[truehappiness]

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

Spoiler:

Will be released in CD+DVD, CD only, and Tales editions. The CD content is the same for all releases.

CD
01. Song 4 u (Original mix)
02. Melody (Original mix)
03. Missing (Original mix)
04. You & Me (Remo-con rmx - Extended)
05. You & Me (SHINICHI OSAWA remix)
06. Song 4 u (Orchestra version)
07. Melody (remix)
08. Missing (remix)
09. Song 4 u (Original mix -Instrumental-)
10. Melody (Original mix -Instrumental-)
11. Missing (Original mix -Instrumental-)
12. You & Me (Original mix -Instrumental-)

DVD
01. Song 4 u (video clip)
02. Melody (video clip)
03. Song 4 u (making)

Song 4 u - composed by HINATAspring/Yuta Nakano
Melody - composed by Yasuhiko Hoshino
Missing - composed by Kazuhiro Hara

デビュー15周年に向けて5ヶ月連続リリース決定！
第一弾として、11月8日（木）にミニ・アルバム『LOVE』を発売！！
デビュー15周年記念日である2013年4月8日に向け、毎月8日に自身初となる5ヶ月連続リ リースが決定 ！
その第一弾として、書き下ろし新曲3曲「Song 4 u」「Melody」「Missing」と、大ヒット曲「You & Me」のリミックスなど含む全12ver.入りミニ・アルバム『LOVE』をリリース！
「Song 4 u」は、11月1日発売のゲーム「テイルズ オブ エクシリア2」のテーマソングに決定しており、9月23日に幕張メッセで開催された“東京ゲー ムショウ20 12”にて楽曲が初解禁された際には、熱狂的なテイルズ・ファンから大歓声で迎えられた。昨年の「prog ress」に続く「テイルズ オブ」シリーズとのコラボレーションで、壮大な世界観と疾走感溢れる楽曲はまさにファンの期待 を裏切らない ものとなっている。「Melody」は、星野靖彦氏作曲によるミディアム・バラードで、心に響 く歌詞と一聴 したら忘れないメロディはまさにayuバラードの真骨頂。「Missing」は、数多くのヒッ ト曲を生み出 してきた原一博氏作曲のロックテイスト溢れる切ないミディアム・ナンバーとなっており、3曲と もayuの魅 力が存分に発揮された楽曲に仕上がっている。さらに、今年の夏を席巻し現在もヒット中の「Yo u & Me」の大沢伸一、Remo-conによるリミックスほか、全12ヴァージョンを収録！
このミニ・アルバムを皮切りに、12月8日（土）、1月8日（火）、2月8日（金）、3月8日 （金）と、5 作連続怒濤のリリース！！

Originally Posted by OyTony

2012.11.8 in stores
MINI ALBUM『LOVE』

Spoiler:

Bonus items

Spoiler:

At the moment, only the Tales of CD version has some exclusives like a special download code for the game and a special jacket featuring Tales of Xillia 2 art. Will be updated when we know more.

Preorder links

Spoiler:

Originally Posted by Aderianu

【CD+DVD】 ・AVCD-48590/B　¥ 2,415 cdjapan | hmv | yesasia | amazon
【CD】 ・AVCD-48591　¥ 1,575 cdjapan | hmv | yesasia | amazon
【CD (Tales Edition)】 ・AVCD-48592　¥ 1,575 cdjapan | hmv | yesasia | amazon

Information from before the release was confirmed

Spoiler:

If this ends up being a rumor, please move this to the rumors thread in the chat room, but it seems VERY likely to be true. The timing fits in with the Tales of Xillia 2 release and also would allow for DLC to be included. Would be interesting if she was trying to keep a four letter theme with her minis as well [FIVE / LOVE] perhaps with a similar design for the title/logo?

About three hours ago in Japan, a tweet was posted by a longtime Ayu fan saying that a new project of five continuous releases was starting for her 15th anniversary.

romi0603 (ヨシカ)　9/24 21:39:31
RT @teammaruko: 浜崎あゆみ、15周年目前に5枚連続リリース‼第一弾は「LOVE」ミニアルバム11月8日。 らしいです!

It's not confirmed just how 'true' this is but it seems pretty legitimate considering the source. I do wonder why the tweets were all deleted though. It was later reposted at the 'Foraver Club' on Facebook, the place that initially broke the Song 4 u news a day or two before the release. Wonder where they found their information for that though.

It seems she deleted her initial tweet due to 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。"

It did not seem official to her? Or it wasn't supposed to be released?

An update:
It appears that this information was posted on TeamAyu and then quickly pulled from the site due to being up too early. If you remember, "GUILTY" had a tracklist originally posted a LONG time ago and it was removed from the site for a few days before being posted for real. No one thought it was real because it seemed so ridiculous and then well... we got it a few days later and people couldn't believe it.