forgiveness

"Forgiveness" is the 30th single released by Hamasaki Ayumi, and her 17th number one. It came out on August 20, 2003. Though "Forgiveness" reached #1 on the Oricon charts, its total sales were disappointing in Hamasaki's standards, selling only 220,000 copies, 370,000 less than Hamasaki's previous single, "&", which sold 590,000 copies.