[ayumixfan]

I think you are undermining indirect promotion. As long as the news about a new album is released, thats the important thing. The radio can plays ayu's songs countless times. Tours and albums promote eachother v_v lol. If albums were only released to promote tours, artists like utada who don't tour often would be in serious trouble. Of course she's not directly throwing herself out there liek before but don't forget promotion is promotion v_v u can't just not count it because its indirect. Its like saying a re-cut single isn't used to promote an album :S its used indirectly to promote the album while gather sales for the song too. Of course I understand that we're all not happy how ayu hasn't been doing as much lives as such, but she needs to rest right? so she's going to have to resort to other forms of promotion until she heals again.

Obviously she got more promotion at her peak than now, but i think her promotion for the last 3 years have been pretty steady v_v. I think a lot of fans are just labelling her stuff as lowly promoted becasue the sales are dropping =/ Of course I could be wrong, but thats what i thought too, but its so wrong now that I rethink it.

Anyways to say direct promotion > indirect promotion isn't necessarily true. I think making the news for RULE can gather as much casual listeners as one live performance. A lot of people read the news. Its like ayaka's incident where the news of her marriage and disease got her sales back up. Although indirect, she shot back up and gathered sales.

Sorry I'm bringing up other artists, I don't really want to debate about them. i'm just saying that promotion is promotion v_v.