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Hamasaki's first album displays a more youthful, innocent sound than any of her future releases. The focus is not on slick production, beats, or sounds here, but mostly on the lyrics and melodies. The unusually personal nature of the lyrics on songs such as "POWDER SNOW" helped put this album at the top of the Oricon chart, even though none of its singles accomplished that feat.
 
Hamasaki's first album displays a more youthful, innocent sound than any of her future releases. The focus is not on slick production, beats, or sounds here, but mostly on the lyrics and melodies. The unusually personal nature of the lyrics on songs such as "POWDER SNOW" helped put this album at the top of the Oricon chart, even though none of its singles accomplished that feat.
The album debuted at '''#1''' ending up being '''#1''' weekly for 5 random weeks on the Oricon charts with the sales of 548,210.
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The album debuted at '''#1''' ending up being '''#1''' weekly for 5 random weeks on the Oricon charts with the sales of 548,210 copies.
In total the album sold 1,451,910.
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In total the album sold 1,451,910 copies.
  
  

Revision as of 11:20, 30 May 2009

A Song for XX
Album cover
Album by Hamasaki Ayumi
Released 1 January 1999
Genre J-Pop
Length 1:10:40
Label avex trax
Producer(s) {{{Producer}}}
Album Artwork Gallery
Hamasaki Ayumi Chronology
NOTHING FROM NOTHING
(1995)
A Song for XX
(1999)
LOVEppears (1999)


A Song for XX is Ayumi Hamasaki's first full-length album. It was officially released on January 1st 1999, but was advertised as being released on December 26th, 1998, which is when stores had it.

Hamasaki's first album displays a more youthful, innocent sound than any of her future releases. The focus is not on slick production, beats, or sounds here, but mostly on the lyrics and melodies. The unusually personal nature of the lyrics on songs such as "POWDER SNOW" helped put this album at the top of the Oricon chart, even though none of its singles accomplished that feat. The album debuted at #1 ending up being #1 weekly for 5 random weeks on the Oricon charts with the sales of 548,210 copies. In total the album sold 1,451,910 copies.


Track Listing

CD

# Track Name Length Credits
1. Prologue 01:25 Music/Arrangement: Yasuhiko Hoshino
2. A Song for XX 04:45 Music/Arrangement: Yasuhiko Hoshino
3. Hana 04:08 Music/Arrangement: Yasuhiko Hoshino
4. FRIEND 04:12 Music: Yasuhiko Hoshino/Arrangement: Akimitsu Honma
5. FRIEND II 04:00 Music: Mitsuru Igarashi/Arrangement: Akimitsu Honma
6. poker face 04:42 Music: Yasuhiko Hoshino/Arrangement: Akimitsu Honma
7. Wishing 04:29 Music: Hideaki Kuwabara/Arrangement: Akimitsu Honma
8. YOU 04:46 Music: Yasuhiko Hoshino/Arrangement: Akimitsu Honma
9. As if... 05:36 Music: Kazuhito Kikuchi/Arrangement: Akimitsu Honma
10. POWDER SNOW 05:27 Music: Hideaki Kuwabara/Arrangement: Akimitsu Honma
11. Trust 04:49 Music: Takashi Kimura/Arrangement: Takashi Kimura, Akimitsu Honma
12. Depend on you 04:21 Music: Kazuhito Kikuchi/Arrangement: Akimitsu Honma, Takashi Morio
13. SIGNAL 04:26 Music: Hideaki Kuwabara/Arrangement: Akimitsu Honma
14. from your letter 04:39 Music/Arrangement: Akio Togashi
15. For My Dear... 04:33 Music/Arrangement: Yasuhiko Hoshino
16. Present 04:31 Music/Arrangement: Yasuhiko Hoshino

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