Don't close your eyes or you'll be lost in a fantasy
 

So, the new Namie thread! I get to make it.. for once! Yay.

The Queen Of Hip-Pop Goes WILD In Her 42nd Thread ☺♥
 

As the previous thread got 500 posts, I made her 42nd thread!!!!

Latest Releases:

WILD/Dr. (34th Single)
#1 on daily
#1 on weekly
#11 on monthly
75, 456 sold on debut
119, 034 sold all together
RIAJ Certification: Gold

BEST FICTION (3rd Best Album)
#1 on daily
#1 on weekly
#1 on monthly
#2 on yearly
681, 187 sold on debut
1, 521, 401 sold all together
RIAJ Certification: Million (her first million selling album since Concentration 20)
Biggest Selling Female Album of 2008.
#1 Billboard Japan Charts
#2 G-Music Combo Chart (Taiwan)
#1 G-Music J-POP Chart (Taiwan)
#1 HMV Chart (Singapore)
#1 HMV Chart (Japan)
#10 HMV Chart (China)
#20 HMV Chart (Global)
#1 Soundscan (CD+DVD)
#1 Soundscan (CD Only)
#6 Hanteo Daily Music Chart (Korea)
#7 Hanteo Weekly Music Chart (Korea)
#16 Hanteo Monthly Music Chart (Korea)

60s70s80s
#1 on daily
#1 on weekly
#5 on monthly
#18 on yearly
114, 719 sold on debut
293, 097 sold all together
RIAJ Certification: Platinum

Yeah, my fav album is PLAY, SWEET 19 BLUES, Concentration20, BEST FICTION & Queen of Hip-Pop

yay for new thread :heart

PLAY was 1 of the 1st few Jpop albums that I heard when I started my jpop music journey 3 years ago & it's still 1 of my fave albums to date of Namie's

Oh didn't even notice the last thread was over

I heard some of my first Jpop songs from PLAY like baby don't cry and hide and seek

nothing yet T_T

getting a bit depressed/desperate here

No, I heard that this group have written a song for her

next week will be best fiction's 52th week on the chart...... over 600-700 people are still buying it every week .. XD

and i don't really need a new single atm.. i just want my BF DVD :weep

yay for the new thread.

I wonder if YesAsia also gives a free poster with the BF Tour DVD. It's not (yet) listed on their site... I hope they will though :yes

I just found the pics of VIVI May 2007 with this stunning pic of hers.
I wanna share with you! :3

I wonder how long they are gonna keep her next album in livedoor new album release list.
it's been 3 months or more her name in livedoor..

her photoshoots for vivi always look great

i ask on avex taiwan if OS press will have a first press...and poster @_@ i hope they answer me

maybe i will buy her BEST fiction albums at weekend~ XD its still on sale in my town~ XD
(since i wear my new set like avex staff whos promoting namie albums)... haha

@pommy : did you send email for avex?? wow... i hope they release the OS version...

^ on sale is great!

there's a place on avex taiwan's site where you click, submit a thread and hope they answer you @_@

it's kinda like customer service XD

the dvd covers are :puke

can't wait to see the perfs though

Oh I have that issue! It's one of my favorite shoots from her <3

Why are those scans so grainy?

PLAY definitely has the least, and that's why I love it too hahaha...

Style has about 3 or 4. Queen of Hip-Pop has like 2 and a half.

No problem, babe :)... If I'm not mistaken, Style was her first hip-pop sort of album. So if you like PLAY, you'll most likely like Style and Queen of Hip-pop.

I love Namie's ballads.. especially I WILL.. it's probably my all time fav namie song :) her voice is so good in that song.
and the PV is beautiful as well (even though i dont like the part with the short wig).

SHOULD I LOVE HIM? is a ballad.

I love the thread title!

I love the thread title too *O*

oh really ? o_O

that's great so in future if I want to know whether avex Taiwan will be producing future Taiwan presses of so & so , I know what to do now :lech :innocent

me too :yes

Queen of Hip-Pop
Concentration20
SWEET 19 BLUES

I love "It's all about you". I think it's a great song.

