All My Best (Mai Kuraki album)

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All My Best
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Standard edition/digital download cover
Greatest hits album by
Mai Kuraki
ReleasedSeptember 9, 2009 (2009-09-09)
Recorded1999–2009
Genre Pop, R&B
LengthDisc 1: 71:26
Disc 2: 72:19
Label Northern Music
Producer Mai Kuraki (Executive producer), Daiko Nagato,
Mai Kuraki chronology
Touch Me!
(2009)		All My Best
(2009)		 Future Kiss
(2010)
Singles from All My Best
  1. "Puzzle"
    Released: April 1, 2009
  2. "Beautiful"
    Released: June 10, 2009

All My Best is the second greatest hits album by Japanese pop and R&B singer-songwriter, Mai Kuraki. It was released on September 9, 2009, to commemorate her tenth anniversary in the music business. The album was issued in seven formats: a regular 2CD, a limited 2CD+DVD, a limited microSD, a USB flash drive, a MiniDisc, a compact cassette and an LP album. [1] The album debuted at the top of the Japanese Oricon weekly album chart with sales over 137,050. [2]

Contents

Singles

To promote the album, two singles were released: "Puzzle/Revive" and "Beautiful". On the Oricon single chart "Puzzle/Revive" entered the top 3, becoming Kuraki's first single since "Ashita e Kakeru Hashi" (明日へ架ける橋, "Bridge to Tomorrow") in 2004 to do so. [3] "Puzzle" was the ending theme song for the thirteenth Detective Conan movie Detective Conan: The Raven Chaser . [4] Unlike "Puzzle", "Revive" was not on the album. [5] "Beautiful" was used as the image song for the cosmetic company Kose's Coseport Salon Style. [6] The single ranked higher than "Puzzle/Revive" debuting at No. 2, which extended Kuraki's record as the only female solo artist to have all 32 of her singles in the Top 10 since her debut. [7]

Commercial performance

On the release day of All My Best in Japan, the album took the number one position on the Oricon daily album chart, selling 38,000 copies. [8] On the weekly chart issue dated September 21, the album was No. 1 with sales a little over 137,050, becoming Kuraki's second number-one album of 2009. [2] The album also debuted at the top of the Billboard Japan Top Albums chart. [9] In Taiwan, the album achieved moderate success debuting at numbers nine and seven, on the international and J-pop charts respectively. [10] [11] On the J-Pop chart, the album peaked at number five. [12] With 0.51% of sales on the Taiwanese Combo chart the album debuted at number eighteen. [12]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Mai Kuraki, except "Never Gonna Give You Up" which was co-written with Michael Africk

Disc 1
No.TitleMusicArranger(s)Length
1."Watashi no, Shiranai, Watashi. (わたしの、しらない、わたし。, The Me I Do Not Know.)"Yue Mochizuki Daisuke Ikeda, Shun Sato4:04
2."Love, Day After Tomorrow" (from album Delicious Way ) Aika Ohno Cybersound4:05
3."Stay by My Side" (from album Delicious Way)Aika OhnoCybersound4:26
4."Secret of My Heart" (from album Delicious Way)Aika OhnoCybersound4:26
5."Never Gonna Give You Up" (from album Delicious Way)Michael Africk, Miguel Sa Pessoa, Perry GeyerMichael Africk, Miguel Sa Pessoa, Perry Geyer4:01
6."Simply Wonderful: Radio Edit" (from album Wish You the Best )Aika OhnoCybersound3:54
7."Reach for the Sky" (from album Perfect Crime )Aika OhnoCybersound4:49
8."Start in My Life" (from album Perfect Crime)Aika OhnoCybersound5:09
9."Tsumetai Umi" (from album Perfect Crime)Aika OhnoCybersound4:41
10."Double Rainbow" (from single "Stand Up") Yoko Blaqstone Yoko Black. Stone4:43
11."Stand Up" (from album Perfect Crime) Akihito Tokunaga Akihito Tokunaga4:40
12."Always" (from album Perfect Crime)Aika OhnoCybersound4:09
13."Perfect Crime" (from album Perfect Crime)Akihito TokunagaAkihito Tokunaga, Daisuke Ikeda4:38
14."Can't Forget Your Love" (from album Fairy Tale )Aika OhnoCybersound, Akihito Tokunaga5:29
15."Winter Bells"Akihito TokunagaAkihito Tokunaga4:39
16."Key to My Heart" (from album Fairy Tale)Aika OhnoCybersound3:33

All lyrics are written by Mai Kuraki, except "Baby I Like", which was written by Yoko Black. Stone

Disc 2
No.TitleMusicArranger(s)Length
1."Baby I Like" (from album Secret of My Heart)Yoko Black. StoneCybersound4:22
2."Puzzle"Yue Mochizuki, Takahiro Hiraga Masazumi Ozawa 3:58
3."Beautiful"Song Yang HaDaisuke Ikeda4:32
4."Touch Me!" (from album Touch Me! )Yue MochizukiTakahiro Hiraga5:11
5."Ichibyōgoto ni Love for You" (from album Touch Me!)Aika OhnoCybersound3:59
6."Be With U" (from album One Life )Akihito TokunagaCybersound4:56
7."Silent Love: Open My Heart" (from album One Life)Daisuke "Dais" Miyachi, Yuichi OhnoDaisuke "Dais" Miyachi, Yuichi Ohno4:25
8."Aitakute... (会いたくて..., I Want to See You...)" (from album Diamond Wave )Akihito TokunagaAkihito Tokunaga4:32
9."Shiroi Yuki" (from album One Life)Aika OhnoDaisuke Ikeda4:49
10."Best of Hero (ベスト オブ ヒーロー, Besuto obu Hīro)" (from album Diamond Wave)Akihito TokunagaAkihito Tokunaga4:14
11."Growing of My Heart" (from album Diamond Wave)Aika Ohno Takeshi Hayama 4:22
12."Ashita e Kakeru Hashi (明日へ架ける橋, Bridge to Tomorrow)" (from album Fuse of Love )Akihito TokunagaDaisuke Ikeda, Akihito Tokunaga3:59
13."Time After Time: Hana Mau Machi de (Theater Version)" (from album If I Believe )Aika OhnoDaisuke Ikeda, Cybersound4:12
14."Kaze no Lalala" (from album If I Believe) Michiya Haruhata Cybersound4:22
15."Like A Star in the Night" (from album Fairy Tale)Aika OhnoAkihito Tokunaga,
Strings arrangement： Daisuke Ikeda		5:37
16."Feel Fine!" (from album Fairy Tale)Akihito TokunagaAkihito Tokunaga4:49

Charts and certifications

Release history

CountryDateLabelFormatCatalog
JapanSeptember 9, 2009 Northern Music LP album VNJM-9001 [15]
Cassette tape VNTM-9001 [16]
MiniDisc VNYM-9001 [17]
USB flash drive VNZM-9001 [18]
microSD VNZM-9002 [19]
2CD+DVD (Limited edition)VNCM-9007 [20]
2CD (Standard edition)VNCM-9009 [21]
2CD (FC & Musing edition) [22]
TaiwanSK-BeingCDSBCA-9002 [23]
JapanDecember 8, 2009 Northern Music CDVNCL-9009 [24]

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