generally only had male models/dancers.

In that picture, the men seem to be dressed in more submissive clothing, the women look more powerful. At least from what I can see.

I was thinking of that too..I mean everything should be revealed in this weekend

That's probably the reason Ayu is hidden behind her dancers. She's actually wearing the outfit from the cover of Party Queen.

Well, the MY STORY era did bring us "my name's WOMEN"'s PV and before that, there was the kitty in a cage thing ("Duty"), I would say the BDSM-esque elements are part of Ayu's career both as a sex thing and as a kind of way to symbolize concepts and emotions.
With that last part in mind, I wouldn't immediately and definitely say this PV will be like "XOXO", "Lady Dynamite", etc., just because of that picture. Sure, Ayu might be so predictable that the PV does end up like that, but I personally don't want to lose my hope that it will be completely different. Regardless of which of the two it ends up being, I still have great expectations (even though I'm perfectly aware that I shouldn't). :P

I think it looks cool!

Praying for the mv to be great.

Ofcours I have dream about the album this night XDDDD
Album leaked We had rock song. 2 electronic, 1 that sounded like MY ALL mixed with LOVEppears vibes, one was Tell All (the version was faster than original, i dunno how to describe it, it was just a dream) and we haven't the GIFT (Ayu kept it in a very big secret, so we couldn't downloaded XD)
And we had photos of covers/booklet. Ayu was in (miss)understood era long wavy hair (like a diva) lying in diffrent colored sheets (mostly red, purple and in the end she was in black sheets) It was kinda boring (only colors was changed on every picture) but very pretty. xd

the photo gives me Humming 7/4 vibes

or maybe GAME/decision.

So we have The GIFT which is seemingly a ballad, Last minute which is rock, and this PV looks like it'd be on the edgier side. Rock or electro?

I think that's a good mix!

I'm just assuming the JJ pv will be kind of boring though. Like I'm just imagining him playing the piano while Ayu mimes the words haha.

We'll probably get a somewhat ballad heavy album due to the single, but album tracks should be evenly distributed as usual. I hope she has one upbeat track by Kazuhiro Hara!

PV tracks seem to be in stone now too. Zutto... ballad, The GIFT... ballad, Last minute... rock ballad, and whatever the other song is... rock?

I just hope all the new tracks besides The GIFT will NOT be ballads or medium filler tracks a'la Gloria/Ivy/Sweet scar/Melody... (jjjjess, this album is a freaking ballad album ;/ I mean LOVE again... xD)

I hope for a good pop song and good STRONG heavy uptempo song. And something in "do it again" vibe.

I have a feeling we might get a similar ideo of HBYA except a song is probably not a ballad. As fpr those 3 black guys, they do seem to be a "band" of a sort. ANd they are wearing leather, it's just red, knowing Ayu xD

oh and, Zeke, that's pretty much what i said a page earlier. Her dancers and band is always dressed in leather, belts or stuff like that in her concerts. So really it's not a shocking garderobe for the cast lol

Oh my God please no

That font choice is horrible. It doesn't seem to work on anything.

^
Oh, if that's the actual covers, it's simply the laziest effort they have done.

If there's a band involved, please make it at least like decision PV.

I would like the covers :-D They llok cute and dreamy<3

They look like an insult of what a cover should look like.

But I like the colours and picture^^

I think it is nice.

I think the covers look good.

There was nothing saving that font, it was bad from the beginning. But using it again ales sense, since it was the official font for it.

I like the colors :)

I hope photo frame will be better than Colours gift. It was so cheap and ugly %)

Yes but in the past, when a bad logo or a bad font was made for a tour, they usually don't put it on the final DVD/BD front cover (--> PoM, HLS, A best live...).

So we will know the titles from tommotow events + genre hints?

PREMIUM SHOWCASE font was so cool but they used ugly af instead of the tour one :no that was sad

Do you have a pic of the Colours gift?

So, I signed up to tenso now it's just a matter of confirming my identity (rofl?). Then, I have to sign up for teamayu and hopefully I can get the boxset, but I can't guarantee it if no one helps me pay for it. D: I'm just a poor f**k.

http://i.imgur.com/PuWfuw4.jpg

^It's just standard helvetica. I don't think it's cheap or ugly. Just, you know, something standard like arial or times new roman. I don't think I'd ever give a miniscule detail like that a second thought.

But what I mean is, since it was the official logo, seeing it on the DVD isn't necessarily a crazy idea. It's just not the usual trend.

