Best Fiction

Infobox Album |
Name = Best Fiction
Type = greatest
Artist = Namie Amuro


Released = July 30, 2008
Recorded = 2002 - 2008
Genre = Pop, R&B , Hip-Hop
Length =
Label = Avex Trax
Producer = Dallas Austin, Giant Swing, Nao'ymt, Tiny Voice
Last album = "Play" (2007)
This album = "Best Fiction" (2008)
Next album =
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = Greatest hits


Lower caption = CD+DVD Singles
Name = Best Fiction
Type = studio
Single 1 = 60s70s80s
Single 1 date = March 12, 2008
Single 2 = Sexy Girl(Download single)
Single 3 = Do Me More(Download Single)

"Best Fiction" is Namie Amuro's third best-of compilation under the avex trax label. The album includes 15 tracks selected from singles released between 2002 and 2008. The album also includes two new songs, "Sexy Girl" and "Do Me More" which are both be used to promote the album. It has been released in two formats, a CD-only version and a CD+DVD combination on July 30, 2008.

Best Fiction has been certified Million by [http://www.riaj.or.jp/data/others/gold/200808.html RIAJ] for shipment of 1.000.000 copies. Best Fiction currently has the highest first and second week album sales in 2008. [citeweb | url=http://contents.oricon.co.jp/news/music/57124/ |title=From Nonfiction to Fiction... Amuro's secret"| language=Japanese] Best Fiction is currently the third highest selling album of 2008. This is Amuro's highest selling release since 181920. She is also the first female solo singer since 1979 to have an album at #1 on Oricon for 6 weeks in a row. It is 189th Best-selling album of all time in Japan.

Album title

The title for the best-of compilation was first revealed on the website for NHK series "Otome no Punch" on its FAQ. [ [http://www.nhk.or.jp/drama8/otome/html_otome_faq.html "Otome no Punch FAQ"] ]

Album artwork

Best Fiction's front cover depicts a stylized Amuro atop an automobile made to appear as if her image had been airbrushed. [citeweb | url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/music/55961/ |title=Amuro's Best Album is "Great Fiction" | language=Japanese] Amuro commented that the image was chosen because it reflected the album's title. [citeweb | url = http://www.barks.jp/news/?id=1000041320 | title = 次の安室ちゃんは作り物？“フィクション”なアルバムジャケット | publisher = Barks | accessdate = 2008-07-01 | language = Japanese]

Singles

Two new original songs included on the album have been released for promotion. Unlike all previous songs included on the album neither has gotten a separate physical release. The first of the two new songs, "Sexy Girl" is used as the theme song for NHK six-part series, "Otome no Punch." [ citeweb | url = http://www.visionfactory.jp/news/news_archives/08052706000_amuro.html | title = 安室奈美恵:BEST ALBUM発売決定!!] The second new song, "Do Me More" was used in a second series of commercials for Vidal Sassoon following the first campaign with Amuro's single 60s 70s 80s. [citeweb | url=http://www.avexnet.or.jp/amuro/info.html | title = Namie Amuro Official Site | language = Japanese] "Do Me More" features an interpolation of "Thunder and Blazes." Both songs leaked in full onto the internet on July 1.

Track listing

CD

Physical Sales & Rank

References