Anyone else here who loves/likes "It's all about you"?

Uh, huh

they probably take a long time to answer, and you'll have to ask the question in chinese ;)

I saw WHAT A FEELING being played at MTV China earlier on :luv2

QOHP has "all for you" which is a great summer ballad

^ I'd prefer buying 181920 even though it has awful cover xD

I love all songs on PLAY, I just find PINK KEY & SHOULD I LOVE HIM? the most boring even though I listen to them.

i think im buying QOHP soon (maybe:rolleyes) :D

I love that song! It's so fun~ I pretty much love every song on PLAY, but I can't consider it my favorite album. I think I love all of her albums equally, just in different ways, I just can't decide!

I love It's All About You!

I know a lot of people who don't, though..I think we're in the minority, ya know?

Every track on PLAY is a winner, I just cant dislike any of them :)

The only song I don't like on PLAY is Pink Key...it's been growing on me a bit though.

Best album? Its a toss up between Concentration 20 and Queen of Hip Pop for me. I don't count best ofs, those are compilations, not albums.

I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ It's all about you!

you you you
oh no no no
I gotta go go go
bye bye bye~♫

ditto

I love every single song in the album . Most probably my fave & most surprising album of '07 :yes

oh i truly love all the songs on PLAY <3 one of my favorite albums! and one of my first jpop album where i love all the songs!

:yes

it's not everyday you can find an album where the album tracks sounds on par if not more superior than the singles

Did anyone knows where I can find Namie PV's from Super Mokeys times?

Try Me Watashi wo Shinjite

the best quality i could find

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaiT4...eature=related
Mr. USA

I'm pretty sure there is a video for Dancing Junk...and I dunno if Aishite Masukatto has one.

^ :heart that PV is old...about 12 years lol

^ it's still make me <3 everytime I rewatch it! That's my Namie before she's a queen like she is now!

I was asking beacouse I want to start go info namie disco from begining but after this I will just start with avex discography xD

yeah I kow what you mean. I'm still surprised to see that so many people like It's all about you. I thought everyone hated that song exept me :D

I hope her next album won't have interludes/preludes, just like PLAY~ But nothing can beat SWEET 19 BLUES lol

What the...?

People hate that song? Why? :thud

Oh, I know! :laugh I really did like SWEET 19 BLUES' interludes, though. Especially Ocean Way & Joy...Ocean Way being the best interlude ever.

thank you love ^.^
i love it!
there is nothing to hate about it ITS A FREAKING AWESOME SONG!

The one that i listen to most is Full Moon
i swear i listened to that one about 100 times


what is your favorite play song guys? ^.^
I love them all and *gasp* also the ballads here

Thanks 4 callin me love. <3

My favs on PLAY:
HIDE & SEEK
FULL MOON
CAN'T SLEEP, CAN'T EAT, I'M SICK
It's all about you
Funky TOWN
STEP! With It
HELLO
SHOULD I LOVE HIM?
TOP SECRET
VIOLET SAUCE (SPICY)
Baby Don't Cry
PINK KEY

i didn't really like full moon at first, but after watching Play Tour 2007.. omg
the choreo is amazing lol.

My fav songs on Play are Hide&Seek and Baby Don't Cry.
but i love them all.. except for Step With It... never cared for that song

Yeah but it can be annoying, especially if that interlude is only 0:04s short :/ so I usually skip them.

hehehe ~watch your step!!~ :yes "motion" give me a headache tho :headache that 1 is the worse

i agree w/ rikku OCEAN WAY is beuaitufl :luv2

:laugh Oh...right. Yeah, I just took out those interludes.

the interludes are necessary and clever because it makes it 19 tracks total, like the name of the album "Sweet 19 Blues" :P

I really like it too. Namie was 19 when she released this, the transition year of becoming an adult (age 20, hatachi). I like how the title expresses 19 years of teenage innocence and 'blues' put into an album, marking a milestone in her life. It's really personal.

