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🆒 Classic track of the day 「LOVE~Destiny~」 by Ayumi Hamasaki 💿 from 「A BEST」 Available for streaming overseas https://open.spotify.com/track/5gACkVtLdO8ITqbEF3ZfD1

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🆒 Classic track of the day 「A Song for ××」 by Ayumi Hamasaki 💿 from 「A BEST」 Available for streaming overseas https://open.spotify.com/track/7tKm72Iy3o7L9HaPoKmxbj

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Flashback: A BEST print ad from The Ichiban (2001)

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A BEST, Ayumi Hamasaki's legendary compilation album, was released on this day 20 years ago!

The album remains not only the best-selling of her career, but one of the best--and fastest--selling albums of all time, moving 2.9 million copies in the first week alone.

Ayu was famously against the album's release. Having released three successful original albums between 1998 and 2000, she thought March 2001 was much too early for a "greatest hits," and didn't agree with the record label mandate. She re-recorded the opening tracks in protest, and posed with a single tear for its cover. Fortunately, this did not prove to be the career death sentence she feared. After its instantaneous success, she began her landmark Dome Tour three months later, and released her highly anticipated fourth album the following January--an album full of original compositions and new-found creative control afforded by releasing one of the biggest albums in history.

For its 15th anniversary in 2016, A BEST was remastered by Stephen Marcussen and released in a deluxe box set. While the boxset is out of print, both the original and remastered tracks are still available internationally on Spotify and Apple Music.

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