Guilty (Ayumi Hamasaki album)

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Guilty
Studio album by Ayumi Hamasaki
Released	January 1, 2008 January 1, 2008 January 1, 2008 January 4, 2008 January 8, 2008 January 8, 2008 January 8, 2008 January 2008 February 19, 2008
Recorded	2007 Japan, Los Angeles
Genre	J-Pop
Length	56:00
Label	Avex Trax
Producer	Max Matsuura
Ayumi Hamasaki chronology
A Best 2 (-White-/-Black-) (2007) Guilty (2008)
Alternate covers
CD+DVD Cover
Singles from Guilty
"Glitter / Fated" Released: July 18, 2007 "Talkin' 2 Myself" Released: September 19, 2007 "Together When..." Released: December 5, 2007

Guilty is the ninth studio album (tenth overall) by Japanese pop singer-songwriter Ayumi Hamasaki, released by Avex Trax on January 1, 2008 in Japan. Hamasaki herself wrote all of the album which went to sell over 400,000 copies its first two weeks release period. It reached #7 on the United World Chart in its first week of release and climbed to #3 in its 2nd week. Two weeks after its release Avex announced over 750,000 copies of Guilty have been shipped to stores.^[1] According to Oricon's 2008 album chart, GUILTY is the 8th highest selling album by far and the third highest selling album by a female artist behind Utada Hikaru's Heart Station and Koda Kumi's Kingdom.

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Guilty sold more than 202,000 copies within its first initial week of release, and the combined totals for the first and second weeks put Guilty at #2 with 432,113 copies sold. Kobukuro's 5296 outsold Guilty by 22,488 copies. Even though this is not Hamasaki's lowest first week sale for an original studio album, Guilty is the first original studio album from Ayumi Hamasaki that did not debut at #1 in Japan. However, it did debut at #1 in other Asian countries such as China and the islands of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore.

Although the album only managed to place #2 on the Japanese charts, it managed to debut at #1 on the Taiwanese charts with 39.78% of total J-pop sales and 6.7% of total music sales for its' 1st week. The album was released in two versions, a CD+DVD and a CD Only version. The first initial copies on sale came with a limited edition photobook. The CD+DVD version includes all the music videos from "glitter" to "Together When..." including making-of's. Though the official release date was January 1st 2008, the album was released in stores a week early (on 2007.12.25). The album debuted at number two on the G-Music Combo Chart behind Fahrenheit's sophomore album "Two-Sided Fahrenheit" but topped the charts on the G-Music J-Pop Chart having 39.78% of all Japanese album sold in Taiwan. on February 28th, GUILTY took the #1 position on HMVV HK Chart after 56 days on the chart.^[2]

Hamasaki's official website announced on March 17, 2008 that Guilty will be released digitally in over 26 countries worldwide, a first for any Japanese artist. The album will be digitally released in North America, Oceania, Europe as well as Asian countries where the physical version of the album is already released in Apple iTunes stores. This is officially Hamasaki's first release outside Asia.

[edit] Promotion

During December of 2007, Hamasaki performed live on Japanese TV shows ten times.^[3] The main promotional track of the album was 'Together When'. Hamasaki was featured on the cover of eight Japanese magazines during the promotion of Guilty.^[4] These magazines were "Sweet", "Voce", "Bea's Up", "Vivi", "Popteen", "Cawaii", "S Cawaii", and "Tokyo Headline". As of late December in Shibuya, Tokyo, there have been many promotional pictures posted around Shibuya — On buses, Lorries and Promotional billboards^[5]

[edit] Track listing

[edit] CD

1. "Mirror" - 1:58

   music: Yuta Nakano
   arrangement: Yuta Nakano

2. "(don't) Leave me alone" - 4:18

   music: Tetsuya Yukumi
   arrangement: HAL

3. "talkin' 2 myself" - 4:56

   music: Yuta Nakano
   arrangement: HAL

4. "decision" - 4:22

   music: Yuta Nakano
   arrangement: Yuta Nakano

5. "GUILTY" - 4:35

   music: Tetsuya Yukumi
   arrangement: CMJK

6. "fated" - 5:36

   music: Shintaro Hagiwara, Akihisa Matsuura
   arrangement: CMJK

7. "Together When..." - 5:14

   music: Kunio Tago
   arrangement: CMJK
   strings arrangement: David Campbell
   bass: Chris Chaney
   drums: Makoto Izumitani

8. "Marionette -prelude-" - 1:15

   music: Yuta Nakano
   arrangement: Yuta Nakano

9. "Marionette" - 4:37

   music: Kazuhiro Hara
   arrangement: Kazuhiro Hara

10. "The Judgement Day" - 1:41

    music: CMJK
    arrangement: CMJK

11. "glitter" - 4:55

    music: Kazuhiro Hara
    arrangement: HAL

12. "MY ALL" - 5:27

    music: Tetsuya Yukumi
    arrangement: HAL

13. "reBiRTH" - 1:40

    music: HAL
    arrangement: HAL

14. untitled ～for her～" - 5:35

    music: Kunio Tago
    arrangement: Shingo Kobayashi

All Lyrics by Ayumi Hamasaki

[edit] DVD

1. Short film「Kyo Ai ～Distance Love～ (距愛 ～Distance Love～, Kyo Ai ～Distance Love～^?)」（glitter/fated）
2. talkin’2 myself (video clip)
3. decision (video clip)
4. Together When... (video clip)
5. Marionette (video clip)
6. (don't) Leave me alone (video clip)
7. glitter (making clip)
8. fated (making clip)
9. talkin' 2 myself (making clip)
10. decision (making clip)
11. Together When... (making clip)
12. Marionette (making clip)
13. (don't) Leave me alone (making clip)

[edit] Charts

Oricon Overall Sales Chart (Japan)

[edit] Sales Trajectory

Overall Sales Chart (Asia)

United World Chart

• Total Sales: 568,288 (Japan)
• Total Sales: 750,000 (Avex)
• Total Sales: 1,800,000 (Asia)

[edit] Singles

Total Single Sales: 276,831

Total Downloads: 4,452,541

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• http://www.g-music.com.tw/GMusicBillboard0.aspx
• http://www.g-music.com.tw/GMusicBillboard3.aspx