Queen of Hip-Pop

Album Cover

Artist

Amuro Namie

Album

Queen of Hip-Pop

Released

2005.07.13

Catalog Number

AVCD-17692

Price

¥3,059

Tracklist

1. Queen of Hip-Pop
2. WANT ME, WANT ME
3. WoWa
4. I Wanna Show You My Love
5. GIRL TALK
6. Free
7. My Darling
8. Ups & Downs duet with Nao'ymt
9. I Love You
10. ALL FOR YOU
11. ALARM
12. No

Information

Queen of Hip-Pop is the sixth studio album released by Amuro Namie. This album is considered her comeback album, being her best selling record since 2000's GENIUS 2000. It is her second full length Urban contemporary record, and is made up of hip-hop and R&B songs as well as the ballad "ALL FOR YOU". The album was produced by Nao'ymt and the writing team T.Kura and michico (who previous wrote "Namie's Style" for STYLE). The first press edition came with an exclusive Pink Panther sticker, as well as a Pink Panther themed mini-newspaper.

The song "WoWa" received a music video and was used as the radio single for the record. It was also used as the commerical song for LUCIDO-L hair products. "Queen of Hip-Pop" was used for the Chevrolet Suzuki Cruze automobiles commercial theme. Later in 2006, "No" was released as the promotional single for Amuro's tenth (sixth concert) video Space of Hip-Pop -namie amuro tour 2005-. The record is noted for not containing the A-side track "the SPEED STAR" from the "GIRL TALK / the SPEED STAR" single.

The album reached #2 on the weekly Oricon chart, and continued to rank for a total of 22 weeks. It sold 455,428 copies, becoming the #27 album of 2005. It also reached #1 on the Taiwanese J-Pop chart. and #2 on the Combo Chart.

Chart Positions

Amuro promoting the record

Oricon

Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun	Week Rank	Sales
-	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	201,524
3	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	91,236
4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	52,696
6	5	6	7	10	7	8	7	30,185
10	10	10	10	11	11	11	12	21,565
13	14	14	14	17	14	13	14	16,542
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	24	10,098
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	26	6,936
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	43	4,435
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	72	2,726
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	95	2,628
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	114	1,949
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	114	1,819
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	130	1,449
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	167	1,160
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	247	902
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	258	913
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	232	814
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	241	782
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	out for one week
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	299	732
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	267	839
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	274	787
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	293	925
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	247	1,786
-	-	-	-	-	-	-

• Total Reported Sales: 455,428

Playbutton Edition

Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun	Week Rank	Sales
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	117	1,103
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	171	600

• Total Reported Sales: 1,703
  

World Chart

	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3
Position	4	20	37

External Links

• Oricon Profile