Ayumi hamasaki J-pop singer

2007-02-09T07:18:00.000-08:00

Ayu has made the cover of another magazine recently. This time it is for the December 2006 issue of Bea's Up. In this issue, she will talk about her upcoming album, "Secret".

About Ayumi hamasaki :
Ayumi Hamasaki is a Japanese pop singer. She is one of the most prolific and influential Japanese pop singers in Japanese music history, and is dubbed "the Empress of J-Pop".

Since her debut in 1998 with her first single "poker face", she has sold more than 46 million copies, with the releases of her eight full-length studio albums, one mini-album, two compilation albums, 40 singles, and several non-studio albums, being the top selling solo and female artist and the fourth top selling Japanese artist in the history of Japan.^[1] With the release of her 40th single "Blue Bird", Hamasaki's single sales have passed the 20 million mark, making her the first solo and female singer to do so.^[2]

With the release of her 39th single "Startin' / Born To Be..." in 2006, Hamasaki became the first female singer to have 27 #1 singles (the most #1 singles a Japanese female artist has ever achieved) and 38 singles in the Top 10 of the Japanese Oricon charts. She has 15 consecutive #1 singles to date (starting from "Free & Easy"). Hamasaki is also the first Japanese artist to have her first original eight studio albums top the charts.

Ayumi has also won the Grand Prix at the Japan Record Taishou (the Japanese equivalent of the Grammys) three times in a row, from 2001–2003. She refused to be nominated in 2004 due to the Avex-Matsuura incident (see My Story era). Ayumi Hamasaki no longer accepts awards

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2007-02-09T06:44:00.000-08:00

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Erik Brown's MP3 Links
I really have to put Erik's site in the position of honour at the top of this web page, since it features an awesomely large collection of mp3 music site links arranged in an easy to use layout. If you're looking for free music on the Internet, in a superb selection of eclectic, mainstream and world music genres, this has to be your first port of call. Absolutely!!
Monkeyfilter Audioblog Wiki
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Oddio Overplay
Astonishingly massive music resource which has collated years and years of downloadable and streaming music from fabulous resources all over the world. All free and legal, and with a brilliant new design. Check it out or else!!
OGGLE - Search Engine for OGG music
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Soundclick
This relatively unknown portal appears to be adding over 40,000 songs a month to its roster. There's certainly a goodly selection of free mp3 and WMA tracks available for download and streaming in a wide range of genres. (Update: the site now claims to offer over 1 million free tracks all on its own. Beware the nasty pop up ads though!)
Audiri
Also somewhat unknown portal, not only lots of music but also watch videos. Lots of smaller bands, but some good music
Amazon
Yep Amazon! Few people realise that Amazon has simply a huge selection of free music downloads from all sorts of genres. Some in mp3, some in WMA. Use a disposable email address.
Vitaminic (down)
The Vitaminic Group now hosts over 350,000 tracks from 78,000 artists. Mp3 and WMA files for download and streaming. Includes Peoplesound, IUMA and FranceMP3.
Ampcast
Slick, but rather sluggish artist promotion site with a large selection of tracks in various genres. Mix of mp3, WMA, downloads and streaming as well as artist CD purchase.
MP3
Great grand-daddy of all music sites, with over a quarter of a million artists and 750,000 tracks for stream and download. Soon - as at 20.11.03 - to disappear forever into the CNET stable, to be resurrected as who knows what? ('Update' 20 July 04: good news, bad news, good news for music lovers. garageband.com has announced a Recover Your mp3 Account For Free service for mp3 bands. So hopefully many of the lost tracks will be restored to the world sooner rather than later. Bad news? mp3.com has returned as a boring signed artist promotion site. Avoid. Good news? CNet ? has added a respectable music section to download.com, where there are lots of free mp3 tracks available. Fair enough guys, but why mess with mp3.com?)
music.download
CNET's new MP3 ?.COM replacement. Lots of independent artists and a growing handful of record label participants (mostly indie labels).
IUMA
Excellent selection of tracks to stream and download in a huge range of genres, although it is often very slow. Now part of the Vitaminic Group.
Artistopia
Artistopia offers music artists and songwriters a platform to collaborate on musical projects with industry professionals.
Epitonic
Great selection of stuff from all sorts of predominently modern genres. Excellent. Be sure to check out all the similar artist selections and streams.
archive.org - Netlabels
Over 2,500 free EP's/albums (and more than 15,000 tracks?) from mainly electronica 'net labels', all gathered under the one roof courtesy of the Internet Archive. Worth a look indeed!
archive.org - Live Music Archive
More than 15,000 freely downloadable concerts - a user-friendly face put onto the Etree live concert trading download service, with explicit permission from the bands involved, by the wonderful Internet Archive. Easier to use, search and recommend. Warning, some massive sized file downloads (SHN), although some streaming/downloadable mp3 too.
Besonic
20,000 artists and 30,000 songs from 5 countries. Free mp3 tracks for download and streaming. Some interesting Euro bands!
jamendo
Jamendo is a very fast growing Download and community site for creative commons liscensed music (over 80.000 tracks) All music on jamendo.com is free for Download via emule or Bittorrent, you can chose between .OGG or mp3 format. If you like the music you have downloadet you can make a donation to the artist or buy a CD.

Purevolume
More than 100,000 songs available for free download (as of Feb 2005). Run by self-proclaimed indie fans to fill the hole left by mp3.com. Nice design, nice selection, nice site all round. [Update July 05: Wow, just taken another look and they've really spruced the place up. It's got some fab features now elegantly arranged on the band page (like next gigs etc). Use it with the Greasemap plug-in for Firefox and you even get a map of where your fave band is based. Excellent! Red.]
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Hosts mp3s and videos, close to 4,000 artists as of October 2004, various genres, easy interface - free of pop up player consoles, streaming lofi/hifi for winamp, real and other players, forums, downloads
Altsounds
Community site that hosts alternative (or independent) artist content. Tracks provided free streams and/or downloads.
mp3.com.au
Hosts thousands of great mp3 files uploaded to the website by artists from around Australia and overseas. All mp3 files on the site are completely legal as they have been uploaded by the artists themselves, and free to listen or download.
Weedshare Search
Search engine for music in Weedshare format. Weedshare allows you to download and listen to music for free. Only for Windows users, no special software needed to listen. After you have heard a song three times, you can decide to buy the song, pass it on to someone else or just throw it away.
The Weed Files
Self-service music store intended for artists and labels who want to distribute their music in the Weed format. Their services, including lifetime hosting, are provided for free. They have 1600 independent artists in their database, including Heart, Kristin Hersh, Gazpacho, Roger Manning, Abby Travis and Gretchen. They're currently in the process of adding about 70,000 songs from CD Baby artists to their catalogue

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Ayumi hamasaki J-pop singer

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