Yeah..SWEET 19 BLUES really is one my favorite albums from her. I feel like it's really underrated.

It surprises me too. The song is great! I love it so much but I know that there are some people out there who really hate the song. :shakehead

:yes I agree with you.

I :heart :blove SWEET 19 BLUES, especially Chase The Chance, Don't wanna cry, You're my sunshine, Body Feels EXIT, SWEET 19 BLUES, Interlude~Ocean way & LET'S DO THE MOTION. LET'S DO THE MOTION = l:blove:heart:love:luv2ve

Only songs I liked from SWEET 19 BLUES was the title track, Don't wanna cry, and Interlude~Ocean way

My favorite is definitely HIDE&SEEK. :luv2 I just love that song. I also live Violet Sauce (Spicy) and FUNKY TOWN. PLAY is a great album.

:yes

Hide & Seek was the very 1st Namie song I heard & I still love it up to now :heart

it's great that it got a PV . It deserved to anyway

^ I'm not sure, but I think HIDE&SEEK was my first song from her too. :P PLAY was the album that made me love her. It was my favorite a long time, but when BEST FICTION was released I started to like it more. But I still love PLAY and all the songs on it. :heart

:hi5

that goes for the same thing as me :yes

I'm bored. And I wanna talk. :D I wanna ask people something;

How did you end up listening to Namie Amuro?

Well, on my behalf I can say this:

I originally had Queen of Hip-Pop and PLAY on my computer but I really hated the songs at first. I don't remember I liked any of the songs on Queen of Hip-Pop but on PLAY I only liked HIDE & SEEK and Top Secret, and of course Baby Don't Cry which was my first Namie song ever, and the other songs were pure crap to me. I couldn't stand listening to those.

Then one day I just had this strange urge to start listen to Namie's music more in May 2008 if I'm correct. I had deleted Queen of Hip-Pop and PLAY on my computer. I went to dailymotion to check out if I can find some PVs. I saw and heard the wrong songs; WHAT A FEELING, NEW LOOK, ROCK STEADY, shine more, SO CRAZY, SWEET 19 BLUES and White Light, and I just fell in love with those, except NEW LOOK and SWEET 19 BLUES which both were boring to me at first.

But either way I ended up downloading every album she had released before Queen of Hip-Pop. I listened. The more I listened the more I fell in love with her music. I got so hooked into her music I forgot everything about Ayu for two or so months. I just listened to Namie and Kuu, and sometimes Hikki but I listened to Namie's music on repeat every time I had a chance. :D And because of this I learnt to love songs that I had hated before like CAN'T SLEEP,CAN'T EAT,I'M SICK for example. I really love this song nowadays, mostly because it has a personal meaning to me, and nowadays only song that I really don't like is Ups and Downs. I just can't find myself liking it. No matter how much I listen to it. :D Nowadays the songs Should I Love Him? and Hello for example are actually my favourities.

I'm not sure which album made me love Namie so much because every album is good in their own ways. Even the SUITE CHIC album is so very good. I do have a hunch that BEST FICTION actually is the album that somehow made me love Namie so much eventually. I feel like it's her best compilation album since 181920. So I should that her hip hop/R&B style has after all made me a Namie fan. There was a time when I really thought her older, before SUITE CHIC project, stuff is better but lately I have noticed that her hip hop/R&B stuff is a lot better since it has changed her voice to better. :) And of course, I love her voice on concerts. I have seen few lives, and one full concert, Live Style 2006, and I have to say that Namie amazes me. :) Musically, vocally and with her looks (I want that my hair to be the same as hers. *___*).

