![]() ![]() On July 30, 2008, Amuro released her third greatest hits album, Best Fiction, since transitioning to R&B music. It and was followed by 60s 70s 80s (2008), which reached number one on the Oricon weekly and the monthly chart. Her seventh studio album, Play (2007) debuted at the top of the charts outselling her previous album. It also topped the charts in Taiwan, this album is often regarded as her comeback in the music industry. In 2005 she released her sixth studio album, Queen of Hip-Pop, went on the 2nd place the Oricon weekly charta, and almost doubled the sale of her previous albums. This is evident with her 2003 album Style. ![]() Upon joining Suite Chic, Namie Amuro began transitioning from just a pop artist to also a R&B artist. Her first greatest hits album 181920 was released prior to her hiatus in 1998.Īfter a leave of absence, Namie returned to the music scene with the 2000 album " Genius 2000", but from then on she faced decreasing sales. Her 1997 single " Can You Celebrate?" sold over 2.2 million, making it Japan's best selling single by a solo female artist and was the best selling single of that year, the single followed by the highly successful album Concentration 20. In 1996 Amuro released her first album under Avex Trax titled Sweet 19 Blues, which reached #1 on the Oricon Album Chart with 1,921,850 copies sold in its opening week, selling over 3 million units in Japan during its original chart run. Only nine days after its release, Amuro released "Body Feels Exit", her first single under her new label Avex Trax. That same year, she released her first studio album Dance Tracks Vol.1, which topped the Oricon weekly chart and charted for forty-four weeks and has sold over 2,000,000 copies. In 1995 she released her first single as a solo artist, "Taiyou no Season", under the same label. Namie Amuro made her musical debut as the lead vocalist of Super Monkey's in 1992 under the label Toshiba EMI. Amuro has also collaborated with Verbal of M-Flo and Ryōsuke Imai for her Suite Chic project. The discography of Namie Amuro contains 12 studio albums, 7 compilation albums, 47 singles, 10 live albums, 14 video albums and 102 music videos. Amuro performing at the MTV Asia Aid 2005. ![]()
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