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 haha. but you're still going to buy the album? ^_^

Amuro Namie (30) acquired the #1 album on the Oricon Weekly Chart but also 681,000 copies sold during it's first week, outselling EXILE's "EXILE CATCHY BEST" which sold 680,000 copies during its first week back in March.

J-ENT!

Amuro Namie (30) has become the first artist to have a million-selling album in her teens, twenties and thirties. Her latest hits collection, "Best Fiction," has been at No.1 on the Oricon album chart since it went on sale July 30 and the latest sales tally is 1.09 million copies, making it the third album this year to break the million barrier.

Other artists who have managed to go "platinum" (by the U.S. standard, anyway) in more than one decade include Inoue Yosui (in his 20s and 30s), Utada Hikaru and Nakashima Mika (in their teens and 20s).

Amuro debuted in 1992 and was very much a 90s phenomenon, becoming a fashion leader for a whole generation of girls. Though her last million-selling album was 1998's "181920," her failed marriage to TRF dancer Sam and motherhood seem to have only broadened her appeal.

She is currently top of the lineup of Avex artists on the "a-nation '08" tour, which she joined this year for the first time, and she has a 16-venue, 40-show arena tour coming up in October. The latest sales figures show that she can still claim to be at the top of the J-pop world. Japan-zone.com

Naunahan ako ni Neko-san mag-post nito, hehehe

Congratulations to Namie-san!!!!

I lab yu!!!!!!!

galing nga eh. 4 weeks nang number one ang Best Fiction :D

Since its release on July 30th, Amuro Namie's latest collection album, BEST FICTION, has sold a cumulative of 1.24 million copies, putting the Queen of Hip-Pop at the top of 2008 album charts so far, far ahead of EXILE's #2 ranking EXILE CATCHY BEST (1.19 million) and Utada Hikaru's #3 HEART STATION (9.8 hundred thousand).

The album has done much more than that for the 30-year old artist. The album is currently sitting at the top of ORICON Weekly Album Chart for its fifth consecutive week--a feat last accomplished by GLAY eleven years ago with their album REVIEW～BEST OF GLAY. In terms of solo female artist, the feat was last accomplished nearly 25 years ago by Nakamori Akina with her album Memowaru.

BEST FICTION also made Amuro the first female artist to have million-selling albums in three consecutive decades of her life. 1995's DANCE TRACKS VOL.1 (1.86 million), 1996's SWEET 19 BLUES (3.36 million), and 1997's Concentration 20 (1.93 million) were released in her teens, 1998's 181920 (1.69 million) was released when she was twenty, and now ten years since then, she achieved her fifth million-selling album with BEST FICTION at age thirty. The only artists close to accomplishing this task are Inoue Akimi, who had million sellers in his 20s and 30s, and Utada Hikaru and Nakashima Mika, who both had million sellers in their teens and 20s.

Amuro is currently rehearsing and preparing for her upcoming arena tour, namie amuro BEST FICTION tour 2008-2009, which will begin in October and continue until March 2009. The tour is expected to attract at least two hundred fifty thousand audience, and will surely further promote and help the album's sales. It will be interesting to see what further accomplishments both the album and the artist will manage to achieve.

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 Small faces (kogao) still seem to be in fashion, so Oricon conducted its third annual survey on the subject, asking a thousand people to identify which female celebrities they associated with the trend. In a repeat of last year, singer Namie Amuro ranked number one. Actress Manami Konishi was again #2.

The rest of the list, in order, were: Kyoko Koizumi, Koyuki, Alisa Mizuki, Yuka, Nana Eikura, Ayumi Hamasaki, and a three-way tie among Maki Horikita, Aya Ueto, and Misaki Ito.

source: tokyograph

 O di ba? Eventhough she's 30, she still has that appeal! Kawaii na, kirei pa, hehehe

And don't forget that she has beautiful hair... na kahit straight, wavy, or curly e beautiful pa rin!  

According to an interview with barks.jp, French artist, M.Pokora referred namie as his "Tokyo Girl" which is a track from his new album 'MP3', set to release in Japan:

Post ko na lang  yung image.... got this one still from Namie News Network site

 nice :D

sino po rito may mp3 ng Black Diamond?:D  at Dont Wanna Cry? :D

I can give you the link of Double's Best album na kasama dun yung Black Diamond. hanapin ko lang... teka yung don't wanna cry sa 181920 album niya yun a.... hmmmm

hehe. oki po :D