What was happening when you became a fan?

[ayu-suits]

it was the release of dome tour 2001 and i caant watch it because we dont have big download files and fast internet before haha

[Max_ZZZ]

right after Secret! jewel and momentum ensnared me and i went and bought my story, missunderstood, and rainbow. then a best 2 came out with part of me, glitter, finally i remember being so excited because GUILTY was my first ayu album to live through! it didnt get number one and everyone gasped lol pretty funny. thinking back its so funny how every album was like this auspicious event and they were all amazing. i even hated party queen and i remember how funny it was when the covers got released. cant wait for feb 3rd!!

[Seiko Yua]

when i starting going to conventions in 2002, they always played evolution in the jpop pv rooms. that was when i was first aware of her.

then i was on an asian music web site with all the charts and current singles at the time and }{ had just come out and independent was number one on oricon! woo! and then the rest is history.

[Bitey]

I was in middle school and I had a friend very much in jpop/DDR esque music.
She asked me to download some stuff and I happened to end up with improperly tagged Ayu songs.
So, the first Ayu song I ever heard was Trauma mistagged as a DDR song. :p

I believe it was around the release of Memorial Address when I started to actually follow her.
The first PV I watched was Angel's Song. ♥

[Heavenly]

GUILTY was just released and Mirrorcle World was just announced.
At first, I didn't like MW, and I heard MW actually before the GUILTY album
--> kinda ironic, I listened to Mirror after listening to MW lol

[BlackSilence]

Originally Posted by Polyrhythm

It was her 10th Anniversary I think. GUILTY was recently released. Mirrorcle World came out. It was really amazing. I remember she almost lost the weekly #1.

something along these lines.

i did became afan earlier but then drifted away for quite some time and when coming back fully i think it was GUILTY....I only remember GUILTY plastered all over the forum... but i i just really dont' remember xD

[Surreal17]

One week after How Beautiful You Are was released as a digital single.In February 2012.SOOOOOOOOOOO LATE!!!!The first song that I listened was Far Away ~Orchestra Version~ or Forgiveness.

[Mr. Goto]

I can't really remember because at the time I was in denial about liking her (I used to hate her ). It either around Blue Bird or right before Secret was released

[juanes6]

I remember I saw the PV of Boys & Girls in a mexican magazine in 2002/2003 I don't remember xD

After that (3 or 4 years) I saw a performance of Boys & Girls in the Arena tour 2003-2004, but it was deleted from youtube .____. so I have to wait another year to remember what concert was that and I downloaded it with A BEST 2 BLACK & WHITE, but I remember I didn't like the songs xD (I only liked evolution, B&G and Humming 7/4) at this time the biggest news about ayu was she losing her hearing, just after the CDL07-08...

It was until the A COMPLETE was out when I became a fan... At this time I had already bought the AT05, CDL07-08, A museum and AT07 MIYA record bootlegs, and that's all xD

[Jason]

It was around the middle of 2002 when I discovered her but I had no knowledge of anything she was releasing at the time (I found this site nearly 2 years later ).

So I'm gonna assume she was releasing/released the H single around that time...

[Aisha_Angel]

When I first started to look for other songs by Ayu beyond "evolution," Moments had just been released. It wasn't until INSPIRE/GAME was being promoted that I became a serious fan. =)

[Sunrise]

A bit after Rule/Sparkle had been released

[SURREAL__RAINBOW]

Secret was released and promoted
CDL 06-07
A BEST 2 -BLACK & WHITE-

[yatsuda]

Dome Tour was about to start.

[YUKARI]

It was between Free & easy and H. I remember feeling late, I seriously regretted that I missed her A BEST era lol now it seems like I've been her fan since almost the beginning of her career.

[dannysan]

It was 2000 (March i think..) a japanese friend showed me this video...


i didn't like her voice but the song get stucked in my head for days...

I became a fan when SEASONS was released..

at that time she was touring with "Concert tour 2000 vol. 2" i think...

[Daeklei]

I'd heard of Ayu quite awhile ago but never super got into her like I am now until Party Queen was announced.

[polka-dot-jewel]

I became a fan in September 2006... so BLUE BIRD had just come out, and Secret was to come out two months later.

I had found "Because of You" on YouTube, and well... I instantly fell in love <3

[Bad Wolf]

I think it was in 2002? I can't remember really -- I know that "evolution" was the song that got me listening to Ayu, so I'm actually wondering if it was closer to 2000/2001 when I started listening to her.

Anyway, it's been a good 10+ years lol.

[[H]]

When Thousand Arms was released in 1999 was the first time I hear Ayu's song. Man, her voice was screechy, but it got stuck in my head. I started replaying the intro over and over again just to hear that song.

Then the dorama "Long Vacation" started airing in 2000 and i got stuck with a japanese syndrome. Found Hikki's "First Love" cassette next to a girl in an animal print ("Duty album"). I bought them both and was so happy with Hikki's album and started singing to First Love. However, this haunting voice kept bugging my head as if I've heard it before. 2 months later, I forgot about First Love and found myself singing to SURREAL.

in 2001, I bought both "Distance" and "A BEST" cassettes (they still don't have the CDs here) and then I discovered that it was ayumi hamasaki who sang the song on Thousand Arms and became a fan ever since.