[ayutopian]

Originally posted by AyuRocks
Let's see. H came out on July 24th, 2002 and H Special Edition came out on November 7th, 2002. If it were coming out August 20th, Avex would have probably confirmed it by now.

It would seem early for a [&] Special Edition, but it all depends on what exactly makes it special. If it's good enough, they could put it out. Otherwise, it would seem like a risk to put out a disc with nothing more than more pics so soon after the first release. Although, everything Ayu sells.

While the H special edition could offer all covers, what would this really offer? I think it would only make people mad at Avex, and Ayu, that the pics and stuff weren't released with the first one.

What seriously makes me doubt this though is this -


That's no big deal for an Ayu single. If they released a special edition every time an Ayu single sold that many, they'd be making special editions all the time. In fact, [&] showed a first sales slump compared to Ayu's other recent singles, probably due to the lull in the music industry as a whole. It really would seem weird to celebrate something that is lower than normal first week sales, which didn't even break 300,000. There has been no official confirmed source saying it's over 300,000 yet. It probably is, but it hasn't been confirmed yet. Also, by August 20th, it would probably have sold more than 300,000, so by then it wouldn't really be in celebration of that.

Also, while Avex has released Ayu stuff on the same date before, the economy as a whole and the music industry as a whole was better then ,and releasing 2 singles on the same date now would probably cause some competition between them. People probably wouldn't buy a disc of the same music over the new single, so it wouldn't be a good idea to release them on the same date. Rather, release them seperately so people can buy both and Avex would make more money.

So I doubt this is rumor is real.

Thank you for the information though, mimika, it's food for thought. We'll see how this plays out soon I hope.

Ashley

Agree!! I think avex won't make such silly mistakes.
If the SE of [&] will release on Aug 20, other record labels must release a ton of special edition of the singles in the labels that have sold over 300,000 copies... Japanese start losing interest in buying a single. 'Wow! All the record labels are $-sucking!!!'
Is it good for the J-pop industry?