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Music News: BoA's self-titled debut English album
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Originally posted by Ustareth
For a while, it sounded like they wanted to push her career into mainland China, but I knew that was going no where. Her Mandarin is worse than her English, although I wouldn't be against a Chinese album in the future.
I liked "Eien" a lot, but I knew it wasn't going to sell that well because her "Best of" album is coming out soon and the fact that she just isn't the hot thing in Japan anymore. After Best of Soul, people just stopped caring, unfortunately. "Winter Love" was her only really big hit after that.
The sad thing about BEST&USA is that I think Avex made it a double-release because they don't believe either one could sell on its own in Japan.
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I have no idea wut you are talking about. Her biggest selling single, "Do The Motion," came out after "Best Of Soul" and she had two more singles cross the 100,000 copies sold mark in "Nanairo No Ashita" ~Brand New Beat~ and "Winter Love." It really hasn't been that bad. As for "Eien," it's as you said, single sales do dismal if they come out anytime after a CD release date has been made.
O.o @ the video. Looks HOT already!
It's just frustrating wut's going on with both Utada and BoA. They are bringing the fire with songs and videos, but the easiest thing, PR, hasn't come along yet! They're management just needs to work on getting them release dates on radio and the rest will fly. = /
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Originally posted by Exodus
I have no idea wut you are talking about. Her biggest selling single, "Do The Motion," came out after "Best Of Soul" and she had two more singles cross the 100,000 copies sold mark in "Nanairo No Ashita" ~Brand New Beat~ and "Winter Love." It really hasn't been that bad. As for "Eien," it's as you said, single sales do dismal if they come out anytime after a CD release date has been made.
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My fault. I keep thinking "DO THE MOTION" is pre- Best of Soul. But aside from my mix-up over release dates, I wouldn't call "Nanairo No Ashita ~Brand New Beat~" a big single. It seemed more moderate in terms of success if you compare it to her first #1 single "DO THE MOTION", but I guess it would've been big at the time considering that "make a secret", "Dakishimeru", and "Everlasting" didn't perform as well as "DO THE MOTION". And didn't both that song and "Winter Love" stall between 90-100k? I'm sure they must have passed the 100k mark by now, but at the time, they hadn't sold 100k.
But all of her singles from THE FACE did pretty badly, including the single after it: VIVID.
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Originally posted by Ustareth
My fault. I keep thinking "DO THE MOTION" is pre-Best of Soul. But aside from my mix-up over release dates, I wouldn't call "Nanairo No Ashita ~Brand New Beat~" a big single. It seemed more moderate in terms of success if you compare it to her first #1 single "DO THE MOTION", but I guess it would've been big at the time considering that "make a secret", "Dakishimeru", and "Everlasting" didn't perform as well as "DO THE MOTION". And didn't both that song and "Winter Love" stall between 90-100k? I'm sure they must have passed the 100k mark by now, but at the time, they hadn't sold 100k.
But all of her singles from THE FACE did pretty badly, including the single after it: VIVID.
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That's true about the stalling, but updates haven't been made for two years, so I'm 100% sure it's passed, especially "Winter Love." Sales for that single and "Meri Kuri" spike every December. Anyways, any single that sells 100,000 copies is a real success to me. ;p
We'll see wut happens to the rest of her singles. I'm sure she'll recover. She's no fad. Koda Kumi is currently taking big hits too.
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DAYUM!!! That video is FIRE. 
If this doesn't blow up the industry sucks. 
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The video looks absolutely amazing. 
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that sneak peek is FIERCE!
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Britney Spears wrote "Look Who's Talking" on BoA's album.
Asian superstar BoA is releasing her debut english album in the U.S. March 17th & it turns out the one & only Britney Spears wrote one of the tracks:
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1. I Did It For Love
Written by Sean Garrett, Melvin K. Watson Jr., Matthew I. Irby
2. Energetic
Written by Sean Garrett, Yirayah Garcia
3. Did Ya
Written by C.Karlsson, P.Winnberg, H.Jonback, N,Djafari
4. Look Who's Talking
Written by C.Karlsson, P.Winnberg, H.Jonback, M.Bell, B.Spears
5. Eat You Up
Written by Sigvardt, Mikkel Remee / Thomas Troelsen
6. Obsessed
Written by Troy Verges, Brian Glenn Kennedy, Hillary Lee Lindsey
7. Touched
Written by C.Karlsson, P.Winnberg, M.Wallbert, Toby Gad, Arama Brown
8. Scream
Written by Charlie Masson, Sebastian Larsson, Karl-Johan Rasmark
9. Girls On Top
Written by Young Jin Yoo, Original Lyrics by Young Jin Yoo | English Lyrics by Young-Hu Kim, Lola Fair (Xperimental Music)
10. Dress Off
Written by Adrian Newman
11. Hypnotic Dancefloor
Written by Paolo Galgani , Lisa Rachelle Greene
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http://www.boaamerica.com/
I'm assuming it's a leftover track that Brit didn't use cause I doubt she would write a song for especially for BoA.
Eiether way I'm excited for this album to leak 
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She's working with some excellent people.
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Britney?
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Is that confirmed?
Cool. She is working with a lot of the same people as Britney so it seems believable.
Though Im guessing this is somethign Brit wrote with Karlsson for "Circus" and didnt make it? When was the last time Britney wrote a song for another artist?
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Hopefully that's true. That would definately generate some PR from the Britney fans who want to see her writing and she'll get some more exposure. ;p
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WTF Britney wanting to those type of artists being sucessfull, she is so nice.
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Boa is like the Asian Britney in way of music success.
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Originally posted by RainMan
Is that confirmed?
Cool. She is working with a lot of the same people as Britney so it seems believable.
Though Im guessing this is somethign Brit wrote with Karlsson for "Circus" and didnt make it? When was the last time Britney wrote a song for another artist? |
It's from BoA's official site so I'm sure its accurate.
And yea, I'm also thinking its something Brit co-wrote but decided not to use.
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WTF Britney wanting to those type of artists being sucessfull, she is so nice. |
What do you mean by "those type of artists"?
And Britney probably doesn't even know that they decided to give the song to BoA.
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wow I first heard about her only today!
I love "I Did It For Love"!
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Originally posted by kvnrblnd
Boa is like the Asian Britney in way of music success.
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yep
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yep
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No.
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@ the hieght of BoA's career she was def. really popular but she wasn't on Britney status.
People have always pinned her as the "Britney Spears of Asia" which I don't understand as her popularity there has been declining for awhile now.
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omg i always saw somethin britney-ish on look whos talking preview's anyways i love her music so far but wtf are they releasing her album if she doesnt even have a hit yet, wtf are they waiting to promote her in bigger station, to give her an adds date for i did it for love? its sad that she might flop because of the lack of promo
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Originally posted by superbitch!!
omg i always saw somethin britney-ish on look whos talking preview's anyways i love her music so far but wtf are they releasing her album if she doesnt even have a hit yet, wtf are they waiting to promote her in bigger station, to give her an adds date for i did it for love? its sad that she might flop because of the lack of promo
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