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ERIKA’s FREE

July 11th, 2007 by Rinoa · 12 Comments · ★★★★½

“FREE” is Erika Sawajiri’s true debut single, which surprised the whole J-Pop fandom. Erika would return with a rock single, with a fantasy theme and reach #1 on Oricon.

Koi Shiyou♪

July 3rd, 2007 by Rinoa · 12 Comments · ★★★★☆

Leah Dizon’s second single was described as a “a grooving, up tempo dance song” and became a moderate success to hit off spring 2007.

papillon

May 6th, 2007 by Rinoa · 3 Comments · ★★★★☆

“papillon”, Hitomi Shimatani’s third single included a cover of the popular song of Janet Jackson — “Doesn’t really matter”.

Ayumi Hamasaki

April 17th, 2007 by Rinoa · 95 Comments

Despite the fact that Ayumi Hamasaki is a petite 5′1″ singer, she’s a huge legend all over Asia. Apart from being a singer, Hamasaki is a fashion leader, an actress, a model, a spokeswoman, a composer and songwriter. She is the ultimate icon of fashion and music in Japan, is known as the “Empress of J-Pop” and is considered the Asian equivalent of Madonna. Consequently she is one of the most popular and influential artists ever to appear in Asia. However, till the present day, Ayumi remains an enigma and is frequently misunderstood by many.

Garnet Moon/Inori

April 16th, 2007 by Rinoa · 1 Comment · ★★★★½

Garnet Moon was Hitomi Shimatani’s 17th single. It was a continuation of the overall mature-sexy image from 2004. avex wanted to ensure that this single would be fairly popular with the audience by attempting to target this single towards the young adult audience.