I think the latest best albums of Ayu wasn't that exceptionnal : no resung songs, no unreleased song (and NO, You & Me doesn't count, because it was overly used past year...). Basically no real new material for fans.
The last real marketing-aggressive BEST were A BEST and A BALLADS.

A BEST 2 was exceptional due to remastered songs

I personnaly never felt something different....

^I think the best example for remastered song is AUDIENCE from A COMPLETE, listen to both you will notice the difference

Besides having A BEST 2 and A COMPLETE remastered, each had its own points.
A BEST 2 having a new song - part of Me which was a new song, a live DVD and its documentary, and like A BEST it featured songs that weren't singles as well. A COMPLETE was a full single collection with a cool box, featured a new single Mirrocle World and had new vocals version for Who... also having a booklet with all her unreleased versions of singles covers up to that, a DVD with unreleased a-nation lives. Except for the fact that best albums usually don't have to offer new things but there's no need to compare or tell anyone to do something like someone else.
You can wish ayu to release an album like namie's Ballada but it's kinda pointless.
Their focal points and marketing teams are very different too. Also, I don't think that namie's thread is a right place for it as well :P

I was talking songs-wise, but I get your points :yes
And sorry for the Off-Topic >_<

Let's re-talk about Namie "Queeny" Amuro :P

I think you guys are in the wrong thread.

I know I'm late but, ballad album? Four Seasons? omg :dead

LOL
I just imagined the scene.

# a succesfull winter ballad single

# a successfull live dvd/bd

# a feature with a well-stablished singer

# a ballad best album release

# a lot of cosmetique CMs and magazine shots

avex is really doing the right thing with namie :yes

I need the ballad version of contrail right now. Hurry up June fourth.

Love story was #5 last week :D

http://recochoku.jp/ranking/single/weekly/

'Ballada' is how some European languages way of calling ballad. It has nothing to do with whatever 'A BALLADS' is...

http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballada

I'm pretty sure they were joking. Also A Ballads is Ayumi Hamasaki's only ballad-best compilation album released in 2003. It features some original mixes of her best ballads (such as dearest and hanabi), it has some new mixes of songs, a new song (rainbow which wasn't released on it's respective album), and a cover of a song originally by yumi matsutoya.

A Ballads was a great project. Ballada is too.
They're both great ballad bests.

I dream of BALLADA selling 1million copies and then she sticks to ballads for a while

They wrote (haha just kidding) at the end of their post... idk why you took it seriously lol

^not only that, but I doubt even a single person was like "hm... an album full of ballads called "ballada" I wonder what that means...no idea" lol

can't wait

I think the title is a fusion of english: Ballad, and spanish: Balada xD