A Complete: All Singles

A Complete: All Singles (stylized as: COMPLETE ~ALL SINGLES~) is a greatest hits album by Japanese singer Ayumi Hamasaki, released on September 10, 2008 to commemorate her tenth anniversary with Avex Trax. It compiles all of Hamasaki's singles from 1998 to 2008, with one new track.

A Complete: All Singles
Cover to the standard edition of the album
Greatest hits album by
Ayumi Hamasaki
ReleasedSeptember 10, 2008
Recorded2008 (re-mastered songs from 1998 to 2008 period)
Genre
LabelAvex Trax
ProducerMax Matsuura
Ayumi Hamasaki chronology
Guilty
(2008)		 A Complete: All Singles
(2008)		 Next Level
(2009)
Singles from A Complete: All Singles
  1. "Mirrorcle World"
    Released: April 8, 2008

The album was promoted with one single, new track "Mirrorcle World". Released on April 8, 2008, it debuted at number one in Japan, selling over 250,000 copies and receiving a platinum certification, Hamasaki's first single to do so since "Blue Bird" in 2006. The album's track listing omits two of Hamasaki's singles, these being "A Song Is Born" and "Together When...". The first press of the album came in a special box along with a forty-eight-page photobook that includes previously unreleased alternate single covers. The album was released in 3CD and 3CD+DVD formats.

A Complete debuted at number one in Japan, with first-week sales of 538,876 copies. In its 38-week chart run, it sold 852,259 copies in Japan. It became her best-selling album since (Miss)understood, and was certified 3x Platinum for shipments of 750,000 copies to stores. In Taiwan and China, it became the best-selling Japanese album of 2008. A Complete was the eighth best-selling album of 2008 in Japan and the third best-selling by a female artist, behind Namie Amuro's Best Fiction and Utada Hikaru's Heart Station.

After 11 years of released, A Complete reaches number one on the Oricon Digital Weekly Album chart in May 2020. Digitally, the album has sold almost 80,000 copies to this date. [1]

Information

A Complete includes all of Hamasaki's A-side single tracks since her first single "Poker Face" up to "Mirrorcle World". Many tracks on the album have been remastered such as "M", "Audience", "Poker Face", and "To Be". Shortly after the release of A Complete Hamasaki announced that the Taiwanese version will include a Chinese version of "Who...".[2] The album sold 538,876 copies by the end of the first week, debuting at #1 making it Hamasaki's first release to sell over 500,000 copies since My Story except (Miss)understood's combined first and second week sales due to Oricon's 51-week rule. A Complete debuted at #7 in Taiwan in its first official week of release and climbed to #2 in its second week, with 7.61% off all album and single sales.[3] However, A Complete maintained the top position on Taiwan's G-MUSIC chart with over 50.74% of all Japanese albums and singles sale in Taiwan. It remained top on Taiwan's Japanese Pop Chart for 5 weeks.[4][5]

Promotion

Hamasaki was scheduled to appear in magazines Sweet, Bea's Up, Vivi and Beatfreak to promote the album.[6] Additionally, she held a promotional campaign in which those who ordered the album online received a gift.[7]

Track listing

All tracks are single mixes except songs which were recut singles, which are original album mixes.

All lyrics are written by Ayumi Hamasaki.

