Ayu & Avex

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Originally Posted by ThatBoyLuke

Personally I've been dissatisfied for a few years now, they seem to treat Ayu (and Koda Kumi) as cash cows releasing album after album with barely any time between releases which takes away anticipation people have for new material and results in a drop in sales as seen with Ayu and Kumi.

Avex has always been like this, and I don't think it has something to do with their drop in sales because just look at AKB48, they release things like crazy and sell like hotcakes.

Originally Posted by ThatBoyLuke

Also it's so annoying that Avex don't get with the times and embrace youtube by uploading full videos and Itunes like most other labels do these days, It's not helping Ayu it's harming her... I discovered J-Pop on youtube but younger people these days are probably missing out because Avex pulls every video as soon as it's posted and refuses to upload them in full on their own channels...
Anyway please let me know your thoughts and feelings, I'm interested to know.

We only get short versions and low quality videos on YouTube. If they don't upload these on YT we could get it on internet anyway! I don't see the problem. If you want the full length and high quality thing buy their CDs.

I love Avex, the only thing I don't like is that they were so late with the opening of their YouTube channel (Which is free promotion) and that they don't spend much money on promotion for solo artists.