Will there be a new album?

Originally Posted by Ranma Matsuri

Yep. She confirmed that she was working on a new album and with all the recording she's been doing, I think a December/January release is very realistic.

With 6 A-sides (I seriously doubt SDW will be on there since it's not a c/w and she never puts B-sides on an album) and probably 2-4 promo tracks we'll get beforehand, I hope we get a nice long album so there's a sufficient amount of new material.

And I hope the interludes this time are like NEXT LEVEL awesome and not RnRC awful.

RED LINE was a b-side...

Originally Posted by AyumiAi

no earlier than december, but it it will probably be around
January or February
last single for RnRC was december album released in April
thats 3 and a half months (y/b was released like december 29 and rnrc was 14 april)
so if L last single thats october, novermber, december, then mid january
if she falls same partter should come around that time

Ayu said that Avex gave her a little more time than normal for RnRC. She also only had two singles, one less interlude, and more tracks for RnRC than normal, which would mean she needed to record more overall.

NEXT LEVEL, in comparison, was released only 1 month after Rule/Sparkle, and that was a two-single album too. (But we all know that NL was rushed out.)

GUILTY was released 3 1/2 months after talkin' 2 myself, but it also had a third single (the digital release of Together When... only 3 weeks before album release.)

Secret was the only odd one. It came five months after Blue Bird... but Secret was also intended to be a mini-album and, at the very last minute, it was decided to record additional songs for full album.

I highly doubt 12th Al. will be in February or later. If it doesn't happen before the end of the year or right after new year, we are more likely to see the 51st single and the album come after that. So, I think the new album will be right at the end of 2010 or just after new year. (And I agree with others, I really don't see Ayu releasing another album during the two-week chart span at the end of the year.)

Keep in mind that Ayu's history shows her albums follow like this. At every other point in her career where she accumulated single releases like this within 9 months of releasing an album, she followed up within the same calendar year with another album. She had I am... and RAINBOW in 2002, and (miss)understood and Secret in 2006. She then takes a 6-8 month breaks from releases after both RAINBOW and Secret. (So a 2011 break is very likely.)