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A Best
''A Best'' is the first greatest hits album by Japanese recording artist Ayumi Hamasaki, her first greatest under her contract with Japanese company Avex Trax. The album was released on March 28, 2001. The compilation is Hamasaki's only greatest hits release to have not feature a DVD disc, which has been accompanied for her 2007 compilation ''A Best 2'' (for both black and white versions), her 2008 compilation ''A Complete: All Singles'' and her 2012 ''A Summer Best''. The album contains her singles from 1998 to her 2000 single "M".
''A Best'' enjoyed a large amount of commercial success; her label, Avex Trax, decided to release the compilation on the same day as Utada Hikaru's second album, ''Distance'', to create direct competition between the two records. On the weekly chart, ''Distance'' debuted at number one with first-week sales of 3,002,720; ''A Best'' entered at number two, with sales of 2,874,870. The first-week sales of the two albums set records for the highest and second-highest one-week sales figures of all time (in a single territory), in Japan and in the world; this record was broken in 2015 by Adele's album 25. Currently, ''A Best'' is the third fastest-selling album of all time. With sales of over four million copies, ''A Best'' remains Hamasaki's highest seller and the sixth best-selling Japanese album of all time, with worldwide sales of nearly seven million copies.
==Background==
After her 1998 debut, Ayumi Hamasaki became hugely successful within the Japanese pop scene. Her debut album, ''A Song for ××'' (1999) peaked at number one on the Oricon Albums Chart and sold over one million units in Japan. The album spawned five singles, all of which performed moderately on the singles chart. Hamasaki's second album ''Loveppears'' was released that same year and sold over two million units in Japan, and featured three number one singles: "Love: Destiny", "Boys & Girls" and "Kanariya". "Boys & Girls" and the quadruple A-side "A" became her first million selling singles in Japan, both certified as such by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ); the latter became her highest selling single, a title it still holds.
The next year, Hamasaki released another studio album entitled ''Duty''. It became her highest selling studio album, selling over 2.9 million units in Japan and receiving a 3x Million (10x Platinum) certification from the RIAJ. The album had spawn five singles, two of which went to number: "Seasons" and "Surreal".〔 "Seasons" became Hamasaki's second-highest selling single, with over 1.3 million units sold in Japan. Soon after the release of ''Duty'', Hamasaki began work on her fourth album ''I Am...'' and released the lead single "M", which sold over one million units in Japan and became one of her signature songs. By 2001, Hamasaki's label, Avex Trax, announced that she would be releasing a greatest hits compilation featuring a collection of only fan favorite singles instead of all her singles.〔 Hamasaki would later remark that the album was not released when she wanted to release it, or in the way she wanted to release it. She would also remark that the her crying face on the album's cover was symbolic of her protest against its release.
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