“appears” Front Cover + Inside

Posted by on May 22, 2009 in ayumi hamasaki | 5 comments

「appears」
浜崎あゆみ

UPDATE: Higher quality version added.

Ayu’s 11th single released in 1999 on the same day as her album, LOVEppears, was released. The single was a limited edition release with only 30,000 300,000 copies made. Ayu is depicted as a black woman on this cover, while on LOVEppears she appears as a white woman.

Thanks to Steven for the Front Cover!

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  • Leanne

    yay! This cover is so hard to find.

    I always loved the idea of having ayu being depicted Black and white. I love her necklace in this cover, and her jeans as well.

    thanks!!

  • http://www.channel-ai.com/blog/ eyn

    Are you sure there's only 30,000 copies? I thought it's around 250,000 or something? I bought this single from eBay few years ago, if it's only 30,000 copies then my copy will worth a lot of money now lol.

    Thanks for the cover, I agree with Leanne that it's hard to find it. Ayu looks hot when she's tanned, doesn't she? I personally think she looks better on this cover than the LOVEppears cover, i.e. the white version.

  • http://www.ai-candy.com/ HANABI.1984

    That's what it said over at this wiki (http://wiki.theppn.org/Main_Page). I thought it was really low number too. I guess they forgot a 0 somewhere. LOL I checked <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayumi_Hamasaki_discography">here and it says she sold around 291,000 copies. So I'm guessing it should be 300,000.

    Anyway, I too bought my copy from eBay for about $25, I think. I don't remember.

  • Kakeru

    300,000 copies is the amount it was limited too. In fact that was the number all limited Ayu singles were set to (except "SURREAL", but that was a different kind of limited single).

    I also think she looks better here than on the cover of "LOVEppears"…but both are cool, & you can't really have one without the other. =)

  • Corey

    is she really supposed to be african? i thought she was supposed to be Ganguro/GAL styled (the reason being that her contacts are light, and seeing as most african people have dark eyes, and GAL's always try to lighten their eyes…)? meh, doesnt matter! i love this cover :) i just found ur site and im going around lookin at all the covers! haha