Break the Rules (album)

For other topics, see Break the Rules (disambiguation).
Break the Rules
Regular digital cover
Studio album by
Namie Amuro
ReleasedDecember 20, 2000
Recorded2000
Studio
  • Baybridge Studio
  • Darp Studios
  • Guillaume Tell
  • Larrabee Sound Studio
  • Ocean Way Recording
  • On Air Azabu Studio
  • Stanley House
  • TK Disc Studios
  • TK's Malibu Studio
  • Woodland Studios
GenrePop[1]
Length63:03
LabelAvex Trax
Producer
Namie Amuro chronology
Genius 2000
(2000) 		Break the Rules
(2000) 		Love Enhanced Single Collection
(2002)
Alternative cover
CD/DVD cover
Singles from Break the Rules
  1. "Never End"
    Released: July 12, 2000
  2. "Please Smile Again"
    Released: October 4, 2000
  3. "Think of Me / No More Tears"
    Released: January 24, 2001
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Break the Rules is the fifth studio album by Japanese recording artist Namie Amuro, released on December 20, 2000, through Avex Trax. It was released only 11 months after her previous album Genius 2000 (2000), and was her final album to date with her long-time producer Tetsuya Komuro, the album generally receive positive reviews by the critics, it was the shortlisted the Asia Association Music Prize Award.

Break the Rules debuted at number two on the Oricon Weekly Albums Chart with 334,520 copies sold, the lowest first week sales of her career at that point.[2] It also became her first studio album to not top the chart. Due to the small space in time between the release of this album and her last album, only two singles precede it. The album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ).[3]

  1. ^ a b Ted Mills. Break the Rules at AllMusic. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  2. ^ "安室奈美恵の作品 5ページ目" [List of Namie Amuro's works, Page 5.]. Oricon (in Japanese). Retrieved September 18, 2021.
  3. ^ "GOLD ALBUM 他認定作品 2000年12月度" [Gold Albums, and other certified works. December 2000 Edition] (PDF). The Record (Bulletin) (in Japanese). 495. Chūō, Tokyo: Recording Industry Association of Japan: 8. February 10, 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 16, 2014. Retrieved January 17, 2014.