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Feel (Amuro Namie)
- Artist
- Amuro Namie
- Album
- FEEL
- Released
- 2013.07.10 (Japan)
- 2013.07.19 (Hong Kong & Taiwan)
- 2013.07.26 (South Korea)
- Catalog Number
- AVCN-99001/B (CD+DVD)
- AVCN-99002/B (CD+Blu-ray)
- AVCN-99003 (CD)
- Price
- ¥3,990 (CD+DVD)
- ¥4,410 (CD+Blu-ray)
- ¥3,059 (CD)
- ¥2,000 (Digital)
- CD Tracklist
- Alive
- Rainbow
- Can You Feel This Love
- Big Boys Cry
- Hands On Me
- Heaven
- Poison
- La La La
- Supernatural Love
- Let Me Let You Go
- Contrail
- Stardust In My Eyes
- Video Tracklist
- Alive (Music Video)
- Big Boys Cry (Music Video)
- Contrail (Music Video)
- Hands On Me (Music Video)
- Heaven (Music Video)
- Let Me Let You Go (Music Video)
- Information
FEEL is the tenth studio album recorded by Amuro Namie. This is her first Electronic dance music orientated record, as well as her first release under the avex trax established sub-label Dimension Point. The album was released in three versions: a CD+Blu-ray edition, a CD+DVD edition and a CD edition. Much like her last record Uncontrolled the album features both Japanese and English songs and composed of many different producers. This album complete a shift in style for Amuro that was first started on her eighth studio record PAST<FUTURE in 2009. In the early 2000s Amuro started recording hip-hop and R&B music, with her sixth record being title Queen of Hip-Pop. The record was produced by many people, many of which are Foreign production teams. It is her her first album since break the rules in 2000 to not feature MICHICO or T.KURA, and only one composition from Nao'ymt ("Contrail" ending up being their last track together).
The song "Big Boys Cry" was used as Kose Esprique commercial song; "Contrail" was used as theme song for the TBS drama Sora Tobu Kouhou Shitsu. "Can You Feel This Love" was used as theme song for the Mezamashi TV program starting on April 1st, and "Hands On Me" was used as the TV commercial theme song for Recochoku.
FEEL is certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan for selling over 250,000 copies.
Critical Reception
Amuro's FEEL has seen positive reviews from the majority of music critics. It has notablely been compared to her previous record Uncontrolled which also contain quite a few English language songs written by Foreign producers. Although these things are also found FEEL, this album contains a more overall coherent sound.
The songs "Alive", "Contrail", "Hands On Me", "Heaven", "Posion", "La La La", "Supernatural Love" and "Stardust in My Eyes" were noted for being standout tracks by Random J, who gave the record seven-and-a-half stars out of ten. It has been praised for it's production values.
Oricon Chart Positions
Amuro Namie's tenth studio album FEEL reached #1 on the weekly Oricon chart, and continued to rank for 42 weeks. It sold 111,458 copies during the first day, and sold a total of 247,689 copies in the first week.
FEEL went on to sell 382,684 copies in 2013, making it the #6 album of the year; It also charted in 2014 selling 9,892 copies making it the #512 album of 2014.
Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | Week Rank | Sales | |
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- | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 247,689 | |
1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 52,007 | |
1 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 24,249 | |
3 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 15,275 | |
4 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 9,786 | |
6 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8,383 | |
6 | 26 | 16 | 18 | 16 | 15 | 13 | 17 | 4,775 | |
11 | 42 | 32 | 32 | 30 | 23 | 24 | 32 | 3,554 | |
18 | - | 34 | 29 | 30 | 25 | 32 | 37 | 2,777 | |
21 | - | 46 | 26 | 25 | 30 | 49 | 41 | 1,934 | |
23 | - | - | 46 | - | 44 | 45 | 52 | 1,623 | |
48 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 92 | 1,380 | |
49 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 81 | 1,166 | |
45 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 95 | 941 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 84 | 1,012 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 110 | 945 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 115 | 852 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 107 | 897 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 95 | 810 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 136 | 705 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 130 | 970 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 109 | 954 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 130 | 886 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 136 | 875 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 135 | 968 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 121 | 901 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 193 | 440 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 185 | 431 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 227 | 398 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 231 | 445 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 218 | 347 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 212 | 327 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 248 | 307 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 138 | 667 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 155 | 615 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 175 | 463 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 223 | 407 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 275 | 349 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 278 | 383 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 255 | 289 | |
OUT | 7 weeks | ||||||||
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 275 | 249 | |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 280 | 235 |
Year | Month | Rank | Sales |
---|---|---|---|
2013 | July | 1 | 339,220 |
2013 | August | 12 | 26,498 |
- Total Sales: 392,576
World Chart Positions
Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | |
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Position | 2 | 8 | x | x |
External Links
- Purchase: Recochoku | iTunes
- Oricon Profile: CD+DVD | CD+Blu-ray | CD
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