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Memorial address
Album cover
Album by Hamasaki Ayumi
Released 17 December 2003
Genre Pop
Length 38:57
Label avex trax
Producer(s) {{{Producer}}}
Album Artwork Gallery
Hamasaki Ayumi Chronology
A BALLADS
(2003)
Memorial address
(2003)
MY STORY (2004)

Memorial address is Ayumi Hamasaki's 1st mini-album under avex trax, released in December 2003.

It is currently the best-selling mini-album by a Japanese female, having sold over a million copies in Japan. As of 2008, Memorial Address is the 250th best selling album in Japan.

It is available in 2 formats, CD or CD+DVD package, which was a first for Hamasaki at the time.

Of the album's 8 tracks, only three of them are new material to the album.

The melody of the title track, "Memorial address", was written by Tetsuya Yukumi of the independent band LOVER SOUND TRACK, originally used in their song "kumo." Since this song, Hamasaki has used Yukumi's songwriting talents extensively; he wrote a good portion of songs on Hamasaki's 2004 album, "MY STORY."

Memorial address charted at #1 on the Oricon charts selling 524,028 copies on its first week. In total it sold 1,062,288 copies and became a million seller mini-album.

Track Listing

CD

# Track Name Length Credits
1. ANGEL'S SONG 04:57 Music: Tetsuya Yukumi/Arrangement: HΛL
2. Greatful days 04:40 Music: BOUNCEBACK/Arrangement: HΛL
3. Because of You 05:21 Music: BOUNCEBACK/Arrangement: HΛL
4. ourselves 04:33 Music: BOUNCEBACK/Arrangement: CMJK
5. HANABI ~episode II~ 04:55 Music: CREA, D.A.I/Arrangement: tasuku
6. No way to say 04:45 Music: BOUNCEBACK/Arrangement: HΛL
7. forgiveness 05:53 Music: CREA, D.A.I/Arrangement: CMJK
8. Memorial address (take 2 version) 03:57 Music: Tetsuya Yukumi from LOVER SOUND TRACK/Arrangement: tasuku

DVD

# Track Name
1. ANGEL'S SONG
2. Greatful days
3. Because of You
4. ourselves
5. HANABI ~episode II~
6. No way to say
7. forgiveness
8. Special Digest from A museum ~30th single collection live~

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