Ayumi Hamasaki Sekai - 'LOVE' mini album out November 8th, 1st of five 15th anniversary releases

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'LOVE' mini album out November 8th, 1st of five 15th anniversary releases

It's OFFICIAL.

Key points for now:
- Celebrating months leading up to 15th anniversary, 5 months of releases
- First part is the mini album LOVE that is coming out 11/8/12
- mini album has 3 new songs and 12 tracks
- Songs are Song 4 u [composed by Yuta Nakano/HINATAspring], Melody [composed by Yasuhiko Hoshino], and Missing [composed by Kazuhiro Hara]
- Melody is a medium ballad, Missing is a medium rock flavored tune overflowing with pain/sadness
- every month on the 8th day of the month until the 15th anniversary, something new will be released (NOT necessarily all mini albums) on 11/8, 12/8, 1/8, 2/8, and 3/8.

Tracklist + composers

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Bonus items

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Preorder links

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Information from before the release was confirmed

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NO!! dont post this!! It might be a rumor and break my heart!

I don't know if people who have been Ayu fans for like 10+ years would just make up rumors though... it's just odd if it's a rumor. You don't normally see fake information coming from those people.

Anybody could make up fake stuff though; it doesn't matter how long they've been a fan for. Being a fan for 10 years just gives them more material to work with.

I understand... but people snap all the time... lol

I hope its not a rumor... but till then, I'm just not going to believe it so Im not disappointed.. lol

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Originally Posted by tasking (Post 2911473)

Anybody could make up fake stuff though; it doesn't matter how long they've been a fan for. Being a fan for 10 years just gives them more material to use.

Well, when someone says "God: Ayu / member of TeamAyu for 10 years" .. or something in their profile, I'm less likely to believe that they want to troll people with fake information. This isn't 2ch here after all.

Anyway, she did post this:
"すいません、まだ公式じゃなかったみたいなので一旦消しますね。"

Posting an apology saying that because it wasn't official-seeming, she removed it.

This is bad..just going to get people's hopes up. You should at least put [Unconfirmed] or something in the title

I wonder where she got her info??

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Originally Posted by TeamAyu2004 (Post 2911495)

I wonder where she got her info??

The source was TeamAyu, apparently.

本当かどうか分かんないから適当に聞き流す程度で聞いて欲しいわ～
15周年に向けて５ヶ月連続リリースされるそうで、第一弾として11月にミニアルバム「LOVE」を発売するっていうのをTAで更新されてたそうなんだけど、内容は見れなくてタイトルだけ出てたらしいんだけど、今は消えてるそうよ
それを見た人が何人かいたみたいだわ。何かしらTA側の記載ミスがあって一時的に消してるのかもしれないけど、本当だったら早く情報欲しいわね

It was removed from TeamAyu quickly though.

And of course, 2ch made some fake tracklists based on the initial information or something...

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-crossed out because 2ch loves making fake stuff
「LOVE(仮)」

2012年11月8日(水)

●Song 4 u
●progressⅡ ～kiss & cry～
●Hi・Ka・Ri(ハート記号)
●You & Me ～acostic orchestra ～
●(Make Love)one・two・three
●How beautiful you are -Sound schedule rmx- (bonus track)

If they're going to make fake stuff, they should at least spell things correctly.

LOVE... she has Love Songs, 1Love and other
well, after Song 4 u that's not a surprise %)

^ lol the 8th isn't even a wednesday

I do hope this is true. And I wonder, if it is true, how long we'll have to wait until the news comes out...

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Originally Posted by truehappiness (Post 2911482)

So? Deli's been a fan for the same amount of time, yet has only been a TA member for less than a year - and she's pretty much a walking Ayu encyclopedia.

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Originally Posted by tasking (Post 2911503)

So? Deli's been a fan for the same amount of time, yet has only been a TA member for less than a year - and she's pretty much a walking Ayu encyclopedia.

The situation imo is different for most fans living outside of Japan. Until recently, not many people outside of the general area of Japan/China/Taiwan could even think of joining TA. And being somewhat related, do you think that Deli (being such a longtime fan) would post something fake just to make people excited? This person even apologized. I've been a fan for the same amount of time as well [or maybe a bit longer] and I'm not a member of TA. Am I going to try to lie to people? I don't really get why you want to argue about this.

Anyway, we kind of know the origins of this information now and I don't think it's false.

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Originally Posted by truehappiness (Post 2911504)

The situation imo is different for most fans living outside of Japan.

This.

So if it's true it means 5 mini albums in 5 months up to April 8th's week?

And if it's true I hope that they will pull it right this time and not mess it like the 3 last singles.

No, it means one mini album first and then other releases that we don't know anything about yet. Could be singles most possibly.

It would be interesting since...

November~ mini album
December~ ?
January~ ?
February~ ?
March~ ?

Then April 8th would have a set of concerts of some sort? She could skip a month or two, I suppose like when she did the 3 rapid releases for MOON/crossroad/L.

I would expect the months to be filled up with potentially more remix albums and some other interesting releases like the LIFE STYLE BOOK vol.2.

Yeah, I can totally see AVEX milking fans in this 15th anniversary, they won't get a another chance to do so in another 5 years, who knows what's gonna happen then too (with ayu's popularity, her ears, etc).

I expect a bunch of stuff, hopefully not another BEST OF in the mix.

And doesn't she have lots of leftover songs from Party Queen?? Perfect time to put them all in a mini and perhaps new singles too. Not to even mention that Timmy is still composing. Something big is coming for sure.

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Originally Posted by truehappiness (Post 2911504)

Idk, some people (not you) get off on getting people riled up like this. I'm not saying you or this person is a liar, but I don't get why this should be considered "legitimate" news, especially since said news has since been deleted. And it was on TA, more than one person was sure to catch it, right? I just don't want everybody to get their hopes up, is all.

But I do hope it is true :)

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Originally Posted by truehappiness (Post 2911500)

The source was TeamAyu, apparently.

It was removed from TeamAyu quickly though.

If they're going to make fake stuff, they should at least spell things correctly.

I wonder why they removed it... someone posting something before they were supposed too??

Also, although some of the stuff was miss spelled... some of the tracks looked amazing.

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Originally Posted by tokyoxjapanxfan (Post 2911502)

^ lol the 8th isn't even a wednesday

I do hope this is true. And I wonder, if it is true, how long we'll have to wait until the news comes out...

It's not (Wednesday)... but the 8th of april was her debut... sooo.. it kind makes sense.

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Originally Posted by ayumisrael (Post 2911511)

So if it's true it means 5 mini albums in 5 months up to April 8th's week?

And if it's true I hope that they will pull it right this time and not mess it like the 3 last singles.

I'm hopping for a mini... then 3 singles... then an epic new album.. 2CD+4DVD :D