CD 1
No.TitleMusicArranger(s)Length
1."poker face"Yasuhiko HoshinoAkimitsu Honma4:46
2."YOU"HoshinoHonma4:48
3."Trust"Takashi KimuraHonma, Kimura4:54
4."For My Dear..."HoshinoHoshino4:36
5."Depend on you"Kazuhito KkuchiHonma, Takashi Morio4:23
6."Whatever"KikuchiIzumi Miyazaki5:35
7."Love (Destiny)"TsunkuShingo Kobayashi, Yasuaki Maejima5:00
8."To Be"D.A.I.D.A.I., Naoto Suzuki5:22
9."Boys & Girls"D.A.I.D.A.I., Suzuki3:58
10."Monochrome"D.A.I.D.A.I., Suzuki4:34
11."Appears"KikuchiHΛL5:41
12."Kanariya"HoshinoCPM-Marvin3:09
13."Fly High"D.A.I.HΛL4:10
14."Vogue"KikuchiKikuchi, Suzuki4:30
15."Far Away"D.A.I., KikuchiHΛL5:34
CD 2
No.TitleMusicArranger(s)Length
1."Seasons"D.A.I.Suzuki4:25
2."Surreal"KikuchiHΛL4:44
3."Audience"D.A.I.HΛL4:10
4."M"Ayumi HamasakiHΛL4:31
5."Evolution"Ayumi HamasakiHΛL4:46
6."Never Ever"Ayumi HamasakiChokkaku4:44
7."Endless Sorrow"Ayumi HamasakiCMJK, Junichi Matsuda5:30
8."Unite!"Ayumi HamasakiHΛL5:04
9."Dearest"Ayumi Hamasaki + D.A.I.Suzuki5:37
10."Daybreak"Ayumi Hamasaki + D.A.I., MatsudaTasuku4:52
11."Free & Easy"Ayumi Hamasaki + D.A.I.HΛL5:03
12."Independent"Ayumi Hamasaki + D.A.I.Tasuku4:59
13."Voyage"Ayumi Hamasaki + D.A.I.Ken Shima5:11
14."Ourselves"BouncebackCMJK4:57
15."Forgiveness"Ayumi Hamasaki + D.A.I.CMJK5:34
CD 3
No.TitleMusicArranger(s)Length
1."No Way to Say"BouncebackHΛL4:45
2."Moments"Tetsuya YukumiHikari5:33
3."Inspire"YukumiHΛL4:36
4."Carols"Tomoya KinoshitaCMJK5:32
5."Step You"Kazuhiro HaraCMJK4:28
6."Fairyland"TasukuHΛL5:21
7."Heaven"KikuchiYuta Nakano, KZB4:22
8."Bold & Delicious"Geo of SweetboxCMJK4:44
9."Startin'"HaraCMJK4:21
10."Blue Bird"D.A.I.HΛL4:11
11."Glitter"HaraHΛL4:54
12."Talkin' 2 Myself"NakanoHΛL4:56
13."Mirrorcle World"NakanoNakano5:22
Japanese bonus track
No.TitleMusicArranger(s)Length
14."Who..." (10th Anniversary version)KikuchiSuzuki5:37
Asia bonus track
No.TitleMusicArranger(s)Length
14."Who..." (Chinese version)KikuchiSuzuki5:37
DVD
No.TitleLength
1."Real Me" (Limited TA Live Tour - Zepp Tokyo, May 27, 2003) 
2."Poker Face" (Limited TA Live Tour - Zepp Tokyo, May 27, 2003) 
3."Depend on You" (Limited TA Live Tour - Zepp Tokyo, May 27, 2003) 
4."To Be" (Limited TA Live Tour - Zepp Tokyo, May 27, 2003) 
5."You" (Limited TA Live Tour - Zepp Tokyo, May 27, 2003) 
6."Dolls" (Limited TA Live Tour - Zepp Tokyo, May 27, 2003) 
7."A Song for ××" (Limited TA Live Tour - Zepp Tokyo, May 27, 2003) 
8."Surreal" (Limited TA Live Tour - Zepp Tokyo, May 27, 2003) 
9."Evolution" (Limited TA Live Tour - Zepp Tokyo, May 27, 2003) 
10."Rainbow" (Limited TA Live Tour - Zepp Tokyo, May 27, 2003) 
11."Evolution" (A-Nation '02 - Odaiba, September 1, 2002) 
12."Hanabi" (A-Nation '02 - Odaiba, September 1, 2002) 
13."Voyage" (A-Nation '02 - Odaiba, September 1, 2002) 
14."Forgiveness" (A-Nation '03 - Odaiba, August 31, 2003) 
15."Boys & Girls" (A-Nation '03 - Odaiba, August 31, 2003) 
16."Game" (A-Nation '04 - Showa Memorial Park, August 29, 2004) 
17."Moments" (A-Nation '04 - Showa Memorial Park, August 29, 2004) 
18."Greatful days" (A-Nation '04 - Showa Memorial Park, August 29, 2004) 
19."Fairyland" (A-Nation '05 - Ajinomoto Stadium, August 21, 2005) 
20."Is This Love?" (A-Nation '05 - Ajinomoto Stadium, August 21, 2005) 
21."Unite!" (A-Nation '06 - Ajinomoto Stadium, August 27, 2006) 
22."A Song for ××" (A-Nation '06 - Ajinomoto Stadium, August 27, 2006) 
23."Until That Day..." (A-Nation '07 - Ajinomoto Stadium, August 26, 2007) 
24."July 1st" (A-Nation '07 - Ajinomoto Stadium, August 26, 2007) 
25."Boys & Girls" (A-Nation '07 - Ajinomoto Stadium, August 26, 2007) 

Release history
Region Date Format Catalogue Number
Japan September 10, 2008 (2008-09-10) 3CD+DVD
  • Initial pressing limited edition:

SPECIAL PHOTOBOOK (40P)

 AVCD-23673/B
3CD AVCD-23676
Hong Kong
Taiwan
China November 1, 2008 (2008-11-01) 3CD+DVD
  • Initial pressing:

SPECIAL PHOTOBOOK (40P)
South Korea
Singapore

Charts
Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)
Release Chart Peak position First Week Sales Sales total Chart run
September 10, 2008 Oricon Daily Albums Chart 1
Oricon Weekly Albums Chart 1 538,876 855,518 50 weeks
Oricon Monthly Albums Chart 1
Oricon Yearly Albums Chart 8

Singles
Date Title Peak position Weeks Sales in Japan
April 8, 2008 "Mirrorcle World" 1 15 weeks 193,016

Physical Sales & Rank

Footnotes
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