I am surprised.
Even if I know Namie is big lately, it almost feels like a fragile spell. She's been low for so long and solo artists sales are so wrecked, at every release I can't help but wonder if she's gonna pull it off once more.
And, anyway, this is a ballad bests on summer, I didn't expect it to sell 100k the first day!

And I died watching that mash-up video. It's PERFECT.

PERFECT mash-up video is PERFECTION!!!!!!!!!!!! I died at how they did it HAHA
amazing sales! Yes, It's so smart of them to release a Ballad album for a singer who you normally would not relate to ballads LOL. But every one there is such a beautiful classic

The ballad version of Contrail is flawless. It makes me want more ballad versions of songs.

I bought Ballada. I haven't bought an album in a very long time haha.

I love the jacket card that it comes with. I thought it was like the actual cover, but it's not. It adds a nice effect to the package.

Ballada makes me feel nostalgic. These oldies which I used to listen like crazy back in 2008 are just making me feel so emotional somehow♥

2nd day: 48969

Can someone please explain to me why the hell she didn't update "think of me" vocals? Everyone in my living room started mimicking her horrible vocals. My ears are still bleeding from that off-key yelling. x_x

^

For me Think of Me its her worst song ever, its horrible

^^ Are you talking about the "think of me" on "LOVE ENHANCE/Ballada"? I think that version's a million times better than the version on "break the rules"...

Go slay Namie. So happy for the nice numbers.

imo it's not a bad song, she just can't sing it lol

The only ballad from pre-Queen of Hip-Pop I liked was HimAWArI lol like the others are classics and whatnot but they're definitely not for me.

How long do you think the digi-pack will be on sale for in stores? I wanna get it next month but I'm kinda iffy about availability.


The album rekindled my love for White Light and reminded me how boring Never End is. I love the new Sweet 19 Blues though.

I wish Tempest made it onto the album. It's too amazing of a song to not be included. Beautiful would have been nice too.

in the mashup video. which song is at 1:10. I can't remember if thats an old or new song, but I really want to listen to it now and I can't rememberrrr, haha

LYRICS, not music. The music is TSUKI, but I can't make out where the lyrics are from!

Four Seasons

Total sales count: 34,001,768

She just passed 34 million copies sold mark :D

omg NEVER END is AMAZING! (forgot to mention that one lol)

My copy of Ballada arrived today! Counting 1 to the total of 182k copies selling so far :P
http://i676.photobucket.com/albums/v...ps40877fc1.jpg
The package is so so beautiful, and the poster, too!
I'm just so happy now xD This alb is simply masterpiece!

^Gorgeous.

I actually thought I wasn't going to order this because I'm starting to scale back on my JPop purchases and didn't think a ballad compilation would be worth it, but then the poster and the lenticular cover changed my mind, and so now I'm glad I did.

thank you! :D