Bold & Delicious was released as a double a-side with the song Pride as the fourth and final single off of Ayu's seventh album (miss)understood. The song shocked fans and critics due to it's drastic change in style and sound, fans developed the term "ボルデリショック" or "Bold & Delicious shock" to describe their feelings toward the single and many fans turned away from her. Despite the bad reviews, Bold & Delicious debuted at #1 with sales exceeding 83,000 copies.
TITLE: real Emotion ARTIST: Kumi Koda ALBUM: grow into one RELEASED: 2003 SCORE: 201.3 AVERAGE: 8.052
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real Emotion was the third single released off of her second album grow into one as a double a-side with 1000の言葉 (aka 1000 no Kotoba aka 1000 words). The single was used in the game Final Fantasy X-2, generating enough buzz for this to be considered her breakthrough single. The single was her first to peak in the top 10, debuting at #6 with initial sales of over 35,000 before climbing up to reach a peak at #3. Total sales exceeded 280,000 and the song was later certified by the RIAJ for exceeding 100,000 downloads. The English version of the songs were sung by Jade of Sweetbox, although Kuu also recorded them in English on her follow up single COME WITH ME.
TITLE: First Love ARTIST: Hikaru Utada ALBUM: secret RELEASED: 1999 SCORE: 197.6 AVERAGE: 7.904
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First Love was Hikki's third single from her debut album First Love. The song was used as the theme to the drama Majo no Jōken. First Love, like her previous two singles, was released in 8cm and 12cm formats; peaking at #2 and #6 respectively. Combined digital and physical sales stand at 1.05 million.
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TITLE: NEW LOOK ARTIST: Namie Amuro ALBUM: BEST FICTION RELEASED: 2008 SCORE: 199.3 AVERAGE: 7.972
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NEW LOOK was released on the triple a-side single 60s70s80s for Namie's compilation album BEST FICTION. The song debuted at #2 with sales exceeding 114,000 copies before peaking at #1 in the following week. The single has sold nearly 295,000 copies. Digitally, the song has sold over 1.25 million copies. The song represented the "60s" portion of the single by sampling the 1964 hit Baby Love by The Supremes.
Bold & Delicious was released as a double a-side with the song Pride as the fourth and final single off of Ayu's seventh album (miss)understood. The song shocked fans and critics due to it's drastic change in style and sound, fans developed the term "ボルデリショック" or "Bold & Delicious shock" to describe their feelings toward the single and many fans turned away from her. Despite the bad reviews, Bold & Delicious debuted at #1 with sales exceeding 83,000 copies.
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TITLE: real Emotion ARTIST: Kumi Koda ALBUM: grow into one RELEASED: 2003 SCORE: 201.3 AVERAGE: 8.052
ABOUT THIS TRACK:
real Emotion was the third single released off of her second album grow into one as a double a-side with 1000の言葉 (aka 1000 no Kotoba aka 1000 words). The single was used in the game Final Fantasy X-2, generating enough buzz for this to be considered her breakthrough single. The single was her first to peak in the top 10, debuting at #6 with initial sales of over 35,000 before climbing up to reach a peak at #3. Total sales exceeded 280,000 and the song was later certified by the RIAJ for exceeding 100,000 downloads. The English version of the songs were sung by Jade of Sweetbox, although Kuu also recorded them in English on her follow up single COME WITH ME.
