| Every Best Single 2 | ||||
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| Released | September 3, 2003 | |||
| Genre | J-pop, synthpop, pop rock | |||
| Length | 72:57 | |||
| Label | Avex Trax | |||
| Producer | Max Matsuura (exec.) | |||
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Every Best Single 2 is the second greatest hits compilation of J-pop duo Every Little Thing, released on September 10, 2003 by Avex Trax.
Avex Trax is a record label owned by Japanese entertainment conglomerate Avex Group. The label was launched in September 1990, and was the first label by the Group.
This album is the second best of collection of Every Little Thing, after Every Best Single +3 released in 1999, and includes all the singles from "Pray" to "Fundamental Love", which was a recut single for the album (although it was later also included in Commonplace). Nevertheless, as bonus tracks it includes two pre-2000 singles, "For the Moment" and "Deatta Koro no Yō ni", in newly recorded acoustic versions.
This compilation was the first release of the band to be released with a bonus DVD (only available in the limited edition). [1]
The album received the award for "Rock & Pop Album of the Year" at the 18th Japan Gold Disc Awards. [2]
The Japan Gold Disc Award (日本ゴールドディスク大賞) for music sales in the Recording Industry Association of Japan, is major music awards held annually in Japan.
The album peaked at number one on the Oricon charts and charted for 38 weeks. [3]
Oricon Inc., established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as Original Confidence Inc., which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter’s Oricon record charts in April 2002.
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| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Arranger(s) | Length |
| 1. | "Pray" | Mitsuru Igarashi | Igarashi | Igarashi | 5:30 |
| 2. | "Sure" | Kaori Mochida | Every Little Thing | Every Little Thing | 4:56 |
| 3. | "Rescue Me" | Igarashi | Igarashi | Igarashi | 4:21 |
| 4. | "Ai no Kakera" (愛のカケラ) | Mochida | Kunio Tago | Genya Kuwajima [b] | 4:54 |
| 5. | "Fragile" | Mochida | Kazuhito Kikuchi | Kuwajima, Kikuchi [b] | 4:52 |
| 6. | "Graceful World" | Mochida | Y@suo Ohtani | Kuwajima, Ohtani [b] | 5:11 |
| 7. | "Jump" | Mochida | Mochida | Akira Murata | 4:07 |
| 8. | "Kiwoku" (キヲク) | Mochida | Kikuchi | Murata [a] | 5:26 |
| 9. | "Sasayaka na Inori" (ささやかな祈り) | Mochida | Tago | Expo [a] | 4:55 |
| 10. | "Unspeakable" | Mochida | Kikuchi | Ohtani, Masafumi Nakao [b] | 4:24 |
| 11. | "Nostalgia" | Mochida | Kikuchi | Tasuku [b] | 5:49 |
| 12. | "Grip!" | Mochida | Kazuhiro Hara | HΛL | 4:51 |
| 13. | "Fundamental Love" (ファンダメンタル・ラブ) | Mochida | Tago | Tasuku [b] | 4:17 |
| 14. | "For the Moment" (Acoustic Version) | Igarashi | Igarashi | Ichiro Ito | 4:14 |
| 15. | "Deatta Koro no Yō ni" (出逢った頃のように) (Acoustic Version) | Igarashi | Igarashi | Ito | 5:10 |
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| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | "Fundamental Love" (Music Video) | |
| 2. | "Recording Scene" | |
| 3. | "Live & Documentary Scene Digest" | |
| Release | Chart | Peak Position | Sales Total | Chart Run |
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| September 3, 2003 | Oricon Daily Albums Chart | 1 | ||
| Oricon Weekly Albums Chart | 1 | 713,269 copies sold | 38 weeks | |
| Oricon Yearly Albums Chart | ||||
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