Around the World is the debut

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under label Avex Trax.

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released a single by the same name on the same day.

Information

The album title was originally set to be Hopeful, but was later changed to the current one. The styles of the album consists of upbeat J-Pop songs with touches from house and

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, also with some sweet pop ballads and soft songs. A single of the same-title song was released the same of the album. It was included the previously released singles "Delightful", "Eventful" and "Negaigoto", and also the digital releases "Hopeful" and "For yourself". However, the Trance remix version of "Hopeful" was included in the album -the same as the one used in the promotional video and included in the Delightful maxi single- instead of the original J-Pop version. This versions hasn't been included in any physical release at the moment. A curious fact is that the DVD of the album doesn't include the original music videos of the songs of the previous physical singles; the ''dance tracks'' videos are the original songs but only with the dance scenes that Ami shot for those videos, and the ''album edit'' of "Negaigoto" is a slightly different edit of the original video.

Sales

The album came in at #4 on its first day, but fell to #5 for the weekly charts. However, sales were lower than predicted. This record marked Ami Suzuki as a qualified and profitable female singer in the Japanese Music Industry. Its first week AROUND THE WORLD sold approximately 30,000 copies. After various weeks in the charts, the album managed to sell more than 60,000 copies.

Track listing

Singles

Personnel

* Ami Suzuki -

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, backing vocals * Yumi Kawamura - backing vocals

Production

* Executive Producer -

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* Planner - Jun Harada * Supervisors - Hiroshi "Funaty" Ishimori, Takashi Okuda * Directors - Hatsukoshi Yasuhara, Aki Hori, Aya Noguchi * A&R - Katsuhiko Sakurai, Shizuka Oruga, Hideaki Tamamuchi * Desk A&R - Megumi Seyika, Nozomi Yasumune, Sakoto Sairenji * Musical Director - Yoshihisa Tokuda * Mixing - Naoki Yamada, Atsushi Hattori, Overhead Champion (#2), Axel Konard (#5) * Recording - Kaoru Akimoto, Shuichi Watanabe, Masahiro Kawata, Atsushi Hattori, Kei Kusama * 2nd Engineering - Masahiro Kawata, Ryuichi Okubo, Hanae Saito, Hitomi Suzuki, Makoto Yamadoi, Hideaki Jinbu, Ryo Watanabe, Tsuyoshi Yamada.

Charts

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Around The World (Ami Suzuki Album) Ami Suzuki albums 2005 albums Avex Group albums