new album "A ONE" 2015.04.08 in stores III
 

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 ballade songs released last year, the classic ballade song "Zutto...", "Last minute" which is the song became a topic of conversation, and "Walk" which is one of fans favorite songs.
When ayu went to Taiwan in February, she performed "The GIFT", the song corroborated with a one of the famous singer song writer from Singapore, JJ Lin, and it is also recorded in the album!
DVD/Blu-ray has new 3 video clips and making scene clips including the full version of "Zutto...", which was uploaded only on website when the single was released, "Last minute" from fan's requests, "The GIFT" corroborating "ayu" and "JJ Lin", two Asian top artists and the rock music "WARNING"!"
You can see "ayumi hamasaki" in a few years back in the album" ayu says, 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
http://i.imgur.com/rRaOX6S.jpg
<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
http://i.imgur.com/TKJZPu7.jpg
<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
http://i.imgur.com/N3SFLZn.jpg
<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 | AVZ1-93138/B～C | ¥12,960
* <Blu-ray version> ALBUM＋Blu-ray＋LIVE Blu-ray＋GOODS | AVZ1-93139A | ¥14,472
<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)

=== Covers =======================================


=== Songs prewiew =================================


=== Video preview ==================================


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


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


=== Translation / Lyrics =============================


=== 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

Don't care if The Show Must Go On sounds like Snowy Kiss..TSMGO is the first Ayu song I've been excited about in forever. Can't wait to hear the full thing.

I certainly start to appreciate songs after reading the lyrics. I am in love with WARNING and I do like The Show Must Go on.

I just want NO FUTURE full mp3 and Anything for you to surprise us.
Idc about the PV's and covers.

So after seeing the TA goods... I will wait for OS releases of both the album and the CDL DVD.

Yes, yes and yes :yes

TA/mu-mo goods are soso, but I only ordered for the Box Set so, hopefully this will be better^^
And yay I am still resisting to listen to the previews :D

I just want this album <3

A month to go, counting down yay :love

I want covers!!!

grabbed 2 previews from official site it's 192Kbps mp3
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1kT1gZaB

^thank you

all RADIO shows
2015/03/19 Date FM「FLICK MOTION」
2015/03/17 FM福井「ラジアップ」
2015/03/16 K-mix 『RADIOKIDS』
2015/03/16 FM福井「ラジアップ」
2015/03/13 ZIP-FM「SWAG#41」
2015/03/07 仙台放送「あらあらかしこ」
2015/03/06 ZIP-FM「SWAG#41」

Is this the full version of NO FUTURE? https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v...type=2&theater

The tracklength looks like it's the PRINCExSAM (from Foraver Club) 'full edit' which takes the preview we got and makes it into a 'fake' full version.

Why so much radio Ayu? Please make at least 1 or 2 TV-Lives ._.

TV lives will probably be announced in a week or two if they are happening.

it's recording of event with songs preview

I don't think she will go on TV any time soon. maybe at winter. What date will be MSta spring special?

Thanks!

Wow, a lot of radio appearences. Wish i knew japanese

that's the same lenght we had in HQ previews. :) Song will propably have 5+ minutes.

Hey everyone!!! I just made m4r ringtones of WARNING and The Gift for iPhone so if anyone is interested, u can DL them here :)

http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showth...wpost&t=121322

^ I don't have an iPhone, but you are so awesome for doing that for others.

Late to give my view on this info I know, haha. The previews of six of the new tracks intrigued me, certainly a mirror to an old album that's for sure. WARNING. The show must go on. What can I say other than that I can't wait. Bring on covers btw.

Why is there no music card for A ONE?

I hope the album is released early to iTunes 2-3 weeks like Colours. Really excited to hear the album.

I heard a song in the previews that sounded similar to Bye bye Darling from LOVE again :-D

One week before sounds very likely :)

Wow it's less than a month before release and no cover announcement yet. When is the cover usually revealed, by the way?

From what I remember it's usually 3 weeks before the release.

I don't. That slaughters physical sales.

Should be very soon.

