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Ami Suzuki is a Japanese recording artist, DJ, and actress from Zama, Kanagawa, Japan. Following her late 90s fame as a popular teen idol, Suzuki went on to become known for her self-penned lyrics and music production. In 2000, Suzuki entered a legal bat ...

, released on February 9, 2000, through True Kiss Disc.

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The album was released the same day of Suzuki's eighteenth birthday. The album was a commercial success in Japan, debuted at number one its first week on the

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charts, and selling over one million copies, her second best-selling album to date. The album charted for 14 weeks on the Japanese

charts. All the singles released prior to the album were rearranged and were added

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effects on Suzuki's voice. After a legal dispute between Suzuki and her manager in September 2000,

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put the album out of print along with all other Ami Suzuki singles and albums released up to that point, and she was blacklisted from the

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music scene. However, after she re-debuted under

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in 2005, the album was re-released later that same year as part of her Bazooka 17 box set. It was later re-released in a remastered version on the Blu-spec CD 2 format on September 11, 2013, simultaneously with her debut album SA.

Track listing

Singles

References

{{Authority control Ami Suzuki albums 2000 albums Albums produced by Tetsuya Komuro