A Song For XX

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release date: 01.01.1999 genre: Pop label: Avex Trax producer: Max Matsuura lyrics: Ayumi Hamasaki A Song for ×× was Ayumi Hamasaki's debut album on a major label. Though the official release date was January 1, 1999, the album was sold in the record stores since mid-December. To the critics' surprise, the album debuted at the top position of the Oricon Charts and topped the chart for five weeks, a remarkable feat for a debut album. The album debuted at #1 with more than 548,210 copies sold. This was mainly due to the fact that "A Song for ××" debut sales was the first and second week sales combined (Oricon only has 51 weeks instead of 52). The album stayed on the charts for 63 weeks and eventually went on to sell a more than a million copies. As of 2008, A Song for ×× is the 139th best selling album of all time. * Total Sales : 1,451,910 (Japan) * Total Sales : 2,000,000 (Asia) Please realize that the correct name for this album as well as the song it was named for is 'A Song for ××'. Note that ×× is not the same as xx or XX, these are multiplication symbols meant to be read as 'the times'. Now as the title is read, it is 'A Song for the times'.

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