Amuro Namie Wins Best Album

Namie Amuro has won the Best Album Award from Japan’s most reputable award committee, Japan Record Awards. It has been 12 years since she first won the award with her groundbreaking, “SWEET 19 BLUES” album. In previous years, she’s also taken home the committees biggest award, The Grand Prix Award, twice in 1996 and 1997. She is still the youngest artist to ever receive the honor. In 2000, Amuro received an honorary award. The award ceremony will be held on the 30th and aired on TBS networks. No word if Amuro will actually appear.

“BEST FICTION” debuted at #1 in the summer of 2008 and remained #1 for six consecutive weeks. No other solo female artist had accomplished such a feat in over 20 years. The album helped Amuro set a new record becoming the only artist to ever achieve a million selling album across three age brackets, her teens, twenties, and thirties. “BEST FICTION” is the best selling album released in 2008 and has sold 1.6 million units since its release. For the Oricon year, Amuro is currently #2 and Oricon has the album at 1.43 million units esclipsed only by EXILE’s “EXILE LOVE” released late 2007. Amuro is currently touring the nation on what is said to be the largest tour of her career, playing to a potential 400,000 concert goers.
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Source: Yomiuri Sport