Duty




 * Artist
 * Hamasaki Ayumi


 * Album
 * Duty


 * Released
 * 2000.09.27 (Japan)


 * Catalog Number
 * AVCD-11837


 * Price
 * ¥ 3,059


 * CD Tracklist
 * 1) starting over
 * 2) Duty
 * 3) vogue
 * 4) End of the World
 * 5) SCAR
 * 6) Far away
 * 7) SURREAL
 * 8) AUDIENCE
 * 9) SEASONS
 * 10) teddy bear
 * 11) Key ~eternal tie ver.~
 * 12) girlish

Information
Duty is the third full-length studio album by Ayumi Hamasaki, as well as being her best-selling studio album up to date, with over 2.9 million copies sold. The single "SURREAL", an initial pressing-only single, was released simultaneously along with the album and the DVD ayumi hamasaki concert tour 2000 A Part I. All three claimed the top position in the Oricon Weekly charts, making Ayumi Hamasaki the first person to hold the top position on all three charts. Prior to this, the most number of charts that a single artist or musical act topped was two. Duty is also Ayumi Hamasaki's highest selling studio album with sales of 2,904,420 in Japan. It debuted at the number-one position and held that position for four weeks, the album also stayed in the Top 30 for 20 weeks, making Hamasaki's only studion album to stay on the Top 30 for that long. Duty is the 22nd best selling album in Japan of all times.

Duty was used in a commercial promoting the Takano Yuri beauty clinics. vogue was used as background musik in a tv commercial promoting a lipstick for Kosee Visee. The original version of Far away featured in three ad campaigns for the Tu-Ka cellphones. The song End of the World was also used in a commercial for the brand. SEASONS was the theme song of a popular Japanese drama broadcast on Fuji TV called Tenki Yoho No Koibito (Weather Reporter Lover).
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Oricon Weekly Ranks & Sales

 * Total Sales: 2,904,420 (Japan)
 * Total Sales: 3,000,000 (Avex)
 * Total Sales: 3,750,000 (Asia)