Album "Rock 'n' Roll Circus"

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For the 1960s rock concert, see The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus.Rock 'n' Roll Circus.

Rock 'n' Roll Circus is Japanese pop singer Ayumi Hamasaki's eleventh studio album, released by Avex Trax on April 14, 2010. It was released on the same day as Hamasaki's Ayumi Hamasaki Arena Tour 2009 A: Next Level.

The album was released in three different formats, a CD only version, a CD and DVD version, and a box set which contains the normal CD and DVD, a 3-DVD set of Ayumi Hamasaki Arena Tour 2009 A: Next Level, a mug, red tea packets, and a photobook. According to CD Japan website, the album is one of their best selling March releases.

Track Listing

CD
01. "The Introduction"
02. "Microphone"
03. "Count Down"
04. "Sunset: Love is All"
05. "Ballad"
06. "Last Links"
07. "Montage"
08. "Don't Look Back"
09. "Jump!"
10. "Lady Dynamite"
11. "Sexy Little Things"
12. "Sunrise: Love is All"
13. "Meaning of Love"
14. "You Were..."
15. "Red Line: for TA" ~Album Version~

Bonus Tracks
16. "MOON" ~Available for Team Ayu Members~

DVD ~CD+DVD, Special Limited Box CD+4DVD~
01. "Sunrise: Love is All" ~Video Clip~
02. "Sunset: Love is All" ~Video Clip~
03. "You Were..." ~Video Clip~
04. "Ballad" ~Video Clip~
05. "Sexy Little Things" ~Video Clip~
06. "Microphone" ~Video Clip~
07. "Don't Look Back" ~Video Clip~
08. "Lady Dynamite" ~Video Clip~
09. "Sunrise: Love is All" ~Making Clip~
10. "Sunset: Love is All" ~Making Clip~
11. "You Were..." ~Making Clip~
12. "Ballad" ~Making Clip~
13. "Sexy Little Things" ~Making Clip~
14. "Microphone" ~Making Clip~
15. "Don't Look Back" ~Making Clip~
16. "Lady Dynamite" ~Making Clip~
17. ""Ayumi Hamasaki Arena Tour 2009: Next Level" Digest" ~Bonus Track~

DVD2: Ayumi Hamasaki Arena Tour 2009: Next Level ~Special Limited Box CD+4DVD~
01. "Pieces of Seven"
02. "Rule"
03. "Unite!"
04. "Disco-munication"
05. "Energize"
06. "Sunrise: Love is All"
07. "Load of the Shugyo"
08. "Love ‘n’ Hate"
09. "Identity"
10. "In the Corner"
11. "Hope or Pain"
12. "Green"
13. "Days"
14. "Evolution"
15. "Signal"
16. "Rollin’"
17. "Sparkle"
18. "Bridge to the Sky"
19. "Next Level"

DVD3: Ayumi Hamasaki Arena Tour 2009: Next Level ~Special Limited Box CD+4DVD~
20. "Curtain Call"
21. "Sunset: Love is All"
22. "Everywhere Nowhere"
23. "Humming 7/4"
24. "Boys & Girls"
25. "My All" 

Compilation Album "A Complete : All Singles"

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A Complete: All Singles is a greatest hits album released by Ayumi Hamasaki on September 10, 2008 to commemorate her tenth anniversary with Avex. 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, released in 3CD and 3CD+DVD formats, includes the first tracks from all the singles she has released since 1998. According to Oricon's yearly chart, A Complete is the eighth highest selling album of 2008 and the third highest selling 2008 album by a female artist, behind Namie Amuro's Best Fiction and Utada Hikaru's Heart Station. In Taiwan, A Complete became the year's highest selling Japanese album.

Track listing

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

CD1 Track list
01. Poker Face
02. You
03. Trust
04. For My Dear...
05. Depend on You
06. Whatever ~Version M~
07. Love: Destiny
08. To Be
09. Boys & Girls
10. Monochrome
11. Appears ~Album Version~
12. Kanariya ~Album Version~
13. Fly High ~Album Version~
14. Vogue
15. Far Away

CD2 Track list
01. Seasons
02. Surreal
03. Audience (Dave Ford Mix)
04. M
05. Evolution
06. Never Ever
07. Endless Sorrow
08. Unite!
09. Dearest
10. Daybreak (album version)
11. Free & Easy
12. Independent
13. Voyage
14. Ourselves
15. Forgiveness

CD3 Track list
01. No Way to Say
02. Moments
03. Inspire
04. Carols
05. Step You
06. Fairyland
07. Heaven
08. Bold & Delicious
09. Startin'
10. Blue Bird
11. Glitter
12. Talkin' 2 Myself
13. Mirrorcle World
14. Who... ~10th Anniversary version~ ~Bonus Track~

Album "Next Level"

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USB Flash Drive Cover

Next Level is the tenth studio album (eleventh overall) by Japanese pop singer-songwriter Ayumi Hamasaki, released by Avex Trax on March 25, 2009 in Japan. It was released as a CD only version, a CD+DVD version, and a limited edition 2CD+DVD version with the second CD containing live songs taken from her New Year's Countdown concert. Additionally, it is the first album by Hamasaki and one of the first albums in the world to be released as a USB flash drive. The two GB flash drive includes the 14 songs of the album in MP3 format along with their lyric data, and six music videos in MP4 format. The flash drive edition is priced at ¥6800 (approximately USD$68 at the time of release). The album is certified Double Platinum for shipment of 500,000 copies.