Although I don't know for sure, this could potentially be a reason why she decided not to release this album in music card form:

Oricon to Cease Counting Music Cards as Part of Sales Totals

I'd really want it to be released on its release day for once, or only a few days before, not a whole week! We have approx. 4 weeks left, i think we'll survive the wait :yes

Oricon is managing to become more and more irrelevant each year. Physical sales keep decreasing fast, but they keep coming up with more rules that will reduce the numbers even more...

Now a days I'm much more interested on digital rankings for Ayu's releases.

^Digital sales in Japan also regularly go down each year as well.

I'm one of the people who never believed that oricon should combime physical sales with digital sales but oricon should have digital sales chart as well (just separated).

Idk how useful it would be. For singles it would be for sure, but the first album ever certified digitally was the Frozen soundtrack and it was just certified Gold. Now that Ayu doesn't even get Gold certifications, and she releases everything early digitally anyway, it could help. I wouldn't expect it to improve leaps and bounds though.

Physical sales should be combined with digital sales. Each copy should be counted no matter in which form someone bought it (CD, CD+DVD, CD+BR, Playbutton, USB stick, MUSIC CARD, digital download etc.)

It's too hard to track everything. Physical should be separate.

Didn't they also stop counting copies that CDJapan/YesAsia/other shops ship overseas? I agree that they should count EVERYTHING as long as it means that somebody bought the songs (including digital, playbutton, music cards...) but yeah it'd be hard to track everything.

Yes, they did.

I know that tracking of each sale is impossible but still they should at least try to make their counting as accurate as possible. Anyway problem will be solved in next few years because they'll stop releasing any physical copies...

I don't think they will ever stop, at least in Japan.

I guess they'll be first who will stop. Japanese society is riddled with consumption but they don't have space in thgeir small appartments to keep collection of all HelloProject CDs but now they can keep them in Apple's cloud! LOL

Seriously those days people don't want physical copies anymore. You can buy on japanese auctions even full discographies of various artists in silly cheap prices (often brand new sealed or in mint condition). Couple years ago I was paying for rare AYU singles even 40USD per copy and now? Few months ago I bought 16 old singles (brand new sealed) for.. 12 USD - and I see offers like that regular.

I feel like physical versions will be only for deluxe stuff, not regular press albums. But who knows, LPs has started popping again in some Brazilian stores, so maybe the next generation of hipsters may keep this fire alight

The biggest problem is that quality of recording those days is low and everything is simplified and mastered to sound good only in digital version. LPs are still popular because of deep music experience they're giving to music lovers. If you'll play modern CDs and their iTunes versions on decent audio system you'll not hear a difference but both will harm your ears. That's why there's no reason to release things like that as physical copies because their quality is too shitty to enjoy them. If people those days buying CDs than it's more like buying of collectible items - they'll use digital version and CD will be left on shelf.

i think..im gonnna love this album so bad :) LOL

I still don't get the concept behind the album, I hope when the cover is unveiled the title will make some sense

i want leak

You'll have to wait almost a month.

Patience people :p

RAWR I'm just anticipating this album coming out. XD I'm just too excited to see the covers.

Yeah i want the covers so that i know which version to order :p

Same. But it probably won't lol.

But I am excited to see where the concept goes.

At this point, I am most excited for the covers. Not super feeling the previews or the title :P I'm still excited overall, though.

lol if this leaks now people will say she's copying beyonce or something, won't they?

It's so soon for a leak, I prefer the WARNING MV !!

This is something I'll never be able to understand.

Same here. So weird.

I'm also extremely excited to see the covers for "A ONE". :D It's hard to believe the album's release is only in a month, from now! It feels like much longer. :( But maybe that's because I'm just looking forward to the album very much & tired of waiting, lol. :laugh Can't wait! :P

Really, I'm always like that :'D Since I'm not that interested about music videos, I watch them maybe once or twice but then will never look them again from dvd or blu-ray. So I'm happier to get the cover I like the best, since it will be up front in my cd collection till the next release :P And only thing I ever ordered more than one version was Namie's Ballada.

