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Namie Amuro discography

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Namie Amuro discography
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The discography of Japanese recording artist Namie Amuro contains 12 studio albums, 7 compilation albums, 47 singles, 10 live albums, 14 video albums and 102 music videos. Amuro has also collaborated with Verbal of M-Flo and Ryōsuke Imai for her Suite Chic project.

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Namie Amuro made her musical debut as the lead vocalist of Super Monkey's in 1992 under the label Toshiba EMI. In 1995, she released her first single as a solo artist, "Taiyou no Season", under the same label. That same year, she released her first studio album Dance Tracks Vol.1, which topped the Oricon weekly chart and charted for forty-four weeks and has sold over 2,000,000 copies.[1] Only nine days after its release, Amuro released "Body Feels Exit", her first single under her new label Avex Trax.[2]

In 1996, Amuro released her first album under Avex Trax titled Sweet 19 Blues, which reached number one on the Oricon Album Chart with 1,921,850 copies sold in its opening week, selling over 3 million units in Japan during its original chart run. Her 1997 single "Can You Celebrate?" sold over 2.2 million, making it Japan's best selling single by a solo female artist and the best selling single of that year. The single was followed by the highly successful album Concentration 20. Her first greatest hits album 181920 was released prior to her hiatus in 1998.

After a leave of absence, Amuro returned to the music scene with the 2000 album Genius 2000. In 2005, she released her sixth studio album, Queen of Hip-Pop, went on the 2nd place the Oricon weekly charta, and almost doubled the sale of her previous albums. It also topped the charts in Taiwan.

Her seventh studio album, Play (2007), debuted at the top of the charts, outselling her previous album. It and was followed by 60s 70s 80s (2008), which reached number one on the Oricon weekly and the monthly chart. On July 30, 2008, Amuro released her third greatest hits album, Best Fiction. It spent six consecutive weeks at the number one position on the Oricon weekly charts.[3] Selling over 1,840,088 copies, it won Best Album of the Year at the 50th Japan Record Awards.[4]

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Singles

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Videography

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Notes

  1. Sales provided by Oricon database and are rounded to the nearest thousand copies.
  2. The Gaon Albums Chart was established in 2010.
  3. Week references for Gaon: Past < Future,[9] Checkmate!,[10] Uncontrolled,[11] Feel,[12] Ballada.[13]
  4. Week references for G-Music: Queen of Hip-Pop 2005 week 28, Play 2007 week 27, Best Fiction 2008 week 31, Past < Future 2009 week 51, Checkmate! 2011 week 18, Uncontrolled 2012 week 26, Feel 2013 week 28, Ballada 2014 week 25, Genic,[15] Finally.[16]
  5. Released prior to the establishment of the Gaon chart.
  6. Sources for chart positions are as follows: "Sweet 19 Blues",[44] "Can You Celebrate? featuring Taro Hakase".[45]
  7. Week references for Gaon: "Put 'Em Up",[47] "Can You Celebrate?"[48]
  8. Performed with the Super Monkey's, however billed as the solo performer.
  9. Later certified 3× Platinum, which before June 2003 indicated 1,200,000 copies shipped.
  10. Charted in 2011.
  11. 12cm edition position.
  12. Sources for chart positions are as follows: "Wild",[67] "Dr.".[68]
  13. Week references for G-Music: "Wild/Dr." 2009 week 12, "Break It/Get Myself Back" 2010 week 31, "Naked/Fight Together/Tempest" 2011 week 31, "Sit! Stay! Wait! Down!/Love Story" 2011 week 50, "Go Round/Yeah-Oh!" 2012 week 12, "Big Boys Cry/Beautiful" 2013 week 11, "Tsuki" 2014 week 5 and 2014 week 6, "Grotesque" 2014 week 15 for "Brighter Day", "Revolution",[69] "Red Carpet".[70]
  14. Officially released on January 1, 2000, however was available for purchase in December 1999 due to businesses closing for new years holidays. The sales amount and ranking indicated for the first week of the single are combined from two weeks of sales as Oricon does not rank single during the New Years week.[citation needed]
  15. Triple A-side single, titled '60s 70s 80s', including "New Look", "Rock Steady" and "What a Feeling".
  16. Sources for chart positions are as follows: "Break It",[93] "Get Myself Back",[93] "Naked",[94] "Fight Together",[95] "Sit! Stay! Wait! Down!",[96] "Love Story",[96] "Go Round",[97] "Yeah-Oh!",[97] "Damage",[98] "Big Boys Cry",[99] "Contrail",[100] "Tsuki",[101] "Brighter Day",[102] "Red Carpet".[103]
  17. Released digitally, so ineligible to chart on Oricon or G-Music.
  18. Sources for chart positions are as follows: "Black Diamond",[120] "Rock U",[121] "Fake",[122] "Waterfalls",[123] "Grotesque",[124] "Revolution".[125]
  19. Sources for chart positions are as follows: "New Look",[131] "What a Feeling",[132] "Do Me More",[133] "Fast Car",[134] "My Love",[135] "Wonder Woman",[136] "Make It Happen",[137] "Only You",[138] "In the Spotlight (Tokyo)",[139] "Hands on Me",[140] "Heaven",[140] "La La La",[141] "Birthday",[142]
  20. Charted at number 43 on the Billboard Radio Songs Chart.[146]
  21. Sources for chart positions are as follows: "Neon Light Lipstick",[147] "Ballerina",[148] "Sweet Kisses",[149] "Still Lovin' You".[149] "Black Make Up".[103]
  22. GDVD
  23. 2002 position, as a part of the combined 181920 Films+Filmography set.
  24. GDVD
  25. Charted in 2012.
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