Ballada

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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)

DVD Tracklist

1. SWEET 19 BLUES (Music Video)
2. CAN YOU CELEBRATE? (Music Video)
3. Dreaming I was dreaming (Music Video)
4. NEVER END (Music Video)
5. HimAWArI (New Music Video)
6. think of me (Music Video)
7. I WILL (Music Video)
8. Wishing On The Same Star (Music Video)
9. Four Seasons (New Music Video)
10. ALL FOR YOU (Music Video)
11. White Light (Music Video)
12. The Meaning Of Us (Music Video)
13. Love Story (Music Video)
14. Let Me Let You Go (Music Video)
15. TSUKI (Music Video)
16. SWEET 19 BLUES (New Music Video)
17. CAN YOU CELEBRATE? (New Music Video)

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	x	x
22	-	-	-	-	-	-	x	x

Year	Month	Rank	Sales
2014	June	1	373,727
2014	July	15	35,869
2014	August	37	9,565

• Total Reported Sales: 437,268

Digital

Note: Oricon began tracking album downloads in November 2016.

Week Rank	Sales
7	1,933

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

External Links

• Oricon Profile: CD+DVD | CD+Blu-ray | CD