A Best 2 -Black-
- Artist
- Hamasaki Ayumi
- Album
- A BEST 2 -BLACK-
- Released
- 2007.02.28 (Japan)
- 2007.03.07 (Hong Kong)
- 2007.03.09 (Taiwan)
- 2007.03.14 (Singapore)
- 2007.03.12 (Overseas version)
- 2007.03.15 (Korea)
- 2007.04.?? (Malaysia)
- Catalog Number
- AVCD-23263 (CD+2DVD)
- AVCD-23264 (CD only)
- Price
- ¥4,700 (CD+2DVD)
- ¥3,059 (CD only)
- CD Tracklist
- Dearest
- CAROLS
- No way to say
- HANABI
- walking proud
- Free & Easy
- Endless sorrow
- Because of You
- About You
- GAME
- is this LOVE?
- HANABI ~episode II~
- NEVER EVER
- HEAVEN
- part of Me
- Memorial address (Hidden Track)
- DVD ~BEST Video Clip -BLACK- Collection~ Tracklist
- Dearest
- CAROLS
- No way to say
- walking proud
- Free & Easy
- Endless sorrow
- Because of You
- About You
- GAME
- is this LOVE?
- HANABI ~episode II~
- NEVER EVER (Promotional clip)
- HEAVEN
- part of Me
- H (TV-CM)
- DVD 2 tracklist
- BEST of COUNTDOWN LIVE 2006-2007 A (Documentary)
- Information
"A BEST 2" is the third "best of" compilation by Hamasaki Ayumi. It was released in two versions; BLACK and WHITE. The BLACK version contains painful and dark songs selected from everything since her 20th single evolution (2001) up to her 38th single Bold & Delicious / Pride (2005) plus one new song that was used in a Panasonic commercial promoting Lumix cameras. The first press of the album included a special black case. All tracks except "part of Me" were re-mastered by Bernie Grundman Mastering in L.A. in order to give a better sound quality to the album. Because the album sold a total of 696,728 copies in 2007, the album became the #7 album of the year. To date, A BEST 2 sold a combine total of 1,423,317 copies.
Charts
A BEST 2 -BLACK- debuted at #1 in Oricon Charts (Japan) but the other days A BEST 2 -WHITE- was preffered. This is the first time in 36 and a half years that a female artist occupied #1 and #2 in album charts. A BEST 2 -BLACK- outsold the weekly #3 for a large of 437,037 copies and ended being #2 weekly while A BEST 2 -WHITE- was #1 weekly. The A BEST 2 albums have shipped more than 2,000,000 copies in Japan alone.
- Oricon Chart Positions
Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | Week Rank | Sales |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
- | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 470,057 |
2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 97,534 |
3 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 44,239 |
7 | 15 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 21,349 |
9 | 19 | 18 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 11 | 16 | 13,265 |
13 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 8,339 |
17 | - | - | - | 20 | - | 20 | 23 | 5,739 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 30 | 4,337 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 49 | 3,866 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 43 | 3,722 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 60 | 2,217 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 57 | 2,086 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 113 | 1,713 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 102 | 1,514 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 127 | 1,329 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 124 | 1,268 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 134 | 1,191 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 144 | 1,478 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 162 | 1,114 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 141 | 1,196 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 135 | 1,318 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 171 | 1,167 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 177 | 948 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 196 | 926 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 168 | 1,044 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 186 | 1,010 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 240 | 795 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 245 | 740 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 235 | 712 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 266 | 695 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | out for thirteen weeks | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 235 | 913 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 277 | 950 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 167 | 2,593 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 159 | 990 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 219 | 721 |
- Sales in 2007: 698,591 (#7 album of the year)
- Sales in 2008: 4,304
- Charts Positions
Country | Chart | Weeks | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 | ||
All | Global Chart | 2 | 13 | - | - |
Hong Kong |
Japanese Chart | 2 | 5 | x | x |
Global Chart | 34 | - | - | - | |
Asian Chart | 8 | 16 | |||
Taiwan | Global Chart | 3 | 4 | 5 | 7 |
Japanese Chart | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
G-Music Japanese Chart Positions
Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11 | Week 12 | Week 13 | Week 14 | Week 15 | Week 16 | Week 17 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Position | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 15 | - | 14 |
Percentage | 23.81% | 13% | 11.95% | 8.94% | 7% | 5.36% | 2.28% | 2.38% | 1.22% | 1.07% | 1.06% | 1.03% | 0.62% | 0.87% | 0.51% | - | 0.56% |
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