【Profile】 From Okinawa Japan, Namie Amuro debuted in her teens as a member of a group and went on to make her mark on the Japanese music history by producing a series of hits in the blink of an eye. Her solo debut was in1995, her first single sold 700, 000 copies and her first solo album was a million seller. She performed at Kouhaku Utagassen as the youngest female solo singer at the time. Also, Namie Amuro’s fashion, hair and make up became a social phenomenon among young girls.

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In 1996, she released the album “SWEET 19 BLUES” which sold a record 3. Pl I To Cobol Converter Cc. 05 million initial copies. She was the youngest artist in history to hold a nationwide stadium tour as and won the Japan record award as the youngest solo artist in history. In 1997, the single “CAN YOU CELEBRATE?” sold 2 million copies. At the same time, she broke the record of No.1 single sales as a Japanese female artist. This record still stands.

After that she became the first teenage singer in history to have total sales over 20 million. She became the top artist on the J-pop scene by holding a nationwide tour of the 4 largest domes (about 300,000 in audience) and performing at the live events overseas. After 2003, she expanded her musical range through the collaboration project “SUITE CHIC.” SUITE CHIC won the “'BEST COLLABORATION Award” of MTV Video Music Awards 2003.

In 2004, she held her first Asian tour. (13,000 in the audience over 2 days in Taiwan and 25,000 in audience over 3 days in South Korea) She won the best performing artist in Asia award at the MTV Video Music Awards 2005. In the same year, she represented Japan by performing at MTV ASIA AID in Thailand.

In 2005, she released the album “Queen of Hip-Pop” and collaborated with the Pink Panther for promotion for the first time in Japan. In 2006, she released “CAN'T SLEEP, CAN'T EAT, I'M SICK.” For the music video, she used Shawnette Heard, the choreographer for Janet Jackson. In 2008, she released the 'Fashion x Music x Vidal Sassoon' campaign song called “60s 70s 80s,” which included remakes of 3 different generation hit songs with music videos. The songs, music videos and TV commercials gained much attention and collaborated with worldwide stylist Patricia Field and hair stylist Orlando Pita. In the same year, she released the greatest hits album “BEST FICTION” for the first time in 6 years.

This album stayed at # 1 for 6 consecutive weeks for the first time in 14 years 8 months and the first time in 28 years and 7 months for a female artist. It sold 1.7 million copies and won the Japan Record Award for best album. She became the first Japanese artist to sell a million copies in her teens, 20s and 30, “DANCE TRACKS VOL.1,””SWEET 19 BLUES” and”Concentration20” in her teens, “181920” in her 20s. The nationwide arena tour “namie amuro BEST FICTION TOUR 2008-2009” announced 4 additional shows including shows overseas (a total of 64 shows including Taiwan and Shanghai shows.) She became the first Japanese female solo artist to have around a half million people in the attendance.

(The DVD of this tour recorded the biggest initial sales from a female artist.) In 2009, an original album “PAST.

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