Memorial Address
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Memorial Address is an EP (labeled as a mini-album in Japan) by Japanese singer Ayumi Hamasaki
. It is the best-selling mini-album by a Japanese female, selling over a million copies in Japan. It is available in 2 formats, CD or CD+DVD package. It was released on December 17, 2003. All of the songs featured on the CD tracklist (with the exception of "Memorial Address", the title track) have a corresponding music video. As of 2008, Memorial Address is the 250th best selling album in Japan.
Memorial Address also marked the release of her 30th single, "Forgiveness". A concert, called "A Museum ~30th Collection Live~", was performed live, and released on DVD later on.
In 2007, Avex reported that Memorial Address sold 1,220,000 copies in Japan.
Total Single Sales: 1,184,652
Total Album and Single Sales: 2,246,949
Ayumi Hamasaki
is a Japanese singer-songwriter, record producer, model, lyricist, and actress. Also called "Ayu" by her fans, Hamasaki has been dubbed the "Empress of Pop" because of her popularity and widespread influence in Japan and throughout Asia. Born and raised in Fukuoka, she moved to Tokyo at fourteen to...
. It is the best-selling mini-album by a Japanese female, selling over a million copies in Japan. It is available in 2 formats, CD or CD+DVD package. It was released on December 17, 2003. All of the songs featured on the CD tracklist (with the exception of "Memorial Address", the title track) have a corresponding music video. As of 2008, Memorial Address is the 250th best selling album in Japan.
Memorial Address also marked the release of her 30th single, "Forgiveness". A concert, called "A Museum ~30th Collection Live~", was performed live, and released on DVD later on.
In 2007, Avex reported that Memorial Address sold 1,220,000 copies in Japan.
Tracklist
Release history
| Region | Date | format | Catalogue Number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | CD+DVD
|
AVCD-17410 | |
| CD
|
AVCD-17411 | ||
| Taiwan | |||
| Hong Kong | |||
| China | CD+DVD
|
AVTCD-95730C
|
|
| Cassette | |||
| CD | AVTCD-95730C/B
|
Charts
Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)| Release | Chart | Peak position | First Week Sales | Sales total | Chart run |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 December, 2003 | Oricon Daily Albums Chart | 1 | |||
| Oricon Weekly Albums Chart | 1 | 524,028 | 1,062,297 | 53 weeks | |
| Oricon Monthly Albums Chart | 1 | ||||
| Oricon Yearly Albums Chart | 4 | ||||
- Total Sales: 1,062,297 (Japan)
- Total Sales: 1,220,000 (Avex)
- Highest selling mini-album by a female artist.
- Only mini-album by a female artist to sell over one million units.
Singles
| Date | Title | Peak position | Weeks | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 9, 2003 | "& & (song) "&" is the 29th single released by Ayumi Hamasaki and her 16th number 1 single. It came out on July 9, 2003. "&" was a triple A-side single and also featured the theme to A-Nation 2003, which Ayu sang... " |
1 | 16 weeks | 591,481 |
| August 20, 2003 | "forgiveness Forgiveness (song) "Forgiveness" is the 30th single released by Ayumi Hamasaki, and her 17th number one. It came out on August 20, 2003. Though "Forgiveness" reached #1 on the Oricon charts, its total sales were disappointing, selling only 220,000 copies, 370,000 less than Hamasaki's previous single, "&", which sold... " |
1 | 12 weeks | 222,000 |
| September 29, 2003 | "No Way to Say No Way to Say "No Way to Say" is the thirty-first single released by Ayumi Hamasaki and her eighteenth number-one single. It came out November 6, 2003. The video won the award for "Best Pop Video" at the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards Japan, and the single won the Japan Record Award at the 2003 Japan Record Awards... " |
1 | 12 weeks | 371,171 |
Total Single Sales: 1,184,652
Total Album and Single Sales: 2,246,949