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Note Regarding Ayu’s Availability on iTunes

As some of you have undoubt­edly noticed, all Avex artists (Ayumi Hamasaki, Namie Amuro, etc) have mys­te­ri­ously dis­ap­peared from all iTunes stores out­side of Japan. This is espe­cially curi­ous when some artists (like BoA and Mon­key Majik) had Avex-distributed albums added to their US pages in the last two weeks, and the removal includes all “inter­na­tional” Avex sin­gles like Anna Tsuchiya’s spe­cial Res­i­dent Evil theme and EXILE’s Eng­lish song for Street Fighter 4. They were removed from the store on the eve of iTunes’ offi­cial, store-wide con­ver­sion to DRM-free con­tent, and this more than likely is not a coin­ci­dence. How­ever, no offi­cial state­ment has been issued by Avex’s cor­po­rate site.

I was reluc­tant to offi­cially announce this change on my sites in hopes that every­thing would be straight­ened out by the end of the week (or two). In the mean­time, it may behoove of you to request Ayu and other Avex artists on the iTunes Request Form.

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