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| Released | September 16, 2009 | |||
| Recorded | 2003–2009 | |||
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| Length | 79:13 | |||
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Best Ai is the first greatest hits album by Japanese-American singer-songwriter Ai, released on September 16, 2009, by Island Records and Universal Sigma. The album was released in three editions: limited CD+DVD, CD only and "Arienai Price" (low-priced) editions. Best Ai debuted at number 2 on the daily Oricon albums chart but switched back and forth between number 1 and number 2 several times during its release week. The album went on to debut atop the weekly albums chart with 81,663 copies sold, beating the second-place holder Takeshi Tsuruno's Tsuruno Oto by merely 1,332 units and becoming her first number-one album.[1]
The album is certified Platinum for shipment of 250,000 copies.
- ^ "AI、ベスト盤で初のオリコン1位獲得". Yomiuri Shimbun. 2009-09-22. Archived from the original on September 25, 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-22.