is the ninth

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by Japanese singer

Shizuka Kudo , known by her maiden name , is a Japanese singer, actress and former idol, born in Hamura, Tokyo, Japan. She was a member of Onyanko Club between May 1986 and September 1987 and went on to have a successful solo career with 11 number-one hits. ...

. It was released on March 15, 2000, through

Pony Canyon , also known by the shorthand form , is a Japanese mass media publishing company founded on October 1, 1966. The company publishes mainly physical home media on compact discs, including music, films and TV shows and video games. It is affiliate ...

. It is Kudo's second single collection: the album features all of Kudo's singles released from "

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" (1987) up to her most recent at the time, " Blue Zone" (1999), as well as all five singles released by

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. The album was released digitally on May 28, 2014, however only the four singles missing from the subsequently released compilation '' Shizuka Kudo Best'' were made available for download.

Background

The album was released without Kudo's consent, after she had already left Pony Canyon. According to Kudo, she only came to know of the compilation's existence when she stumbled onto it when flipping through the CD racks of a convenience store.

Commercial performance

''Millennium Best'' debuted at number 25 on the

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, with 18,000 units sold. The album charted in the top 100 for a total of five consecutive weeks, selling a reported 36,000 copies during its chart run.

Track listing

Charts

References

External links

''Millennium Best''
on Pony Canyon's official website {{Authority control 2000 compilation albums Shizuka Kudo albums Pony Canyon compilation albums