Year you became a fan of Ayu?

[mi|kshake]

I got my first Ayumi CD in March 2004. I heard a bit about her before - I saw a few pics of her which immediately caught my eye because of her different look - but was a bit wary after hearing she had a bit of a squeaky voice (jpop's made me much more open to other types of music now!)

Anyway I got BoA's Valenti and really loved the ballads especially Winding Road (dunno why I loved it so much, it's still great but now I think Sekai no Katasumide is way better) I wasn't really a ballad person before, I usually thought they were just "filler" tracks. BoA's song made me want to find more great ballads. I looked up Ayumi on yesasia and saw the A Ballads cover and thought it was really cool. I read reviews and decided to buy it, even though I wasn't previously a huge fan of ballads and if I was trying to get into a new artist would have never considered buying a whole album full of them.

But as soon as I heard Rainbow, I realised even if the rest of the album was utter crap it didn't matter (of course it wasn't!) I'd never heard a song like Rainbow before, the opening notes were so beautiful and Ayumi's vocals were perfect. And there were the added techno/dancey & gospel elements in the song which I wasn't expecting and had never heard them mixed together in the one song before.

I think the first thing that made me buy an Ayumi CD was definately the A Ballads cover, I was just like "wow I have to buy this CD - it's such a creative/different cover". Especially for a CD which is was a best of.

mi|kshake~

[ced69]

heya
heard her the first time back in...2004...depend on you n an other song.
n then...4 weeks ago i browsed around youtube, found some ayu stuff n ordered the (miss)understood album immediately =P (which should arrive in a week =>)
so lets say april 2006 ^^'

ced

[jedicheech]

Recently, i am really get Mad on AYUMI songs..

i like her songs toooo much....

I still remember that time my elder bro borrowed the mEMORIAL address form his friend,my bro on the songs...

HMm....at first i didnt find any interesting on her songs..sometimes hate it..maybe it is the first time i listened to JApanese songs.

But dunno y,after sometimes when i on her songs when i was bored...gradually....gradually....I gOT ADDICTED!!...That time i was abt only 13 years old,3 years ago....

[Calico]

Spring (maybe March) 2003. A BALLADS was the new thing.

I believe I bought something from her that winter.

[Northerner]

2006.

[Jason]

Around 2001/2002.

I stumbled accross a fanmade final fantasy music video and it was using "Fly high" as it's song. I got hooked on the song and started exploring her music more, I eventually evolved into the biggest ayumi fan in Ireland I tells ya

[Akutenshi]

I'd say around winter of 2004. I had been into Utada Hikaru for only a little while, and I was reading reviews of her albums, and I saw somebody make a comparison to her and Ayu. I decided to check it out, and the first song I downloaded was "Catcher in the Light". From then on, I downloaded her MY STORY album, which had coincidentally just came out, and I was hooked. I absolutely loved it. I downloaded the rest of her discography, and now here I am.

Since then, I've purchased all of her albums, and even a few singles.

[hayasaki]

uhmmm... a can't remember it clearly but i think it was around 2000-2001... I have this favorite Japanese song on my playlist with an unknown artist and i decided to write the lyrics based on what i heard and i google-it.. and yayks! Ayumi Hamasaki -To Be... LOL! after that, i started dL-ing and Buying her albums...

[~Tsubasa~]

I became a fan in 2004.

[Videl]

2003, when listening first to "Evolution"

[cybermoomba]

I became a fan with RAINBOW. It's my favorite ayu album

[sexysaucestar]

I became a fan in the middle of 2002--when I first heard a few of her songs from my friend ^^ From that point on, I was determined to buy all the albums...^^;

Can't believe I've been a fan for 4 years now o_O But my friend (KillTime111) has actually been a fan since 2000 or maybe even 1999.....

[krishna]

2002 when she performed in MTV Asia Awards.
But,I start to buy her albums at 2003.

[*Petit*]

probably the summer of 2004.

[Alessia_Tateno]

January 2000, a singaporean friend of mine sent me a vcd with some videos and I started to like her ^^

[Tasked]

I first hated her in 1999, then I loved her in 2001, and became a 'die-hearted' fan somewhere during 2002 (rainbow....)

[Daking]

December 2005, Boys & Girls got me hooked when i first listened to it.

[HanabiChick]

2002, though I don't remember what month, but I remember it was around late summer.

[jeffycue]

January 2001, evolution PV =)

[Qt Mashi]

around August 2004!!! like just a couple of weeks before i joined AHS <3