Ayu's Spotify Stats

[MKAyu]

Originally Posted by njanjayrp

It’s very simple those kind of songs never really hit off with her Japanese audience…

Yeah, it seems that way. I just have to wonder why. But that's not really an answerable question, it's just a matter of culture and taste, I suppose.

Because people were surprised by my mentioning the controversy around Ayu and Ado's "Ussee Wa" being too similar, here's some links:

浜崎あゆみ新曲が「うっせぇわ」に似てる？　ネット指摘は本当なのか、MVを見比べると... (Is Hamasaki Ayumi's new song similar to "Ussee Wa"? To see if the internet calling her out was correct, we compared their MVs.)

なんと！浜崎あゆみに「うっせえわ」パクリ疑惑！パクリの過去も再発掘 (What?! Hamasaki Ayumi suspected of ripping off "Ussee Wa"! We reinvestigate her history of rip-offs.)

There were a million of these in entertainment news about a year ago. Neither Ayu nor Ado ever commented (that I saw) and the topic was dropped.