Year you became a fan of Ayu?

[greggerz189]

October 1998

[Possessionless]

17th December 2007 after I heared glitter on youtube
First CD i actually bought from her was GUILTY on 11th Jan 2008
Now I've got Secret and will be ordering A Best 2 -White- soon

[Yeli13]

March 2006, when Startin' came out.

[GRACE]

I've heard her on and off since 04, when I was first getting into anime, and my friend introduced me to Inuyasha. I fell in love with no more words (lol Inuyasha), but I never actually took the time to look up who it was and find more music. In 05, once again I heard her in the jukebox on a forum I frequent(M and evolution), but still no more interest by those songs. Then sometime in in 06, I heard her again (Ladies Night), and again in the summer of 07(glitter/fated) but still didn't bother to look deeper into her.

Anyway, fast-forward to winter. The guy I fell for happens to love her, she's his favorite singer. As a Christmas gift for him, I downloaded all her albums, and sent them to him, and I started really listening to her then as well. The rest is history~ The first (2) album I bought were in February ((miss)understood and Secret) which arrived today XD

[lfe.]

2005, sometime in the fall

[HilaryDuffFanboy]

I was a fan of the songs Boys & Girls and Evolution when they came out but at the time I was still young and accessing her other music was impossible for me. I wouldn't say I was an actual fan until 2005.

[letthemeatcake]

hahaha! -cheers- since i heard "M"! i don't remember when exactly, but it was during the summer, i remember.

[baka-ranger]

Originally Posted by HilaryDuffFanboy

I was a fan of the songs Boys & Girls and Evolution when they came out but at the time I was still young and accessing her other music was impossible for me. I wouldn't say I was an actual fan until 2005.

omg I am the same as you, I was in love with Boys and Girls and Evolution, they were the only two Japanese songs I actually knew the lyrics to without being a fan of the artist. I knew Ayu but I wasn't a fan of her cause I didn't listen to Asian music back then, which would be kinda obvious cause I wasn't that much exposed to the internet until grade 5 haha thank god for my bros obsession with watching her pvs back then. I thought of her again when i got my old iPod in 2005 only put evolution and Boys and girls on. And then (hahaha that could so be a pun) early 2006 her name came up when I was researching a textiles project o.O so I decided to download all of her music!! I guess I was destined to be a fan
HAHA ayu doesn't know how to get away from me...

So yeah, I first heard of her around 1999,started paying a bit of attention to her in 2005 and became a true fan early 2006 haha. Haha thats a large time span from when I was little...o.O

[sibby]

ermmmmmm during july 2007.. after hearing momentum.. i was a super anime fan >_> and the song was abit anime-ish.. SUPER EARWORM

in fact i still rmb when i bought my first cd!.. 8 August 2007 BEST 2 WHITE! muahaha

[Ryuuzaki]

I became a fan in summer 2004

[orochicloud]

March 2006 when I downloaded her (miss) understood and my face went from D: to and since then I've been a fan. I started buying her stuff in May though but since then I've been collecting most of her releases.

[AyaCere]

In october 2004, my first were 'Boys & Girls' and 'POWDER SNOW Acoustic Orchestra Version'. I red on the Internet that she's a great artist and tried to find a new artist after hikki and CoCo Lee.
Since then I'm an offical fan, but I started collection her stuff in 2006.

It was late 2003 to early 2004. A friend told me about Ayumi and Dir en Grey and made me check them both out. Listened to Hanabi, A Song for XX, Poker Face, Vogue and Moments.

Moments became my favourite song ever and I pretty much got myself into it from there. It will come full circle next year when I go to Japan for an Ayu concert

[Yoake]

It was in 2006 during the summer
I fall in love when I listened her songs

[TITANIC]

2003 when i was in 2nd grade junior high school
my 1st song is M

[fanmail]

Early 2006. !

[yoshino]

yr 2003! when she release her Memorial Address album!
But I bought A Best album instead at that time.
Since then, I like her songs very much. But i'm much more crazy for her now!
I'm so upset that I missed her Memorial address album. It's hard to find it these days in the cd stores. Should have bought it when I like then. =(

[rikku411]

Late 2006, around the time when Secret came out

I heard like two songs from her before then but I didn't really follow up on her, though I liked them (evolution and Dearest).

Ironically I think I was searching for another J-pop artist download and I found AHS

[rikku411]

Early 2007, around the time when A BEST 2 came out.

I heard like two songs from her before then but I didn't really follow up on her, though I liked them (evolution and Dearest).

Ironically I think I was searching for another J-pop artist download and I found AHS

So I joined AHS when I became a fan

[Ani_C]

Beginning of Summer 05', a month before Fairyland. (The usual mouthful) I finally saw the first Inuyasha movie (I loved that show hahaha) and I heard No More Words, my friend said that he loved the song so when I heard it I understood why, it was incredible. So I remembered the singer's name, Ayumi Hamasaki and well... I heard evolution and I knew she was the one!