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Originally Posted by orbitalaspect

Well, Ayu's last several albums have been overloaded with ballads. Colours was the first since NEXT LEVEL to at least balance the number of ballads/midtempo songs with upbeat tracks.

The number of upbeat songs for every record since NL (inc. NL):

NL - 6/10
RnRC - 5/12
Ls - 3/13 (4 if you count Love Song)
PQ - 3/11
La - 3/13
C - 6/10
AO - 4/11

If you break that down into raw numbers, out of 80 songs, only 37% are "upbeat". So, I definitely agree that Ayu should really focus on making this album sound upbeat and exciting. The vast majority of her songs are midtempo or ballads, and it honestly probably contributes heavily to her fall in sales. (Nobody really wants to listen to 10 sad songs if it's not a A BALLAD collection.)

Ha ha if you look at her singles from the early days you'll see that the majority were either ballads or midtempos. So that has nothing to do with anything