[Ayu_Love]

Looking forward to seeing the Buzzrythm performance!

I'd also love to see her re-do the TRICK and Kingdom tours. Kingdom used to be one of my favourites, but I agree that the ballad section is quite long and I never really cared for the cute section either, it was mostly the beginning I loved. I feel like there is so much potential with the Kingdom theme to do something even cooler!

Thank you for the scans, Rainbow! I honestly can't express how much I love this album photoshoot. <3

For streaming, I think it's a case of money + convenience for people. I think for people (including myself) it's cheaper to stream instead of buying a lot of CDs, it frees up the need to store CDs in your house (obvs not an issue buying digital), you can have all your music digitally in one player that will auto-update with any new releases (plus being able to find new music via recommended), and there is no need to rip those CDs first which adds extra time and inconvenience to people who in general have busy lives and not enough money etc (I think more people are switching to tablets and laptops for convenience, and I'm not even sure if most new laptops come with a CD drive nowadays? Mine didn't, so I am going to have to use my partner's PC tower to rip my FC editions CDs when they arrive, if I don't need to buy a CD drive for it first.)

For me it has always been a case of money, although I am in a much better financial situation now so I can buy things like FC editions, I think there are many fans who cannot afford to buy all their fav artists releases. If it wasn't for forums like this when I was younger, I don't think I ever would have been able to listen to as much JPOP or watch as many tours as I did, so I'm always super thankful to everyone here.

I do honestly think physical sales would increase again if they sold more goodies with the standard editions (For example, I think the standard edition of BoA's 10th Korean album comes with a photobook that also has short paragraphs inside talking about each song). I think for people on tight budgets, it's just not worth the money and space to buy a CD when you can stream it. :/ (Unless you really want to support your favourite artists, obviously)

I tend to be someone who will listen to a song I like on repeat (and will continue to listen to those songs for years after), so I would be interested in finding out how many streams it takes to effectively give the artist the same amount of money as buying the album. (just as an interest)