I remember I made a review of all of Namie albums but I think my opinion has changed. Not that I'm going make that review again. But I'm almost 90% sure that my opinion has changed quite a lot. :D But anyhoo. On summary: Namie is one of my favourite artists, right now the #1 along with Kuu-chan. :3

Well I first heard Hide & Seek on MTV 2 years ago..and I thought woah that's hot XD Then I saw Baby don't cry on MTV too...and thought that Jpop have such nice ballads (I was in Taiwan btw)

Then I returned to the US and decided to look up more Jpop, and then I saw that Come from Inuyasha is Namie's song, which made me love her more

I originally downloaded her PLAY album, and after a few months, I decided to download her other albums, though I didn't listen to it

I went back to Taiwan for the summer, and decided to buy BEST FICTION, but still wasn't very much into Namie

I really got more into Namie when WILD came out~ And I really decided to listen to more of her songs when I brought my tickets to BF Tour

But now I appreciate more of her older albums <3 Like break the rules *o* ah himwari

I heard HIDE & SEEK, and I was like...woah! Then I heard Baby Don't Cry, Funky TOWN, CAN'T SLEEP, CAN'T EAT, I'M SICK, VIOLET SAUCE, ningyo, White Light. That's really how it caught on.

Well in fall of 2007, I was hearing a lot about her among other ayu fans, so I decided to check out her music. I knew that she sang for inuyasha and stuff, so I was like " oh yeah! I know her..". I fell in love with HIDE AND SEEK, but everything else just kind of made me go "egh, its okay..."

A few months after that, I listened to PLAY but I didn't really like it. I'm really not sure why... but I listened to like 4 songs and then stopped listening to it.

I didn't listen to her for over a year, and then i was on imeem one day in late march/ early april, and WILD was on the list of popular videos. I was like "hmm, namie amuro? thats kinda cool.." so I checked it out. I loved it so much, I listened to it like 3 times in a row Then I went to youtube and listened to Dr., and loved that one a lot, too.

The following sunday, I checked out a bunch of her videos, and i listened to the album PLAY and fell in love with it. Then my obsession grew, now I have listened to all of her albums from AVEX, and i can't stop listening to her! :)

lol great stories everyone :)
*hates Powwo for hating Ups&Downs </3* that song is awesome
j/k j/k :P

I heard Put 'Em Up some years ago on youtube and downloaded that song but I never really cared for her other music.
But last year I downloaded BEST FICTION and the rest is history :) so yeah I'm kinda a new Namie fan lol.


and now Namie is my favorite artist :heart I don't think I've ever loved or respected an artist as much as I do with Namie.

and my favorite namie song is I WILL. her voice is so strong and emotional in that song, and the PV is :heart (blah @ the short wig though)

and now i'm trying to collect all her albums and singles, in fact, NEVER END arrived today <3. still got a long way to go though lol

My story:

When I started to listen to Jpop I found an article about Namie and her stardom because she was the one and only Jpop Queen back then (Late 1999).

I got curious and heard some of her songs (the first one I heard probably was DREAMING I WAS DREAMING) but the first time I saw a live of her was when she sang NEVER END at LOVE LOVE AISHITERU (Kinki Kids TV Program that now is called Domoto Kyoudai) and started to like her more (even though in that live when Koichi and Tsuyoshi sang they ruined the songs T.T They are good singers, especially Tsuyoshi, but still....)

Luckily now on DOMOTO KYOUDAI they only play the instruments for the guest who will sing so there is no danger to ruin any other songs XD

ps = back then the quality/size of videos/mp3s was TERRIBLE..I used to download all the rmv videos and I still have that NEVER END live with Kinki Kids (this one is wmv/asf) and well...the file size is 5MB!! Like a 128kbps song XXXXXXXXD

Back in 2003, I remember going through the Avex TV play list (it sucks they took that down) to watch the Ayu's Memorial Address CMs. Then I found out about Namie's existence when it promoted her So Crazy single with the PV.

In 2005, I randomly downloaded No and The Speed Star because of the hot covers and I loved it, but still was not convinced to become her fan. I was still a devoted Ayu fan back then.

