Love Songs (Ayumi Hamasaki album)
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JacketA

CD+DVD
  • Limited Edition includes the access card on which the serial number for premium digital contents for mobile phone was printed.
  • Bonus Track: Live at Yoyogi on Oct.11.2010 (Limited Edition), Original version (standard edition)

JacketB

CD
  • Limited Edition includes the access card on which the serial number for premium digital contents for mobile phone was printed.
  • Bonus Track: Original version

JacketC

USB+microSD
  • USB: all songs in 48KHz, 24 bit wave format, included all the contents from CD
  • microSD: SD-VIDEO format, included all the contents from CD and video clips #1-8 from DVD
  • Bonus Track: Live at Yoyogi on Oct.11.2010
  • Photobook: LP-size, exclusive photobook (12 pages)

Music videos

A 2:56 minute clip for Moon was released on June 9, 2010 in Ayumi Hamasaki's YouTube channel. The full PV was released on July 13, 2010, a day before the single was available in stores. The video featured Ayumi singing in a European aristocratic room setting. As the video progresses a strange, black, tar-like liquid begins dropping in the room, on random furniture. The video is also inter-cut with scenes of Ayumi smiling while holding one of her pet dogs, in her second verse it shown ayumi with the black liquid falling down all over her face, near chest and going to her hands. Depicting sorrow or despair, presumably of the dog shown towards the end of the video.
On YouTube, the music video of Moon now has approximately 1,400,000 views. The full music video runtime of moon is 05:50. The music video of Moon was directed by Masashi Muto.

The music video of Blossom was cancelled, but a music video appeared for Crossroad.
It was released September 4, 2010 and filmed on the first days of August. Also the music video was promoted in magazines. Ayumi does not appear in the video, but it features Hero Jaejoong
Hero (singer)
Kim Jaejoong , also known by his stage name Hero, is a Korean singer-songwriter, actor, and director....

 (member of TVXQ
TVXQ
TVXQ, an acronym for Tong Vfang Xien Qi , is a South Korean pop group formed in 2003 under SM Entertainment. In South Korea they are known as Dong Bang Shin Ki , often abbreviated by international fans as DBSK; they were later introduced in Japan as Tohoshinki under the Avex sub-label Rhythm Zone...

, now of JYJ
JYJ
JYJ is a three-member pop group, formed by three members of the South Korean boyband TVXQ: Jaejoong, Yoochun and Junsu. Their group name is taken from the first letters of each members' names....

 since TVXQ's three member split). The MV's plot starts out with Hero having enjoying his time with his girlfriend at the beach and etc. However, in the middle of the video, Hero visits to a doctor, and finds out that he is diagnosed with terminal cancer (3rd stage) and has only two weeks left to survive. Later, Hero goes to meet his girlfriend to celebrate the birthday. Then, Hero kills himself when he makes the chair and a glass bottle smash on him, the ending scene shows Hero's girlfriend looking at a painting of them both, what Hero was trying to paint in the beginning of the MV. There is a director's cut of the MV as well. The running time of "Blossom" is 6:53. This music video was not uploaded to Ayumi Hamasaki's youtube account.

An teaser was released for Crossroad on the September 9, 2010 and the full music video was released September 10, 2010. An behind the scenes version was released September 21, 2010. The music video directed by Masashi Muto and the lighting designer were Shogen Yamamoto and the CG director were Takayuki Taketa. It begins with ayumi in a dark room, in a big red dress, Near the end of the video, she burns herself and the sofa with a match and smiles, Also, the room is full of TVs, with ayumi in an circled, dark blue room.

The videos for Sweet Season and Virgin Road premiered September 27, 2010.

The music video for Sweet Season starts with Hamasaki picking up her kids with her car, and driving back home. It shows Hamasaki and her kids having fun at the swimming pool outside their house. Near the end of the video, Hamasaki falls in the swimming pool slowly, with flashbacks of her and her kids. Then, she wakes up at the same place on her sofa, realizing that it was only a dream. She is dressed differently from before, changing from a sweet-looking mother into a weird looking woman, with heavy makeup. The second version of the video features new scenes of Hamasaki and her children in the living room singing, and scenes could be seen rewound. This version was not part of her Love Songs's music videos.

The music video for Virgin Road features Austrian actor and model Manuel Schwarz (later to become Hamasaki's real-life husband). Virgin Road was Hamasaki's fifth-most expensive music videos, behind Jewel, Green, Fairyland and My Name's Women. The video's production reportedly cost $1,000,000. The music video was shot in Los Angeles and features Hamasaki and Schwarz getting married. After that, they are seen robbing a bank and gas station. The video represents was Hamasaki's first encounter with large guns. A police chase ensues, and Hamasaki throws the stolen money out of the car. Resting somewhere on the hill, helicopter throw grenades at the couple, but they escape.

The MVs for Love Song, Last Angel and Do It Again were all filmed in the United States starting from 19, November 2010.

Charts

Chart Peak Position Sales Total Chart Run
Oricon Daily Chart 1 70,609 20 weeks
Oricon Weekly Chart 1 180,048
Oricon Monthly Chart 3 272,653
Oricon Yearly Chart

Chart procession and succession

Certifications

Country Provider Certification
Japan RIAJ Platinum
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