Album baru Ayumi Hamasaki [Guilty]
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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]
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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. There has not been any confirmation so far about Guilty's chart position in Korea.
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.