Covers help me decide as well. I'll always download everything and have it on my PC, so I look for covers and, when there is any, photobooks or other bonus

I'm pretty much the same way... lol. I don't think it's weird. For whatever reason, Ayu's CD-only versions tend to appeal to me the most (and good for me since I don't care about the extra PVs or w/e lol) I did order the DVD version of Secret, though... one of my favorite covers. <3 So pretty <3

I understand that people may not be interested into PVs etc. so it would be good for them to just buy CD only version (and eventually buy some complete PVs collection later). However paying extra for BR version (just for the cover) if you don't even have BR player is kind of funny.

BTW I've noticed that people still prefer CD+DVD over CD+BR version, what means that quality isn't much important for them. It's not surprising me since for many ppl iTunes version of CDs is enough so I guess blurred PVs on HD TV are fine as well.

So disheartening she wasted PVs on meh songs like Last Minute and The Gift.

The GIFT PV can go away for all I care.
I am beyond sad because SMGO is PVless.
I don't mind Last Minute having a PV since it is the better song than that filler track

Yeah, that's waste she decided to have PV for another ballad. I'm sure a lot of fans would love to see PV for "The Show Must Go On" or "NO FUTURE". On the other hand that's not really surprising that from 2 new PVs one will be for fast song and another for slow.

Well, WARNING is the only one that I really care to get a PV out of the songs we have so far. If WARNING didn't get one, I'd be pretty bummed.

I'm so hyped!!!
I like all ayu covers, except for (miss)understood, (they are a cheap image of the bold&delicious era) Guilty and CoLOURS.

I don't really care for her PVs since she's continuing filming some meaningless crap somewhere in USA (she + some guy doing something). It's better to have no PV for "The Show Must Go On" than have something like for "Wake me up", "snowy kiss" or any with her EX.

I think The GIFT, WARNING, and Last minute were all done in Japan.

I don't have a BR player and I've three Kuu concerts in BR and preordered the CD+BR version of her new album :laugh I plan on buying one soon tho, and I bought those concerts thinking of the quality. I do watch DVDs when it comes to concerts, so I though it was worth planning long in that case

Japan is such a consumerist market that I seriously doubt they will ever stop releasing physical copies. When they run out of room they sell their older stuff to places like Book Off or Hobby Off so they can make room for newer merchandise. From what I hear the hardcore AKB fans buy 5 or 10 or more copies of the newest single so that they can vote their favourite member in for the next round of releases, then those CDs get sold off after time to make room for the new stuff. Yes you can buy older singles for a few dollars, because many Japanese just don't keep their older CDs. I think us Ayu (other Jpop artist) fans are more collectors than consumers, so we value our collections a lot more.

On my last trip to Japan in Book Off I saw every Ayu album from ASFXX up Love Songs in the 500 yen bargain section. I didn't see any newer singles, but most of the old singles were either 100 yen or 300 yen, for both CD only and CD+DVD versions. The ayu-mix 7 and Love Songs USB sets were between 2000 and 3000 yen second hand. You'd think those last ones would be highly collectible but I saw quite a few copies in quite a few different stores. I'm not saying every Japanese person resells everything they own and doesn't collect, I'm just pointing out that a majority don't hold on to their purchases.

Feel free to discuss, I'm not trying to start a flame war. I keep all my Ayu albums but I've sold about half of my single collection because I just don't have the room and don't value the older singles as much as I do the entire album. :)

For sure. We have official confirmation at least for The GIFT

Ugh cover please

Was that a joke?

Ayu had a month early leaks before...I had Rule/Sparkle 3 weeks before the single was released. It was similar with GREEN. Some of the albums also had very early leaks too...

I did pay the CD+BR version of Colours because it was only a matter of a few euros and i didn't know how BR worked at the time so i didn't know i had to have a BR player in order to to watch it :P
I always take CD+DVD version! But now that we can also get a BR version and the price doesn't really change that much, even though i dont own a BR player, i'm still hesitating about which one to take.

It feels weird to get previews for an Ayu record stuck in my head. The last time I had Ayu tracks stuck in my head was when the L single came out and I flipped my shit over the awesomeness of Last angel.