Track listing

01. "Bridge to the Sky"
02. "Next Level"
03. "Disco-munication"
04. "Energize"
05. "Sparkle"
06. "Rollin'"
07. "Green"
08. "Load of the Shugyo"
09. "Identity"
10. "Rule"
11. "Love 'n' Hate"
12. "Pieces of Seven"
13. "Days"
14. "Curtain Call"

Album "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 lyrics of the album, which went to sell over 400,000 copies its first two weeks of release. Two weeks after its release Avex announced over 750,000 copies of Guilty have been shipped to stores. According to Oricon's 2008 album chart, Guilty is the 17th highest selling album by far and the sixth highest selling album by a female artist. Guilty is the third highest selling Japanese album in Taiwan of 2008.

Track list

01. "Mirror"
02. "(Don't) Leave Me Alone"
03. "Talkin' 2 Myself"
04. "Decision"
05. "Guilty"
06. "Fated"
07. "Together When..."
08. "Marionette (Prelude)"
09. "Marionette"
10. "The Judgement Day"
11. "Glitter"
12. "My All"
13. "Rebirth"
14. "Untitled: For Her"

Compilation Album "A Best 2"

A Best 2: Black (CD-Only)
A Best 2: Black (CD+DVD)
A Best 2: White (CD-Only)

A Best 2: White (CD+DVD)

A Best 2 is a series of Greatest Hits compilation albums recorded by Ayumi Hamasaki which were released simultaneously on 28 February 2007. The series consists of:

A Best 2: Black
A Best 2: White

A special website was opened in order to promote A Best 2 and can be found here. The tracks on A Best 2 were remastered in Los Angeles by Brian "Big Bass" Gardner, however they were not resung like the previous A Best.

Track Listings 

01. Dearest 
02. Carols 
03. No Way to Say 
04. Hanabi 
05. Walking Proud 
06. Free & Easy 
07. Endless Sorrow 
08. Because of You 
09. About You 
10. Game 
11. Is This Love? 
12. Hanabi: Episode II 
13. Never Ever 
14. Heaven 
15. Part of Me

Album "Secret"

Secret is the eighth studio album by Japanese pop singer-songwriter Ayumi Hamasaki, released by Avex Trax on November 29, 2006 in Japan. Hamasaki herself wrote all of the album's lyrics. The album has debuted high on charts across Asia and has gone triple platinum in Japan alone.

Secret received an "Album of the Year Award" at the Japan Gold Disc Awards and its title track received the award for "Japanese Song of the Year" at the RTHK international awards in Hong Kong. It was also the 22nd best selling album of 2006 according to the Oricon.

Track Listing

01. "Not Yet"
02. "Until that Day..."
03. "Startin"
04. "1 Love"
05. "It Was"
06. "Labyrinth"
07. "Jewel"
08. "Momentum"
09. "Taskinst"
10. "Born to Be..."
11. "Beautiful Fighters"
12. "Blue Bird"
13. "Kiss o' Kill"
14. "Secret"

Compilation Album "A Ballads"

Album Information

"Rainbow" is the title track to her previous album Rainbow, but was not included on the album. As a promotion for both albums, the purchasers of the initial pressings of Rainbow were given a password to a website, where they could download part of instrumental version of the song, and submit their own lyrics. Over 100,000 people accessed the website. The tracklistings of initial pressings of the album Rainbow had track 00 that said "Rainbow", but the song was not included on the album, and was scheduled to be released as a single after participation ended.

Both "Appears" and "M" were dramatically remixed by HAL to fit in with the ballad image of the album.

"You", "A Song for XX" were rearranged and resung for this album and added rocky and acoustic feel to the songs. These songs display the change in Hamasaki's voice since her debut.

"To Be" and "Seasons" were only minimally changed for the album with heavier percussions.

"Who..." (Across the Universe) was resung for the album and as suggested by Hamasaki herself, it was made to have a 'warmer' feel than the original track.

The final track, "Sotsugyou shashin" was originally by Yumi Matsutoya, and is the only cover that Ayumi Hamasaki has done to this date on an album. The numbers in A Song for XX's title is the date in which it was recorded (YYMMDD)

Track listing

01. "Rainbow"
02. "Appears" ~Hal's Progress~
03. "Key" ~Eternal Tie Ver.~
04. "You" ~Northern Breeze~
05. "To Be" ~2003 ReBirth Mix~
06. "Hanabi"
07. "M" ~Hal's Progress~
08. "Dearest"
09. "Dolls"
10. "Seasons" ~2003 ReBirth Mix~
11. "Voyage"
12. "A Song for XX" ~030213 Session #2 Take~
13. "Who..." ~Across the Universe~
14. "Sotsugyou Shashin" ~Yumi Matsutoya cover~