I agree

ugh, the picture is beautiful, but everything about the font is awful. I can live with most typography choices on her covers, but this one is sad :(

Ayu needs new staff pronto, artistic creative individuals with new fresh beautiful ideas cause ayu's covers lately have been a disgrace.:shakehead

I don't necessarily thinks it's the font. Sure it's not the best but what makes it butt ugly and amateur is the color scheme and the god awful white border.

I wish they would sell the TA box at normal sites. I want one but the whole process of signing up for it & all the stuff with whatever tenso is seems too complicated for me sadljlaksad

review from another thread

^Oh my, all the titles make sense and are in correct English, what's wrong????

Joke aside, I'm really excited by those songs now!

we didn't saw it, so maybe it will be like
ShOw MUst gO On xD

I really wish they would shorten "The gift" to "gift", and just leave it at that. It just seems less cheesy that way.

Anyway. I like Warning and Story. No future sounds great. I will say my first thought after the song titles and descriptions is that this is maybe like a Zutto... / Last minute / Walk + more electronica sounds? I guess a part of me is hoping that this kind of sounds like GUILTY's rock, and less like RnRC's rock... I just kind of vomited thinking about Last Links and countdown. :(

Whooa...the titles sound amazing and kind of deep. Can t wait for more updates

We also know Yukumi and Komuro did compositions. Somehow I feel like Warning might be Kazuhiro Hara.. or No future.

Oh my god you're right!

It seems that there are a few titles that actually refer to her career... I mean, we knew about The gift, but The show must go on certainly sounds like that too!

so No future might be really depressing

I love the titles (except 'story', i dont like when she re-uses words)
Warning is a great title. Like Microphone. Short and edgy.
No future sounds punkish a bit, but still nice.
Show must go on sounds like Queen ofcourse but who knows what it will bring.

We finally get the title track for My STORY lol. Wonder what kind of style it features.

i hope it's more like "encore" song than "untitled/beloved/story2" boring ballad.
i got Walk/Zutto/Last minute/The GIFT so it's enough.

please no Winding Road part 2. This is my fear lol

1. walk
2. zutto
3. the gift
4. ???
5. story
6. no future
7. show must go on
8. warning
9. last minute
10. tell all ~2015 mix~
11.


hmmm? amirite about this?

soooo the one track will be surprise or moving on without you or.... intro?

most probably 2 interludes. Tell All is only a bonus track

It's more like this :

01. Zutto
02. Last minute
03. Walk
04. The gift
05. Warning
06. No Future
07. Show must go on
08. Story
09. Out of Control (Edited)
10. To be announced
11. To be announced
Bonus track : Tell All ~2015 mix~

And I think that the latex-PV she recently shot is for Warning (according to the description)

So we have 11 tracks without Tell All. Interesting. Hope for full songs only and no interludes.

looks like "out of control" is the other song title according to Twitter fans? can anyone verify?

New songs preview recorded by China fan:

http://tieba.baidu.com/p/3606111779?see_lz=1 (Click the recording on the post that shows 1'17" onwards.)

The poster didn't mention the title for each song though, but I like the 1st, 3rd, 5th the most <3
And yeah "out of control" is one of the new songs' title

Thank you for posting.

Unfortunately, I am more worried for this album than ever now lol. I really, really didn't need beloved 2 ~cpop ver.~ and her discography just really didn't need a boring ass cpop ballad period.

Did we really need 3 more generic ballads in a discography that lately has been bloated by nothing but generic ballads? REEEALLY Ayu?

Ughhh. My jimmies are so rustled by this album rn. The only songs to look forward to are Warning, No Future or w/e, and that vaguely chirpy one, and that's really not saying much. :(

YEAH! THAT WAS IT! "Out of control" is the missing title. I was struggling so bad to remember it.

The audio of 1.17 is Warning. The one after of 1.27 is The GIFT. After, 0.29, is No future. 0.19 is Out of control. Then Show must go on (of course lol). And the last one is story.

Thanks! I freaking LOVED the 1st song, can't remember the rest well because the 1st is so awesome i keep on listening to it :laugh gotta give them a try later

If the song that I've heard is Warning, then it's just as awesome as its title. The chorus is insane! : O
Now I'm soooo excited, even if that's the only song I'm going to like, it doesn't matter anymore!

I reeeeally like the 29" one!

Well actually I like all of them! So excited

Story sounds so beautiful~