Ami Suzuki Profile (part.3):
Ami debuted her radio show, RUN!RUN!AMI-GO!, in October 1998. It topped the radio rankings, leading to a signing with Kissmark (a Japanese clothing line) for advertisements and promotion all around Asia. Later that year, she won various awards including the Japan Record Award for "Best New Artist." It was at this point that the country was oversaturated with her name and face and were unable to look the other way. Her music sold extremely well, always topping the charts and rivaling Hamasaki Ayumi's results. She was also a regular on a TV dorama.
Just as things were looking up for Ami, her career hit a wall in 2000 when her parents decided to sue her management company, AG Communication, because they thought she was receiving less money that she legally deserved. Their suspicions were proven true when it was discovered that AG Communication bigwigs were underreporting their earnings in order to pay less taxes, consequently paying less to their artists. Even though she had won the legal battle, the fear of a bad reputation made her lose everything else: her fanclub ami spice (which had, at that time, at least 15,000 members) closed, she lost all her roles in commercials, her producer abandoned her and Sony decided to quickly finish her singing career off by releasing a collection of greatest hits named Fun for Fan in 2001.