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Ballada

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CD+DVD Cover
CD+Blu-ray Cover
CD Cover
Artist
Amuro Namie
Album
Ballada
Released
2014.06.04 (Japan)
2014.06.16 (South Korea)
2014.06.18 (Taiwan)
Catalog Number
AVCN-99010/B (CD+DVD)
AVCN-99011/B (CD+Blu-ray)
AVCN-99012 (CD)
Price
¥4,104 (CD+DVD)
¥4,536 (CD+Blu-ray)
¥3,132 (CD)
CD Tracklist
  1. SWEET 19 BLUES (New Vocal)
  2. CAN YOU CELEBRATE? (New Vocal) feat. Hakase Taro
  3. Dreaming I was dreaming
  4. NEVER END
  5. HimAWArI
  6. think of me
  7. I WILL
  8. Wishing On The Same Star
  9. Four Seasons
  10. ALL FOR YOU
  11. White Light
  12. The Meaning Of Us
  13. Love Story
  14. Let Me Let You Go
  15. TSUKI
  16. Contrail Ballada Ver. (Bonus Track)
Video Tracklist
  1. SWEET 19 BLUES
  2. CAN YOU CELEBRATE?
  3. Dreaming I was dreaming
  4. NEVER END
  5. HimAWArI
  6. think of me
  7. I WILL
  8. Wishing On The Same Star
  9. Four Seasons
  10. ALL FOR YOU
  11. White Light
  12. The Meaning Of Us
  13. Love Story
  14. Let Me Let You Go
  15. TSUKI
  16. SWEET 19 BLUES (New version)
  17. CAN YOU CELEBRATE? (New version)


Information

Ballada is the fifth compilation album released by Amuro Namie, and her first ballad collection. It was released in three versions: CD+DVD, CD+Blu-ray and CD. Later in December 2014, a Music Card+Vinyl single was released being sold at live shows. The record features new recordings of "CAN YOU CELEBRATE?" and "SWEET 19 BLUES" (with vocal direction by Emyli), and an exclusive ballad version of "Contrail". The video disc features all of the corresponding music videos as well as new versions of the "CAN YOU CELEBRATE?" and "SWEET 19 BLUES" videos and two exclusive music videos for "Four Seasons" and "HimAWArI".

The album is certified Double Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan for shipments over 500,000 copies.

Oricon Chart Positions

Physical

Amuro Namie promoting the album

The album reached #1 on the weekly Oricon chart, and continued to rank for a total of 40 weeks. Ballada sold 104,052 copies on it's first day, and went on to become the #4 album of 2014 with a total of 431,356 copies sold.

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Week Rank Sales
- 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 254,944
1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 66,274
2 13 2 2 2 2 2 3 32,176
1 13 4 3 3 3 3 3 20,333
3 17 11 9 8 8 7 9 12,900
9 19 15 9 10 8 8 10 8,655
8 34 16 18 11 10 11 15 6,397
9 37 24 20 23 22 17 22 4,540
15 29 22 21 20 15 10 26 3,377
11 44 32 29 25 23 19 32 2,671
17 33 26 22 19 18 23 25 2,604
25 - 34 34 25 28 15 31 2,363
17 - - 42 40 34 18 40 1,927
32 - - 50 50 15 - 53 1,690
- - - 44 19 - - 46 1,495
48 - - - - - - 71 1,077
- - - - - 31 40 74 1,479
- - - - - - - 89 869
- - - - - - - 109 635
- - - - - - 32 89 786
- - - - - - 40 108 721
- - - - - - - 162 486
- - - - - - - 121 642
- - - - - - - 113 603
- - - - - - - 103 678
- - - - - - - 192 482
- - - - - - - 157 552
- - - - - - - 141 649
- - - - - - - 167 586
- - - - - - - 141 796
- - - - - - - 130 557
- - - - - - - 134 480
- - - - - - - 169 371
- - - - - - - 207 343
- - - - - - - 272 315
- - - - - - - out for one week
- - - - - - - 136 507
- - - - - - - 154 446
- - - - - - - 249 329
- - - - - - - out for fourteen weeks
- - - - - - - 207 285
- - - - - - - 246 246
- - - - - - - out for 117 weeks
- - - 16 13 24 30 53 1,260
22 - - - - - - 79 1,042
31 - 48 - - - - 81 705
- - - - - - - 140 346
- - - - - - - 212 253
- - - - - - - out for 2 weeks
- - - - - - - 168 347
- - - - - - - 208 280
- - - - - - - 292 252
Year Month Rank Sales
2014 June 1 373,727
2014 July 15 35,869
2014 August 37 9,565
  • Total Reported Sales: 441,753

Digital

Note: Oricon began tracking album downloads in November 2016.

Week Rank Sales
7 1,933
6 1,100
19 508
  • Total Reported Sales: 3,541

Gaon Foreign Albums Monthly Chart Positions

Year Month Rank Sales
2014 June 18 482
  • Total Reported Sales: 482*

World Chart Positions

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4
Position 1 9 19 29

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