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North America

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Album

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 release by Japan

Japan

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Pop music

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 group Puffy AmiYumi

Puffy AmiYumi

or Puffy AmiYumi is a Japanese rock duo that is currently signed with Sony Music Japan. The group continues to go by the moniker of PUFFY in Japan, but in order to avoid legal naming conflicts with Sean Combs, it has adopted the name Puffy AmiYumi outside of Japan...

, released on May 21st, 2002. (See 2002 in music

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The album contains a compilation of Puffy's hits in Japan from their debut ('Asia no Junshin', albeit in English lyrics) up to the time then (most likely the whole inclusion of the Atarashii Hibi

Atarashii hibi

is the 13th single released by Japanese pop duo Puffy AmiYumi. Puffy's first 21st century single was produced by Andy Sturmer and recorded in L.A.. It was used in the commercial starring the artists themselves...

 single, without the karaoke song).

At least 1 song from each of Puffy's earlier Japanese album releases before 2002 were included with the exception of solosolo

Solosolo

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There is also a bonus video of 'Boogie-Woogie No.5' able to be viewed on a Quicktime player when inserted into a computer.

Track listing

1. Love So Pure (Andy Sturmer)
2. True Asia (Asia no Junshin) (English Version) (Yosui Inoue, Tamio Okuda)
3. That's the Way it Is (Korega Watashi no Ikirumichi) (Tamio Okuda)
4. Electric Beach Fever (Nagisa ni Matsuwaru Et Cetera) (Okuda)
5. Wild Girls on Circuit (Circuit no Musume) (Okuda)
6. Sign of Love Captain Funk
   Captain Funk
   is a Japanese electronic music producer, club DJ and label impresario, known for a flair in alternating between some abstract experimentation and more pop-oriented sounds.- Career :...
   
   's Puffy De Samba Mix (Ai no Shirushi) (Kusano Masamune)
7. Puffy de Rumba (Puffy AmiYumi, Tamura Yoriko)
8. Talalan (Tararan) (Puffy AmiYumi, Sturmer)
9. Sunday Girls (Nichiyoubi no Musume) (Okuda)
10. Friends (Tomodachi) (Puffy AmiYumi, Sturmer)
11. Mother (Okuda)
12. Neholina (Nehorina Hahorina) (Matsumoto Tortoise)
13. Brand New Days (Atarashii Hibi) (Puffy AmiYumi, Sturmer)
14. Stray Cats Fever (Masanori Sasaji)
15. Puffy's Rule (Puffy no Rule) (Okuda, Takashi Furuta)
16. Jet Police (Jet Keisatsu) (Okuda)

Bonus Quicktime music video

1. Boogie Woogie (No. 5) (Okuda)