All My Best | |
Type: | Greatest hits |
Artist: | Mai Kuraki |
Cover: | Allmybest maik.jpg |
Caption: | Standard edition/digital download cover |
Recorded: | 1999–2009 |
Genre: | Pop, R&B |
Length: | Disc 1: 71:26 Disc 2: 72:19 |
Label: | Northern Music |
Producer: | Mai Kuraki (Executive producer), Daiko Nagato, |
Prev Title: | Touch Me! |
Prev Year: | 2009 |
Next Title: | Future Kiss |
Next Year: | 2010 |
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]
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 in 2004 to do so.[3] "Puzzle" was the ending theme song for the thirteenth Detective Conan movie .[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]
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. 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.
Chart (2009) | Peak position | |
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Japan Billboard Top Albums | 1 | |
Japan Oricon Daily album Chart | 1 | |
Japan Oricon Weekly album Chart | 1 | |
Japan Oricon Yearly album Chart | 25 | |
Taiwan Combo Chart | 5 | |
Taiwan International Chart | 1 | |
Taiwan J-Pop Chart | 1 |
Country | Date | Label | Format | Catalog | |
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Japan | 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] | ||||
Taiwan | SK-Being | CD | SBCA-9002[23] | ||
Japan | Northern Music | CD | VNCL-9009[24] |