Here's to hoping A ONE turns out to be a great record!

Although I appreciate a beautiful cover just as much as the next person, at this point, I base my purchases on content, quality, and availability (like editions that are more limited than others; I'm a sucker for limited editions, lol) rather than covers as I can always choose the cover I like the most after I rip the CD onto iTunes and my iPod anyways, should my favorite cover not be on the version I purchase. I always purchase her albums that have the most content in the best quality available (the CD+Blu-ray editions) and if there is an exclusive version (like a limited edition or TA edition now that I've joined Team Ayu), that's the version I choose. I think it's interesting what factors affect everyone's purchase though. Despite the lack of emphasis I personally put on covers these days (especially for artists that I'm a fan of already), a beautiful cover or unique packaging certainly attracts attention, from fans and non-fans alike so it's definitely a very important aspect to attract people to a product.

when I was about to buy my first ayumi album, I was put off by "My Story" because just thought it was a greatest hits, and the whole package wasn't very appealingng as a first impression. IronicallyIronically I purchased A BEST instead, and the MY STORY covers remain my favourite now.

I am wearing out the MP3 file of the previews.

If all goes well, A ONE could be ranked among my favorite albums. Seriously.

I'm feeling quite impatient about this album! I need more info, covers, pvs... SOMETHING! T-T

No I was being 100% serious.





Of course it was a joke. With Beyonce in a lot of media lately, I was sure that she would be on people's minds and thus maybe someone somehow somewhere would remember how 4 leaked a month early and thus if this album somehow leaked early someone somehow somewhere would remember 4's leak because of beyonce's current prominence and call ayu a copycat as a joke. It's how people on a forum that shall remain nameless start calling copycat when someone drops an album early just because beyonce did it with her latest album.

^ The comparison would be more suitable with Madonna's new album leaking months before the release. I didn't even know that Beyonce's 4 leaked a month before the release. haha

I'm looking forward to listen WARNING, it's the only one I care about.

Bjork's most recent album leaked 2 months before its intended release too... that was the only one of those that I knew about lol.

Leaks just happen a LOT.

I'd easily go for the cover I liked best, if I didn't have to have the PVs (on Blu-ray!). I tend to always buy the CD + DVD version, with the exception being Love Again as I wasn't sure if there was much point buying it only for the Melody PV.

I loved buying CD+DVD versions because of the double case! But now it's gone :c

^I hope they will be back -.-

So if an album gets leaked before the release date, it's copying beyonce?
what does that even mean?
EXACTLY!

I held on until now to listen to her whole album, this album is amazing.

Yeah me too :-(

I think some people think leaks didn't happen before beyonce. Its just a stupid remark to say leaked stuff is a Beyonce thing

I'm happy because we're going to have a new album soon, but I don't know why I was more excited with Colours.

If these covers end up being a basic photoshooting caming back from the LOVE again era, I'll punch my computer for having to wait so long for something meh. I need flamboyant covers from ayu, I kinda miss those

I have really high expectations for the covers for some reason. I'm just picturing a black and white photoshoot with full body shot. Ayu is facing away from the camera and is looking down to the right so we see her profile. She is wearing a black, just below the knee skirt with a simple white blouse and black high heels. Her legs are also crossed while she is standing. Finally, she is holding a microphone by the cord so it is dangling. Maybe the albums title could even positioned so the cord makes a line through the title so A ONE looks like AlONE.

Idk it's silly and I didn't explain it that well.

Seriously. Although, I would throw Colours in place of LOVE again.

I'm imagining a face close up, like a best or a song for xx.

I am not sure what I want from this cover...

I'd be okay with something like FIVE with a touch more flamboyance.

As long as it not in pastel color and trying to be little princess waiting for prince charming mode (looking at Love songs and love again), then all is OK.

I think Colours was a step in the right direction but it had really bad type IMO even though that Singaporean firm worked on it... and she needed bigger hair.

I'm dying! When are these album covers coming out? Every morning I check to see if they're out and -nope-! :weep

I think we will see covers only at the end of next week