[Article] J-pop queen popular in Shanghai, China

[Maxker]

Music queen Ayumi Hamasaki, in Shanghai maintain security worth a royal empress!

By: Takako Huang

On October 18, the Shanghai concert will be held in a bigger league and scale than last year. Music queen Ayumi Hamasaki arrived China on October 13, to rehearse and shoot the MV-round for her new exclusive song, not yet named.

After 10 years in the spotlight Hamasaki still holds Japan's number one diva status, now in 2008 her status in Asia is sky-rooking. She is always surrounded by fans, giving her massive support. Her agency Avex Trax hired 30 guards to secure her stay in Shanghai this week, mainly past military. In her native country only the Japanese emperor family can match this high value of security.

But in the arrival of the airport lobby, Hamasaki was greeted by only smiling and enthusiastic fans, with homemade signs, posters and gifts., In return Hamasaki showed them friendly attitude , signing autographs and shaking hands.

In Shanghai Hamasaki will be shooting a brand new high value MV, especially focused to attract China's youngsters and the Asian market. The MV will focus on the original atmosphere of China in the early 40's, with an emotion and fragile plot. The MV will maintain a high budget, with production cost of more than $1,600,000 and can be compared to the level of her 2005 summer hit fairyland produced at Hawaii U.S.

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[Princess Sohee]

Yeah! Ayumi really is the queen now!

[zoomzoom]

Huge budget, if that number is true, it would be her 2nd most expensive PV ever.

[ayuayu798]

Only the best for our ayu ^^

[sitara]

i'll name the song for you:
GREEEEEEEEEEN

waah, it must be so good to be ayu!
exhausting too, but really good.

[MissElin_]

OMG is those numbers correct?! Thats a really expensive PV! But as the queen she should do something like that. Haha.

And funny about the guards, and it feels good. That huge masses of ppl can be really dangerous too. So good that she is keeped safe! ^^

Wow...that's expensive o__o

[njanjayrp]

Well if the PV is as good as fairyland was I won't mind at all. ~ I love her.

[hayasaki]

OMG! THat is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good! If the PV will cost that much, i bet, the money used will not be wasted as long as the PV is breath-taking, fantastic, gorgeous, beautiful, nostalgic, or whatever adjective could be adressed into it! lol

[miroro]

wow, the pv is so expensive x_x
i hope is as good as fairyland!!
thanks for the article!

ayu is the queen of asia!!

[Jeremy911]

Very cool! If the Budget for this PV is true. Then only Micheal jackson will have more videos in the top 10 most exspensive PV's ever made, And she will be tied with Janet Jackson.

[Coelacanth]

Sorry to be a pain, but where exactly is the link to the original source?

[Ayumiko]

If the amount of $ is true, it better be better than MW!

[jbrat2219]

With a budget like that, this PV BETTER be epic!

I'm glad to see Ayu is being treated like who she really is, a queen

[v3lun420]

Wow... enormous budget. I hope this PV won't suck. Recently, I got a bit disappointed with her PVs. But I really have feeling that Green really IS a cover song from a chinese singer (I forget the name, chen something). Not necessarily bad news, just a bit disappointing.

[aura~]

She deserve it all

wooo big production i see... it have to be a reaaaally good PV!!


thanks!!!

[pommy48]

woah, it's that expensive
, ayu is being compared to the royal family

[jbrat2219]

^ I think she's secretly apart of the royal family! She's a cousin in there somewhere hahaha

[AyUta]

WOW, that budget is HIGH! O_O I know this will be a really good PV then

Also being compared to the royal family of Japan? Ayu is way up there, it's unbelievable how high she is in status.

[Zeke.]

Ayu is Royalty. It's good she's treated that way, lol.