A Best
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International version
A Best was later re-released in other countries outside Japan, including SingaporeSingapore
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, the Philippines
Philippines
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and Korea
Korea
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. The international version did not have new vocal mixes and had a slightly different cover art to the standard Japanese version.
Credits & Personnel
- "A Song for ××" (new vocal and mix)
Keyboards: Akimitsu Honma
Guitar: Naoki Hayashibe
Programming: Hiroshi Kitashiro - "TrustTrust (Ayumi Hamasaki song)"Trust" is the third single released by Ayumi Hamasaki on August 5, 1998. It was her first single to enter the Top Ten of the Oricon weekly charts.-Track listing:# "Trust"# "Trust" # "Powder Snow"...
" (new vocal and mix)
Keyboards: Akimitsu Honma
Guitar: Naoki Hayashibe
Programming: Takahiro Iida - "Depend on YouDepend on You"Depend on You" is the fifth single released by Ayumi Hamasaki on December 9, 1998. The single contains a b-side, "Two of Us," which was never released on an album. Both songs were featured in the PlayStation RPG "Thousand Arms."-Re-release:...
" (new vocal & mix)
Keyboards: Akimitsu Honma
Guitar: Naoki Hayashibe
Programming: Takahiro Iida - "Love:Destiny"
keyboards: Shingo Kobayashi
Guitar: Jun Kajiwara
Programming: Naoki Suzuki - "To BeTo Be"To Be" is the eighth single by Ayumi Hamasaki, released on May 12, 1999.- Information :"To Be" was released less than a month after her first number one single, "Love ." Hamasaki's first song to be composed by Do as Infinity composer DAI, "To Be" was unable to reach the top position on the Oricon,...
"Keyboards: Naoto Suzuki
Guitar: Masayoshi Furukawa
Programming: Takahiro Iida - "Boys & GirlsBoys & Girls (Ayumi Hamasaki song)"Boys & Girls" is a song by Ayumi Hamasaki, released as her ninth single, on July 14, 1999. In addition to being Hamasaki's first Maxi single, it was also her first certified million-seller. In its first week of release on the Oricon, it ranked at number two as Ami Suzuki's "Be Together" debuted at...
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Keyboards: Naoto Suzuki
Guitar: Hidetoshi Suzuki
Programming: Takahiro Iida - "TraumaA (song)"A" is Ayumi Hamasaki's tenth single, released on August 11, 1999. Hamasaki's best-selling single as well Japan's 57th best-selling single of all time, "A," is unique among Hamasaki's singles, as it is her only single with quadruple A-sides...
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Keyboards: Naoto Suzuki
Guitar: Jun Kajiwara
Programming: Takahiro Iida - "End rollA (song)"A" is Ayumi Hamasaki's tenth single, released on August 11, 1999. Hamasaki's best-selling single as well Japan's 57th best-selling single of all time, "A," is unique among Hamasaki's singles, as it is her only single with quadruple A-sides...
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Keyboards: Naoto Suzuki
Guitar: Naoki Hayashibe
Bass: Naoto Suzuki
Programming: Takahiro Iida - "AppearsAppears"Appears" is the eleventh single released by Ayumi Hamasaki on November 10, 1999, along with her second album, Loveppears. "Appears" is Hamasaki's only song that has been the title track of one of her studio albums as well as the A-side of one of her singles...
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Keyboards: HAL
Guitar: Naoya Akimoto
Programming: HAL - "Fly HighFly High"Fly High" is the thirteenth single released by Ayumi Hamasaki, released on February 9, 2000, making it her first single of 2000. The song was already featured on Loveppears, Fly High peaked at the number three position on the Oricon charts. Like Hamasaki's two previous singles, Appears and...
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Keyboards: HAL
Guitar: Naoya Akimoto
Programming: HAL - "VogueVogue (Ayumi Hamasaki song)"Vogue" is the fourteenth single released by Ayumi Hamasaki on April 26, 2000. It was Hamasaki's first song to feature on her first Kose Visee commercial. Although it did not reach the #1 position on the Oricon charts, the single was very successful, selling over 350,000 copies in its first week...
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Keyboards: Naoto Suzuki
Guitar: Naoki Hayashibe
Programming: Takahiro Iida - "Far AwayFar Away (Ayumi Hamasaki song)"Far Away" is the fifteenth single released by Ayumi Hamasaki on May 17, 2000.- Track listing :# "Far Away"# "Far Away" # "Far Away" # "Appears" # "Far Away"...
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Keyboards: HAL
Guitar: Naoya Akimoto
B.G. Vocal: Junko Hirotani
Programming: HAL - "Seasons"
Keyboards: Naoto Suzuki
Guitar: Naoki Hayashibe
B.G. Vocal: Junko Hirotani
Programming: Takahiro Iida - "SurrealSurreal (song)"Surreal" is the seventeenth single by Ayumi Hamasaki, released on September 27, 2000. September also saw the release of her third full-length album Duty. Duty, like her previous studio albums, topped the charts and went on to sell over two million copies...
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Keyboards: HAL
Guitar: Naoya Akimoto
Programming: HAL - "MM (song)"M" is a song written by Japanese singer Ayumi Hamasaki from her album I Am... . The lead single from the album and Hamasaki's nineteenth overall, "M" marked Hamasaki's increased creative control over her music, as it was the first song she composed, under the pseudonym "CREA".The single is to date...
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Keyboards: HAL
Guitar: Naoya Akimoto
Programming: HAL - "Who...
"Keyboards: Naoto Suzuki
Guitar: Naoki Hayashibe
Programming: Takahiro Iida
Release history
Region | Date | Format | Catalogue Number |
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Japan | CD | AVCD-11950 | |
Taiwan | |||
Hong Kong | |||
China | 2001
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CD | AVTCD-95461
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Cassette | |||
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CD |
Charts
Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)Release | Chart | Peak position | First Week Sales | Sales total | Chart run |
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March 28, 2001 | Oricon Daily Albums Chart | 1 | |||
Oricon Weekly Albums Chart | 1 | 2,874,870 | 4,301,353 | 52 | |
Oricon Yearly Albums Chart | 2 |
- Total Sales: 4,301,353 (Japan)
Featured singles
Date | Title | Peak position | Chart Run | Sales |
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August 5, 1998 | "Trust" | 9 | 10 weeks | 181,820 |
December 9, 1998 | "Depend on You" | 6 | 8 weeks | 131,460 |
April 14, 1999 | Love: Destiny" | 1 | 26 weeks | 650,790 |
May 12, 1999 | "To Be" | 4 | 15 weeks | 571,110 |
July 17, 1999 | "Boys & Girls" | 1 | 16 weeks | 1,037,950 |
August 11, 1999 | "A" | 1 | 17 weeks | 1,670,000 |
November 10, 1999 | "Appears" | 2 | 3 weeks | 290,550 |
February 9, 2000 | "Fly High" | 3 | 4 weeks | 299,540 |
April 26, 2000 | "Vogue" | 3 | 17 weeks | 767,660 |
May 17, 2000 | "Far Away"" | 2 | 13 weeks | 510,460 |
June 7, 2000 | "Seasons"" | 1 | 20 weeks | 1,367,400 |
September 27, 2000 | "Surreal" | 1 | 10 weeks | 417,210 |
December 13, 2000 | "M" | 1 | 17 weeks | 1,319,070 |
Total Single Sales: 9,215,020