Best (Mika Nakashima album)

Best is the first Japanese compilation album and sixth overall album release by Mika Nakashima. It contains 14 songs. Two new re-recordings were made: one of her first single, 'Stars,' and the other of 'Amazing Grace (05),' the latter of which was included in a Suntory commercial for Freixnet Champagne and made as a radio-only single to promote the album in Japan.

Best
Greatest hits album by
Released2005-12-07
GenreJ-pop, jazz, pop, easy listening, rock
Length1:14:22
LabelSony Music Associated Records
Mika Nakashima chronology
Music
(2005)
Best
(2005)
The End
(2006)

A music video compilation, also called 'BEST,' was released in Japan and Southeast Asia in December 2005. It contains the music videos for all of Mika's first 18 singles – from 'Stars' to 'Glamorous Sky' – and the promotional videos for 'Amazing Grace (05)' and a previously unreleased live recording of the song 'Blood.'

Best debuted at #1 in the Japan Oricon 200 Album Chart when it was released, selling 480,097 copies in its first week – bettering the first-week sales of her first album, True. It was the #5 album of 2006.

Since its release, BEST has sold 1,204,996 copies. Therefore, BEST is the second best-selling album in Mika's career only to Love, outselling True by over 30,000 copies.

Track listing

No.TitleLyricsMusicArranger(s)Length
1."Amazing Grace" ('05)John NewtonJohn NewtonChie Ayado4:07
2."Stars" (new vocal '05)Yasushi AkimotoDaisuke KawaguchiKeiichi Tomita6:05
3."Crescent Moon"Takashi MatsumotoHiroaki ŌnoYoshito Tanaka4:18
4."Will"Yasushi AkimotoDaisuke KawaguchiKeiichi Tomita5:22
5."Resistance"Yasushi Akimoto, Mika NakashimaSeikou NagaokaColdfeet4:52
6."Aishiteru" (愛してる; I Love You)H (three tight b)H (three tight b)shinya (three tight b)5:30
7."Love Addict"Mika NakashimaShinichi Osawa (Mondo Grosso)Shinichi Osawa7:13
8."Find the Way"Mika NakashimaLori Fine (Coldfeet)Ken Shima5:26
9."Yuki no Hana" (雪の華; Snow flower)SatomiRyouki MatsumotoRyouki Matsumoto5:40
10."Seven"Mika NakashimaLori Fine (Coldfeet)Coldfeet4:27
11."Oborozukiyo: Inori" (朧月夜~祈り; Night With a Hazy Moon ~Prayer) Oborozukiyo Tatsuyuki Takano
Inori Mika Nakashima
Oborozukiyo Teiichi Okano
Inori Taro Hakase
Oborozukiyo Taro Hakase
Inori Taro Hakase
6:03
12."Legend"Mika NakashimaYasunari OkanoColdfeet5:48
13."Sakurairo Mau Koro" (桜色舞うころ; When We Dance In the Cherryblossom's Color)Minako KawaeMinako KawaeSatoshi Takebe4:55
14."Glamorous Sky"Ai YazawaHydeHyde, K.A.Z4:27

Charts and sales

Oricon sales charts (Japan)

Release Chart Peak position First week sales Sales total
December 7, 2005 Oricon Daily Albums Chart 1
Oricon Weekly Albums Chart 1 480,097 1,204,996
Oricon Monthly Albums Chart 1
Oricon Yearly Albums Chart 6[1]

References

  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-03-28. Retrieved 2009-04-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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