It's so nice to listen to the songs in HQ. They sound even better :heart

Oh, I meant like if it was a remix and if it had a special title or something. I was updating the album description over at JPS and didn't know what to call it so I just put "(Remix)" at the end. :/

^Oh well it's not really a remix same 'ol WMWM just with Verbal's verse in the beginning and Namie's first verse cut out.

yay!!! a real 320 rip !!
a really nice album

Umm I didn't really enjoy Checkmate! as much as I thought I would. AFTER PARTY is so annoying lol. ROCK U and BLACK DIAMOND are still great though. Out of the new tracks, I only liked #1 and that was only because the male vocalist has a sexy voice. make it happen, UNUSUAL, and Wonder Woman didn't really hit me (especially Wonder Woman...everyone was freaking out about this track, but it's really annoying and boring).

I think this release was a bit overhyped by fans lol. But I still enjoyed the album a bit. Just have to let it grow on me. And oh the track with Heartsdales was hot.

And tagging the regular tracks isn't that hard.

In the artist section, it should all be tagged 安室奈美恵. And then these are how the songs are tagged in the "song" section (going off of iTunes layout)

1.) Wonder Woman feat. AI & 土屋アンナ
2.) UNUSUAL feat. 山下智久
3.) make it happen feat. AFTERSCHOOL
4.) ROCK U feat. 安室奈美恵 / ravex
5.) Do What U Gotta Do feat. AI, 安室奈美恵 & Mummy-D / ZEEBRA
6.) Wet'N Wild feat. SUITE CHIC / Heartsdales
7.) Do or Die feat. 安室奈美恵 / JHETT
8.) FAKE feat. 安室奈美恵 / AI
9.) #1 feat. 川畑 要 (CHEMISTRY)
10.) BLACK OUT feat. Lil Wayne & Namie Amuro / VERBAL
11.) BLACK DIAMOND / DOUBLE & 安室奈美恵
12.) Luvotomy / m-flo ♥ 安室奈美恵
13.) AFTER PARTY feat. 安室奈美恵 / ZEEBRA

I don't know how to correctly tag the WANT ME, WANT ME remix though...Since it's a hidden track and all lol.

This is how it looks on my computer.

1.) Wonder Woman
2.) UNUSUAL
3.) make it happen
4.) ROCK U
5.) Do What U Gotta Do
6.) Wet'N Wild
7.) Do or Die
8.) FAKE
9.) #1
10.) BLACK OUT
11.) BLACK DIAMOND
12.) Luvotomy
13.) AFTER PARTY
14.) WANT ME, WANT ME (feat. Verbal) (I only have the "feat verbal" in this song because I already have a "want me want me" on my computer)

When it comes to the artist, I do it in the information.
So track five's song title would be "Do What U Gotta Do", and under properties - details - album artist "安室奈美恵"
and then there's another entry field for song artist, and I would put AI/安室奈美恵/Mummy-D/ZEEBRA

or something like that. Because "Do What U Gotta Do" looks so much better on my ipod as a song title than "Do What U Gotta Do feat. AI, 安室奈美恵 & Mummy-D / ZEEBRA".

WANT ME, WANT ME feat. VERBAL (m-flo)

:)

verbal definitely resung the lyrics. The cd version sounds different than the one we had from forever ago.

I really enjoy Checkmate! It was worth to wait all this time for this album. New songs are totally kick ass songs :luv2

Checkmate ! is at #1 today with 93,168 copies sold on the 1st day

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/

Omg, congrats to Namie <3 She's so gonna take the top spot for the week, I'm so sure of it. :D

I understand wanting to tag all the songs as Namie, but that just doesn't make any sense, and it isn't what the site's tracklist is trying to say. It makes no sense to have a song with Namie as the artist then have it "feat." her.

In FAKE, for example, it lists it on the website as FAKE feat. 安室奈美恵 / AI. The part before the / is the title of the song itself, while what comes after it is the artist (which makes sense since it was AI's single). It shouldn't all just be put in the "song" field with Namie as the sole artist. The rest of the songs should be tagged the same way.

I agree with what you did on tracks 1-3 & 9 though. I know it officially should have the "feat." with Namie under "artist", but there are enough ****ed up tags on this album and I figure I'd do it that way since that's at least how "feat.s" on American albums always work.

woww!!pretty good sales!!!,congrats namie~

Whoa, what a runaway this week! (But we're just getting started...)

I saw it on Oricon this morning as well! I'm so happy to see that the album is doing so well and I hope she can maintain the #1 spot for the rest of the week!

Great beginning! I'm sure this will be #1 for the week. Now to just see what the number will be at that point.

Let me just say that as much as I am grateful that Namie gave us fans a release, my overall thoughts on the album is that it was not worth writing home about. That does not imply that it was a bad release. ;)

Out of all of the new songs, I only favored "#1 feat 川畑要". Sad but true. The others did nothing for me.

Out of the older songs I enjoyed, "ROCK U", "Luvotomy", "Wet'N Wild", "FAKE", and "BLACK DIAMOND".

Oh well, I hope her next studio album fills the void.

Good, I have a feeling she may even surpass her ninki, but who knows we'll see :D Loving my purchase though, packaging beautiful and even though there are only like 3 pics like always, they're still nice and you can see Namie's new tattoo really good in one.

The songs with slashes in them mean that whatever comes after the slash should be the artist tagged with the song, but whatever floats your boat xD

Great sales for the album :)

lmao tags fight
waaaaah awesome!