A (SONG)

"'A'" is the tenth single released by Ayumi Hamasaki on August 11, 1999. It is also her highest selling single. It is unique to her other singles being the only quadruple A-side single Ayumi has ever released. Later singles "'H'" and "'&'" have triple A-sides but do not have any remixes. "'A'" is the 57th best selling single in Japan of all time.^[1]

Contents

Commercial endorsement

Charts & Sales

Track listing

Chart positions

References

External links

Commercial endorsement

Trauma and monochrome were used as the background music of two TV commercials for the JT Peach Water drinks.^{[2] [3]}
Too Late was the theme song of a TV ad for HONDA Giorno CREA.^[4]
End Roll (HAL'S MIX) featured in commercial for Morinaga as background music.
Ayumi featured in the four commercials.

Charts & Sales

The maxi-single debut at #1 with 508,940 copies sold and it had sold more than 1,6 million units to date.^[5] It was the 3rd best-selling single of 1999.^[6]
A limited gold edition of this single was released too. It's CD number is AVCD-30050. It is now out of stock and is considered a collectible item of high value.

Track listing

# monochrome
# too late
# Trauma
# End roll
# monochrome (Keith Litman's Big City Vocal Mix)
# too late (Razor 'N Guido Remix)
# Trauma (Heavy Shuffle Mix)
# End roll (HΛL's Mix)
# monochrome (Instrumental)
# too late (Instrumental)
# Trauma (Instrumental)
# End roll (Instrumental)
# End roll (Neuro-mantic Mix)
# monochrome (Dub's full color Remix)

Chart positions

Chart (1999)	Peak position	Time in chart	Total sales
Japan Oricon	1	17 weeks	1,670,000

References

1. http://www.musictvprogram.com/corner-ranking-album.html
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LASar1jnFu8
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-ZzrXsIzRs&mode=related&search=
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_oBkJOqtqI
5. http://www.jpopmusic.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2958366&highlight=#2958366
6. http://homepage1.nifty.com/shislabo/nenkan/1999.htm

External links

★ ''A'' information at Avex Trax Network.

★ ''A'' information at Oricon.