I started liking her music after listening to Baby Don't Cry in 2007, when many AHS-ers here were praising it. When I heard Hide & Seek, I became her fan. Her music since then have been increasingly good so I'm happy about that.

it was a year ago.. i was stuck in Macao (China) with nothing to do.. so I watched TV :laugh
they played Namie PVs but I had no idea who she was..I remember seeing the VS cm and immediately wanted that shampoo (not to mention her hair was tooo pretty). i had no idea that lady in the cm was the same person as the lady in the pvs.. and then, I saw NEW LOOK pv a few times, and i really liked it. I kept watching that channel for the pv to play again xD
I went on youtube to search for the video, but I kept forgetting the title, and then i remembered x] And i was checking my friend's profile and realised that she been a big fan of namie :thud
I returned to the US (just like pommy haha) and downloaded her songs and found some more to download. I think it was near the end of 08, I was in Japantown and went in the bookstore. I saw BEST FICTION in the new release section, and spazzed my ass off :laugh and then I bought it! ;) shortly after, I bought PLAY. :heart

Macao wasnt THAT hellish after all! :)

EDIT: I vow to complete my namie discog (excl. some singles @_@) before i complete any other j-pop artist's discogs :D

i think its the same time when i discovered ayu back in 1999
i bought a bootleg compilation PV of jpop artist
there is say the word from namie...
but i become like her more since never end...

You are a new namie fan? I have only been a fan for like 4 months ;_; I feel kind of like a noob now :laugh

better late than never xD!


also, cover of fine magazine:
she looks cute and very summery :yes
http://hinode.co.jp/img/cover/magazine/fine200909.jpg

^ haha, yeah

Oh my goodness! that cover is gorgeous! I love her hair

A friend of mine that goes here (Bozu) was talking about how hot Hide & Seek was. So I watched it and was impressed. I showed my friend and now we have an inside joke with the PV xD But yeah, Hide & Seek made me love her. But Rock Steady, Do Me More, and Full Moon made me a big fan.

loove the cover!! :love

Very kawaii cover =D! Can't wait for the scans!

My story seems to be quite different from others. I first heard Namie back in 1996 when I lived in Japan. I remember hearing Don't Want to Cry quite often when I was out in town. (at department stores, Mr. Doughnut etc) I always liked the sound of it. But back then I was only 12 and not so much into J-POP. It wasn't until around 2004 that I became a real fan - I remember thinking the Girl Talk covers were really cool and so I downloaded it and have been a big fan since then. Soon after I refound Don't Want to Cry and was like "Oh she sings THAT song?!" I love both her new and old though I have a slight preference for her older material.

I forgot how I discovered Namie.

I know it was 3 years ago.

I randomly downloaded Body Feels EXIT & WANT ME, WANT ME.

The rest is history.

One day I decided it was time for me to try out some new J-Pop. I went to the Asian Music Downloads section came across a live performance of FUNKY TOWN and I watched and I thought "wow, this song is awesome and her voice is :luv2"

So.... well, that's the beginning of it.

Woooow, gorgeous! I love it.
btw, is her hair shorter? D:

I never remember correctly how I became a fan of an artist, but I try to remember something. Well, as I said before, I think my first song was HIDE&SEEK. I'm pretty sure I was on YouTube to find her songs. One of my friends was a fan of her and I had never heard of Namie, so I decided to listen a few songs from her. I don't remember what year it was, maybe late 2007? Oh well. Anyways, in 2008 I became a fan of her. Before that I thought she's a nice singer and almost forgot her. But then I started to listen to more and more her music and I bought Queen of Hip-Pop album. I really liked it and listened to it a lot, but then I started to like Kumi and Ayu more and I forgot Namie again. I sold Queen of Hip-Pop to my friend (and now I regret it >.<) and I didn't listen her so much anymore. But then she released WILD/Dr. and I started to love her again.

And I love that cover for Fine, she looks great. :heart I love her smile.