"Ai am Best" is the first 'Best of' compilation album since Ai Otsuka

Ai Otsuka

is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and actress from Suminoe-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. She is a popular artist on the Avex Trax label and is best known for her 2003 hit "Sakuranbo," which stayed in the Top 200 Oricon Weekly Singles Chart for 103 weeks.A piano...

's music career started. The album contains 13 pre-2006 tracks with the respective music video for each. "Ai am Best" was released on March 28, 2007. The title of the album is a pun

Pun

The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use and abuse of homophonic,...

 on her first name, Ai, which is pronounced like the English word "I".

DVD Tracklist:
The respective PVs for each of the songs listed for the CD Tracklist
(The Music Clip for Track 13 「Love Music」 is the most recently filmed)

First Pressing comes in a blister case and bundled with <愛ハンコ>, a specially made carved stamp.

The album debuted at the number one spot on the Oricon

Oricon

, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...

 charts and sold more than 60,000 copies on its first day—six times more than the second place album of the day. By the second day of release, it had already sold over 100,000 copies.

"Ai am Best" was re-released in a CD version limited press on 26 September 2007.

Secret track

There is a secret track at the end of the last track "Love Music". Tracks 14 though 98 are silent and are about 5 seconds each. Track 99 contains an old unreleased song, "Babashi".

The Ai am Best DVD contains a secret hidden track which requires a code to unlock:

With your DVD remote arrow buttons, press "Up" 9 times, then press "Right" 9 times, then press "Down" 9 times, then press "Left" 9 times and finally press "Enter" and the hidden clip will be revealed, "Best of Babashi"

Track listing

CD Track Lists:

4. Happy Days
   Happy Days (song)
   "Happy Days" is Ai Otsuka's fourth single. The title track was used as background music in the Morinaga ICE BOX CM, which starred Otsuka, and as the theme of Koukousei Quiz 2004 on Nihon TV. It also contained a new b-side song and instrumental versions of both songs. Number three Oricon...
   
   
8. Cherish
9. Smily
   Smily / Biidama
   "Smily / Biidama" is Ai Otsuka's eighth single, which was released on 11 May 2005. "Smily" was used in a television commercial for Lion's Ban Powder Spray, while "Biidama" is being used in a commercial for Shokubutsu Monogatari Herb Blend shampoo, also by Lion. Otsuka appears in both...
   
   
13. Love Music

CD Hidden/Bonus Track Lists:

14.

—- 15...97

98.

99.

DVD Track Lists:

1. 桃ノ花ビラ Music Clip
2. さくらんぼ Music Clip
3. 甘えんぼ Music Clip
4. Happy Days Music Clip
5. 金魚花火 Music Clip
6. 大好きだよ。 Music Clip
7. 黒毛和牛上塩タン焼680円 Music Clip
8. Cherish Music Clip
9. Smily Music Clip
10. ビー玉 Music Clip
11. ネコに風船 Music Clip
12. プラネタリウム Music Clip
13. Love Music Music Clip

DVD Hidden/Bonus Track Lists:

14. Best of Babashi

Oricon sales charts (Japan)

Release	Chart	Peak Position	Debut Sales	Sales Total	Chart Run
March 28, 2007	Oricon Daily Albums Chart	1
	Oricon Weekly Albums Chart	1	350,045	727,192	44 weeks
	Oricon Monthly Albums Chart	1
	Oricon Yearly Albums Chart	6