Secret is Hamasaki Ayumi's 8th full-length studio album, released in November 2006. Originally announced as a mini-album, it was expanded to full-length at the last minute on Hamasaki's insistence.
Like most of her albums near this time, it was released in both a CD-Only and CD+DVD version.
The album's sound takes rock influence a step further than previously heard. Some tracks have a decidedly more "raw" feeling than most of Hamasaki's work.
The cover art features Hamasaki posing with a pegasus tattoo on her back. Part of this tattoo is real - a half-heart shape, a small wing coming out of the side of it, and an A inside of it. The pegasus figure was drawn in body paint with the real tattoo as a base. The half-heart became the pegasus' shoulder, and the wing was expanded.
Secret charted at #1 on the Oricon charts and sold 386,280 copies on its first week.
In total it sold 666,396 copies.
Track Listing
CD
#
|
Track Name
|
Length
|
Credits
|
1.
|
Not yet
|
02:02
|
Music/Arrangement: CMJK
|
2.
|
until that Day...
|
04:48
|
Music/Arrangement: CMJK
|
3.
|
Startin'
|
04:19
|
Music: Kazuhiro Hara/Arrangement: CMJK
|
4.
|
1 LOVE
|
04:31
|
Music: Yuji Noi/Arrangement: HΛL
|
5.
|
It was
|
04:10
|
Music: Naruya Ihashi/Arrangement: tasuku
|
6.
|
LABYRINTH
|
01:43
|
Music/Arrangement: HΛL
|
7.
|
JEWEL
|
04:17
|
Music: Tetsuya Yukumi/Arrangement: Shingo Kobayashi
|
8.
|
momentum
|
04:12
|
Music:Tetsuya Yukumi/Arrangement: HΛL
|
9.
|
taskinst
|
01:36
|
Music/Arrangement: tasuku
|
10.
|
Born To Be...
|
04:51
|
Music:Kazuhiro Hara/Arrangement: Kazuhiro Hara, CMJK
|
11.
|
Beautiful Fighters
|
05:16
|
Music: Kazuhito Kikuchi/Arrangement: CMJK
|
12.
|
BLUE BIRD
|
04:10
|
Music: D.A.I/Arrangement: HΛL
|
13.
|
kiss o' kill
|
04:40
|
Music: Tetsuya Yukumi/Arrangement: Keiji Tanabe
|
14.
|
Secret
|
04:58
|
Music: Tetsuya Yukumi/Arrangement: HIKARI
|
|